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In our special health section, we focus on Gulf Islands getaways, farmers markets, homophobia research, kombucha tea, and a marijuana extract known as CBD.

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As one-half of its name suggests, Dîner en Blanc is as much about the grub as it is about Vancouver fashion. > BY LUCY L AU

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Cities like Rio de Janeiro, Manila, and Mumbai are characterized by extreme inequality. That’s facilitated the rise of so-called slum tourism, in which guides take outof-town visitors to a poorer region of the city for stops at social enterprises, small businesses, and maybe a school. These tours showcase local ingenuity and put much-needed money in the pockets of the working poor. Or they dehumanize and exploit marginalized people living in poverty. One such tour was featured in a travel column in the Toronto Star last week, but this one showcases a particular area of Vancouver. “The man is dancing and watching his reflection in the window, humming to music only he can hear and oblivious to the small group of visitors walking past,” it begins. “We’re making our way through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, widely considered the worst neighbourhood in Canada.” The tour is offered by Jenn Potter. It’s described online as “socially responsible” and designed to highlight “companies that give back to the community”. It’s priced at $185 for one person, $195 for two people, and $275 for a group of three to 10. In a telephone interview, Potter told the Straight her tour was misrepresented in the Star. She argued it was born of a genuine interest in the concept of social enterprise. Potter recounted how she once led tours from Gastown to Chinatown, skipping over the lowincome neighbourhood in between. Over time, she found herself making more stops in the Downtown Eastside at small businesses like East Van Roasters. The coffee and chocolate shop owned by the nonprofit Portland Hotel Society employs atrisk women who live at the nearby Rainier Hotel. Potter said she grew increasingly interested in that model and eventually designed a tour to showcase Roasters and other organizations like it. “People are sending me stuff misunderstanding that I am exploiting people’s poorness or their vulnerability, and actually it is totally the opposite,” Potter said. A survey of people who live and

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Critics say a tour of the Downtown Eastside exploits area residents. work in the Downtown Eastside elicited mixed reactions. Sarah Blyth is a former parks commissioner who works with the street vendors who congregate on the south side of the unit block of East Hastings Street. She told the Straight she worries the activity sounds like “poverty tourism”. “In any other neighbourhood, people coming around to look at people would seem a bit strange,” she said. “Would you go to Kerrisdale or Point Grey and go walking around looking at people watering their plants?” On the phone from East Van Roasters at 319 Carrall Street, manager Shelley Bolton said she’s seen Potter bring groups into her shop and change the way they think about the Downtown Eastside. “Being able to teach people a different way to look at the Downtown Eastside is positive for everyone involved,” she told the Straight. Others, like the Carnegie Community Action Project’s Maria Wallstam, dismissed the tour outright. Karen Ward, a board member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, called it “the worst kind of voyeurism”. “It objectifies and commodifies people who are in extreme distress,” she said. > TRAVIS LUPICK

A Vancouver school trustee says annexes are more likely to be closed than bigger elementary and secondary schools. According to Fraser Ballantyne, his experience as a former teacher and school administrator has shown him that “kids benefit far more from the value-added activities that happen in a bigger and larger school.” “What parents are now discovering is that having their kid in a small setting, like with a small population, is not as advantageous as a larger population,” Ballantyne told the Straight in a phone interview. Four annexes are included on the preliminary list of 12 schools that might be considered for closure by the school board. These are Queen Elizabeth, Champlain Heights, Tecumseh, and McBride, which have student populations ranging from more than 80 to less than 110. In 2010, Champlain Heights Annex and McBride Annex were among the five annexes and elementary schools considered for closure. In the end, the board voted to keep all five schools open. The new list of 12 schools released by the board in June includes six elementary schools and two secondary schools. Vancouver staff have been preparing detailed reports about each of the dozen schools over the course of the summer, and these will be presented to the board in September. The board will then determine which of the schools will be further considered for closure. The earliest closures may happen for the start of the 2017–18 school year. “That doesn’t mean that we’re going to be closing them down forever,” Ballantyne said. According to Ballantyne, the district will need to retain capacity for students who will have to be transferred to new educational facilities while their schools are seismically upgraded. Starting in the 2016–17 school year, which begins in September, the board is closing down three annexes. These are Laurier, Maquinna, and Henderson. > CARLITO PABLO

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Visitors to the Southern Gulf Islands will find a wide range of activities at various retreats; Pender Island’s Dog Mermaid Eco Excursions, for example, offers yoga classes on standup paddleboards.

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“Anyone can find themselves on income assistance, and I went from being a major supporter and participant in the farmers market to becoming a recipient of the coupon program,” she said. “And if it weren’t for the coupon program, I could not shop at the farmers market.” The program is administered by the B.C. Association of Farmers’ Markets (BCAFM). Beneficiaries receive a total of $240 worth of coupons that they can use over the summer and fall seasons.

The vouchers are distributed through community partners selected by the BCAFM. These partners are nonprofits, neighbourhood houses, and government agencies that deliver food- and nutrition-related services in their communities, like cooking lessons, household-budgeting seminars, and gardening instructions. Peter Leblanc, who manages the program with the BCAFM, said that the healthy-eating initiative has also attracted support from community groups like Rotary clubs, as well as businesses. He cited Whole Foods Market as an example. The natural and organic food retailer donates cash so more families in Vancouver can be enrolled in the coupon program. “It’s an interesting and wonderful relationship, because we’re both selling food,” Leblanc told the Straight in a phone interview about the support of Whole Foods Market. “We really appreciate the fact that they see us as a good community partner.” On August 6, the B.C. Liberal government announced an additional $1 million in funding for the program. According to Leblanc, the money will allow the program to continue until 2018.

In addition to the farmers market on Station Street where Bayes likes to shop, there are five other Vancouver markets participating in the nutrition-coupon program. These are at Trout Lake, the West End, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, and the Queen Elizabeth Theatre plaza. The community partners of the BCAFM in Vancouver are the Hastings Community Centre, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, Gordon Neighbourhood House, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Circles of Care and Connection, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Multilingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities. According to Bayes, the coupon program is a good way to introduce young families to farmers markets, where they can feel a direct connection to growers and the land where their food comes from. “It’s an experience that you don’t get anywhere else,” Bayes said. “You certainly don’t get it when you get to the store and pick up a package of something that’s been on a container ship for 5,000 miles.”-

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hen considering LGBT rights and equality, many people nowadays think they’re the just thing to do. What’s often overlooked is how such social changes actually benefit straight people as well. UBC nursing professor Elizabeth Saewyc discovered this aspect during her 20 years of research on LGBT issues among youth in the U.S. and Canada, primarily focusing on health disparities between various demographic groups. As the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre executive director, Saewyc received a five-year grant of $2 million in 2012 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for research about LGBT students. By phone, Saewyc told the Georgia Straight that when Ontario was discussing safe-schools legislation in the 1990s (Ontario’s Safe Schools Act was passed in 2000), she noticed protesters argued that these policies would only provide special rights for a small group of students and cause harm to the majority who are straight. She realized there was no evidence to either prove or disprove that, and that her research had to compare straight students at schools that had antihomophobia initiatives and those that didn’t. Initially, she thought the results would show that straight students would remain unaffected. To her surprise, she discovered improved health outcomes among straight students at schools with supportive LGBT policies or measures. “Straight youth are also reporting lower levels of discrimination because people perceived them to be gay or lesbian, and lower levels of

UBC nursing professor Elizabeth Saewyc has studied LGBT issues in schools for over 20 years. Martin Dee photo.

suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, binge drinking, problem substance abuse,” she said. “So these are unexpected differences where we’re seeing healthier heterosexual youth in schools that have supportive policies for LGBTQ youth, which is not what you’d expect, necessarily.” She explained that although the percentage of heterosexual students who were experiencing homophobic discrimination was small, due to the larger heterosexual majority, that percentage meant discrimination was experienced by about the same number of heterosexual students as gay and bisexual ones. As a local example, in 2005, Azmi Jubran won a landmark B.C. Human Rights Tribunal case against the North Vancouver school district

for failing to take action when he was experiencing homophobic bullying from fellow students even though he was not gay. In addition, homophobic and transphobic bullying can be used against anyone, straight or LGBT, to police gender-role definitions. While Saewyc acknowledged that all of her studies show correlation rather than cause, she said that some, such as an examination of gaystraight alliances (GSAs) in schools, paid attention to the time frame when measures were implemented. “We looked at the time when GSAs were established in each particular school, when each school district implemented their policy, and we factored that into the analysis we did so we could actually make sure that the intervention happened before the

outcome we’re measuring,” she said. “When schools have policies in place for at least three years…that’s when we’re seeing the differences between them and places that have never had those policies or who haven’t had GSAs for three or more years, so this is giving us greater confidence that there is a relationship going on.” She noted that some anomalies have occurred while progress is being made. For instance, she observed that in many studies there was a “bump” when health-problem rates increased around 2008 and then decreased. While the studies were unable to explain why this happened on a causal level, she said that time period saw the introduction of LGBT initiatives and legislation. “There’s a couple years right after

same-sex marriage, and right in the midst of some of those nondiscrimination laws being passed and policies being enacted in schools, that can create perhaps an increase in some of the distress,” she said. “The good news is that ends up being a bump and a decline. It’s just that the overall disparities haven’t completely vanished yet.” In other words, this spike could be an adjustment period in which people were adapting to new social realities. “Maybe it’s that this visibility and these law changes have created a bit of a backlash,” she suggested. “So people who were happily unaware that there were lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in their midst are suddenly confronted with the fact that ‘These people exist and they’re in our high schools!’ And that can precipitate a certain amount of discomfort and reaction that may not have happened before.” She said she would like to do qualitative research that includes talking to youth to find out how they feel about some of these issues and health concerns, in order to examine their perspectives on the problems. What she does find clear—and something to consider in between the wake of Vancouver Pride Week and the start of the new school year—is how support and safety can significantly improve the health of students. “What really comes through again and again, no matter where we’re doing this research, [is that] when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens feel safe at school, feel cared about by their teachers, feel like they belong at school and are a part of their school, it has huge differences in their health and well-being,” she said. “It’s not just a matter of reducing the homophobia. It’s also making sure we’re increasing the actual support and caring for our LGBTQ youth. It matters for everyone.” -

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individual microbes produced have been shown to improve digestion, boost immune systems, and increase people’s overall energy levels. Some, however, simply enjoy kombucha for its taste—especially considering the fresh, out-of-thebox flavours that companies have begun producing. Vancouver’s Rise Kombucha, for example, crafts roseand-schizandra-berry and mintand-chlorophyll versions, and the local Standard Kombucha makes a blueberry-green-tea concoction that incorporates organic cane and blueberry juices. If you’re brewing your own batch at home, Nagtegaal suggests first familiarizing yourself with the basic brewing method and then using produce and spices you have available at home to experiment with flavours. Understanding the science behind ingredients is also helpful in finding a variety that caters best to your body’s needs. Nagtegaal notes

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that lemon and ginger are great for detoxing, for example, while chai, cardamom, and pepper are ideal for warming. “Once you understand what the SCOBY is doing in the tea, and what it’s doing to your body, then you start making your flavours from a more mindful place,” she says. Vancouverites seem to be heeding Nagtegaal’s call—the local brewing pro’s upcoming Intro to Kombucha workshop at Homestead Junction (649 East Hastings Street) sold out so quickly that the shop set up an additional class for September 14. And with good reason, she notes: making your own kombucha is much more cost-effective and ecofriendly than purchasing a new bottle at the convenience store every other day. It’s also pretty damn easy once you get the hang of it. “It’s hard to mess up kombucha,” Nagtegaal says. “It’s very forgiving.” -

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O5 TEA (2208 West 4th Avenue) The kombucha bar here serves delicious flavours like Hoiji Cha—made of honey, roasted rice, and caramel. FACULTY BREWING CO. (1830 Ontario Street) This new brewery serves

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The monochromatic affair welcomes dishes of all types, though it pays to put in extra effort. Jonathan Evans photo.

you like,” stresses Villeneuve, “but the idea is that you make that little extra effort.” The “gourmet meal” recommended on Dîner en Blanc’s official website (vancouver.dineren blanc.info/), therefore, is up to each guest’s interpretation. There are also catered, three-course meal options, starting at $46, that can be purchased in advance online. In his five years of organizing and attending the gala, however, Villeneuve reveals he’s seen cuisine of all types, from burgers and fries to monochromatic entrées of seared white fish and parsnips on rice.

Yes, fast food—and takeout, for that matter—is allowed. But the fun of Dîner en Blanc lies in taking the everyday up a notch. Think charcuterie platters loaded with various meats, cheeses, and spreads, or figand-prosciutto sandwiches paired with a light summer salad. “Pretend you’re hosting a dinner party for friends,” says Villeneuve. “What would you want to serve them?” If you’re opting for a homecooked meal, the Dîner en Blanc vet suggests sticking to something you’re familiar with. Know your way around the kitchen when it comes to a killer vegan lasagna?

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national artists will be completed in 2014 as part of the Vancouver Biennale. “I think Vancouver has some really great fundgiven spaces to paint permanent, contempor- ing for public art,” he says, “but that process is all ary murals in Mount by committee. What’s missing right now is the Pleasant and parts of ability for local artists in their communities to the Downtown Eastside express themselves through public art.” Instead of mimicking the city’s model of curatahead of the festival, which will take place ing public art through applications and councils—a throughout the neigh- process that Vertesi says can put creative limitations bourhood on August 20. on artists—he recruited local curator Drew Young Other activities will be to act as the festival’s art director and help find upThe new Vancouver Mural Festival is more than just a giant art held along Main Street and-coming artists to include in the festival. party; it aims to change the city’s view of outdoor wall painting Young, the mind behind the Cobalt’s weekly between East 7th and East 12th avenues, with live live painting night, Snag, and a fi xture in the A month ago, Graeme McCormack and Ali- music on multiple stages, interactive art exhibitions, city’s alternative arts community, produced a list son Woodward were complete strangers. Today, on community projects, and a marketplace where more of nearly 400 candidates that he and Vertesi sifted a hot afternoon beneath the beaming late-July sun, than 150 local businesses will be represented. through before deciding on the final participants. B Y AMANDA S IEB ER T the artists are scaling scaffolding as they collabor“We wanted to curate something very highFestival founder David Vertesi says he was ate on what could very well be one of the largest primarily inspired by the presence of street level that still represented diversity in the canvases they’ll ever have the opportunity to paint. art in areas like San Francisco’s Mission city, without getting tokenistic about it, “This is my second professional mural,” says District and Miami’s Wynwood neighwhich is hard,” Vertesi says. Woodward as she adds strokes of purple to the piece bourhood, but also by the Montreal “To me, real diversity isn’t 10 murals Check out… on the south side of MakerLabs in the Downtown Mural Festival, which recently celeof people holding hands, it’s 10 murals STRAIGHT.COM Eastside. A seafoam-green wall is the backdrop for brated its fourth anniversary. by 10 different people from different Visit our website two mask-wearing purple monsters enjoying a cup backgrounds with different life stories, Since its inception in 2013, the for morning-after of tea in front of a bright yellow sun. and they do whatever they want. They Montreal fest has resulted in the reviews and local arts news Woodward says even though she’s been able to creation of more than 60 murals don’t have to do anything that sticks to make a career out of her artwork, finding loca- along Saint-Laurent Boulevard. Vera theme, and it’s innately diverse.” tions to paint large, public pieces in Vancouver—a tesi says it has “completely changed the For Young, the festival provides a public city with the highest per capita concentration of city’s landscape”. platform for talented artists who happen to live artists in Canada—is incredibly difficult. While he acknowledges that the City of Van- in a city where galleries and exhibition spaces are “We mostly do client-based work, so getting to do couver has done much to increase the presence disappearing at a rapid rate. something that is entirely our own, and at this scale, of public art over the last few years—including “It’s becoming harder and harder to find a place is amazing,” Woodward says, grinning. “Having a endorsing a plan to spend $1.5 million on new for them to exhibit work and be showcased, and powerhouse of dedicated people who are willing to works by 2018—he still feels that picture isn’t I’m afraid they’ll have nowhere to go pretty soon,” spend their time facilitating this for us is awesome.” quite complete. Young says. “What better way is there than, inHe can point to just one piece in the city that rep- stead of trying to find a brick-and-mortar gallery, The powerhouse she speaks of, a team of nine community-minded artists and art enthusiasts, resents the type of work he wants to see more of: to actually paint that brick and mortar?” is responsible for organizing the inaugural Van- Granville Island’s Giants by Brazilian artists OSThe list of local participants includes graffiti GEMEOS. The vivid, contemporary piece painted on grand masters like Dedos, Akews, and Tars, as well couver Mural Festival. Thanks to their efforts, 39 local and six inter- the industrial silos at the Ocean Concrete plant was see next page

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Editor’s choice CHAMBER SOUNDS OLD AND NEW The Vancouver Bach Festival, which closes on Friday (August 12) with esteemed violinist Monica Huggett and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra tackling the four Orchestral Suites, isn’t the only chamber-music extravaganza in town. Operating on a smaller scale—but with a wider range, and a similarly impressive cast of performers—is the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival. Appropriately enough, the festival takes a highly ecumenical approach to its programming, featuring classics from the likes of Felix Mendelssohn and Ludwig van Beethoven alongside newer works from German avant-gardist Helmut Lachenmann and composer-inresidence Dorothy Chang (shown here). The Blueridge Chamber Music Festival takes place at St. Mark’s Anglican Church and Mount Seymour United Church from tonight (August 10) to August 21.

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n her one-woman show Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan, actor Dipti Mehta revisits a forbidden, mysterious place she was fascinated by as a child growing up in India’s most populous city. “If we had a taxi driver, my mother would ask them not to go into the redlight district,” she tells the Straight from her adopted hometown in New Jersey before travelling here to the new Monsoon Festival—a celebration of South Asian theatre that takes place in Vancouver and Surrey. “But being the curious little one that I was, if I was in the taxi with a friend, I would ask to go through there. I didn’t understand these women standing in the doorways were selling themselves, I just knew they wore cheap lipstick and every time I looked at them it made me sad.” But as she grew into young adulthood, eventually assisting the making of a radio documentary about India’s infamous brothels, Mehta started to see the whole picture of women and children exploited through poverty and social stigma. And that, in turn, impacted the direction her theatre work took. “I was brought up in a very patriarchal society. I was brought up to be a good wife and mother and not an actor,” she explains. “Then, as I learned about sex workers and how Bollywood makes sexual judgments on people, I realized these people had a valid voice

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and I wanted to give them a voice.” Giving voice is a connecting theme at the Monsoon Festival, a celebration named for the heavy-rain season in India that marks not only destruction, cleansing, and rebirth, but celebrations that encompass dance, music, theatre, film, and festivals. South Asian voices, after all, are not often heard on local stages. At the event from Thursday (August 11) to August 21, those points of view will range from the cultural parody and comedic sketches of the troupe I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken! to Washington, D.C., artist Anu Yadav’s fantastical fable about poverty in an immigrant family, Meena’s Dream. In the case of Mehta’s work— billed as “Memoirs of a Geisha meets Slumdog Millionaire”—she is speaking for people who have been silenced for centuries. In Honour, she brings to life several people who call the brothel home: a eunuch, a priest, a pimp, and, most importantly, a mother and the daughter she is raising there. “I wanted to show the humane aspects of their lives and showcase their relationships and their dreams. I’m just trying to show they’re people, just like you and me,” says Mehta, now a busy American actress who appears in indie films and on shows like The Blacklist. “And I’ve grown with the piece. I’ve had a child and I’ve experienced life in a different way as a mother and as a woman. So I’ve done literally 1,000 rewrites! “In the beginning the mother and

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daughter were kind of in this world without a choice, but the mother I thought was the villain, putting her daughter in her own shoes when she knows full well that this isn’t a world that anyone should grow up in,” adds Mehta, who has continued to research the issue. “Eventually, as the piece evolved, she has become a different human being in the play—still the person who doesn’t have so many choices but much more of a human being. Her nobility and her heart and her love for her child have all seeped into the story now.” Mehta recognizes that her work is joining other projects, including films like Born Into Brothels and the Hindi-language Lakshmi, to raise the issue of sex slavery and child trafficking. And she sees an exciting groundswell of empowerment back in India, where she grew up. “I’m so proud when I see so many women taking the reins. When you suppress one race or sex, that lid will blow off. More and more women are getting educated and want to change the world around them,” says Mehta, whose performances benefit Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a grassroots organization that works to eliminate sex trafficking in India. “It’s so amazing to be around at this time.” Honour is at the Cultch on Friday and Saturday (August 12 and 13). The Monsoon Festival continues to August 21 at the Cultch and the Surrey Arts Centre.

getting close to 40. It’s an epic amount of art.” City councillor and deputy mayor Heather Deal is the liaison to the arts-and-culture-policy council. Like Carpenter, she was in the midst of working to improve and increase the presence of public art in Vancouver when she heard about the inaugural event. “Along came this festival that was already well under way, and we were happy to partner with them,” Deal says. Matching the amount of money raised by festival organizers, the city provided the Vancouver Mural Festival with a $200,000 grant to help get the ball rolling. “I think the more animated the public realm is, the more joy people have as they move around the city, whether that’s walking their dog, playing with their kids, or walking to work,” Deal says. “There’s a lot of capacity here, and I really hope we can see it expand to other neighbourhoods.” Atop a rickety scaffold, McCormack adds a few defining lines to a section of his mural with Woodward. Like so many others associated with the festival, McCormack hopes to see it move beyond Mount Pleasant, and into areas of Vancouver that lack colour and culture. “When you see other cities, there’s such an emphasis on public art, and whether or not it’s good art, it’s still present,” says McCormack. “This festival gives art more visibility, and more emphasis on local community, while making it more attractive—which would be great to see in areas like the bank district along West Hastings,” he says. Still, beginning in the city’s art-centric neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant makes sense. Of Vancouver’s ability to embrace art, Vertesi thinks we’re making steps in the right direction. Without pioneers like the Eastside Culture Crawl, Car Free Day, the Vancouver Biennale, and Khatsahlano, he says that the Vancouver Mural Festival wouldn’t exist. “We’re just trying to put it together as one thing. Our goal is to transform the way art is seen in Vancouver—literally, and figuratively.” -

as contemporary painters like Ola Volo, Scott Sueme, and Corey Bulpitt. Vertesi and Young hope that, by bolstering the lineup with a handful of international artists, they can put Vancouver on the map as a public-art destination. “People that come to Vancouver will see the talent we have here, and those artists will have this invaluable opportunity to get their work out there and validated in the public sense,” Vertesi says. While the emphasis is certainly on Vancouver-based contributors, the list of international artists is nothing to balk at. Among them are renowned names like Brazil’s Bicicleta Sem Freio, France’s KASHINK, and Switzerland’s NEVERCREW. Even with a nine-person organizing team, preparing for the festival was no easy feat. Partnering with the Burrard Arts Foundation, the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area, and the City of Vancouver, Vertesi and team sorted through more than 100 walls in the Mount Pleasant area before successfully narrowing it down to 21. (Some buildings will be adorned with multiple murals.) Most are located near Main Street between Prior Street and East 16th Avenue, stretching from Mount Pleasant all the way to the Downtown Eastside. “It was a lot of door-to-door knocking, talking to different businesses, and trying to locate building owners,” Vertesi says. In some cases, it took a bit of convincing. “People in Vancouver are skeptical, and I feel very lucky to have somehow pushed through that with the support of the BIA,” he says. Charmaine Carpenter, programs and marketing manager of the Mount Pleasant BIA, says that the idea for a mural festival came at the perfect time for the neighbourhood. “We just finished writing a community art plan, and we were really looking to get the process going for public community art,” Carpenter says. “My goal The Vancouver Mural Festival’s street party will be held in this year was four murals. In this partnership, we’re Mount Pleasant on August 20 between noon and 7 p.m.

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Tinder sendup swipes right COM E D Y OK TINDER—SWIPE RIGHT COMEDY/FIRECRACKER! Vancouver TheatreSports League productions. At the Improv Centre on Granville Island on Wednesday and Thursday, August 3 and 4. Continue until October 5 and September 29, respectively

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While improv comedy is the backbone of every production and makes every performance different, no parody or theme overstays its welcome. The good folks at Vancouver TheatreSports League unveiled two new weekly offerings recently: OK Tinder—Swipe Right Comedy, which, as you might guess, focuses on the foibles of dating, and Firecracker!, with an all-female cast and one guest star each week. Online dating seemed to me like a thin excuse for a show, but it made for one of the best I’ve seen in a long while on the Island. Right off the bat, this premise breathed some new life into two tired old games. I’ve never cared for the gimmicky “Speak as One”, where two players tell a story at the same time. The “One Word at a Time” format, where two players alternate words to tell a story, is better, but has also been done to death. What set this apart was seeing the two games in the same scene, with each twosome portraying one side

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of an online dialogue between two prospective daters. There was a quick-hitting series of vignettes after the improvisers made up original dating apps on the spot, and an “Inner Thoughts” scene where Ken Lawson and Margret Nyfors provided the voice-overs from the minds of Allen Morrison and Liz Bowen on a first date. The finale worked perfectly, too. The actors left the room and audience members volunteered to read out the last message they received on a dating app. These were written down and scattered on the floor. Each scene had to begin with one of these sentences, such as “So you like reading. Let me spread your legs like a book.” Suffice it to say, this wasn’t a family show.

Firecracker!, on the night I went, wasn’t nearly as successful, seeming to have no structure or point. The show is tailored to the special guest, so it’s even more different each time than other improv shows. Supernatural actor Briana Buckmaster dove right in and acted with the cast. Being a former VTSL player, she knew what she was doing, but the games seemed thrown together. That being said, there were highlights. One scene was directed from the booth by sound improviser extraordinaire Laura Skelton. She was ruthless in her instructions, asking one player, “What are you? Why don’t you be the person who leaves?” and saying to another, who entered wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses, “This better be good.” Skelton should direct a scene in every single production. The bulk of the show was improv based on karaoke. The crowd would warble to the backing tracks of “Mamma Mia” by ABBA, “Hello” by Adele, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler, “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys, and “Ice Ice Baby” by whoever sang “Ice Ice Baby”, for example, which would lead to multiple scenes based (loosely) on the lyrics. The segment probably went on too long, given that Firecracker! isn’t billed as a karaoke show, but I could totally see a whole evening of sing-along– based improv in the future.

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Upside: there is some talent on display in this party, but the musical American Idiot opened my ears. Green Day released American Idiot, the concept aland offensive. bum, in 2004. The stage musical premiered in 2009. It In Titus: The Light and Delightful Musical Comedy of follows three guys—and the emphasis is on guys: the Titus Andronicus, which I saw in a preview performance, female characters are pretty much props in this show— writer Andrew Wade imagines what might have happened who start off stuck in a soul-sucking conservative backif Shakespeare had reworked his most brutal tragedy with water. “I’m the son of rage and love,” Johnny, the central an eye to success on Broadway. The Light and Delightful character, sings in “Jesus of Suburbia”. Musical Comedy is supposed to be funny, but war crimes, Johnny and his friend Tunny soon head off to the City, including rape and dismemberment, resist glib treatment. but when their pal Will’s girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant, In the story, which is about an escalating cycle of de- he stays home with her. Will sinks into alcohol- and pothumanization during a power struggle for the control of fuelled depression. Triggered by a TV-induced hallucinaRome, Demetrius and Chiron, who are sons of Empress tion, Tunny joins the army and goes to war. Johnny falls for Tamora, rape a young bride named Lavinia. Then they a girl he calls Whatsername and for a drug called heroin. chop off her hands and cut out her tongue so that she A whole lot of you know this already, but I’m going won’t be able to identify them. to say it anyway: the music is fucking fantastic. Songs In Wade’s attempt at wit, Shakespeare, who is a char- like “Know Your Enemy” knock your socks off with their acter in the play, decides that the word rape sounds propulsive darkness, while others, including “Give Me harsh, so he substitutes the phrase “bunny love”. Be- Novacaine”, tip seductively toward lyricism. The mournfore the crimes, when Demetrius and Chiron arrive to ful anthem “Wake Me Up When September Ends” laid stalk Lavinia, they wear hats that feature floppy bunny me out: I wanted to sing along. ears. They carry carrots. After they have committed In this mounting from Fighting Chance Productions, the rape and other atrocities—and we’ve heard Lavinia Clare Wyatt leads a five-piece band, and cast members screaming—everyone continues to refer to the assault pick up instruments—mostly electric guitars—along the as bunny love. way. The result is a powerful, modulated, sophisticated, Tamora’s lover Aaron is a major villain in a play full of and intensely satisfying world of sound. villains. He is also a Moor. Wade tries to wring humour Playing Johnny, Tristan Smith nails it musically, out of issues of racial representation: in an ongoing joke, whether he’s singing tenderly or belting it out. And his other characters insist the play isn’t racist and they ad- characterization is credibly contained: his Johnny feels vise Aaron not to put himself down, but very little of this like punks I knew. Nick Heffelfinger brings a charisis clever or knowing enough to induce laughter. matically vulnerable bad-boy quality to Tunny. His pitch As the evening progresses, it gets darker. Lavinia’s is perfect and his vocal tone is gorgeous. And Ross Foster suffering prompts grief and rage in her father, Titus completes the central trio with a musically skilled, emoAndronicus, and Titus, who was a fearsome warrior, be- tionally touching performance as Will. comes a demented clown—literally, with a red nose and Playing St. Jimmy, who may be a drug dealer or may rainbow fright wig. It feels like Wade might be going for be a manifestation of Johnny’s drug habit, Myles MJ Mcsome kind of sophistication in mixing the comic and the Carthy becomes a darkly seductive rock star, a latter-day tragic, but reworking the scary-clown cliché does not get reincarnation of the MC in Cabaret. him there. Director Ryan Mooney’s staging contrasts kinetic frenzy Fortunately, Shizuka Kai contributes a witty set: a with pools of calm. And choreographer Anna Kuman large cardboard cutout that looks like a cartoon version deserves a huge amount of credit for the success of this of the Colosseum, and some malevolent-looking red- production. Her complex movement score combines the topped trees. thrashing, head-banging moves of punk’s heyday with gesAnd there’s talent in the cast. With her confident pres- tural inspiration. I can’t remember the last time I was so ence and sardonic delivery, Claire Rice makes Tamora consistently surprised by musical-theatre choreography. consistently watchable. William Ford Hopkins (Emperor There are glitches. On opening night, mikes cut out Saturninus) has fun with comic timing, especially when sometimes. And although Nicole Weismiller’s lighting his illiterate character is called upon to read. And late in can be dramatic—a spotlight on Tunny is white-hot—it the second act, the arrival of Tiana Jung’s solo singing also regularly leaves characters in the dark and fails to voice is a gift. (Jung plays Lucius, one of Titus’s sons.) help us figure out who the hell is singing. Harrison Mooney (Aaron) also has a golden throat. Still, go see American Idiot. 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festival-producer friend says that she programs for three things: excellence, diversity, and range. The first of those is self-explanatory, of course, but she differentiates the other two by defining diversity as a matter of social inclusiveness, and range as an openness to different styles of aesthetic expression. Using those parameters, the Vancouver Bach Festival necessarily scores low on diversity: in this inaugural manifestation, it is by nature exclusive, concentrating on the compositions and world-view of a single northern European composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. But the event, as produced by Early Music Vancouver, has already established a high benchmark with its first two programs, which individually approached perfection and together encompassed a huge range of musical brilliance. Performers Dan Tepfer, who opened the festival by interspersing calmly focused readings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations with wildly imaginative improvisations on the same, and Davitt Moroney, who offered a scholarly take on The Art of the Fugue for the event’s second night, could not be more different. Movie-star handsome and dressed casually in subdued colours and stripy socks, Tepfer said little but brought smouldering physical intensity to his set; like the jazz musician he is at heart, he danced along with the music, whether it was Bach’s or his own response to the great German’s score. Moroney, in contrast, was donnish and clean-cut in a trim

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suit, and he treated his night as a kind of lecture-demonstration, presenting long, clear, and witty explanations of Bach’s contrapuntal techniques alongside crisp performances of the music under discussion. Thanks to Moroney, this listener will never again listen to The Art of the Fugue without thinking of it as “the Kama Sutra of counterpoint”. The harpsichordist’s mildly risqué comparison was given flesh by his subtly emotional playing, which spotlighted the sensuality that lurks behind the mathematical brilliance of Bach’s jigsaw-puzzle mind. The Art’s double, triple, and even quadruple lines slid above and beneath and all around each other in uncommonly audible form—and in both the second of the two “mirror” fugues, “Contrapunctus XIII”, and

the concluding “Fuga a 3 Soggetti”, Moroney even achieved something like a state of grace, spinning weightless lines with near-magical agility. Sensuality and rhythmic intelligence were even more to the fore in Tepfer’s opening-night performance. I’ll still reach for my Glenn Gould recordings when I want to hear The Goldberg Variations at home—but, again, my understanding of Bach has been forever changed by the way that Tepfer restored both improvisation and a sense of the dance to music that was born out of those very qualities. Thank you, Mr. Tepfer. Thank you, Mr. Moroney. And thank you, Early Music Vancouver, for launching the first of what I hope will be many Bach Festivals in such an auspicious way. > ALEXANDER VARTY

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THEATRE 2OPENINGS AESOP’S FABLES Beach House Theatre presents a family-friendly production illustrating famous tales. Aug 10-14, 11 am, Under the tents at Crescent Beach (3136 McBride Ave., Surrey). Info www.beach housetheatre.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 and 17-20, 7:30 pm, Studio 504 (504-2050 Scotia). Tix $20/18, info www.spectheatre.wordpress.com/. 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/.

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). 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. Held over to Aug 27, Malkin Bowl (610 Pipeline Road, Stanley Park). Tix $20-40, info 877840-0457, 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/. 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. To Aug 28, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix $15-35, info www.thecultch.com/ events/the-fakespeare-festival/. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Alchemy Theatre and Vagabond Players present William Shakespeare’s famous play. To Aug 21, 8-10 pm, Bernie Legge Theatre (Queen’s Park, 1st St. and 3rd Ave., New West). Tix $13/15, info www.vagabondplayers.ca/. THE FOREIGNER Beach House Theatre presents the play about a man who is mistaken for someone else while on vacation. To Aug 14, 8-10:30 pm, Under the tents at Crescent Beach (3136 McBride Ave., Surrey). Tix $34.50, info www.beachhousetheatre.org/.

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/. ALL OVER THE MAP 2016 Free summer dance series features performances by Fin de Fiesta Flamenco (Aug 14), Aché Brasil (Aug 21), and N’Nato Bara Fa (Aug 28). Aug 14-28, 1-4 pm, Ron Basford Park (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Free admission, info www.newworks.ca/.

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LAUGHS FOR MAC Admittedly, there is nothing funny about what’s been happening in Fort McMurray lately, with a devastating fire followed by near-biblical floods. But a comedy night at Yuk Yuk’s is using laughs to raise money that will go to one of the most lasting results of the disaster: mental-health crises like depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. Fittingly, Vancouver counsellor, standup comic, and founder of Stand Up for Mental Health David Granirer hosts the one-nighter, called B.C. Stands Up, on Sunday (August 14). Expect him and a crew of other comedians to prove, once again, that sometimes all you can do is laugh to keep from crying. with a community choir. Aug 10, 7:30-9 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $10, info www.impromptumusic.ca/.

8 pm; Aug 13, 7 pm; Aug 13, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/.

ODD DITTIES Pianist Stephen Smith performs a solo program entitled Odd Ditties, showcasing works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Grieg, Grainger, and Godowsky. Aug 14, 3 pm, Roedde House Museum (1415 Barclay). Tix $15, info www.roeddehouse.org/.

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 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/.

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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. 2THIS WEEK Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and profes1ST ANNUAL MONSOON FESTIVAL OF sional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 PERFORMING ARTS: WELCOME THE and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, STORM South Asian performing-arts and Fri-Sat $20. 2HUNTER COLLINS Aug festival features workshops, plays such 12-13 2JOHN CULLEN Aug 19-20 2BRETT as HONOUR: Confessions of a Mumbai MARTIN Aug 26-27. Courtesan, and sketch comedy by I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken. Aug 11-21, LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 The Cultch (1895 Venables). The event Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-525also runs at Surrey Arts Centre and Bell 2262, www.lafflines.com/. Performing Arts Centre. Tix $20, info www. monsoonartsfest.ca/. EAST VAN COMEDY Improv and standup comedy with Instant Theatre Company BURNABY SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL (every Sun at 8 pm) and Graham Clark’s The second annual event features an Laugh Gallery (every Mon at 9 pm). artisan market, music and entertainment, a Every Sun and Mon, Havana Theatre (1212 live painting tournament, a summer theCommercial). Tix $5-10, info www.east atre performance, a hands-on workshop vancomedy.com/. for kids, visual-art exhibits and demos, and face painting. Aug 13, 10 am–5 pm, THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Deer Lake Gallery (6584 Deer Lake Ave., Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. Burnaby). Free admission, info www.bur thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with nabyartscouncil.org/. pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE: PERICLES Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 SFU’s Paul Budra delivers an in-depth pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 exploration of Shakespeare’s play, going Fri, $20 Sat. 2TIM NUTT Aug 11-13 2DJ beyond the story to explore the Bard’s DEMERS Aug 18-20 2TRIXX Aug 25-27 inspirations and influences. Aug 13, 11 am, 2ERICA SIGURDSON Sep 1-3 2DAN Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut). Tix $12, info QUINN Sep 8-10 2STEPH TOLEV Sep www.bardonthebeach.org/exploring15-17 2KEVIN FOXX Sep 22-24 2PAUL shakespeare/. MYREHAUG Sep 29-Oct 1.

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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 10-17, 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/. FIRECRACKER! The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents evenings of improv comedy that explore what it means to be a woman in Vancouver. Guests include Sadie Campbell (Aug 11). To Sep 8, 9:15 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/. OK TINDER The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an improv-comedy show inspired by Vancouver’s notorious and ludicrous dating scene. To Sep 15, 9:15 pm, every Wed, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/. TIM NUTT Standup comedian performs a solo show. Aug 11-13, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www. thecomedymix.com/.

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/.

VANCOUVERITE: A COMEDY SHOW Brent Constantine and Amber HarperYoung present a show featuring local comedians’ stories about Vancouver. Aug 12, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity. com/vancouverite-aug2016/.

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GALLERIES BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2THE ART OF SMALL THINGS (Meghann O’Brien takes materials from the natural world and transforms them into human expression) to Oct 2 2THE SERIOUSNESS OF PLAY (Haida Manga artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has created an artistic practice celebrated for its vitality and originality) to Oct 2 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2PICASSO: THE ARTIST AND HIS MUSES (exhibition examines the significance of the six women who were inspirational to the artistic development of Picasso) to Oct 2 2BHARTI KHER MATTER (exhibition brings together sculptures and paintings that represent the diversity of New Delhi-based artist Bharti Kher’s practice) to Oct 10

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MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2ALL TOGETHER NOW: VANCOUVER COLLECTORS AND THEIR WORLDS (explore the cultural power and significance of collecting through wall-towall displays of unconventional objects) to Jan 8, 2017, 10 am–5 pm THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017 2LAWRENCE PAUL YUXWELUPTUN: UNCEDED TERRITORIES (Vancouverbased artist is showcased in a presentation of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples) to Oct 16

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friend (Jason Priestley). As art-house fare goes, this film within a film looks pretty darn schlocky. A recurringly Trump-ian obsession with the size of things is, sad to say, a recognizably male notion of what women think about. (Now cue the gratuitous lesbian-sex scene.) The self-consciously quirky effort has seemingly inoculated itself against such considerations by changing media, tone, and attack so often that everything ends up with ironic quotes around it. How much you’re expected to “care” remains its only compelling mystery.

WEINER A documentary by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg. Rated PG

“I thought the point of fly-onfilmmaking is that the fly isn’t supposed to be heard or seen.” So says Anthony Weiner, failed politician and sex-scandal avatar, to documentary codirector Josh Kriegman, during one of their many car rides together. Directing partner Elyse Steinberg is neither seen nor heard, but Kriegman eventually asks why Weiner agreed to have flies on his wall in the first place. His answer doesn’t satisfy, but the movie does. This territory might look parochial to an international audience, but Weiner (winner of the top doc award at this year’s Sundance) is a tragicomic entertainment illuminating a number of current trends. A disciple of New York kingmaker Chuck Schumer, the feisty Brooklynite took over that leading Democrat’s congressional seat when the latter ascended to the Senate. After establishing himself as a Jewish Jimmy Stewart, railing against special interests on the House floor, Weiner was forced to resign in 2011, after it was revealed—was it ever hidden?—that he was sexting strangers and tweeting pictures of, um, his private-members’ bills. He used the nom de text Carlos Danger. Overnight, his national profile went from rad to bad, and it probably never helped that he pronounces his name “whiner”. The skinny dude also looks and sounds like a less successful cousin of Jon Stewart, who himself shows up once the scandal hits TV Land. But that’s only the beginning of the tale. At the behest of beautifully poised wife Huma Abedin, who just happens to be Hillary Clinton’s closest confidante, Weiner attempted to rebuild his rep by running for mayor of NYC in 2013. And then things got really weird. Born in Michigan to Saudi parents, Abedin remains an enigmatic presence, increasingly distant from her husband and even their toddler son when cameras are rolling. By the end, you’re as baffled by her reluctance to leave as by his insistence on staying. Some might say the man just wanted to be seen.

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> KEN EISNER

SOUR GRAPES A documentary by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas. Rating unavailable

This breezy doc about a remark-

2 able con inside the rare-wine

market raises worthwhile questions about authenticity. There’s also a lowly satisfaction to be had from seeing obscenely wealthy folk like the

> KEN EISNER

THE INFILTRATOR Starring Bryan Cranston. Rated 14A The big takeaway from Weiner is that disgraced former U.S. Congressman and dick-pic enthusiast Anthony Weiner sure loves being in the spotlight.

avuncular, if vampiric, billionaire Bill Koch (brother to Charles and David) admit to the gouging he received at the hands of a first-class grifter. It was Koch, seen here inside a wine cellar vast enough to alleviate Vancouver’s housing troubles, who got the ball rolling on a private investigation into Rudy Kurniawan. The youthful and charming Indonesian arrived on the scene in the late ’90s with a seemingly endless supply of money and a supernatural palate venerated by friends, foes, and victims alike. L.A. Times journalist Corie Brown profiled Kurniawan in 2006, noting that he’d almost singlehandedly driven the auction value of rare wines into the stratosphere. As author Jay McInerney puts it, he was a “cult figure” to a community of arrogant fine-wine buyers prone to blow a hundred grand of “fuck-you money” on a single bottle. But Kurniawan also piqued the suspicion of a few dangerous skeptics when he started selling off his own legendary cellar in cahoots with a New York–based wine merchant— which subsequently rocketed from nowheresville to the number one auction house in the world. Besides Koch, Burgundy winemaker Laurent Ponsot would make his own dramatic visit to New York after discovering a bottle of the family brand with a comically stupid typo on the label. And here is where Sour Grapes becomes really interesting. What the FBI would eventually discover about Kurniawan yielded infinitely more questions than answers, all of them impossibly weird, many of them suggesting that too many “experts” don’t know dick about shit. Meanwhile, high rollers like filmmaker “Hollywood” Jef Levy still can’t bring themselves to totally disavow their mysterious former buddy. “The number of amazing experiences I had with him far outweigh any

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anger I could have,” says Levy, whose nose for real value has presumably been refined by the experience. > ADRIAN MACK

ZOOM Starring Gael García Bernal. Rated 18A

The novelty of having a story told

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fairly soon, as it dawns that this story, though visually stimulating throughout, was never really worth telling. Initially, that tale involves two people who work in, or run, a sex-doll factory. One measure of the immaturity of Matt Hansen’s script is that we’re never given clear pictures of existing relationships, thereby lowering the stakes when weird things happen. We’re supposed to simply ignore mute factory workers when Alison Pill and Tyler Labine, as nerdy Emma and grubby Bob, grab quick shtupps in the backroom or openly discuss intimate business, with more than the requisite “fuck”s attached to their consistently juvenile dialogue. For some reason, Emma feels her breasts (that’s a classic, folks) are not superhero grade, and so gets implants without checking in with Bob, who is revolted. Naturally, she compensates for this mistake by seriously reducing the penis size of a cartoon character she’s currently drawing. This introduces us to the animated, and most engaging, part of the program, with colourful lines smoothly rotoscoped over cast standout Gael García Bernal as Eddie, an action-movie director trying to make an art film, and Toronto types Don McKellar and Jennifer Irwin, who join him in this indie-biz saga. What we see of Eddie’s story moves the live-action stuff to Brazil—home of Zoom director Pedro Morelli—with Mariana Ximenes as a model turned writer increasingly undervalued by her rich-guy boy-

David Farrier, he was grappling with ongoing legal threats levelled by one of the figures in his monumentally strange and unsettling documentary. It all began with an innocent inquiry into something called “competitive endurance tickling”. Did Farrier regret taking it any further? “I don’t think either [codirector] Dylan [Reeve] or I could have died happy if we just let it go. It was just too interesting,” he said. You’ll see what he means when Tickled gets one more night at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (August 13). -

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ANTHROPOID Starring Cillian Murphy. Rated 14A

Second World War buffs and

2 serious history students already

know about the 1942 assassination of Reinhard “the Hangman” Heydrich, Adolf Hitler’s number three man, the “protector” of recently annexed Czechoslovakia, and, as Adolf Eichmann’s boss, a chief architect of the Holocaust. They also realize that, apart from the obvious propaganda coup, this daring action yielded little except the massacre of two Czech towns and ongoing reprisals for the rest of the occupation. Less well known is the planning that went into the hit. This sepiatoned movie initially intrigues as it follows Czech expat Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) and Slovak Jozef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy), who parachute into Bohemia and make their way to the capital, to join five other ’chutists. They’ve been trained in England by Brits and the Czech government in exile (a process portrayed in more detail by Jan Svěrák’s Dark Blue World) to fulfill Operation Anthropoid. A kindly Prague family provides shelter and a handy love interest for Jozef, in the form of a plucky daughter (Quebecker Charlotte Le Bon). Through her, Jan meets an equally comforting consort (Czech veteran Anna Geislerová). They play happy couples in order to map out their attack. The cast, including Toby Jones as an owlish resistance fighter, comes from at least six countries. This explains everyone’s vaguely Mitteleuropean accents, but not the muddled script (almost entirely in English) by Anthony Frewin and Sean Ellis, with the latter directing, quite woodenly. The story is laden with emotional baggage—including repetitive arguments about fear and courage—just in case we don’t care enough about what’s about to happen. After a snoozy first hour, the film’s second half is taken up by a single, endless shootout, after the German army pins down our stoical heroes in an old church. This feast-or-famine approach to action filmmaking is quite taxing, and fails to illuminate philosophical aspects of the title—as in, how much humanity should you sacrifice to remove someone who is barely human? Of course, today’s assassins would just blow themselves up, and there’d be no story at all. > KEN EISNER

The plot thins

ELVIS: THAT’S THE WAY IT IS Forty

years since his death, the basic line on the King is that it was all over by the time he got to Vegas. See this restored 1970 doc for a truer picture of an epic talent still in full swing, at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (August 11).

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SAUSAGE PARTY Seth Rogen says the

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Not so funny TICKLED When the Straight recently talked to Tickled director

just one of the questionable decisions made from his exalted position as the film’s executive producer. In turn, we’re treated to a weirdly bloodless performance from the former Walter White, now playing the other side of the fence as Robert Mazur, the reallife U.S. customs man who went deep, deep, deep undercover in the mid-’80s to nail the money-laundering arm of the Medellín drug cartel in an extravagant and wildly risky sting. Cranston’s stiff demeanour and stentorian delivery are presumably meant to convey how far out of his element the family man Mazur wandered in his role as Bob Musella, a hotshot businessman with the means to disinfect unholy amounts of money for cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, largely through the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Instead, it’s like watching a stage actor in a boxy ’80s TV movie. As The Infiltrator begins, Cranston fails to make Mazur any more convincing as a small-time dealer whose cover is almost blown thanks to a plot device lifted from Brian De Palma’s Blow Out. Indeed, the film strains to dramatize Mazur’s actual experiences or the book that he penned, adapted here—with a painful surfeit of clunky exchanges—by first-time screenwriter (and director Brad Furman’s mom) Ellen Brown Furman. In 1988, after two years, Mazur’s true powers as a supernarc climaxed with a fake wedding for Bob Musella and the arrest of over 100 guests. It’s a great story, reduced by the tensionfree Infiltrator to a lot of hacky performances by the likes of Benjamin Bratt, as a refined financier, and (worst of all) Amy Ryan, as Mazur’s cliché-spouting supervisor. Still, and to its credit, The Infiltrator doesn’t shy away from exposing the tacit permission handed to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International by at least some major elements inside America’s deep political

> ADRIAN MACK

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structure, even while it’s fudging the role played by Iran-Contra pilot Barry Seal (given a movie-stealing five minutes via an unrecognizable Michael Paré). It strives to deliver the painful truths of Sicario, but with none of that film’s vicious elegance.

food orgy scene in his R-rated Pixar spoof is the funniest thing he and partner Evan Goldberg have ever written. Judge for yourself when Rogen’s wiener gets all up in Kristen Wiig’s bun starting Friday (August 12).

gains a second life and Lee Marvin may or may not be a dead man walking (and walking, and walking) when two memorable ’60s oddities turn the Cinematheque’s noir series psychedelic, starting Wednesday (August 17).

HOW HEAVY THIS HAMMER Claustrophobic, upset-

ting, and uncomfortably funny, this X-ray portrait of a middle-aged slob is the kind of defiantly crowd-alienating cinema Canada could use more of. Erwin is a useless husband, the world’s worst dad, a casual bully, and a zombified computer gamer. Watch how director Kazik Radwanski takes this pathetic life and miraculously creates something both super-mundane and nauseatingly extreme when How Heavy This Hammer begins a three-day run at the Cinematheque starting Friday (August 12). AUGUST 11 – 18 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27

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quint your eyes as you watch Indignation and you might discern a certain tragic archetype beneath the surface of Sarah Gadon’s character. “James thought that Philip Roth was really influenced by Sylvia Plath when he wrote Olivia Hutton,â€? she tells the Straight, referring to writerdirector James Schamus’s take on Roth’s 2008 novel, now adapted for the screen. “He wanted me to write like Sylvia Plath, so when you see me writing the letter to Marcus, I’m actually using her handwriting. I traced a lot of her letters for a long time.â€? That’s not all that the 29-yearold Torontonian and her costar Logan Lerman were required to do in preparation for the acclaimed period film, now playing, about the dangerous affair between a Jewish student from Newark and Gadon’s deeply troubled WASP. Noting Schamus’s lack of “firsttime director energyâ€?, and the fact that he ran Focus Features and has penned or produced a couple of Oscar-nominated films over the course of a long career, Gadon adds: “He’s also a professor, so working with him was kind of like taking a course. He gave us a syllabus, he gave us reading material, he gave us things to watch, he gave us music to listen to, he gave us assignments‌â€? Among their tasks, she reveals, was a trip to the theatre to watch Annie Baker’s notoriously long off-Broadway hit The Flick. “I felt like that was for us to have this exercise in patience and in adhering to the written word,â€? Gadon explains. “There’s so many things! I mean, he’s James, he’s always thinking about things to do and I think it shows because there’s so much detail in the film.â€? Indeed, the stately drama somehow manages to pack an enormous amount of significance into a seemingly understated whole, with the suffocating environment of a fictional Ohio college in the early ’50s as its all-purpose metaphor for prejudices we’re still grappling with today. Not least among them is the treatment Hutton receives for her promiscuity, made that much more threatening by her soaring intelligence. Behind all that is a form of heavy emotional damage only alluded to by the film, and about which Gadon, predictably, remains just as circumspect. “For a woman like Olivia, everything that is left unsaid is so fraught,â€? she says. “Really, I think it’s more interesting when nothing is said about it, and that tension just accumulates underneath the surface.â€? What this leaves is a possibly too-conventional dramatic trope in which a barely postadolescent boy is drawn into l’amour fou. But Gadon—a veteran of three David Cronenberg movies and the star, along with Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, of Xavier Dolan’s next—has a much better angle on that. “It’s interesting to me, because Marcus for Olivia is just as much the forbidden fantasy,â€? she says. “When she gives him the handjob in the hospital, everyone is like, ‘Oh, classic Philip Roth,’ but nobody talks about how she sits down afterwards and she says, ‘Tell me what it’s like to be a Jew; tell me what it’s like to work in a butcher shop.’ There’s just as much voyeurism in it for her.â€? -

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Questions the guys in Sweden’s Miike Snow are tired of answering include “What’s Britney Spears really like?”, “Does everything you own come from Ikea?”, and “Which one of you is Miike?”

The music comes first

second offering, Happy to You, the group came close to imploding in 2012. With the three men living alongside five crew members on a tiny tour bus, the band spent seven gruelling months travelling across three continents to complete its punishing performance schedule. Deciding to take an indefinite They’ve worked with superstars, but the members break after touching down on of Miike Snow choose to maintain a low profile Swedish soil, Winnberg, Karlsson, and Wyatt took their time Although band member Pontus to recover before finally stepping back into the stuWinnberg personally dislikes the term, Swed- dio as Miike Snow in 2015. BY KATE WI LSON ish indie-pop trio Miike Snow is without doubt “It was a good day when we started working on a songwriting “supergroup”. our own stuff again,” Winnberg recalls. “I love Winnberg and his bandmates Christian Karls- making songs for other people, but creating music son and Andrew Wyatt have been responsible for for Miike Snow is very different. When I’m writpenning some of the catchiest Top 40 hits since ing for myself, it’s kind of like I’m an architect, the turn of the millennium. Remember Britney and I get to build a whole city. When I’m writing Spears’s Grammy-winning 2004 single “Toxic”? for other people, I still get to build the house, but Authored by Winnberg and Karlsson. A fan the city already exists. I’m aware that I’m offerof Bruno Mars’s seven-times-platinum-selling ing people a service, and that I’m not there for my single “Grenade”? You can thank Wyatt, in part. own sake. It changes the composition process to Variously working as writers and producers for know I’m making something for the band.” hire for David Guetta, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, While Miike Snow might seem like the perfect Katy Perry, and many more, Miike Snow’s mem- opportunity for the three behind-the-scenes songbers have shaped the direction of pop music. writers to finally step into the limelight, Winnberg With their individual services in such high de- and his bandmates have made a conscious choice mand, it’s no surprise that the band’s latest record, to keep a low profile. With the group’s artwork faiii, has taken so long to drop. From 2009 to 2012, vouring a mythical jackalope avatar over images the trio’s first two albums soundtracked everything of its individuals, and with the trio shying away from Grand Theft Auto to high-end commercials. from the spotlight in interviews, Miike Snow aims Synth-pop singles “Paddling Out”, “Black & Blue”, to point out the hidden realities of the music inand “Animal” dominated radio playlists worldwide. dustry instead of boosting its own celebrity. Riding the wave of the public’s burgeoning enthusi“When we released our first album,” Winnberg asm for EDM, the group was at the forefront of elec- remembers, “we recognized that an artist’s persona tronic music. Then came four years of silence. was considered the most important thing. More “It was tough to get together,” Winnberg tells important even than their music. So we wanted the Straight, on the line from San Francisco. “It to depersonalize our songs as much as possible, to took much longer because we were working on make ourselves seem insignificant. We wanted to so many other projects for other people, and that look like we were just workers in the music camp. work spread us out around the globe. We had to That choice meant that we made the music the use whatever tools we had to get the Miike Snow al- centrepiece, and allowed those tracks to revolve bum written. There was a lot of file-sharing. I think around this imaginary thing called Miike Snow. we only had a week to work on some of the songs “It was refreshing to do that,” the producer where all three of us were in the same room. And continues. “Your own music is personal up until other than that, we’ve just been twiddling in our the point when you share it. And then it begins to loneliness while we get on with other things.” inspire this preconceived image that never leaves Winnberg’s comments are only half the story be- you. That image is never accurate. ‘Britney Spears’ hind the band’s hiatus. Touring hard to promote its is not the person Britney Spears—it’s just an icon

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HOCKEY DAD Hockey Dad might sound like a rugged five-piece formed in the wintry depths of Medicine Hat, but the misleadingly named band is actually—get this—a jangly surf-pop duo from Australia. Although the group seems unaware that the only ice Down Under is the kind that slowly dilutes your Coke, what they lack in geographical knowledge they make up for with some seriously catchy melodies. Hot on the heels of the band’s first full-length release, Boronia, the Aussies will hit Canadian soil for the first time this Tuesday (August 16) to take advantage of the last gasps of Vancouver sun. As they’re set to tear up the Cobalt with three other hard-hitting surf-rock bands, we highly recommend grabbing a ticket so you can pretend it’s still June. Because let’s be honest: you’re going to need some happy memories for when the rain comes. -

Miike Snow plays the Orpheum on Friday (August 12).

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Miike Snow’s Pontus Winnberg sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.

On the band’s sci-fi vids: “On the last album, we created this whole universe where everything should take place. And it actually had a rulebook and a script. It may look abstract, but it was crystal clear to us because we’d filled in all the gaps. This time around, we’ve got these amazing treatments from this kid Minion, and they’re just spot on.” On fan-base loyalty: “It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been away—you can never take your fans for granted. Hopefully, our listeners will judge us on the quality of the music, and that will give us a new chance. But I don’t take that for granted, either. There’s so much out there that’s also brilliant. Honestly, I’m just happy that we’ve managed to fool people yet again.” On live performance: “We’ve dusted off the four-year cobwebs now. We’ve played so many shows together that we have a lot of different initiatives every night, where someone will play a different note and the other guys will jump in on that. Sometimes we’ve had jams in between the songs in the set list that have almost become new tracks. We’ve actually started recording all of our live shows. Maybe that will help us write the next album a bit faster.”

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that’s formed from people’s perceptions. By putting the music at the forefront, it’s been our goal to make that a little clearer.” Not worried that their tactic might confuse listeners, the trio are happy that their ideological standpoint offers a new way of looking at both the industry and the band. “People often think that Miike Snow is actually just one guy,” Winnberg says. “I don’t mind that at all. When they find out, it often means they see our music in a different light when they listen to the tracks again. People should be free to think whatever they like—as long as they stream the shit out of our new album.” -

GUN-SHY He shot a scene showing him pulling it, but Power star 50 Cent then whined of his penis’s visibility via Instagram: “now my auntie G can’t watch POWER because my d!ck is debuting tonight. SMH you motherfuckers.” DEAD SOULS Last week, we learned that luxury department store Barneys New York is selling Joy Division and Black Flag T-shirts for US$225 and US$265, respectively. Punk isn’t dead; it’s just crying itself to sleep. STRIP TEASE A warrant is out for the arrest of rapper Tyga after he failed to appear in court to explain why he couldn’t pay for the damage caused by inserting a stripper pole into his rental home. Girlfriend Kylie Jenner probably isn’t going to bail him out for that one.

Fresh and local ZANE LES BIÉNS Zane Barratt’s back story is that of a traveller. As a teenage busker from Vancouver, he played in the streets all over Canada before setting out to see the world and eventually settling in Berlin. That’s where he recorded Les Biéns, his debut EP. As you might expect, Zane’s aesthetic is hard to pin down to any particular scene or sound. The peripatetic tunesmith—who is now back in Vancouver—writes the sort of earnest, well-crafted indie-pop songs that would sound just as good in a full-band treatment on a festival stage as they would stripped down to guitar and vocals on a street corner. AUGUST 11 – 18 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 29

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Sibling solidarity still works best for Broods

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aving already had a taste of the music business before they started working together as Broods, siblings Caleb and Georgia Nott were smart enough to realize there’s an upside to having low expectations. “If you’d asked us three years ago what our goals were, we’d never dreamt of things like playing Montreal,” says Caleb Nott, Broods’ keyboardist and big brother to his bandmate. Quite fittingly, he’s talking to the Straight on the phone from Montreal. “Back then, we thought it would have been the best thing ever if we were able to play even one show in Australia. So when we started, it wasn’t like, ‘Let’s take another stab at the music industry.’ We were more into the idea of making some music and seeing if people liked it. And people did, so that’s been pretty cool.” Folks have indeed found plenty to like in Broods, which the Nott kids started after bailing out of the Australian folk-pop unit the Peasants. A good indicator of the band’s growing success is the fact it’s jumping to the Vogue on its upcoming swing through Vancouver. Broods’ first visit to the West Coast, in 2014, saw the siblings play the small and intimate Media Club, pegged as a band to watch thanks to an electro-dreamy debut EP. An enthusiastically embraced debut album, Evergreen, hit the streets later that year, leading to festival appearances and raising the stakes for Broods. Recognizing the group’s potential, all kinds of industry players were convinced they knew what was best for Broods when it was time to record the new Conscious. “It never works for us when someone tells us they want a specific kind of song written, or when we think we need a specific type of song for a record,” Nott says. “The only way that it works for us is if it happens naturally. Definitely, you get people trying

Because the novelty of touring with a sibling very quickly wears off, Caleb and Georgia Nott of Broods thank God for the invention of the smartphone.

to push you in certain directions, but you have to just stay strong and make sure your own ears are the ones that are appreciated and respected. That, of course, becomes a lot easier when you’ve got your sister or your brother to back you up as well.” Broods ended up creating a record where Georgia isn’t afraid to explore the darkness with lyrics like “You’ve been drinking and I’m thinking/Are we sinking?/Yeah, I just wanna fight” (“Are You Home”). This time, the Notts are also more willing to take sonic chances. Those who like synthpowered, neon-kissed pop bangers will thrill to tracks like “Recovery” and “Couldn’t Believe”. But there are also moments when you hear the Nott siblings make a great case that they know what’s best for Broods, as proven by the lovely “All of Your Glory”, on which we get nothing but mellow organic keys and Georgia solemnly

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intoning “Darling I know, you only cry when you’re alone.” “That song is actually the original demo—we didn’t do anything to it,” Nott says. “All the other demos were built up, but that one we wanted to keep the same. We were in the house of Neil Finn from Crowded House in New Zealand, on his ’70s Yamaha foot-pump organ, and we fell in love with the sound of it. We recorded the song, and were like, ‘Yeah, this is it.’ ” > MIKE USINGER

Broods play the Vogue Theatre on Tuesday (August 16).

Globelamp’s debut is more than an emotional exorcism Conventional thinking would

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Kathleen Hannah don’t have much in common, but that doesn’t stop Elizabeth le Fey from making a strong case otherwise. Reached in California, where she’s preparing to hit the road for a West Coast tour, the artist known as Globelamp notes that both artists have become icons because of their ability to inspire. Hannah’s seminal band Bikini Kill is at least partly responsible for le Fey’s decision to make music; when she left California for Olympia, Washington, after graduating from high school, part of the lure was the chance to intern at K Records, which Bikini Kill has strong ties to. Swift, on the other hand, has shown a generation of impressionable young kids that there’s nothing wrong with being strong. “I’ve been listening to old Taylor Swift records, and also Neil Young— a real random mix that doesn’t really sound like my music,” le Fey says by phone. “There’s something about Taylor Swift’s country music that I really like. She’s not afraid to talk about her emotions. She’s been slutshamed by people going, ‘Look at all the boyfriends you’ve had,’ but look how successful she’s been. People can really relate to her and the way that she’s been so openly vulnerable and has put her heart out there. “I’ve always thought it was weak for a girl to be like, ‘I love you.’ But then I had a kind of 360 turn where I realized it’s really powerful to be honest and go, ‘This is how I feel!’ Like, you can be a strong woman and have all these emotions.” Le Fey knows a thing or two about having powerful emotions, and also about the way the unwashed rabble are more than quick to judge people they’ve never met. Punch “Globelamp” into Google and, pretty quickly, you’ll discover that she was once part of the buzz band Foxygen, members of which recruited

her based on her solo work. That relationship eventually got ugly, with le Fey and her former Foxygen bandmate Sam France ending up entangled in a mess of restraining orders and allegations of abuse, both physical and mental. “I’m glad that the story’s online— that way, if someone wants to know about it, I don’t have to explain it all the time,” the singer says. “I can just go, ‘There’s an article, if you wanna actually read about it.’ But it was traumatic—I had PTSD at one point, not just because of that, but a lot of other things that had accumulated. But being depressed really helped me write songs, because that’s what I’ve always done.” In fact, Globelamp’s debut fulllength, The Orange Glow, can sometimes be read as a therapeutic record. Check out “San Francisco”, where lyrics like “She was the star of his video” and “The girl’s gotta go/His mama says so” become doubly devastating once you know the Foxygen back story. But more than just an emotional exorcism, The Orange Glow is a record of deep beauty, with le Fey’s sprites-in-the-forest vocals backed by strings and chamber-pop piano. Le Fey admits that it’s funny she first found her artistic footing in Olympia. The city is famous for its take-no-prisoners guitar bands, whereas Globelamp’s sound is more an enchantingly hazy strain of Pacific Northwest psychedelia. Le Fey’s next record, which she’s now busy working on, might very well find her veering off in a new direction. As much as she loves Bikini Kill, a certain Taylor Swift has also opened up her mind. “My songs that everyone always really likes—ones like ‘Controversial’ and ‘Washington Moon’— started as jokes where I was making see next page

fun of things in my life. The songs that I didn’t overthink or put a lot of effort into are everyone’s favourite songs. I do have some poppy hooks, but in the past I’d always fight them. Now I’m embracing them. I don’t want to be Taylor Swift, but there’s something about her vulnerability that I like.”

Australia’s Frank Yamma paints pictures in song

> MIKE USINGER

Globelamp plays the Cobalt on Saturday (August 13).

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Weaves offers no apology for revelling in mistakes If you’re expecting a complete at the upcoming Weaves concert, you are probably right on the mark. The Toronto-based band may resemble your average four-piece rock group, but from the start, Weaves has embodied the unconventional, rejecting any ideas that might point to premeditation and embracing the truly impulsive. “We like to make our live shows really spontaneous,” says guitarist Morgan Waters to the Straight while on vacation in his hometown of Shawnigan Lake. “We want to do things that only rock bands do, and live, we can really bend the songs out of shape and follow each other on tangents. It feels like a one-off performance every time.” In just a few short years, Weaves has risen from Toronto’s noise-rock scene to take centre stage at festivals like Glastonbury and CMJ—even earning “best of the festival” acknowledgments from the New York Times and NPR following CMJ in 2015. Born in what Waters calls a “whoknows awkward-first-date recording session” in late 2013, Weaves is spearheaded by the unmistakably brash vocals of Jasmyn Burke, backed by Waters, bassist Zach Bines, and drummer Spencer Cole. Crafting Weaves’ songs based on bare-bones musings that Burke records on her phone, Waters is tasked

ambivalence and confusion, and has much in common with the colourful, maplike, and semi-abstract either express it or make fun of it.” > AMANDA SIEBERT paintings that typify Australian Aboriginal art. “In both, we’re mapping Weaves plays the Biltmore Cabaret our minds,” he says. “So I’m not a on Tuesday (August 16). painter, but when I sing a song I put different objects inside, so you can hear the words and listen to a picture at the same time.” His use of field recordings, he adds, is another way to bring the landscape You can hear the outback in into his music. Using sounds from Frank Yamma’s music, and the natural world is a way of letting that’s not just a figure of speech. The listeners, even in remotest Canada, Pitjantjatjara singer-songwriter, who experience the world he knew when hails from the drylands of Central he was growing up, far away from the Australia, sings about the bush, its nearest urban centre. creatures, and its people, but he also “I put those things together to picworks field recordings of the wild into ture the people in the past, singing,” his sound. In songs such as “Sunday he explains. “That’s why I create my Morning” and “Beginning of Today”, songs.” both from his 2014 release Uncle, unAnd there’s an equally wellfamiliar birdsong, rustling shrubs, and defined purpose to his use of Pitjanhuman footfalls contribute to a vivid tjatjara as well as English. Like many portrait of a timeless way of life—and First Nations artists here on the West on the hard-hitting, half-rapped “Todd Coast, he feels an obligation to his Mall”, crowd noise and overheard ancestors that encompasses using conversations add similar depths to ancient words to describe modYamma’s description of a young Ab- ern conditions. Languages are also original boy adrift in the city. something of a passion for this singEven when he’s singing in his na- er, guitarist, and wordsmith. tive tongue, as endangered as any West “I speak about five different [AbCoast First Nations language, his mes- original] languages,” he says. “Our sage is clear: we Pitjantjatjara are here, Pitjantjatjara language is really simiwe endure, and we will be heard. lar to other languages from this reStill, it’s not entirely easy to hear gion, so if you’re motivated you can Yamma himself when the Georgia learn. And I include it in songs beStraight reaches him with an early- cause it’s interesting. I like to keep morning call to wet, wintry Adelaide. myself occupied, and the way I do it He’s asleep when we ring; a friend is with language.” rather nervously goes to wake him up, But there’s another reason why and when he makes it to the phone Yamma’s songs are so compelling, and he’s audibly blinking and groggy. it goes beyond his sturdy folk and clasWorse yet, a fierce cold has deepened sic-rock melodies, which will appeal to Yamma’s dark-chocolate baritone to anyone who enjoys Neil Young, Pink a subsonic croak that our recording Floyd, or the Tragically Hip. For this device, further frustrated by a noisy Pitjantjatjara man, words and music line, only imperfectly captures. are his gift to the world. “The thing “It’s early here,” he says, yawning. about language that’s very interesting “But it’s okay.” is that it’s like a little passport to your More than okay, really: our con- heart,” Yamma says. “And sharing that versation is punctuated by a lot of is what it’s all about.” > ALEXANDER VARTY laughter and graced by an easy, intuitive understanding—even if much Frank Yamma plays the WISE Hall on of what he says is lost in static. Yamma agrees that his songwriting Thursday (August 11).

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When someone told them that they ought to get back to their roots, the members of Toronto rock band Weaves took the comment a little bit too literally.

with “capturing her emotional spirit and then exaggerating the elements that are the most interesting, and blowing them up, superhero-style”. “It’s an intimate thing, because it’s usually just some looping guitar and her voice, so I get the fun job of trying to make it bigger,” Waters says, “until we all sound like individual freaks on our own instruments.” Weaves’ latest release, a selftitled 11-track LP, pairs Burke’s tension-filled thoughts on existential ambivalence with deconstructed yet dramatic bass lines and frantic, twisted guitar solos. Recorded “live off the f loor”, the album maintains the spirit of the quartet’s off-the-cuff shows. “We go in with a structure of the songs, but then we mess around with the details,” Waters says. “Occasionally, we’ll improvise—like in ‘Two Oceans’,” he says, referring to a song on the record named after Burke’s favourite brand of wine. “Jasmyn made those lyrics up on the spot.” In the track, dragging opening chords become the backdrop for

Burke’s purposely sloppy vocalizations, random mutterings, and highpitched yelps. It’s the truest exhibition of the band’s ability to successfully fly by the seat of its pants. Even though Waters admits that Weaves’ members have pop intentions, he says theirs is a style “born out of mistakes”. He compares the group’s on-stage chemistry to that of an improv troupe. “They tell you in improv, ‘Say yes, never say no,’ so if someone else makes a mistake, I’m going to make a mistake to match it,” he says. “Then it becomes a style, not a fuck-up, and no one’s at the mercy of apologizing for that mistake.” Self-described as quiet and softspoken, Waters says being on-stage with no preconceived idea of how a show might go makes for a band that’s “not always on the same page”—but this is a quality he’s more than happy to reconcile with. “Us not being on the same page helped make this sound,” he says. “When we get to play, we are freaks and we can exaggerate all our

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BROTHERS OSBORNE American countrymusic duo, composed of brothers T.J. and John Osborne, performs tunes from premiere full-length album Pawn Shop. Nov 30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Aug 12, 10 am, $32 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

FIGHTING CANCER WITH BIG BAND JAZZ South Van Big Band performs at a concert that raises money for drummer and cancer survivor James Kempton and his Ride to Conquer Cancer team. Aug 12, 8 pm, Pat’s Pub & Brewhouse (403 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.facebook. com/events/238047999881898/.

GAME OF THRONES LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE Immersive show uses music, footage from the show, and exclusively created imagery to take viewers on a journey through the seven kingdoms of Westeros. Apr 1, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Aug 13 at www.livenation.com/.

CATES PARK CONCERT SERIES Featuring performances by BoyBreakingGlass, Shadowfax Folk, and Coastline Pilot (Aug 13); Jimmy McGuinty, Cassandra van Dock, Allie McDonald, Leo, Liam Sturges, David Fisher, Deceptive Resolutions, Kellen Saip, and Solar (Aug 20); and Porteau, Eryn & Co, and DCM Bandfactory (Aug 27). Aug 13, 20, 27, 4-7 pm, Cates Park (North Van). Free admission, info www.musart.ca/.

2THIS WEEK SUNSET MUSIC SERIES Every Friday will include Summit Lodge Restaurant barbecue and musical performances including classic rock, European folk, indie-soul, modern-acoustic, R&B, and world fusion. Performers include Adam Woodall (Aug 12), Will Ross (Aug 19), Jocelyn Pettit (Aug 26), Team Tim Hewitt (Sep 2), Sea to Sky Orchestra (Sep 9), and Lovecoast (Sep 16). To Sep 16, Fridays from 6-9 pm, Sea to Sky Gondola (36800 Hwy 99, Squamish). Tix $39.95, info www.seatoskygondola.com/. HIBRIA Brazil power-metal band performs a 20th anniversary show, with guests W.M.D. and Gatekeeper. Aug 10, 8 pm, Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards). Tix $20, info theinvisibleorange.tunestub. com/event.cfm?cart&id=241960.

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THE BEN HENRIQUES TRIO Jazz trio featuring saxophonist Ben Henriques, guitarist Tristan Paxton, and bassist Jodi Proznik. Aug 11, 7 pm, Roedde House Museum (1415 Barclay). Tix $15/12, info www.roeddehouse.org/en/. ENCHANTED EVENINGS CONCERT SERIES Take in the garden and live music by Gabriel Mark Hasselbach (Aug 11), Silk Road Music (Aug 18), and Jim Byrnes (Aug 25). Aug 11, 18, 25, 7-10 pm, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (578 Carrall). Tix $25-60, info www.enchantedevenings.ca/. FRANK YAMMA Australian aboriginal songwriter, with guest Larissa Tandy. Aug 11, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20 (plus service charges), info www.frankyamma.com/. THE FORD PIER VENGEANCE TRIO AND TWIN RIVER Vancouver spazz-rock perennials play a coheadlining gig with local Light Organ recording artists. Aug 11, 9 pm, The Emerald (555 Gore). Tix $10, info www.fnordpier.com/. AWOLNATION Los Angeles-based rock band tours in support of new album Run, with guests the Darcys. Aug 11-12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. IRON KINGDOM Surrey heavy-metal band. Aug 11, 10 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $10/7, info www.venuelive.ca/events/ iron-kingdom/. MIIKE SNOW Swedish indie-pop band tours in support of latest full-length album iii. Aug 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $39.50/25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

SEAWHEEZE SUNSET FESTIVAL Take in an artisan market, a sunset yoga practice, and live music by Chromeo, Dear Rouge, and Youngblood. Aug 13, 4:30 pm, Stanley Park. Tix $38, info www.seawheeze.com/. HAWKING Vancouver prog-rock foursome, with guests Windigo, Luke Austin, and Casinos. Aug 13, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12, info www. facebook.com/events/622052557949693/. TD CONCERTS AT THE PIER Music by Sean and the Strangers, Joshua Hyslop, and David Jacobs-Strain (Aug 13), and Richard Tichelman, JP Maurice, and Harry Manx (Aug 20). Aug 13 & 20, 7 pm, West Beach. Free admission, info www.concerts atthepier.com/.

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BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604428-2691. Live jazz and blues. 2ANDREW MOCKLER Aug 10 2RAY AYOTTE Aug 11 2SIOBHAN WALSH GROUP Aug 12 2SPECTRUM Aug 16 2FALCON TRIO Aug 17 2HIP POCKET Aug 19 2FUNKY BISCUIT Aug 23 2KELLY BROWN TRIO Aug 24 2BIG DADDY FUNK PARTY Aug 26 COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. Live bands some nights, DJs other nights. Karaoke Mon, classic tunes and free pizza Tue; live painting art raffle Wed. 2FOUR YEAR STRONG Aug 14 2TURNOVER Aug 27 2JOSEPH ARTHUR Sep 16 2BEATY HEART Sep 20 2NICK WATERHOUSE Sep 28 2CYMBALS EAT GUITARS Oct 4 2WHITE FANG AND NO PARENTS Oct 9 2THE FELICE BROTHERS Oct 14

COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. General admission venue with 900-person capacity features live MUSIC ON THE GRILL Enjoy a barbecue performances by touring bands and dinner served al fresco on the patio and musicians from across North America take in music by Vancouver jazz sensation and around the world. Tix at www.com Jaclyn Guillou. Aug 13, dinner 6:30 pm, modoreballroom.ca/. 2AWOLNATION concert 8 pm, Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Tix $55/35, Aug 11 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP: A NATIONAL CELEBRATION Aug 20 2ERIC info www.evergreenculturalcentre.ca/. ANDRE Aug 23 2ZAKK WYLDE Aug 25 UNKNOWN SOLDIERS Local Doors tribute 2EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Sep 4 2JAKE band, with guests the Walk-Ins. Aug 13, 9 pm, BUGG Sep 7 2ACTION BRONSON Sep Pat’s Pub & Brewhouse (403 E. Hastings). Tix 12 2ATMOSPHERE Sep 14 2LEE SCRATCH $10, info www.imuproductions.com/. PERRY Sep 15 2BLOC PARTY Sep 16 2AIRBOURNE Sep 17 2THRICE Sep 18 FOUR YEAR STRONG American punk 2SAINT MOTEL Sep 20 2THE TEMPER band tours in support of latest self-titled TRAP Sep 21 2TRITONAL Sep 22 2ECHO release, with guests Like Pacific and Safe & THE BUNNYMEN Sep 24 2ST. PAUL to Say. Aug 14, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 AND THE BROKEN BONES Sep 25 2JACK pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $20 (plus serGARRATT Sep 26 2KT TUNSTALL Sep 29 vice charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu 2DINOSAUR JR. Sep 30 2PENNYWISE Oct Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. 1 2DJ SHADOW Oct 2 2SQUEEZE Oct 3 2TOKYO POLICE CLUB Oct 5 254-40 Oct BROODS New Zealand electropop duo 7 2PHANTOGRAM Oct 9 2GROUPLOVE tours in support of upcoming release Oct 10 2THE PROCLAIMERS Oct 11 Conscious, with guest Jarryd James. Aug 16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $25 (plus ser605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic vice charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. Thu DJ Fri-Sat.

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FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. Located in the heart of Chinatown, Fortune Sound blends high

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FOX CABARET 2321 Main. Multi-room arts and culture venue in Mount Pleasant showcases live music, DJs, comedy, and performance, including monthlies HEAVEN, Rapp Battlez, and Motown Party. Sunday Service improv comedy Sun; Séance with DJ Darwin Meyers Sun; The Zodiac Club with DJ Magneticring Wed; The Warm Up with DJs Neighbour & Kut Thurs. 2MICHAEL BERNARD FITZGERALD Sep 15 2ROYAL WOOD Sep 16 2RYLEY WALKER Oct 7 2ANDY SHAUF Oct 15 2RACHAEL YAMAGATA Oct 18 2KISHI BASHI Oct 19 2SUNFLOWER BEAN Oct 28 2HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Oct 29 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. Evil Bastard Karaoke Experience Sun-Thurs; Sunday afternoon blues with Leonard & the Lab Rats 3-7 pm; metal Mondays, football Tuesdays, live punk, metal, and alternative bands Fri-Sat. THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. Vancouver’s newest midsize music venue features live bands and DJs. 2THE TRAGICALLY HIP: A NATIONAL CELEBRATION Aug 20 2THE WHITE PANDA Sep 3 2MARDUK Sep 17 2WARPAINT Sep 20 2ROYAL CANOE Sep 30 2MARGO PRICE Oct 19 2TOM ODELL Oct 21 2WET Nov 2 2CLASSIXX Nov 4 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. 2RHYTHM ST. Aug 12 2CHRIS & THE KISILTONES Aug 13 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. Live music most nights. 2BARNS COURTNEY Sep 3 2ECHO NEBRASKA Sep 9 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604523-6888. 1,000-seat entertainment venue showcases leading Canadian and

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AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604-253-7141. The Waldorf has been a Vancouver mainstay since the late 1940s with its retro and Polynesian décor. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. Woo Hoo Simpsons Trivia every 3rd Mon., TING! w/ Tank Gyal & guests Thu; Waldorf A Go-Go with Vinyl Ritchie Fri; Vision Saturdays. BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Hot Jazz Jam night on Tue. 2FEEL GOOD HITS Aug 26 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. Resident DJs My!Gay!Husband!, Sincerely Hanna, and

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ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. Home to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, this 2,700-seat theatre is one of the premiere theatre and music venues in Vancouver. 2FREE SUMMER ORPHEUM TOURS Jul 12 2MIIKE SNOW Aug 12 2BAND OF HORSES Aug 20 2RODRIGUEZ Aug 29 2SHANGHAI NIGHTS: A DREAM JOURNEY Sep 1 2CHARLES BRADLEY AND HIS EXTRAORDINAIRES Sep 17 2SHARON AND BRAM Sep 18 2LINDSEY STIRLING Sep 28 2JAMES BLAKE Oct 13 2OPETH Oct 26 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-6653050. Home of Ballet B.C. and the Vancouver Opera, this 2,800-seat multipurpose auditorium is a venue for concerts, Broadway shows, dance performances, and other theatrical events. 2THE BOOK OF MORMON Aug 23 2SIGUR ROS Sep 18 2A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN: CANCELLED Sep 26 2RICHARD CLAYDERMAN Sep 30 2TEGAN AND SARA Oct 5 2GLASS ANIMALS Oct 12 2NORAH JONES Oct 18 2ALICE COOPER Oct 19 2TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST...FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME Oct 21 2PET SHOP BOYS Oct 24 2IL DIVO Nov 6 2MS. LAURYN HILL Nov 8 2GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER Nov 13 2DAUGHTER Nov 25 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hiphop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open seven days a week from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. Live bands some nights. 2THROWING SHADE: LIVE PODCAST Aug 12 2PROTEST COMEDY Aug 13 2SKELETONWITCH Aug 19 2SEVERFEST Aug 20 2BELPHEGOR Aug 21 2DIARRHEA PLANET Aug 26 2DOPE Sep 15 2PROZZÅK Sep 17 2PETUNIA & THE VIPERS Sep 24 2PREOCCUPATIONS Sep 28 2DAVID LIEBE HART Sep 29 2DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Oct 2 2THE JULIE RUIN Oct 7 2BEACH FOSSILS Oct 8 2CARSICK CARS Oct 10 2DESORDEN PUBLICO Nov 11 2DARK TRANQUILLITY Nov 25 2THEE OH SEES Nov 26 2THE ALBUM LEAF Dec 13 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Thousand-seat venue features live performances by touring musicians and comedians from across North America and around the world. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. Concert venue and home to the Vancouver Canucks. 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24 2GWEN STEFANI Aug 25 2DURAN DURAN Aug 28 2KEITH URBAN Sep 10 2DRAKE Sep 17 2DOLLY PARTON Sep 19 2KANYE WEST Oct 17 2CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE Nov 7 2FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nov 12 2AMY SCHUMER Dec 2 2GAME OF THRONES LIVE CONCERT EXPERIENCE Apr 1, 2017 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu. 2MICHAEL GRESHAM AND

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OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK SUMMER MELTDOWN FESTIVAL Performances by Griz, STS9, Gramatik, Beats Antique, Keys N Krates, Blue Scholars, Budos Band, Rising Appalachia, Trevor Hall, Alo, Michael Menert and the Pretty Fantastics, Monophonics, and Manic Focus. Aug 11-14, Darrington, WA. Tix $195/75/kids under eight free, info www.summermeltdownfest.com/.

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fter more than two years of all but unanimous calls for the government to collect more information about who is buying residential real estate, the province finally announced it would do so last February. The first batch of data came on July 7 and revealed that during a 19-day period in June, 5.1 percent of sales in Metro Vancouver were to foreign nationals. Then, on July 25, a second round showed that from June 30 to July 14, foreign buyers accounted for 14.9 percent of deals across the region. The disparity left people anxious for the third parcel of information, which, based on the previous releases, was expected to come during the week of August 15. But the province will not release an update on the numbers until the final week of August or early September. A representative of the Ministry of Finance was not available for an interview. On July 28, Minister Mike de Jong said that going forward, the numbers would be updated monthly. In a telephone interview, NDP housing critic David Eby argued that the irregular releases and seemingly random date ranges suggest the B.C. Liberals are putting politics and policy ahead of information. “I am very skeptical about why this information is being delayed,” the Vancouver– Point Grey MLA told the Straight. “I don’t know what their motives are for delaying it, but I have little doubt that there is a political motive informing it.” As further evidence, Eby noted that a new 15-percent tax on residential sales to foreign nationals was announced on July 25, when only that first three-week set of data had been released. “There is a way to do data collection that provides useful information for forming policy,” he said. “And then there is a way to do data collection that informs a larger political strategy. And I think we’re in the latter.”

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property included in a development planned for Commercial Drive and Venables Street. The Kettle Society, a nonprofit that provides housing for people with mental-health challenges, and Boffo Properties have partnered to propose building 200 condo residences and 30 units of social housing at the site. “I know that currently a lot of the plans that were discussed included that city portion of land, and if they wish to buy it, well… Make an offer, and we’ll see what the will of council is,” Vancouver councillor Kerry Jang told the Straight in a phone interview. The plan, which includes a 12-storey building, involves four properties. One is owned by Kettle, and is flanked by two Boffo lots. The fourth property is owned by the city. On July 28, council approved a new community plan for the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, which covers Commercial Drive. With the exception of Adriane Carr and George Affleck, councillors rejected a staff recommendation in the plan to limit the Kettle and Boffo development to nine storeys. According to the community plan, the development “could occur in a consolidated manner that incorporates several properties (and could possibly include the City owned land) or it could occur through a number of independent developments”. Jang maintained that while the city supports the creation of 30 supportive-housing units for mentally ill people in the neighbourhood, the inclusion of its property in the development is “not set in stone”. Last spring, the No Tower Coalition suggested an alternative in which the city would donate its land to Kettle. For its part, Kettle would sell its Venables Street property, estimated to be worth $2 million. With a capital contribution of the same amount from Kettle, the provincial and federal governments could step in to help in the construction of a six-storey building that would have social housing and homes at low market rents.

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Dear readers: I’m on vacation for

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I’m a straight

guy in my 40s, and I’ve been with my wife for more than 20 years. I’m incredibly attracted to my wife. Recently, I’ve been a bit frustrated with us not having sex as frequently as I’d like. So I broached the subject with her. I tried to be easygoing about it, but maybe I fucked that up. Basically, I told her that I fantasize about her daily and would like to have sex more often. I cited two examples of frustration. Two weeks ago, I came on to her and tried to initiate, but we had a dinner party to go to and she didn’t want to be late. One week ago, I was flirting with her but was rebuffed

because we were going out to dinner and… she wanted to go to dinner more than fuck, I guess. I made my wife cry by bringing this up. End result is that she doesn’t want to fuck more than we already do, there’s nothing I can do to make sex more appealing for her, and it hurt her for me to bring the subject up at all. I dropped it, apologized, and moved on. I don’t want to coerce her into anything (I want her to want me), so here we are. How can I communicate better in the future? > USING MY WORDS

Communication in any relationship is key. On the basketball court, one of the first things young players are taught is to communicate effectively with their teammates. They’re required to call out plays, offensive assignments, and defensive rotations in order to prevent breakdowns and keep the system working smoothly. In relationships, the same principles hold true. You have to be able to effectively communicate with your partner in order to keep both parties happy. And just like everything else in life, timing is everything. First, I’d make sure you communicate your needs at a time other than when you’ve just been rebuffed. You’re then likely to be less emotional, think more rationally, and more effectively explain your needs without applying added pressure. Second, I’d try making your next move when other plans are not on the table. In both the examples you mention, UMW, the timing of your request appears to have been an issue for her.

> BY DAN SAVAGE Schedule some time for an intimate dinner at home or cap off an exciting evening out on the town with romantic advances. If she does not respond to your improved efforts, then she’s not being a good teammate. A successful relationship is when both members’ needs are met, not just one.

I’m a 36-year-old bisexual fe-

I appreciate you having your boyfriend listen to my podcasts—oh wait, that was probably meant for the other Dan Savage. Never mind. My podcasts probably wouldn’t have helped with this issue. Your question reminds me of a topic that’s currently top of mind in my profession: NBA free agency. In the basketball world, it’s the time of year when teams can go after the best available prospects not under contract and offer them a deal to join their team. Organizations heavily vet these players, talking to their former teammates, coaches, and others to make sure that their values match up. There’s nothing worse than being locked into a fiveyear guaranteed contract with a guy who doesn’t fit with your franchise. Actually, on second thought, there is—getting married to a guy who doesn’t share the same relationship goals and values. If your boyfriend is someone who has no interest in open relationships—and from all indications, he doesn’t—odds are he’s never going to be happy in that type of situation. And if you’re never going to be happy with monogamy, then you need to fi nd someone whose values match your own. Unfortunately, some people are destined to play man-to-(wo)man, while others are more satisfied in a 2-3 zone.

male. I’ve been dating my nice Midwestern boyfriend for about fourand-a-half years. Within the first few dates, I brought up nonmonogamy. I was pretty sure from past experiences that long-term monogamy wasn’t going to be for me. I get bored, I like attention, and I love the chase. He was against it. I thought, okay, we have a lot of other positive stuff going for us and maybe he would reconsider in the future. I feel like I’ve lost a part of my sexual self—no adventures, no threeways, I miss girls, et cetera. I feel that what I want—newness, some kink he isn’t trained in, being with a girl, et cetera—he can’t give me. So I brought up opening up the relationship again. My thought is I could get what I need/ want and get my engine revving again, and hopefully bring that excitement and spark back to our relationship. He listens to your podcasts now, but he doesn’t think he could handle the idea of me with someone else. I don’t think I can handle the relationship as it is now, though, and this was my suggestion to try to make it stronger. I feel like I’ve already ended the rela- I’ve been hooking up with a tionship just by bringing this up. Are good friend for about a year. We’re both single, and he lives in another we doomed? > A GIRL HAS NEEDS state but comes to town for work

every month or two, and we usually hang out and have really great sex when he’s here. One of the things I’ve always admired about him is his eco-conscious lifestyle… which includes showering only about once a week to save water. His BO is pretty inoffensive (it’s actually a nice scent), but I find that most times we hook up, I get a raging UTI within a day or two. It’s happened enough times that I’m wondering if his infrequent washing could be allowing bacteria to live on his junk, causing my infections. Is that possible? Do I need to have a talk with him about washing more frequently/thoroughly? > HURTS TO PEE

The simple answer is yes, HTP. It’s great to have an eco-conscious lifestyle, but not at the expense of your urinary tract. If he cares about you as much as he does about the environment, then with a quick chat, he’ll probably focus a little more on his personal hygiene. Especially if you explain to him that the overuse of antibiotics contributes to creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can cause issues for the entire planet. Follow Dan Savage, assistant director of digital content for OrlandoMagic. com, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ dan_savage/. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with twin, queer, heartthrob pop stars Tegan and Sara: www.sav agelovecast.com/. Email: mail@sav agelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.

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Note To Self

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I don’t think I know.

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In a very disconnected city I savour sitting beside a stranger and looking out of the same murky bus window together.

Well!! I guess it is better to have learned a lesson too late rather than never learning the lesson at all. If only you could see me now, maybe we’d cross paths again... if it was meant to be of course ::)

you slept with my roommate and now my housing situation is tense, I’m too embarrassed to talk about it with anyone and I can’t find it in me to forgive you.

it bothers me that my feelings fluctuate about you

You lost my respect I told you clearly I am not interested and cannot see you, yet you continue to seek me out in my area of work and habitation and call me seeking to connect. If I asked once, and you think pushing at my boundary is ok, or somehow cavalier and charming, guess what you do not respect me, or my boundaries, or even listen to me. Seriously we hung out once, it wasn’t even a date.

Flounder or Anchor don’t want to be Either I’ve been buoyed by family to finish a degree. Post degree, family’s floated me while I’ve tried to find work. Job search + Small jobs < DEBT + Cost of Living: I seem to be moving downwards, no end in sight. Family is overtaxed, yet I’m dependant on them. I keep telling myself to keep digging deeper, but I’m floundering on the bottom. I’m tired of dragging my family down. I feel like an anchor. I need to find a way to reframe my life away from this awful nautical metaphor. Feeling hopeless with no way to give back; Cut rope and sink, or cut rope and break free?

Carpal Tunnel When I was young, I blew my hands out pretty quickly making a living in a factory, now I have to use my brain instead.

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s of Saturday, Saturn in Sagittarius ends a fourmonth retrograde cycle. This completes a restructure-, reprioritize-, and refortify-it cycle. Saturn in retrograde has put beliefs, rationalizations, and future prospects to the test. While on this reality-check program, it has served to flush out what can’t withstand the test of time. Also on Saturday, Venus, the evaluation planet, turns a corner with Saturn. It’s a get-real, be-herenow transit, one that understands the need to face, to accept, to deal with today as it is. Venus in Virgo aims to build it better from here on in. On a lighter note, it’s the weekend! You’ve earned it—own it! While Sunday may get off to a soft or a nonstart thanks to Venus opposing Neptune, it’s still a good one. Relax, let romance sweep you away, indulge yourself or another. The weekend can also mark a special occasion or milestone. Monday’s Capricorn moon keeps it under good control. The time is right to discuss, negotiate, plan, to get it organized and accomplished. Inspirations of the moment are on track, too. A spontaneous choice or meet-up can deliver the goods quite well. Tuesday’s the day to watch. Make it happen or let the day deliver. Lighting a spark, the Aquarius moon infuses the day with upbeat energy and possibility. The sun’s trine to Uranus puts opportunity, luck, and synchronicity at peak. It can be a notable day at the Olympics. Wednesday’s Venus/Pluto also keeps

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Venus turns a corner with Saturn on Saturday, spaces out with Neptune on Sunday, and gains good motivation from Pluto on Wednesday. As of the start of the week, you can get your message across and start planning ahead with greater confidence. Tuesday, the timing couldn’t be better. An event, meet-up, piece of news, or great find makes your day.

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Don’t sweat it, let it ride Friday. By Saturday/Sunday, you’ll see it give way, correct itself, or come to you more naturally. Isn’t it interesting how it goes? You are likely to be feeling the effects of next Thursday’s full moon shaping up. Monday, get organized, aim to take care of business. Tuesday/ Wednesday, aim for fresh, new, or different. Make it up as you go along.

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As Saturn ends retrograde, something long awaited or long sought can come to fruition or start to show good promise. Better inroads can be made with folks who matter. Your reputation can grow, too. Tuesday is upbeat, even awesome. Luck and great timing are on your side. Wednesday’s great for socializing or money matters. February 18–March 20

Moving past the past, unable to hold back any longer—as of the weekend, something you have been struggling with or have suppressed can give way. It can take more time until you are fully there, but for now, it’s a good or necessary start. Monday, you’ll regain. Tuesday/Wednesday gets you moving in a positive new direction. -

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 4, 2016 WHERE: Moja

I was beside you at the Colin James show at the Burnaby Blues and Roots. You were wearing a Chilkoot Pass sweatshirt and I was wearing an off-white tank top and white skirt. I noticed you weren’t wearing a wedding band. Are you available? and would you be interested in meeting?

You were hanging out with your friend, sitting in the window, but we kept making intense eye contact. Your eyes are stunning, and you sounded like a great conversationalist. Drinks sometime if you’re single?

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 6, 2016 WHERE: Port Moody

We joked while waiting in line, you said you did not have an accent though my friend and I could hear one. You mentioned it was perhaps because you were just speaking to your Dad in Ukrainian and I joked about my Ukrainian side of the family. I thought would we could chat once we got our beers, but you were only buying to go...

THE WISE HALL ‘KILLER HILL’ GUY

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I stopped after cycling the hill on Adanac just outside the Wise Hall Saturday night. You were on your way back in and called out something about it being a killer hill. All I could manage in my state was a very ladylike four letter exclamation. I wish I had asked you to come see for yourself how heavy my bike is and to have an excuse to continue conversing with your dark handsome self. Bike rides?

HOT BLONDE AT STORM CROW

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 7, 2016 WHERE: Storm Crow Tavern You were all smiles from two tables away, I regret not chasing after you and asking your name. Drinks? Me, white shirt and glasses.

CUTIE. BLACK RIPPED JEANS

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 7, 2016 WHERE: Joyce St.

Was driving by along Joyce St. close to the Church. Looking down at my phone and when I looked up you were walking by and caught me say “oh shit”. I just spent the weekend in nature and you are by far the prettiest thing I’ve seen all weekend. Would love to see that smile again.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 7, 2016 WHERE: 4 AM

It was 4AM on Granville... I was a caucasian guy (some ppl think I look half Asian), with a middle-eastern friend... You were with two other caucasian girls... You were East Indian I believe, and I gave you my number, but when you called my phone was dead and I never got your number... We both knew right away that there was some kind of weird connection. You had nice skin, and a full upper body figure.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 4, 2016 WHERE: The Rio

You were standing outside with your friends after the comedy show and I was instantly smitten. Your laugh was music to my ears and I could not get over how beautiful you looked. Leather skirt with heels... Woah. I would love to see you again, maybe we could see a comedy show together?

ENGLISH BAY BABE ;)

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 5, 2016 WHERE: Cactus Club English Bay You were my server at Cactus Club English Bay, you were tall, slim and extremely funny. You had large brown eyes and perfectly trimmed facial hair. We chatted a bit about UBC, and how you’re taking a year off. I’d love to catch ya again, and perhaps travel Europe with you in the fall. Hope to see you soon ;) xo C.F.

WANDER EMPORIUM

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 3, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Dr.

You were opening the doors Tuesday morning, I believe you have some streaks of color in your hair and were wearing a lovely sundress that... well it was very flattering. You’re beautiful.

PRETTY GIRL IN SEC 111 AT JULY 26 TRAGICALLY HIP SHOW

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We had seats bedside each other at the amazing Tragically Hip show (July 26)... We talked a little and I should have asked for your contact info, I said I was an East Van guy and if you were down there or down on The Drive sometime and saw me, stop and say hello... let's be in touch and compare notes (Maggie?)...

LEN AT ROBSON SQUARE BALLROOM DANCING

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 1, 2016 WHERE: Robson Square Friday Night Dancing We danced in the cha-cha lesson and chatted a bit later before you took a smoke break. You: short gray hair, glasses, long time dancer--you even have the shoes. Me: petite, short hair with blonde streaks, glasses, not a great dancer now, in gold running shoes. I liked your sense of humour and mischievous glint in your eyes. I’ve been dancing 2X since then but you’re not there. I’d like to see you again. You too?

BC FERRIES

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 1, 2016 WHERE: BC Ferries - Mayne Island You were working at the front of the boat on to Mayne Island from Tsawwassen, I was wearing leopard print sunglasses, and with my parents. We talked about the rainbow flag painted on the rocks. I wish I would have given you my number, but with my parents and the other people around, I was too nervous. I would love to take you out sometime, and here more about those whales :)

DYKE MARCH BUTCH SIGHTING

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 30, 2016 WHERE: Grandview Park Your pulled up to mid calf white with rainbow trim socks first caught my attention, then your killer outfit, then the reflection of the sun off the gold mirrored words I couldn’t read on your ball cap. Were you looking at me cause I was lookin at you! Me: Petite femme, black fedora, giant sunnies, baby blue hair on a white sheet in the middle of the lawn. You: Gorgeous black butch with amazing style strutting by. Get At Me.

STEALING GLANCES ON THE #9

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: Broadway & Windsor I jumped on the #9 bus at Broadway & Windsor. Had I noticed you sitting there when I was trying to get my pass out to scan, I would’ve sat up front next to you. Instead I walked to the back of the bus, but happened to be in great eye line as we kept stealing glances with each other for rest of ride :) Then we both got off at same stop & conveniently almost walked into each other. Both looked back but think you might’ve been trying to find whatever place you were looking for. You: Tall, brunette, facial hair/beard, light grey long-sleeve waffle shirt & jeans. Me: Redhead/ strawberry blonde trying to read my book between glances, glasses, beige tank top & jean capris. Here’s to hoping we can actually chat!

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YOUR FAN AT THE RAPTURE: VICTORY AT COMMODORE BALLROOM

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 31, 2016 WHERE: Rapture: Victory at Commodore Ballroom You: Tanner - Blond, 5’8” with black fan and fluorescent shirt? Me: Tim - 5’8”, Asian. I met you on the dance floor. You cooled me down with your fan and we danced. We then exchanged names. Would be great to meet up for coffee or drinks.

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 :)

BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN BLUE SUZUKI

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I saw you at the Pride Parade, riding your blue Suzuki, wearing black boots, black short, and colourful top, sunglasses, red hair. I fall in love at first sight

BUYING SUNSCREEN

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We were at IGA on west 4th and Collingwood. I was buying sunscreen. We were both heading to the beach. You had blue board shorts on and I wish I had offered to share my sunscreen!!

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.:)

BLACK SWAN @ PRIDE

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CANNA CLINIC ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE

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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 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 athleticlooking 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? :)

AT CORA’S FOR GAY PRIDE

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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...

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: The Playhouse on Thurlow and English Bay Encounter 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...

STUDYING FOR GMAT AT JERICHO

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 29, 2016 WHERE: Jericho Beach

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!

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