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Leamon said drivers also need to be aware of amendments that effectively change the way alcohol will be policed at the roadside. Currently, for example, if an officer has reasonable grounds to suspect a driver has consumed alcohol, they can make a breathalyzer demand. Bill C-46 will eliminate that. “Now it’s going to be arbitrary mandatory breath-testing at the roadside. For alcohol, the officer won’t have to have an odour or an admission…and the only prerequisite is that the officer has a breathalyzer in their possession,” she said. With drug saliva tests, however, the officer must have a reasonable suspicion before proceeding. Leamon said she expects this to be one of many constitutional challenges come October, including those stemming from a lack of information linking cannabis to impairment—an area to which Ottawa has allocated $1 million for future research. Despite the recent changes, Leamon said she believes that enforcing criminal penalties is not necessarily the most effective way to create safedriving practices. “Instead of passing all of these laws that are potentially flawed and contrary to the charter, what they [the government] should be doing is investing in a strong public-education campaign. People need to understand how to properly use cannabis in a responsible and safe manner in relation to their motor vehicles,” she said.-
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nanograms of THC in their system, according to the newly set limits. Sarah Leamon, a Vancouver lawyer specializing in cannabis law, said these devices are on par with a flawed approach to cannabis legalization. “It’s a big problem to treat cannabis impairment the same way under the criminal law that we treat alcohol impairment,” she told the Georgia Straight by phone. “The bottom line is that all of these devices don’t have any reflection on the level of impairment at all when it comes to the subject of the test,” Leamon said, adding that, unlike alcohol, the way cannabis affects each consumer is highly individualistic. Under the Criminal Code, 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, or 0.08 percent, is considered legal intoxication. Leamon said that, barring a few variables like weight, this is accurate for most alcohol consumers but the same approach cannot be applied when it comes to cannabinoids. “THC is stored in fat cells long after the effects have worn off. It is not metabolized through the body in a consistent rate and there really is no formula for us to determine how it moves through every human body,” she said. Depending on factors like a strain’s cannabinoid concentration and consumption method, impairment levels vary drastically from person to person. Cannabinoids can be detectable in frequent consumers, including those who rely on cannabis to treat medical conditions, weeks after their last use.
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n the morning of October 29, 2013, a Waves coffee shop in downtown Vancouver had an unprecedented number of visitors. Regular customers at the Howe and Smithe streets location jostled for space with national journalists, all wielding tape recorders and cameras in an attempt to get an interview with those standing in front of a bulky, one-and-a-half-metre-tall, blueand-white machine. The kiosk was the world’s first bitcoin ATM, and this was its opening day of trading. The machine lived up to the hype. By the end of the week, it had exchanged more than $100,000 worth of the virtual currency. That enthusiasm reflected a fervour for bitcoin that had been quietly growing in Vancouver since its inception in 2008. Knowledge of the cryptocurrency started small. In the wake of the global financial crisis, a mysterious individual or group authored a paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, titled “Bitcoin—A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System”. Posting the document on a mailing list dedicated to cryptography, “Nakamoto” laid the groundwork for the software to become publicly available in 2009. Soon after, Vancouverites began meeting to discuss the idea’s implications. Early conversations whispered that bitcoin could operate without the control of central banks, that it could exchange money more swiftly, and that it could drastically reduce transaction fees. Many were fascinated by how bitcoin’s exciting underlying technology, called blockchain, would support it. The most passionate individuals formed the Vancouver Bitcoin Club— a group closely associated with those who would go on to operate the first bitcoin ATM. Leasing a space underneath a downtown barbershop, they established a location to meet, code, and talk shop about cryptocurrency and the untapped promise of blockchain. They dubbed the new hub DCTRL. “My first experience of the spot was when it was more of a hacker space,” Chelsea Palmer, a community organizer, tells the Georgia Straight from one of two worn leather couches in its main room. “My friend was playing a DJ set here in December 2014. I was finishing my master’s degree on the social theory of tech, and while I found everything that was going on there really interesting, I knew I wouldn’t complete my thesis if I didn’t focus in on that. The next summer, I came back.” DCTRL is now unofficially known as the cradle of Vancouver’s blockchain
From revamping voting systems to redefining fundraising, blockchain will change our most basic processes, say Chelsea Palmer and Kevin Hobbs.
ecosystem. Of the city’s most prominent companies using the tech, many have roots in the community incubator. Businesses such as Mike Olthoff’s Coincards—a cryptocurrency-to-giftcard service—have been launched from the hub’s artistically decorated backrooms, and once-hoodied hackers have transitioned into high-flying jobs in downtown startups. The place is funded by the group’s most dedicated members, who invite those intrigued by the technology to visit for meet-ups and conversations. “We specialize in outreach at DCTRL,” Palmer says. “We try to connect with people that are super new to the technology. What I like most about our community here is that it’s always been free, welcoming, and publicly accessible. We hold discussions that anyone can follow and make it clear that anyone can ask questions. That’s something I’ve tried to push: ensuring you’re not using a bunch of highly specialized language without explaining what it means. We don’t want anyone to feel unintentionally excluded or to blame themselves if they don’t get it.” In Palmer’s view, bitcoin and blockchain are easy to understand with the right explanation. HOW BLOCKCHAIN WORKS Historically, when individuals wanted to transfer money or valuable commodities, it was necessary to have a central authority like a bank or government authorize the transaction and make sure it wasn’t fraudulent. Those middlemen ensured that both parties were acting in good faith, and they kept a record of what was exchanged so that documents couldn’t be faked. Bitcoin, however, offered a way to transfer electronic cash directly between individuals. Payments could
be made with a high level of trust to strangers, without requiring anyone to facilitate the transaction. This could be done using blockchain technology. A blockchain is a type of ledger or database that records information. Unlike a bank’s ledger, which is controlled by an entity such as RBC or BMO, a blockchain is decentralized. The database is replicated precisely on any computer connected to the network, and is synchronized through the Internet to make sure that it is always up-to-date. As a result, no one person or organization owns the records. When each exchange is carried out, it is grouped with any other agreements that have occurred in the past 10 minutes, and sent out to the network. These collections of transactions are known as blocks. When a block is created, any information it contains is officially verified, and the data can no longer be changed or removed. Building these blocks can be done by anyone with a motherboard, some graphics-processing chips, and a simple piece of software. The people who choose to do so, known as miners, use their computers to solve very complex math puzzles. Each miner competes against the others to solve the problem, and create a new block. The first person to do so receives a reward— which, on the bitcoin blockchain network, is currently 12.5 bitcoins (about $100,500). As each new block is validated, it is marked with the time of its completion and is attached to the previous one. The blocks are placed in chronological order and “chained” together. The chain is copied onto all the computers in the network in real time, allowing individuals to read the transaction history in a simple, linear way. There are many advantages, advo-
cates say, to choosing blockchain technology over the conventional banking system. Blockchains are publicly visible and accessible anywhere in the world, meaning that anyone can see what dealings have taken place. Because the ledger is decentralized and exists in a large number of different locations, its creators believe it can never be hacked, as a fraudster would need to erase a transaction on more than half of the computers connected to the network—a number that can run into the hundreds of thousands. Secure, open, and democratic, blockchains have the power to transfer control from central organizations back to individuals. Although the technology is most commonly associated with bitcoin, that is only one of a number of applications. Right now, Palmer points out, hundreds of companies are attempting to use blockchain for alternative ideas. “Bitcoin is currently a more recognizable term than blockchain,” she says. “That means that its killer app has succeeded. But a lot of us believe that these unalterable databases will create opportunities for things like radical selfgovernance, banking the unbanked, and offering greater ethics in research. The tech has a lot of potential.” HOW COMPANIES USE IT In Vancouver, local businesses are imagining diverse and creative uses for the technology. Among the most exciting is newly minted company HyperVote—a business spun out of local research group Blockchain@UBC. Voting in elections can be time-consuming, and—as the U.S. presidential election publicly highlighted—ballot results are sometimes challenged. HyperVote’s platform reinvents the process. Rather than going to a polling station, individuals can vote using their cellphones from anywhere in the world. Its software allows citizens to track that their choice has registered, and it offers greater security and trust by placing the selections on a blockchain that has, so far, proven impossible to edit. Every ballot can be audited if contested, and no voter can change their choice once it’s been inscribed, tackling issues of voter fraud. Social impact, too, is the driving factor behind another Blockchain@ UBC project: the creation of digital identity cards for people living in the Downtown Eastside. Dubbed Canada’s poorest postal code because of its low median income, its streets host many who have lost their government ID. Without official documents, citizens can be turned away from vital services such as food banks, shelters, or detox clinics, driving the cycle of poverty and addiction. To combat that,
the UBC iLab is building an app that allows users to upload an authenticated copy of their B.C. Services Card to a private blockchain. The information will let organizations verify an individual’s identity, and offer better care. Although Vancouver boasts innovative upstarts, its blockchain community is anchored by a few influential companies. One of the largest and most mature is the Vanbex Group. As in many local businesses, the organization’s founder, Lisa Cheng, was a prominent member of DCTRL. Graduating from being a self-described “computer nerd” to a vital employee of early cryptocurrency organization Mastercoin, Cheng next started her own company with Kevin Hobbs, who was working as a corporate foreign-exchange trader. Together, the pair created a multifaceted organization using the technology that, in Hobbs’s words, “would change absolutely everything”. “I guess how I’d describe the Vanbex Group now is that we’re a full-stack professional-service-and-development company, but one that specializes in blockchain,” CEO Hobbs tells the Georgia Straight from the firm’s downtown office, a location that he says it has already outgrown. “We started as a marketing and consultancy company. We’ve expanded to do community, and social, and branding, and legal guidance, and white-paper-writing for any company that wants to incorporate blockchain into its product. On the other side, we’re a full incubator. We help people mould their company and adapt blockchain into their business model for future success.” One of the ways that the Vanbex Group makes the technology accessible to other outfits is with its own blockchain-based platform, named Etherparty. Its first creation, Rocket, launched this summer. The Rocket software addresses two of the most prominent uses of the blockchain in the professional world— developing “tokens”, and completing an “ICO”. The concept is revolutionary. Previously, if a private organization wanted to borrow cash to cover its costs, it would pitch to venture capitalists or accredited investors. Each would then take a percentage of the company—known as equity—in return. Blockchain technology instead established a way for private companies to ask everyday people to invest. In order to reach the public, those organizations create their own token: a digital coupon tied to a product or service. Tokens are bought by individuals, who can then redeem their value by spending them on the product they’re assosee next page
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ciated with after it’s been developed, trading them to another person, or selling them for major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Those cryptocurrencies can then be converted into more traditional “fiat” currencies, like U.S. or Canadian dollars. Tokens are created and distributed through a process known as an initial coin offering, or ICO. Similar in some ways to an initial public offering (IPO)—the undertaking where private companies sell their stock to the public for the first time—an ICO lets any interested party put as much or as little money into the company as they like. Unlike an IPO, however, buying tokens does not mean that the individual can vote on the direction of the business, and the company doesn’t need to give away any equity. Instead, the process operates in a similar way to crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, giving organizations a large amount of money up-front—sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars—to develop their idea. Investors then hope to recoup the value of their venture as the product or service grows in popularity, increasing the price of the token, or by buying the product the token is associated with at a discounted price. Since the world’s first ICO in 2013, tokens continue to be created at staggering rates. In the first four months of 2018 alone, businesses worldwide collectively raised $6.3 billion through
the process. Despite that enthusiasm, though, ICOs are often long, complex, and fraught with controversies. Rocket, the Vanbex Group says, will simplify the ICO process, and can be used by companies to assure interested buyers that their tokens are legitimate. BLOCKCHAIN’S LIMITS Although
the technology has—in theory—the capability to transform fundamental services, a number of blockchain companies have been criticised for making overly optimistic claims. At base, a blockchain is a slow ledger that is ill-suited to handling complex data. Although the hype around the tech has inspired companies as diverse as Long Island Iced Tea or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s diploma-granting department to incorporate it into their business, there are, for the moment, few instances where blockchain can fulfill an organization’s goals. For Hobbs, those unrealistic statements could damage the industry’s reputation. “People are promising the world,” he says. “They say they’ll do this, that, and everything just to get the blue-sky investors in. A lot of people are naive and don’t really know about the technology, and while they understand that there are lots of great things about it, there are many issues. We’re still at dial-up and everyone is promising high-speed.
“We still need to solve things like storage, capacity, and speed,” he continues. “People talk about doing a financial transaction online. Often when you’re sending money overseas, people might want to see a picture of your driver’s licence. You can’t store a picture of your licence on the blockchain. It just can’t hold that much data. So if you can’t send the information of the transaction together with the image, you have to send it from different places. And when you have to go outside of the blockchain for something, is it really still valuable? Not really. Because now you have a record of a transaction that happened, but if your data is corrupted outside of that, you can’t trust that audited transaction.” In Hobbs’s view, the best way to combat those deceptive promises is through education. Rather than relying on the media or government to push the idea into the mainstream, another local company found a left-field way to speed up understanding. In October 2017, four individuals from Vancouver company Axiom Zen decided to reimagine how blockchain technology could be used. Frustrated that programmers were limiting their imagination to financial transactions, the group attended the prestigious ETHWaterloo hackathon with the goal of launching one of the first
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ars has recently backtracked into Capricorn. It will complete retrograde at the end of August in this sign, but it won’t leave Capricorn until September 10. Mars continues to build momentum by keeping the focus on what is not under control but should be, what is less effective, and what is past due/ long overdue. In so doing, the transit serves to reduce the uncertainty or inconsistency and to further cement the priority and the reality. Now to the end of the month, the stars offer up a little more time to review and replenish, to get better prepared and organized. Once Mars resumes motion in Capricorn, the sign of its exaltation (maximum effectiveness), it will be the time to meet the reality head-on. Ending retrograde in Leo late Saturday, Mercury sets the generalsatisfaction quotient onto a better track. Communication improves; the feel does too. Putting head and heart on the same page, Mercury will continue on a creative-opportunity trend in Leo through the first week of September. It’s an apt transit for making the most out of pleasure, play, and the season’s best. Soak it up this weekend; indulge, enjoy, and seek a sweet escape. To the plus, Jupiter’s trine to Neptune on Sunday is also a good-as-it-gets transit. Play up the romance; commune with the divine. Put kindness and compassion to the forefront. On another note, serving the need to know, Jupiter/Neptune is an exposing, revealing, increase-the-scope transit. Sunday through Wednesday, objectives can be easily met. Go while the getting is good. In general, a productive and mostly smooth-running week lies ahead.
ARIES
March 20–April 19
Go by feel; you’ll read it well Thursday/Friday. Despite two more weeks of Mars retrograde to go, you now start to see greater gains, on yourself and regarding the plans, projects, and folks who have a claim on your heart. Mars on a revisit of Capricorn is best used to get your priorities straight. Friday onward should be a smooth sail.
TAURUS
April 20–May 20
Ending retrograde on Saturday, Mercury will continue in Leo through the first week of September. The next few weeks keep the spotlight on home, family, emotional attachments, personal well-being, and security issues. Mars retrograde in Capricorn and the sun in Virgo, starting next Wednesday, help you to make better use of time and the tools you have to work with.
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May 21–June 21
During the coming week, you should find that you are on the upswing with projects, plans, conversations, health, and bargainhunting. Even so, consider the rest of the month and most of the next few as a work in progress. Over the next few weeks, Mars in Capricorn and the sun in Virgo will get you better onto task, especially regarding repairs and upgrades. Ditch the time wasters; reduce unnecessary expense.
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June 21–July 22
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July 22–August 22
Mercury ends retrograde on Saturday, but it will continue to stay triggered through the first week of September. On the same day that Mars ends retrograde, Mercury triggers Jupiter and the degree of last week’s solar eclipse. Do not underestimate the potency of the shaping moment. Let your instincts, intuition, and heart direct the show. Through Wednesday, it comes easily; the getting is good.
VIRGO
August 22–September 22
Although Mars is still retrograde to the end of the month, the backtrack through Capricorn can do you good. Over this next month, Mars and Mercury are helpful for sorting it out. What’s real, what’s viable? What do you need to do to create more satisfaction, more success, more fulfillment? The heart knows. Listen up! Sunday onward, you’ll gain better ground.
LIBRA
September 22–October 23
Be your own best lover. Venus, on an extended visit to Libra, assists you to forge a new relationship with yourself. Venus heightens self-awareness, your powers of observation and persuasion—and, in turn, prospects, potentials, and karmas. Mercury ends retrograde on Saturday, but you may not get back to a full swing until Mars ends retrograde at the end of the month.
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October 23–November 21
The moon in Scorpio keeps you quick on the uptake Thursday/Friday. Your timing is good; your powers of observation and persuasion run at optimum. Play it up; get up to something or nothing at all—the weekend is a good one for getting your fill. Monday to Wednesday, stay on top of it, stay goaloriented; the job’s done well.
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Mars is on a backtrack of Capricorn—but rather than losing ground, momentum, or time, you’ll gain it. The end of Mercury retrograde on Saturday gives the green light to proceed with talks, plans, and ambitions. The stars now clear the pathway for better gains on finances and matters of heart. Tuesday/Wednesday, your stars are optimal. January 20–February 18
Mars has backed out of your sign, but it will be back soon. In the meantime, use the week ahead to get things lined up and yourself better sorted out. Overall, the end of Mercury retrograde, Jupiter/Neptune, and next week’s stars make for a smooth go. Good timing supports you for most of the week ahead.
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Vancouver Community College’s school of health sciences has a hands-on, 30-week program to train students to become licensed pharmacy technicians.
VCC’s pharmacy-technician program are pharmacists, and the program advisory committee is made up of employers and people who accept students on practicums. “They meet with us a couple of times a year and give us feedback on things they would like us to teach more of or something new that has come up,” Rubner says. “So we can keep our program current and relevant.” The pharmacy-technician program is part of VCC’s school of health sciences. “You can come into our program directly from high school if you meet all the entrance requirements,” Rubner adds. Staikos says that all of those who graduated with her had no difficulty finding employment in the field. And she’s happy to report that there are opportunities at the B.C. Cancer Agency to branch out into different specialties, such as being a technician for clinical trials or drug evaluations. “Right now, I’m in the process of being trained to mix chemotherapy, which is something that is really interesting to me,” Staikos reveals. “So I’m going to build on that and see where that takes me in the next five years.” CITYU IN CANADA MASTER OF COUNSELLING AND MASTER OF EDUCATION
Steve Conway loved attending in Canada as a student, graduating from the master of counselling program in 2004. And he still feels that strong attachment today—as the associate provost of Canadian academic programs—for many of the same reasons. “We have an emphasis on socially
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just practice, ethics, inclusion, and diversity that spans all of our programs,” Conway says. “That’s something we really hold dear.” He also stresses the importance of CityU in Canada’s outreach efforts. This is reflected in its “dispersed community clinic”, which offers free counselling through local neighbourhood houses. “It’s a way of embedding ourselves into the community and providing a service that these individuals otherwise wouldn’t be able to access,” he says. The master of counselling program can be completed in two years on a full-time basis. The prerequisite is an undergraduate degree from a recognized institution, and the next group of students begins in January 2019. Conway says it’s also possible to enroll in a mixed-mode program in which 49 percent of the curriculum is offered online and the remainder completed in residencies with practitioners and in face-to-face learning with instructors. This can be completed in three years. There’s also an option of attending the Saturday program for a master of counselling, which can also be completed in three years. The Saturday and mixed-mode programs begin this October. According to Conway, the latter two options primarily attract working adults who are driven to become counsellors. The full-time cohort, on the other hand, tends to draw a somewhat younger mix. “When students come here, we regard them not as students, per se,” Conway says. “We regard them as colleagues and future peers. We take a real responsibility in ensuring that
individuals that we train to work with vulnerable human beings are going to be up for the job.” CityU in Canada also offers two master of education degrees—one focusing on leadership and the other on school counselling—that are taught out of local school districts. Teachers enroll in these programs to upgrade their credentials to become counsellors or administrators. Conway recognizes that it’s not always easy for adults to return to school, which is why CityU in Canada embraces the “cohort model”. “It really creates a strong learning community and it’s really supportive,” he says. “Students in these cohorts often maintain contact with each other for years after they’ve left.” He also emphasizes that ethics is “inseparable” from CityU in Canada’s educational programs. “Really, it underpins all of what we do—that idea of ethics and that idea of treating human beings with dignity.” On August 28, at 4:30 p.m., CityU in Canada will host an open house for its master of education programs at its Vancouver campus (310–789 West Pender Street). It will include a presentation by Sorrento Elementary School principal Ian Landy on addressing anxiety and mental health in the classroom. VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONTINUING STUDIES
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world, and, fortunately, Vancouver Community College is making it easy for entrepreneurs and their staffs to apply these to their organizations. This year, VCC Continuing Studies has launched four introductory courses offered at times that won’t intrude on the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekday work schedule. And they all take place at the downtown campus, which is easily accessible via the Expo Line and various bus routes. Social Media: Marketing and Branding is a one-day course being offered on two Saturdays: September 29 and November 24. Program coordinator Sid Khullar says that it will touch on major social-media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, and Instagram. “It helps people learn how to create consistent messaging for your brand promotion,” he explains. “It’s well suited for individuals who have their
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own business who want to expand into the social-media realm.” The second new course, Google AdWords Training, is offered over five consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m., starting October 24. “It’s a pay-per-click model, so anytime somebody clicks your advertisement, then you pay,” Khullar says. “It also provides geographic controls, so you can have your advertisements targeted to a local area or you can make it available across the globe.” The third new course, Visual Analytics With Tableau, takes place on five consecutive Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m., starting on October 11. Tableau enables users to create interactive dashboards, graphs, and illustrations. “You can produce meaningful visualizations,” Khullar says. “You can quickly navigate into the details within that big picture.” He points out that Tableau is quite heavily used in marketing, journalism, health care, geography, and other fields. The fourth new offering, Introduction to Python Programming, takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. over five Tuesdays, starting on October 23. According to Khullar, Python is relatively easy to learn in comparison to other programming languages, and it can be used on socialnetworking sites. A fifth course, SEO and Google Analytics, has been offered before. SEO stands for “search-engine optimization”, and this course takes place on five Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m., starting on September 19. CANADIAN TOURISM COLLEGE
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says. “But 50 percent is developing you as an individual and your confidence—and your ability to handle conflict, chaos, and emergencies— and just being able to connect with people to make them feel good.” According to Colling, the three-month flightattendant training program appeals to those who’ve always dreamed of flying. The work can involve everything from helping a couple celebrate a honeymoon to resuscitating a sick passenger to calming someone with a fear of flying. Canadian Tourism College also offers diplomas in travel and tourism, as well as in hospitality and resort business management. These programs include one year of intensive study followed by one year of full-time work as a coop student at Canadian pay levels. “We really believe we provide education in those fields better than any institution in Canada,” Colling says. “I think a testament to that is the resources and investment that we put into it. It wasn’t easy to get a Boeing 737 into our school.” The travel and tourism program offers a pathway to work in many fields, including as a travel agent and in the outdoor-adventure sector. In hospitality, he adds, people can learn the skills to thrive in the hotel and resort business, where there are plenty of opportunities for advancement. If students graduate with a B average in hospitality and resort business management with the co-op component, they can then transfer to Royal Roads University and bachelor-degreegranting programs in international hotel management or global tourism management. This way, they can receive a degree—on top of their existing diploma—in two years, plus they have a year of work experience. There’s a similar agreement in place with Vancouver Community College for those who obtain a Canadian Tourism College co-op diploma in hospitality and resort business management. Colling maintains that the existence of these transfer programs demonstrates the quality of education at his institution. “Our two full-time faculty members for hospitality in Vancouver have a combined 50 years’ experience between both of them,” he says. “To have training in this area leads to a lifelong career where individuals can have families, buy houses, and save for the future,” he adds. “You can make very decent salaries. It’s just a matter of knowing what to do and rising to the top because you’re better trained and you have more knowledge than the person beside you.”
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provincial, and territorial governments “to commit to eliminating the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in custody over the next decade”. But achieving this objective is going to require a great many more people working in the justice system who have a much greater understanding of Indigenous cultures. More than a year ago, the Justice Institute of B.C. appointed Freida Gladue as its program manager in the office of Indigenization. A member of the Salteau First Nation with extensive experience in child and family services, she says the goal is to “support decolonization, Indigenization, and engagement within Indigenous communities”. “We’re trying to integrate more of the Indigenous knowledge into several of the institute’s divisions,” Gladue says. “Most of this content will be fairly new for the mainstream because it has not been included, and it really is a representation of what I believe is the true history of our country.” The JIBC has six campuses and offers education to paramedics, firefighters, lawenforcement officers, security personnel, bylaw-enforcement officers, and many others working in the public-safety field. “We’re connected with several different divisions that are very open and welcoming and also want to work toward building a better relationship with Indigenous people,” Gladue says. “This makes me a lot more hopeful in the position I’m in.” At the same time, she would like to help foster a greater understanding of the importance of Indigenous ceremonies and First Nations’ connection to the land. With a hearty laugh, Gladue says her “ultimate dream” is to get professionals in public safety to not only visit a sweat-lodge ceremony but also attend a Sun Dance or experience a Yuwipi ceremony. “A majority of people don’t even understand the ceremonial and the spiritual side behind our community,” she says, switching to a more serious tone. “I believe that’s the core of our people. That was cut and severed from our identities and it’s why we’re in the predicament we’re in at this time.” The JIBC has developed an Indigenous “health garden”, Gladue adds. It enables faculty and students to learn more about typical
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 14, 2018 WHERE: Marine Gateway SNFC
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 27, 2018 WHERE: Vancouver At Gallery
I propose you either a) finally talk to me b) wear pink socks to indicate you want me to talk to you c) or, just stop being so fucking perfect that I cannot take my eyes off of you.
You were cute, average height? Black hair, you were at the Microsoft booth showing people how to work the VR game. I was the short woman at the booth across from you, making awkward eye contact, I have brown/red hair. I was a mess, it was very hot but hanging out with my friends, and seeing your cute face made my day! Hope you had a wonderful time. Wish I said something...
WALKED 3 BLOCKS WITH YOU FROM ALBERNI TO ROBSON.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 9, 2018 WHERE: Corner of Alberni and Robson I ran into you at the corner of Alberni and Robson. You obviously had been having a hard time, you started telling me about your relationship with a younger woman and how much trouble you were having. Before we parted I wished you good luck. I wish I had got your contact info, you seemed like you really needed a friend.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 20, 2018 WHERE: Patio of the Lennox Pub We met late in the afternoon on the patio of the Lennox Pub. Your luggage was in the corner. I was the windblown redhead suffering from hay fever & lisping as I’d just had a root canal. We both love fine food, wine & craft beer. I so enjoyed our shared stories (often hilarious) of mishaps/misadventures. I had to leave because of my 2 geriatric dogs & because I was in pain as the freezing was wearing off. I forgot to take your number! If you see this, please leave your number for me. I’d love to pick up where we left off.
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You had tattoos all over. It was later after bar hours, you walked towards Burrard on Hastings. Me, the opposite way. I said "hi beautiful", you smile and kept walking. Could I redo my greeting this time around ?
PARK ACROSS HOLY ROSARY CATHEDRAL
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Scan to confess Metal forever A couple German men escaped their nursing home to attend the Wacken Open Air Festival! They were discovered at 3AM on the festival grounds in Schleswig Holstein and escorted back by a police officer. Now that’s going to be me when I’m in assisted living! Metal head forever! Also, a beer pipeline was installed which has enough pressure to pour six beers in six seconds. Now that’s how you do it right!
Smoke break I’m done with you smokers and the constant breaks. What gives you the right to drop everything you’re doing and go outside? Because you’re a smoker? So what? Why can’t you have a smoke on your lunch break and designated coffee breaks? You really have no other excuse than “I want to”. Well fine then, each time you go for a smoke I’m taking a break for 5 min right after.
uses of traditional medicines. “What I like to tell the senior staff is we are slowly building back a nation that has been fractured,” she explains. “And we do that in activities that are usually connected to land. So you may think berry-picking is just picking a berry, but that is also nurturing and developing a relationship so some trust can start to develop between individuals. “That’s how we connect and how we move forward: when we know we have that trust between each other,” Gladue continues. At the same time, she doesn’t believe it’s possible to achieve true reconciliation without decolonization. “There is enough space for all of us,” she says with assurance. “There’s no need to have this fear that you’re going to lose something.” CITYU IN CANADA BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MANAGEMENT
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world: understanding supply chains, human resources, accounting, and other factors that guide a company. But the academic who oversees CityU in Canada’s school of management, Tom Culham, also wants students to become conscious of their inner world. So in the bachelor of arts in management, a.k.a. the BAM, the first course is ethics. And 50 percent of that is devoted to self-awareness. “The most important thing to know first is, ‘What are your personal values?’ ” Culham explains. “Then, when you’re faced with an ethical issue, you’re not asking ‘Does it cost too much?’ You’re asking ‘Is it in alignment with my values? Is it in alignment with the organization’s values?’ ” Culham is the author of Ethics Education of Business Leaders: Emotional Intelligence, Virtues, and Contemplative Learning. Based on his PhD thesis, it synthesizes Asian and western philosophies with neuroscience, psychology, and education to advance understanding of how ethical conduct can be cultivated to promote emotional intelligence. He says at CityU in Canada’s school of management, students are encouraged to become “scientists of themselves”. This is accomplished by observing their own state of mind, learning about emotional self-regulation, and understanding how they experience interactions with other people. The BAM program places a heavy emphasis on sustainability and ethics.
CityU in Canada places huge emphasis on ethics in its master of counselling, master of education, and bachelor of arts in management programs.
“The other thing that we’re trying to do in this program is help people connect with each other,” Culham adds. Prospective students can leverage credits from two-year college or technical-institute programs toward the 180 credits required to obtain a CityU in Canada BAM. It’s also possible to apply credits from up to two years of undergraduate university education, enabling students to obtain this business degree in just two years. Culham says that CityU in Canada will accept up to 25 students into the BAM program beginning in October. It’s ideally suited to those who have moved into management at a company or nonprofit organization or in the public sector and who want a business degree to round out their skill set. “There is this sense that when you come here, you’re part of a family,” he states. “We’re going to care for you. If something is going wrong with your life and it’s interfering with your education, we have some flexibility around that. “Obviously, we have standards,” Culham continues. “They have to pass. But it is a welcoming place. It is a friendly place.” He also says that CityU in Canada’s goal is to put the community first by helping people engage with one another. To that end, the university hosts Sustainable Series talks at its Vancouver campus. On September 19, former tech CEO and business coach Staffan Rydin will give a presentation called “Conscious Leadership: Personal Transformation for the Sustainable Economy”. Rydin, a former student of Zen Buddhism, taught the first Canadian university course on conscious leadership at UBC. He will be followed on October 24 by Neil Pegram, Vancouver-based director of Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Canada. It assesses the environmental, social,
and governance performance of realestate portfolios. On August 29, at 5:30 p.m., CityU in Canada will host an information session on its bachelor of arts in management at its Vancouver campus (310–789 West Pender Street). VANCOUVER LEARNING NETWORK
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Besides being a pretty sight, this savoury treat is also quite tasty. Made to share with friends or family, it’s topped with Mexican flavours that really pack a punch. Pro tip: carry some mints in your bag to avoid onion breath. SMOKING CHARCOAL SOFTSERVE Don’t be alarmed by its ap-
pearance—this treat actually tastes good. It’s made with coconut-flavoured soft-serve ice cream and infused with black activated charcoal. The only thing you’ll have to worry about is staining your white shirt. ONE-POUND FAIR-SIZED MEATBALL If you have the appetite and
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Don’t underestimate the range of sweetand-savoury hybrids that can be concocted for the fair. These redvelvet corndogs are a sweet twist on the classic but might cross the line for some die-hard corndog fans.
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llow me to set the scene be- This is a blend of 75 percent Malbec yond my current position, and 25 percent Cabernet Franc. Handtapping away on my laptop harvested, destemmed, and crushed at the back of a bus heading for fermentation, the grapes spend 14 down a dusty road somewhere in the months in new French oak barrels. That oak lifts the wine’s black and province of Mendoza in Argentina. I’m on a trip with a half-dozen other red berry fruit onto a tidy pedestal, Canadian wine writers, invited by dusts it with nutmeg and cloves, then Wines of Argentina to experience the welcomes a touch of fresh ginger for region up close. It is the middle of win- a kick. Decanting a half-hour before ter here; think of it as February in the serving will see those flavours bloom, Northern Hemisphere. It is very dry, allowing the wine greater elegance though, as this part of the world is wont while retaining a very long finish. to be. This is partially due to the seasonal wind known as the Zonda, currently EL ESTECO FINCAS NOTABLES howling down this side of the Andes CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2013 and keeping most of the moisture on (Salta, Argentina; $29.99, $24.97 until September 1, B.C. Liquor Stores) the Chilean side of the mountains. It is on this side of the longest From the northern reaches of Argentine wine country mountain range in comes this lovely the world where a Cabernet Sauvigood chunk of the gnon, grown at globe’s high-altiKurtis Kolt about 1,700 metres, tude winegrowing occurs. In fact, the highest vineyard that is just hitting its stride now that in the world, according to Guinness it has five years under its belt. The World Records, is not far north of concentration of red currants, black here, situated at about 3,100 metres plums, eucalyptus, and sage has a above sea level. Most quality vine- high-toned intensity just beginning yards here are between the 1,000- and to ease into a comfy place. When it comes to New World Cabernet Sau1,500-metre mark. Aside from wine coming from vignons carrying both power and high up in a mountain range sound- finesse, it would be easy to pay a lot ing kinda cool, there are other bene- more for a lot less of a wine elsewhere. fits to the location of this region. Higher elevation makes for less TRAPICHE TERROIR SERIES FINprecipitation, meaning less disease CA AMBROSIA MALBEC 2013 for grapevines. Less oxygen means (Mendoza, Argentina; $42.99, B.C. the air is thinner, stressing growing Liquor Stores) The vines are plantgrapevines and allowing for greater ed in sandy alluvial soils, about a concentration of flavours. That lack third of them gravellier, with calof oxygen leads to heightened helio- cium carbonate bringing mineral phany, or intensity of sunlight. With character. After fermenting in conevery 1,000 metres of elevation, solar crete, the wine spends about a year radiation increases by 15 percent. in French oak. Gobs of sticky black One effect is red-wine grapes produ- and purple fruit like blackberries, cing more polyphenols in their skins, currants, and mulberries are met making them thicker and darker as with lashings of fresh rosemary and thyme. Spirited acidity keeps the protection for the seeds inside. Although that intense sun brings pristine fruit structured and lively, good ripeness and higher levels of alco- a brilliant departure from masshol to these mountain wines, the heat produced, boozy, cloying takes on doesn’t need to be as high as in other Malbec found in many wine stores. parts of the world to achieve those levels. The crisp mountain air can allow CLOS DE LOS SIETE 2014 (Mendoza, Argentina; $25.99, $23.99 until for better preservation of acidity. I’m seeing better quality in Argen- September 1, B.C. Liquor Stores) This tine wine since my last visit about six popular red blend punches above its years ago: better balance and harness- weight in a fine balance of fruit coning of terroir. We can always find a centration, well-integrated tannins, cheap and cheerful example for $15 acidity, alcohol, and charm. Malbec, or $20, but to me the best values are Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, found when we fork over just a little Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot swirl more dough. Here are some examples. together in a cornucopia of cinnamon, ginger, espresso, cocoa, fresh raspberBENMARCO EXPRESIVO 2015 ries, and dried mulberries. This hits (Uco Valley, Argentina; $46.99, $43.99 the palate where freshness meets comuntil September 1, B.C. Liquor Stores) plexity. Bang for your buck indeed. -
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Above left, the 58 Oceans Project turns regular ocean dips into a 3-D installation; right, Janelle Reid and Marisa Gold find a metaphor in trees (Sheng Ho photo); below left, Jaye Simpson creates soundscapes.
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Pacific water—“curling up as the ocean held us”, almost like salmon eggs. In the “fry” stage, they would submerge themselves and push to the surface for air. And so it went, the pair making a visceral connection with their subject At the enviro-friendly Vines Art Festival, performers dip into through its life cycle. “It was bringing us seawater, bond with trees, and capture sounds of nature back into that primordial sense of the fact At this year’s eco-minded Vines Art that we might have come from ocean, from fishFestival, artists are not just finding inspiration like ancestors way before mammals, and that in nature, but often physically connecting to it memory is held in our bodies,” Kraulis explains, BY JANET S M IT H in their work. adding she and Priest hope their installation Performances and installations at the out- will inspire others to take up a similar challenge door Trout Lake Park event feature everything to reconnect with the ocean. “There’s this feeling from dance-poetry in and around trees to a of disappearing beneath the waves and the city work that plunges its artists into the sea. vanishes, or curling up underneath the waves For the latter, the 58 Oceans Project, Char- and getting into that sense of the prehistorical lotte Priest and Anna Kraulis committed to and what that feels like. I feel like I can go into immersing themselves in the ocean for 29 the ocean and feel instantly wilder. Maybe it’s days in a row, in a ritualistic ode to the sal- the cold that shocks you into a more alert state mon life cycle. Inspired by the Go #Wild or maybe it’s just entering the vastness of it.” 4Salmon anti-fish-farm challenge and the pipeline-protesting #kmchallenge, the FOR MARISA GOLD and Janelle Reid, nature results will be depicted in a 3-D photo- and the personal are also inextricably interand-poetry-journal installation at Vines’ twined in their untitled piece at Vines. For celebration. (The title is a reference to the almost five years, the interdisciplinary artists two photos, one of each artist, taken on have been working on a creation about finddips totalling 58 shots.) ing love and acceptance for oneself and others; each of the daily dips, “We were not imitating a fish or pre- adapting it to the outdoor setting of Vines, at tending ‘I’m a fish,’ but drawing con- Trout Lake amid a stand of trees, they’ve linked nections between ourselves and other those ideas to a larger, dance-based attachment creatures,” Kraulis says, speaking over to Mother Nature. “It’s about one powerful unconditional love,” the phone and referring to the project she and Priest undertook from the end Gold explains. “It’s about finding that oneness of June to late July. “It was for a deeper with ourselves and other beings and a oneness connection with the ocean and also about what with the environment and nature.” Gold says that in developing the circling, can we do to learn more about ourselves and how can we get connected in a deeper way. It spiralling work for Vines, she and Reid found made me feel all the challenges more deeply— profound metaphorical inspiration in trees and all the fish farms and the pipelines—and it’s their life force. “There’s just something about the peacegood to open ourselves up to that.” The early days of the project found the pair, fulness of the tree and how it moves in the who worked together and separately in the sea in wind,” Gold says, adding the theme is explored Vancouver and Victoria, getting used to the cold throughout the work’s poetic spoken text.
THINGS TO DO Editor’s choice SPANISH HEAT Spain has become a hotbed for international artists who want to immerse themselves in flamenco culture. And straight out of this scene, mostly centred in Seville and Madrid, comes Fin de Fiesta Flamenco, a fiery troupe made up of four Canadians (two dancers, a guitarist, and a flutist), a French singer, and a Cuban percussionist—all happily ensconced in the ancient art form’s home country. Catch them in two shows this week—one under our almost Andalusian sun on Granville Island, and the other indoors, their new show Salvaje. Follow the sounds of hammering feet. All Over the Map presents Fin de Fiesta Flamenco at Ron Basford Park on Sunday (August 19) at 1 and 3 p.m.; and Caravan World Rhythms presents Salvaje at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre next Friday (August 24).
“There’s so much value in trees but that also parallels the unique value in all of us: every leaf is completely unique and valuable and does so much for the planet and for the world.” THE MOTHER EARTH angle takes on even deep-
er personal and political connections for spokenword performer Jaye Simpson, a two-spirit artist who prefers the pronoun they. The Oji-Cree Anishinaabe artist has always explored their people’s connection with the land in their poetry, alluding to everything from the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to the Southern Gulf Islands mother orca that was recently lifting its dead calf to the ocean surface. As a survivor of foster care, they made links between finding identity and the need to get back to the land. But, as a participant in Vines’ signature Resilient Roots project, where they were paired with mentor and Tahltan-Tlingit electronic musician Edzi’u for several months, Simpson is bringing a whole new dimension to performance and its nod to nature. “It was just an amazing opportunity,” Simpson tells the Straight over the phone. “Now I’m creating soundscapes; I’ve gone into the digital realm.” The performance at Vines will feature a melding of sound recordings, made mostly here and on their home territory in Manitoba. “It goes from the sound of wind through trees and the crashing of the ocean to busy Commercial Drive, and eventually it creates a cacophony,” Simpson says. The mentorship has launched Simpson on a new musical-digital artistic path, albeit with the same themes, concerns, and driving love of spoken word. “I feel it brings to my work almost more nuance and more depth,” says Simpson. Like other festival artists, Simpson welcomes the chance to perform work about their bond with the earth within a natural setting. “I love doing poetry outside, where you can’t control the environment or the sounds,” they say. “The stimuli from nature creates a beautiful, beautiful partnership.” The Vines Art Festival takes place at Trout Lake Park from Friday to Sunday (August 17 to 19), with the main event all Saturday afternoon.
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ERICA SIGURDSON (August 16 to 18 at the Comedy MIX) One truly funny female.
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TINY REPLICAS (To August 25 at the Italian Cultural Centre) A smart look at gay procreation amid the thought-provoking lineup at the Tremors fest.
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AYUMI GOTO AND PETER MORIN (At the Vancouver Art Gallery to October 28) Two artists hold a dialogue on colonialism and cultural history.
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ABOUT US (August 18 at the Orpheum Annex; August 19 at North Van’s Mount Seymour United Church) Canadian composer Imant Raminsh joins Dvorák and Shostakovich at the Blueridge Chamber Fest.
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MACBETH (To September 13 at Bard on the Beach) A dark, deliciously acted Scottish tale for a fine summer night in Vanier Park.
In the news BIZARRE BEINGS Odd, bizarre, and disturbing: these are just some of the words that have been used to describe the lifelike human-animal-hybrid sculptures of Australian art star Patricia Piccinini. Now, early-bird tickets are going on sale Thursday (August 16) for a rare showing of her work in a coolly unconventional space here. Piccinini’s Curious Imaginings takes over a wing of the Patricia Hotel in Strathcona from September 14 to December 15 as part of the 2018–20 Vancouver Biennale. Piccinini poses provocative questions about genetic research and advances in biotech. Her creatures have warm hazel eyes, and delicate hair sprouting from their pink folds of skin. The early-bird tickets are available at a reduced rate of $14 for adults, $11 for students and seniors, and $35 for a family of four, plus fees. Find them at www.imcurious.ca/ and Eventbrite. AUGUST 16 – 23 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 17
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ade in Strathcona has launched a walkable outdoor art gallery throughout its neighbourhood this summer. The project, called 10 Blocks of Passion, pairs local artists with Strathcona businesses to tell the stories behind the storefronts in the area. The result is an array of five artworks that span murals to functional pieces and sculpture—all on view in the temporary street gallery through September. Pieces range from a 3-D mural that draws in Railtown history to a concrete bench that echoes the twin peaks of the Lions, visible across Burrard Inlet. Johanna Vortel, sustainability and communications coordinator for the Strathcona Business Improvement Association, says the project is part of a bigger vision for the area. “Last year, we launched an initiative to make East Hastings the most walkable street by 2021,” she tells the Straight by phone, referring to the area between Campbell and Princess avenues. “Making the neighbourhood accessible to everyone is important to us. Public works of art are sort of hidden around the neighbourhood and this is to excite people and invite them to find the pieces.” Along the way, visitors can stop to enjoy food and drink discounts, offered through social media, at area spots like Luppolo Brewing Company, the Uncommon Cafe, Liquids + Solids, Strathcona Beer Company, and Casa del Caffe. In its unique approach, 10 Blocks of Passion’s goal was to reveal the stories behind all the manufacturing, innovation, and creativity that goes on in Strathcona. For her striking black-and-white imagery across the front of Agro
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Roasters (550 Clark Drive), designer and artist Tierney Milne got to know owner Dusty Smith, paying homage to his dedication to his craft through bold patterns and symbols. “He and his wife are really inspired by the process [of coffeemaking] and seeing the landscapes of where it comes from; they talk about travelling to Honduras and Nicaragua and Brazil,” says the artist, who subtly references the traditional patterns from those regions in her mural. “They spoke really viscerally about how the landscape impacts the agriculture.” Milne melds that influence with a nod to the industrial heritage of the coffee roasters’ site. The painting is a complete departure for Milne, who’s known for colourful, cheerful works for the likes of the Vancouver Mural Festival. “It was really freeing to do something black-and-white. It felt more like a design piece with architecture in mind than a fine-art piece.” She admits it was a huge leap of faith for Agro to hand over the
entire front of its building—its public face—for her to paint. “I take it really seriously, because I come from a branding background,” she says. “It’s a first impression and it makes a big impression. That’s why I didn’t do something trendy, but something that felt really true and authentic. And they were so trusting and so positive, and were really excited to make a change.” Artist Joni Taylor, who’s constructed a big sculptural illustration on the roof of Chapel Arts (305 Dunlevy Avenue), similarly got to know the story of Lana Ryma, owner of LanaLou’s Rock and Roll Eatery (362 Powell Street). Ryma, who provides a muchneeded venue for local musicians at her diner-cum-nightclub, is depicted in the illustration as a playfully rendered superhero in a power pose. “She’s an incredibly giving and compassionate person in the community, so I was thrilled,” Taylor says. “She’s more interested in the people—and I’m really interested in the people, the unsung people who have great amounts to contribute.” The Emily Carr University of Art + Design grad has surrounded her main subject with fun, black-andwhite “caped crusaders”—creative types inspired directly by Ryma’s staff and patrons. “I met Lana and took photos of her staff, and the little Yoda next to her—that’s her son, he’s depicted in a Yoda costume, and then her chef is Batman,” Taylor says. “The true superheroes are people without superpowers, and yet they effect change.” 10 Blocks of Passion runs through September; find the artworks at madeinstrathcona.com/ and more stories about local makers at #walk strathcona.
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LES BELLES-SOEURS By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
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will plan to visit Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park for Theatre Under the Stars’ annual Broadway musical offerings. But this year, audiences who enjoyed the magical charm of previous fairytale-inspired shows such as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Mary Poppins will be disappointed with the production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. It lacks magic and appeal, and is instead a weird concoction of strange costumes, set pieces, and directorial choices. The show is an interpretation of the 2013 Broadway version, which features a book by Douglas Carter Beane that revisits the story from a fresh perspective. This includes giving the lead char-
acter of Ella more independence and consciousness in her actions, and incorporates themes of classism and the emergence of democracy in France. While the revised story line makes for interesting twists and presents Ella as a positive role model for girls, TUTS’ presentation is quite odd. First, there’s the issue with the costuming, designed by Christina Sinosich. From the show’s references to the French Revolution, one could infer it’s set somewhere in France during the late 18th or early 19th century. Yet the costumes are all over the map, appearing to recycle random looks from previous shows. During the ball scene, Prince Topher (this version’s Prince Charming) wears an apparently African-inspired outfit, and he later changes into what appears to be a costume piece from The King and I. His “soldiers” wear futuristic-looking black pleather costumes that look more appropriate for a jazz-dance competition than fighting giants in the woods. The female peasants wear 1950s sundresses (Hairspray leftovers?), and the Fairy Godmother’s beggarwoman disguise consists of a stylish tan trench coat over a clean-looking dark hooded dress, making her resemble a fashionable businesswoman wearing a trench coat over her Halloween costume. Set designer Brian Ball’s concept also lacks consistency or reason. With its pyramidlike steps and fluorescent backdrop pieces, the palace throne room looks like it was recycled from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Meanwhile, Ella’s cottage in the woods lacks fairy-tale mystique. It’s a shame that the production values of this show don’t match the
beautiful performance of Mallory James, who plays Ella. A talented storyteller, she’s engaging when performing her songs, starting with “In My Own Little Corner”, in which she takes the audience on the minijourneys of her character’s daydreams. James has an intelligence and likability that make you cheer for her as she navigates her way from sweeping floors to wearing glass slippers. Also lovely are Vanessa Merenda, as Ella’s not-so-evil stepsister Gabrielle, and Daniel Curalli, as her French revolutionary boyfriend, Jean-Michel. Merenda and Curalli’s on-stage chemistry is enchanting, which is much appreciated, seeing how there’s a lack of chemistry between James and Tré Cotten, who plays Topher. As for Cotten, he adds American Idol–like runs and riffs to his vocals that seem out of place in the context of the show and juxtaposed with the singing styles of everyone else. Overall, this production, under the direction of Sarah Rodgers, comes off as unpolished and poorly thought out. In one scene in the town square, as Lord Pinkleton announces the upcoming ball, the peasants, wearing their flowery sundresses and holding random baking trays and pots, look like they’re heading to a church potluck instead of going about their daily grunge work. Even Nicol Spinola’s choreography, which includes a clever interpretation of Ella’s journey to the ball, and the elegant “Ten Minutes Ago”, featuring some lovely ensemble dancers, including the excellent pair of Sophia Curalli and Joshua Lalisan, isn’t enough to pull this production together. > VINCE KANASOOT
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AVOCADO TOAST—VANCOUVER GROWN, ORGANIC FREE-RANGE COMEDY Vancouver TheatreSports presents a comedy show that pokes fun at Vancouver and its stereotypes. To Sep 1, Thu-Sat. at 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). From $10.75, info www.vtsl.com/show/avocado-toast/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK SUMMERCHOR 2018 SummerChor presents a performance of Johannes Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, with a choir of over 150 voices. Aug 18, 7 pm, St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $20, info www.standrews wesley.com/.
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2CABIN FEVER (exhibition traces the cabin’s evolution through renderings, artworks, and commercial products, as well as architectural models, plans, and full-scale installations) to Sep 30 2DAVID MILNE: MODERN PAINTING (first major exhibition of Milne shown in the country in 30 years features close to 90 works in oil and watercolour, never-before-presented photographs, drawings, and memorabilia) to Sep 9
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver .ca/. 2WILD THINGS: THE POWER OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES (exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city) to Sep 30 THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-8225087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2ARTS OF RESISTANCE: POLITICS AND THE PAST IN LATIN AMERICA (exhibition illustrates how Latin-American communities use traditional or historical art forms to express contemporary political realities) to Sep 30
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A washed-out icon lives again in Nico, 1988 RE VIEW S NICO, 1988 Starring Trine Dyrholm. In English and German, with English subtitles. Rated PG
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rain in this small-scale but quietly ambitious character study. Although not everything in Nico, 1988 clicks, it’s still a radically different way to imagine a film biography. To begin with, or perhaps to end with, the tale is set in the last two years in the life of Christa Päffgen, a rather noneuphonious real name for the austerely androgynous German model, actor, and art-world muse known as Nico. This starkly aloof figure, who spoke and sang in a Teutonic monotone, became an unexpected musical sensation when Andy Warhol inserted her into house band the Velvet Underground—“To make Lou Reed look cuddly,” as he explained to Factory pals at the time. The Velvet days are long behind her by the time we meet Nico, in 1986, as played by Denmark’s terrific Trine Dyrholm, better known for lighter fare like The Commune and Love Is All You Need (opposite Pierce Brosnan). Now she’s a washed-out junkie and overweight alcoholic touring Europe in a dodgy van packed with beat-up gear and even less reliable musicians. She’s hell on wheels to work for, and this requires mollification all around from her tour manager (Scotland’s John Gordon Sinclair, unrecognizable from his youthful lead in Gregory’s Girl). Nico, 1988 is a third feature for writer-director Susanna Nicchiarelli, after her debut with 2009’s delightful Cosmonaut, about growing up communist in 1980s Italy. It’s her first in English, but she doesn’t make many commercial concessions. There are a few snippets of Nico in her real-life prime, mostly from Jonas Mekas’s footage of the Warhol scene. And she stages fleeting re-creations, most significantly of the infant Christa witnessing the bombing of Berlin from a distant hillside. Later, the middleaged Nico, who howls more than sings and plays mournful electric piano (both performed by Dyrholm herself), describes the music she keeps looking for as “the sound of defeat”. In her heyday, Nico also had a son with French heartthrob Alain Delon, but she gave up the boy, who grew up to be a troubled addict himself. Here, she reconnects with him (France’s Sandor Funtek) and then moves to grittier parts of Manchester before dying, from a complicated bike accident on the island of Ibiza. We don’t witness that denouement, but she is glimpsed riding off into a sun that had already set in the ’60s.
double-time, but it also distracts you from the fact some awfully ridiculous stuff is going down. Cop Li Noor (the amazing Iko Uwais, from The Raid) wants to help the Americans, but he’s hidden the whereabouts of a radioactive dust on a high-tech disc that will self-destruct in eight hours. That means Silva’s covert team has to get him to a safe flight that’s 22 miles away through hostile urban territory (the dense maze of beautifully ramshackle high-rises in what is actually Bogotá) before he’ll turn over the evidence. The journey even has a martial-arts-fighting, grenade-throwing, bullet-blasting battle through a massive modernist apartment complex reminiscent of The Raid. Beyond the deranged, caffeinated editing, Berg and writers Lea Carpenter and Graham Roland try to dress up the action with colourful characters. But instead of being the
dark presence everyone in the film talks about, Wahlberg’s raging, motor-mouthed Silva wears thin early. Still, John Malkovich as the calm, Converse-wearing headquarters boss is a treat, and Uwais and Sam Medina as the villains here provide more smoulder and depth with a lot fewer words. Plus, Uwais pulls off what might be one of his coolest martial-arts scenes ever, kicking major ass while handcuffed to a hospital gurney, turning a bed’s guardrail into a lethal weapon. So yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle (although why it has to be a made-up city is one of many lingering questions the movie leaves). Mile 22 wants to be a thinking person’s action film, and Wahlberg’s Chatty Cathy is always sputtering about diplomacy, warriors who “don’t
wear uniforms anymore”, and secret ops who prevent “the end of tomorrow”. But Mile 22 really works best when you don’t think too hard. The images are flying at you so fast, you need your own yellow elastic band. > JANET SMITH
CIELO A documentary by Alison McAlpine. In English and Spanish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
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filmmakers to utilize as anything more than visual atmosphere. Canadian filmmaker Alison McAlpine moves the heavens into the foreground for Cielo, a prolonged meditation on our ambivalent relationship with the stars. The talented writer-director, who has a background in poetics, finds
herself in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a spectacularly dry plateau west of the Andes, just before that scraggy strip of a country meets the Pacific Ocean. Ten thousand feet high in places, it’s the perfect spot for a complex of hightech observatories, free from “the curse of clouds”, as she puts it, and home to the prosaically named Very Large Telescope. The director spends time with scientists there, especially with Spanish-born astrophysicist Mercedes López, who analyzes mathematical data to hunt for new planets. The government has since built a major road near one of the sites, creating the illumination issues McAlpine complains about in her off-screen ruminations. No such problem bothers the decidedly off-grid folks dotting this vast desert moonscape, whom she interviews on their makeshift home see page 24
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mission, Mile 22 takes editing to maniacal new levels. We’re not just talking timeworn digital countdown clocks and backand-forth cuts between the real action and multiple security-cam angles. Like a cinematic Cuisinart-iste, director Peter Berg slices and dices everything into his action sequences—including information being live-fed back to headquarters from the special ops on a mission in a fictional big foreign city. Cue tactical forces taking mouth swabs and dental impressions from Russian operatives, computers uploading that data, and monitors tracking the blood pressure of the American squad to make sure they’re… Nervous? Dead? Throw in far-overhead shots of cars going boom in city streets, bullets ripping through limbs, triggers being pulled, and tires screeching. Oh, and close-ups of Mark Wahlberg’s James Silva snapping the yellow elastic band around his wrist; that’s what he does to calm himself down. The frenzy gets your heart pumping
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he first and last things we see in Cocaine Prison are ants trooping back and forth with coca leaves. It’s the perfect image for a film that considers the micro and the macro of Bolivia’s drug trade, while dumping the viewer right inside the notorious San Sebastian prison, located almost smack-dab in the middle of the country, in the Andean city of Cochabamba. “I wanted it to be the opening film, but it’s too tough,” says Christian Sida-Valenzuela, artistic director of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. “I don’t want anyone to be scared of Latin-American film.” He’s half joking. Cocaine Prison is indeed tough, but it also takes the most direct route conceivable to humanize the invisible victims of a vicious global racket. In this case, filmmaker Violeta Ayala surreptitiously handed out cameras to the inmates of San Sebastian, a disintegrating colonial mansion repurposed—if that’s the right word— into a dank, claustrophobic warren of corridors, coolers, and spider holes housing 700 men and only eight toilets, and where a throat-cutting might shorten your visit if you can’t afford to “buy” a cell. The film rounds on two inmates. Teenaged Hernan agreed to transport two kilos of cocaine across the border to Argentina in order to buy a new drum kit, while the older Mario, whom he befriends, is a minor field worker with 33 months in San Sebastian under his belt, despite not being sentenced. The situation seems dire for both men. On the outside, Hernan’s sister Deisy considers muling to raise the money needed to spring her brother. Perhaps even more dangerously, she’s also invited by a lawyer to participate
in a sting operation designed to nab Hernan’s “boss”—although, as one judge openly muses, the “big fish” never seem to get caught. There’s a glimmer of hope to all this that should be saved for viewers who catch Cocaine Prison when it screens at the Vancity Theatre as part of the 16th edition of VLAFF on August 30, and again after the festival on September 6. It gives nothing away, however, to state that Ayala has achieved something extraordinary in the realm of docu-fiction. “I like films that are not perfect, because they can’t be perfect,” says Sida-Valenzuela, identifying Cocaine Prison, in a call to the Georgia Straight, as his personal favourite from this year’s schedule. “It’s shot inside a jail with nonactors! A lot of the camerawork is by the inmates. It’s very hard to compose a film with all these external elements to the filmmaker, but they managed it exceptionally well.” Ayala’s feature arrives as part of VLAFF’s spotlight on Andean cinema. More precisely, Sida-Valenzuela and his programmers have focused on films coming out of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, with three of the six titles— Ukamau y Ké!, Wiñaypacha, and Cocaine Prison, along with openingnight film Retablo—emanating from the area’s Indigenous communities. “I think in general in Latin America, more and more people are understanding why the First Nations are so important to their culture,” he says. “And we were lucky, because it’s not every year that you have three good films from Bolivia or Peru that are spoken in Aymara or Quechua.” The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival runs from August 23 to September 2. More information is at www.vlaff.org/.
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and intuitive updating of the Chicago blues sound, No Mercy in This Land offers Musselwhite lots of room to show off his skills; at times, his harmonica sounds like a second voice, offering emotional commentary on Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distinctive vocal combination of restraint and intensity. (Harperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slide guitar serves the same function on his solo albums, but here gets only a single extended showcase, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bottle Wins Againâ&#x20AC;?.) And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertaining to think of No Mercy in This Land as a role-reversed take on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fathers and sonsâ&#x20AC;? albums of the 1960s, with an old white bluesman tutoring a younger black apprentice, Musselwhite stresses that Harper has ample blues cred of his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He grew up in a music storeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; like a folk-music store, not a Top 40 music kind of placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where they sold instruments and records and books, so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-versed in all kinds of folk music, including blues, from around the world,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in that.â&#x20AC;ŚWhen I was growing up in Memphis, going around looking for old 78-rpm blues records, anything else that looked interesting, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d buy that too. They were only a nickel or a dime back then, so I discovered a lot of musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;like Greek rembetiko music, which has a bluesy sound to it, or flamenco, which has that toughness. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what led me to thinking that every culture maybe has its own kind of blues.â&#x20AC;? Singing the blues, he adds, is one of the best ways of exorcising painâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a notion borne out by No Mercy in This Landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title track. Written by Harper but sung by Musselwhite, the song was inspired in part by the 2005 murder of the harmonica masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elderly mother. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write a song about that situation; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too personal,â&#x20AC;? Musselwhite says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But Ben has a perspective, some distance on it, so he could do that. Every night, we do that tune, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a great feeling. It makes me feelâ&#x20AC;Ś I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if good is the right word, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a balm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what blues has always been about: talking about the truth and, you know, reality,â&#x20AC;? he continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I were in country music, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My baby left me, and I want to go jump off a bridge.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But in blues, the guys sing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My baby left me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna go get a new baby.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The spirit of the blues is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We can get through this.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? -
harlie Musselwhite has a terrible confession to make: although he and Ben Harper are currently covering â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Levee Breaksâ&#x20AC;? in their concert sets, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never heard the famous sludge-metal take on the song that Led Zeppelin cut in 1971. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only ever heard the Memphis Minnie version,â&#x20AC;? the veteran harmonica player reveals with a laugh, in a telephone interview from his Sonoma County, California, home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little out of it. I have practically no knowledge of modern music after about 1953.â&#x20AC;? In Musselwhiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, ignorance might just be bliss. And Harper is using the Mississippi-born 74-yearoldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authentic blues harmonica sound to good advantage, both on the road and in the studio. Their new record No Mercy in This Landâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a follow-up to 2013â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grammy Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;winning Get Up!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is one of the younger musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest, and a great showcase for Musselwhiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blend of gut-punch immediacy and tonal nuance. But then, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprising when their union was initially blessed by none other than the high priest of boogie, John Lee Hooker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ben and I first met in 1993,â&#x20AC;? Musselwhite explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Lee Hooker was playing a little club in Mill Valley, California, called the Sweetwater, and Ben was opening for him. I was just sitting in with John; if I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working on the road myself, often John would call me and ask me to come down and play with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He never paid me anything, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go anyhow,â&#x20AC;? he adds, laughing again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was always fun. So it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long after that first time we met that John Lee had us, just me and Ben and his rhythm section, come in and back him up on one track for an album [The Best of Friends]. The tune was called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Burning Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. We really locked in in the studio, and even John Lee said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You guys ought to record more together,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause we sounded so good. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we stayed in touch and kept talking, but we were both so busy we never had time to, like, sit down and do a whole album,â&#x20AC;? Musselwhite continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But finally, after I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how longâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a decade, a leastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we had the time at the same time to go into the studio. And it was like the music had been waiting all this time. It just came charging out like wild horses.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evident on both Get Up! Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper and No Mercy in This Land, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play the Orpheum next Thursday especially true on the second effort. (August 23). Sounding at times like an effective
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is Canadian Cam Christiansen’s opening-up of a stage monologue by British playwright David Hare, best known for his screen adaptations of relatively recent think pieces like The Hours, Denial, and The Reader. Using motion-capture animation to unify and enhance wildly different situations, the new film builds on Hare’s trips to Israel and the Occupied Territories, already explored in his 2000 Via Dolorosa. As you’d expect, this Wall is built around the concrete partition, which has grown more than 500 kilometres since then, and has doubled the length of the Green Line separating the two alleged states. Travelling by car through, and sometimes not through, various checkpoints and landmarks of the cement panels that snake ominously through formerly holy landscapes, Hare—sympathetic to all sides—shows where extra barriers are going: mostly around hilltop Israeli settlements, deemed illegal by the UN. More than 100,000 trees and countless hectares of arable land have been destroyed to make way for these Trumping eyesores. In Tel Aviv, some of his liberal Israeli friends admit that the “security fence” has seen a decline in suicide bombings. But Scottish historian Neill Lochery, also on hand, declares the massively expensive project a Berlin-like “white elephant”, obsolete before it began, because groups attacking Israel had already changed tactics by then. No one here ponders what life will be like when the scandal-ridden Netanyahu and his signature architecture are long gone—mainly because most Israelis, shadowed by traumas of the Holocaust, have become “victims of their own anxieties”, unable to locate the trust necessary to live in an open society. Christiansen’s animation technique, resembling that of The Tower and Waking Life, is somewhat uneven. It’s all in high-contrast blackand-white, however—until vibrantly coloured graffiti suddenly splashes across grey cement, reminding us that even with all our man-made divisions, we must remain wholly human.
turfs. As folkloric analogues to academics with their heads in the heavens, there’s a UFO tracker, local scavengers, and an Indigenous storyteller who pulls together ancient creation myths for the scattered remnants of the Chinchorro people, there for thousands of years before the Spaniards arrived. It’s interesting stuff, if slightly soporific at times, mostly thanks to the director’s leisurely interjections in English. With the film clocking in at 75 minutes, however, this isn’t a real deficit. Similar material was handled more authoritatively by Chilean master Patricio Guzmán’s 2010 Nostalgia for the Light, which contrasted astronomical star-searching with the history of the Atacama where, not long ago, Pinochet’s troops tortured and “disappeared” literally countless dissidents and random citizens caught up in fascist hysteria. McAlpine eschews the political conClarian North’s latest album tells the strange tale of Kevin Jones, who might or might not have been abducted by a UFO. text, sticking to the metaphysical. She’s a fan of Terrence Malick’s cosmic side, and alongside superbly resourceful cinematographer Benjamín Echazarreta—who shot Gloria and A Fantastic Woman—creates celestial images to Mexican cults and missing writers found their way into Television Days rival those in The Tree of Life. The movie makes you feel small, but in a good When ambient synth-pop pro- was working in the late ’80s,” he story, asking whether the missing way. As someone says early on, “An ant ducer Clarian North travelled says. “He disappeared in the ’90s author was abducted by aliens be- never fathoms that it lives on a planet.” > KEN EISNER down to Mexico, he didn’t expect to at some point while working on a cause he got too close to the truth, get roped into joining a cult. mysterious project in Mexico. or took too many psychedelics and WALL “Just for the record, when I say “Is Kevin Jones a real person?” was taken by the authorities. ‘cult’, I mean cult,” he tells the he asks aloud. “I really don’t know. “I had a whole narrative writ- A documentary by Cam Christiansen. Straight on the line from his Mont- I don’t know if I made it up, or what ten down,” he says. “There was this Rating unavailable real home. “I felt like cult is just one happened, but it [the tale] used to part where Kevin Jones is downNo matter how the intractable of those words—people just use it. be at these street bonfires I would and-out, he’s in this apartment, conflicts of the Near and Middle Some people say that organized reli- go to. These German street kids he’s got a drinking problem, and gion is a really successful cult. There would throw them in abandoned he’s on his meds, and it’s the bot- East are approached, they will remain were a lot of weird things that hap- parking lots, and people would tom of the barrel, but not at the go- ultimately incomprehensible, even pened—I don’t know whether I can bring boom boxes, and we’d have ing-to-kill-himself level. If you’ve to—or perhaps especially to—the get into it. It’s a long story. But I had these bonfires and tell ridiculous lived in L.A., you see there’s a lot of people who live them every day. So it’s to leave in February as a result, and stories. I was telling them about that. There are a lot of people who been helpful to see a recent number of more experimental approaches to the I went to Berlin.” this cult situation we had in Mex- are lost in that shit.” The move proved fruitful for ico, and taking mushrooms in the Now taking tracks from the rec- Israel-Palestine conundrum. Like Waltz With Bashir and other, the musician, who performs under ruins, and all the weird stuff I was ord on the road, North will be comhis first name. Fresh from a stint doing over there. And they were ing to B.C. for the first time as part more recent abstractions of the reworking as the A&R manager for telling me the story of this guy of British label Anjunadeep’s Open gion’s bizarre history, Wall is an ani> KEN EISNER mated take on real-life events. The film tech-house giant Seth Troxler’s Soft who lived in L.A. who was a sci- Air Boat Party. Touch label—a position he clinched fi scriptwriter who went to Mex“Touring is always a bit of a blur,” after impressing the producer with ico, and nobody ever found him. I he says. “There are so many things NEXT AUG THUR his work as part of electronica decided to use that as the basis for that make me uncomfortable. But S.! 23 duo FootPrintz—North spent his the album.” a few tracks in, when you’re DJing days in Germany working on what Despite its spacey, lo-fi vibe, and you get into your groove, I’ll would become his latest record, the North wanted to make sure the feel better again. The boat will be AND TOUR 10-track Television Days. Living in narrative of Television Days was ac- interesting. I haven’t been on a boat SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE, ZULU, RICKSHAWTHEATR E.COM TICKETS: RED CAT, NEPTOON, HIGHLIFE a loft with a cohort of artists and cessible. 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This falls under the header of permissible secret perving (PSP), MASTER, and I will allow it—with one caveat. My go-to example of PSP is the foot fetishist who works in a shoe store. So long as he’s good at his job and his secret perving is undetectable—no bulges, no heavy breathing, no creepy comments—no harm done. And if he goes home and jacks off about all the sexy, sexy feet he saw and, yes, handled during his
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shift , he’s not hurting anyone or doing anything unethical. It’s important, however, to note that the foot-fetishist salesclerk’s perceptions aren’t the ones that matter. If he thinks he’s playing it cool—he thinks his perving is secret—but his customers or coworkers are creeped out by his behaviour, demeanour, heavy breathing, et cetera, then his perving isn’t secret and is therefore impermissible. The secret perving you’re doing— the girlfriend has to beg for your permission to fuck other people and report back to you afterward—is small and it’s a bank shot. The other people she’s fucking provide mental fodder for your D/s role-playing games, MASTER; you aren’t directly involving them. Your role-playing games take place before she fucks someone else (when she asks your permission) and after she fucks someone else (when she recounts her experience). And what turns you on about your girlfriend sleeping with other people—and how you and your girlfriend talk to each other about it—is no one’s business but yours. Now for the caveat: if one of your girlfriend’s lovers strongly objects to Dom/sub sex, relationships, or roleplaying games, and your girlfriend is aware that they object, and you two want to be exquisitely ethical, MASTER, then either your girlfriend shouldn’t fuck that person or she should disclose your Master/slave dynamics to that person and allow them to decide whether they want to fuck her anyway. Zooming out for a second: some people in open relationships don’t want to know what their partners
get up to, and these couples usually have “don’t ask, don’t tell” agreements about sex outside the relationship. But many more people in open relationships do want to hear about their partners’ adventures because it turns them on. Someone who doesn’t want to risk being fodder for a couple’s dirty talk or even their D/s role-playing games shouldn’t be sleeping with people who are partnered and in open relationships. There are things we have a right to ask the people with whom we have casual sex—like whether they’re practising ethical nonmonogamy, if they have an STI, what kind of birth control they’re using, whether they’re on PrEP, et cetera—but a casual fuck isn’t entitled to details about your relationship.
tried screaming my head off—noth- friends about his kink. So unless you’re talking about a small subing works. > PERSONAL INSULT set of his friends—only old friends CAUSING STRESS that once had benefits—do not out your boyfriend as a boot fetishist There’s definitely something your to all his friends with size 11.5 feet. boyfriend should delete, PICS, but If your fiancé has fantasized about it’s not old photos of his ex. some sort of group boot-worshipping session, and he’s shared that The man I’m going to marry has fantasy with you, and you want to a huge boot fetish. He has about 200 help him realize it, that’s great. But pairs of boots in his size. His size also he needs to be involved in deterhappens to be my size—and I’m half mining where, when, how, and with convinced he wouldn’t have proposed whom he’d like to make this fantasy if we didn’t have the same size feet and a reality. I couldn’t wear his boots. I want to surprise him with a very special bachelor My bi girlfriend and I are getparty (that we’ll both attend): it would ting married in a month. We’re in be all guys with the same size feet as us, a cuckold relationship—she sleeps and everyone will be wearing different with other men and women, while pairs of boots from his collection. I’m I am completely monogamous to picturing a big group of guys doing for her—and “my” best man is one of him what I do for him: stand on him, her regular male sex partners and let him lick my (actually, his) boots, her maid of honour is one her girlmake him crawl and grovel. His feet friends-with-benefits. No one else at aren’t an uncommon size (11.5), and our big traditional church wedding I’m guessing enough of our mutual (that her mother is paying for) will friends would fit into his boots that I know. But I wanted to let you know, could actually make this happen. He’s Dan, since reading your column is the only fetishist I’ve ever been with— what inspired me to be open about all my other boyfriends were vanilla— my kinks, and our relationship—the and I’m wondering how he would react best I’ve ever been in—wouldn’t exist if he walked into a room and found a without you. > THE HAPPY COUPLE bunch of his friends wearing his boots and then I ordered him to start licking. I think it would be way better than go- Permissible secret perving at its finest/hottest, THC. Thanks for sharing, ing to a strip club or a drag show. > BOYFRIEND OBSESSES OVER and be sure to send me a photo of the TALL SHOES wedding party for my records. P.S. He’s not really “out” about his On the Lovecast, a sex-toy expert’s kink.
My boyfriend of one year has refused to delete photos from his Instagram account that show him with his ex-girlfriend. They were together for three years and briefly engaged, and they broke up two years before we met. They aren’t in contact in any way, so I don’t have any worries there, but I think making photos of him with someone else available to his friends and family—and now my friends, too, as many are now following him—is incredibly disrespectful. We’ve had numerous arguments about this, and his “solution” is for me to “stop thinking about it”. He also insists that no one is looking at five-year-old pictures on his Instagram account. If that’s true, why not delete them? He refuses to discuss this issue, even as I lose sleep Wow, BOOTS, you saved the most over it. I’ve tried calmly discussing salient detail for that postscript: this with him, I’ve tried crying, I’ve your boyfriend isn’t out to his
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