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lthough not everyone is hitting the books after Labour Day, there’s no better time than fall to turn over a new leaf and reassess your workspace sitch—especially if you’re making a conscious effort to go green. “The office is somewhere we spend a lot of time and they have a huge spectrum when it comes to environmental impact,” Jill Doucette, coauthor of Greening Your Office: Strategies That Work, tells the Straight by phone, “so it’s a great place to start.” Whether you’re preparing to get your study on or looking to revamp your home office or coworking space, here are three easy tips for doing it the sustainable way. OPT FOR ECOFRIENDLY SUPPLIES

School- and office-supply shopping never seems to lose its charm, but it’s worth considering the environmental impact of your basic pen and stationery sets once you hit the shops. “Eliminate products that are highly disposable,” suggests Doucette, “those that aren’t refillable and that you know you’re going to waste.” Look for markers and pens with refillable ink cartridges, for example, as well as products that use 100-percentpostconsumer paper. These sheets are made from recycled waste and thus have a smaller carbon footprint than their plain “recycled” counterparts, which are crafted from paper scraps or trimmings that never actually hit the trash. When it comes to work or latenight study-sesh sustenance, be sure

When revamping workspaces, ecofriendly options are easy to integrate, such as using refillable products, cleaning digital storage or upcycling office furniture.

to steer clear of single-use coffee pods, too. Not only do they cost more than ground coffee or beans in the long run, a hard-to-break-down combination of foil and plastic-lined packaging also makes them extremely difficult to recycle. DO A DIGITAL CLEANUP We’ve all done it: let hundreds, thousands, and—eek—millions of messages pile up in our inboxes without a second thought. However, this “digital hoarding” may cause more harm to the environment than you think. “When we used to have paperbased offices, we would never let files become millions and millions deep,” notes Doucette, “but we do that on cloud storage and Internet, and it

ECO FIND ZERO METAL It’s 8:55 a.m., five minutes to deadline. You’ve just printed your term paper after completing it only hours earlier and are prepared to make a mad dash to the lecture hall when you reach for the library stapler, only to realize that—groan—the idiot before you has left it jammed. Postsecondary students know this feeling well, and we can all agree there are few things more irritating than a nonfunctioning stapler. Luckily, this staple-free gadget ($11.79) will save you from any last-minute panics. By cutting a small strip in your pile of sheets and looping them together, it forgoes the need for metal staples—billions of which end up in landfills every year. Find it at Staples (various locations). > LUCY LAU

doesn’t have a zero footprint. It’s consuming energy somewhere else in the world.” In addition to the greenhouse gases that are produced by computers and routers, the same Earthaffecting compounds are emitted in the running of the servers that store and manage digital files. Therefore, making a weekly habit of cleaning out your inbox and cloud not only offers you peace of mind, it’s a lot nicer to the environment, too. INVEST IN FURNISHINGS THAT ARE DURABLE Tables and chairs

for your workspace probably aren’t items you’d prefer to be allotting much of a budget to, but it’s worth investing in long-lasting pieces. “Very cheap items usually end up in the landfill in a few years, so it’s better to shop smart when it comes to furniture pieces,” says Doucette. “Try to get something that’s going to last a decade or more.” The sustainability expert recommends considering how repairable a product is when shopping for new or used office furniture. Try to thrift, “upcycle”, or refurbish items whenever possible, and most importantly, shop local at companies that carry eco-friendly office supplies and furnishings. (Vancouverites can check out Mills Office Productivity and the Vancouver Island–based Monk Office.) “It’s great to shop local and find a store that carries those kind of products,” adds Doucette. -

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PETER HLOOKOFF Born: August 23, 1942, in Appledale, B.C. Died: August 10, 2016, in Grand Forks, B.C. Predeceased by parents Tanya Hlookoff, née Samorodin, and Nicholas Hlookoff Survived by sisters Polly Hlookoff (Vancouver) and Ann Sookochoff and brother-in-law Phillip Sookochoff (Castlegar)

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a child and got his elementary and secondary schooling in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. He attended UBC and earned a BA as well as doing some graduate work associated with his major in Spanish and his knowledge of Russian. Peter was a passionate activist, and he applied this activism to his involvement in the hippie and anti– Vietnam War movement centred in Vancouver in Kitsilano’s 4th Avenue area, a somewhat urban expression of his pacifist Doukhobor roots. His social leanings led him to be an early backpacker in postrevolutionary Cuba, where his Spanish served him well. He told of visiting a Cuban sugar refinery where he shocked his hosts by relishing a scoop of molasses, which Cubans, was then considered cattle feed! He later joined Dan McLeod in founding the Georgia Straight newspaper in the ’60s. Ultimately, Peter settled into a Vancouver working-class life as

Peace-loving Peter Hlookoff was part of Kitsilano’s hippie movement.

a longshoreman, in which he expressed his wanderlust through hiking the West Coast and travelling, particularly to Cuba and Mexico. Although he was in a long-term relationship for a period of time, he never married. As a soft-spoken individual, he probably sought peace through his love of the wilderness. However, disillusioned with the state of the world—and after joining his elderly mother, who moved back to her family roots in Grand Forks— Peter saw his life and health spiral down over the years, especially after his early retirement from longshore work and his mother’s passing. Instead of finding rural peace and contentment, he experienced isolation and declining health, broken occasionally by his Facebook bursts of biting social commentary on world affairs. -

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straight talk wholeheartedly that it’s good news. POLICE MENTAL HEALTH APPREHENSIONS LEVEL OFF But it’s progress.”

In 2013, former Vancouver police chief Jim Chu described the city’s struggle to care for people with severe and untreated mental illness as a “growing crisis”. Now, seven years of data obtained by the Straight shows that the problem has essentially plateaued, no longer getting worse but also not improving. One indicator that the VPD uses to track its work in this area is the number of apprehensions it logs under Section 28 of the B.C. Mental Health Act. That legislation allows officers to take a person into custody if they are deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others. From 2010 to 2014, VPD apprehensions under the act increased between five and 10 percent each year, from 2,278 to 3,010. They then levelled off when there were 3,050 apprehensions in 2015 and 3,026 projected for 2016 (based on data covering the first six months of this year). In a telephone interview, VPD spokesperson Sgt. Randy Fincham maintained that the numbers are a “good thing”. “It shows us that we are engaging with the right people and getting them the help that they need,” he said. Fincham explained that a Section 28 apprehension is different from an arrest in that it usually ends with an individual admitted to a hospital as opposed to a jail cell. D J Larkin, a lawyer with Pivot Legal Society, was critical of the situation revealed by the data but was quick to emphasize that she doesn’t place the blame entirely on the VPD. “Seeing the statistics start to even off is a good thing,” she told the Straight. “But they’ve evened off at an already increased and concerning high number. So I can’t say

Larkin argued that the larger issue is inadequate provincial funding for preventive and support services. “Social services and mental-health supports are what is needed to deal with mental-health issues,” she said. “It’s really unfortunate that the police are taking the frontline on this.” > TRAVIS LUPICK

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The chair of the Vancouver board of education doubts that an ongoing government-ordered forensic audit will turn up anything bad. Mike Lombardi said trustees and staff are cooperating fully with Peter Milburn, who was appointed by Education Minister Mike Bernier to scrutinize the school district. A forensic audit is commonly understood to mean a review when there is legal concern about an entity’s finances. Milburn, a former B.C. deputy minister of finance, is due to submit a report on September 30. “We are very confident,” Lombardi told the Straight in a phone interview. “We have extreme faith in our professional staff. We think we’re providing good leadership [as a board], good oversight, good financial management, and we don’t think they’ll find anything. But, you know, the terms of reference allow them to look under every stone to see what they can find. So, good luck.” Instead of firing Vancouver school trustees, Bernier ordered an audit after the board refused to approve a balanced budget for school year 2016-2017. District staff had to find a total of $28.1 million in administration, maintenance, and education services to cut in order to balance the budget.

Even though a majority of the trustees voted against the budget, the law requires the district to implement a balanced budget, which means that the cuts have gone ahead. Board member Stacy Robertson noted that based on the terms of reference drawn up by the province, the current audit looks at the way trustees discharge their functions. However, Robertson pointed out that elected school boards are different from boards appointed by the province. “It’s not like…B.C. Hydro or anything…that, really, the government appoints the people and can go in and sort of dictate how it operates,” Robertson told the Straight by phone. “It doesn’t really have the power to dictate how it [the school board] operates. It can offer some guidance. It can do a report, so I’m always interested to see…if they have suggestions how we can do it better, assuming there’s something wrong.” > CARLITO PABLO

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Vancouver’s new regulatory framework for marijuana businesses has been slow to put a dent in the number of dispensaries operating in the city. When council adopted the bylaws in June 2015, there were an estimated 115 storefronts selling cannabis in Vancouver. According to data supplied by the city on August 23, that number has been reduced, but only by about 30, to 84. In a telephone interview, Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer who specializes in marijuana cases, suggested that the city is fighting an uphill battle. “You can legislate,” he told the Straight. “But, really, at the end of the day, the law of supply and demand is going to trump. There is

Last year, the number of mental-health related apprehensions by Vancouver police plateaued, neither improving nor worsening. Adam Melnyk photo. a need and a desire to have these dispensaries.” Tousaw, however, emphasized that he gives credit to the city for what he described as a measured response. “They could have dramatically reduced the number of dispensaries in Vancouver but they would have had to use some very strong and heavy-handed tactics,” he explained. “Instead, I think they have been fair in using the tools available to them without overusing those tools.” Of those 84 stores still selling marijuana, 33 have a business licence or development permit, or are working their way through the application process. Those shops can, therefore, sell medicinal cannabis without contravening the city’s bylaws for marijuana businesses. Fifty-one other cannabis dispensaries continue to operate despite

the city having ordered them to close. Those businesses are subject to enforcement actions and can be issued a fine of $250 for each day they continue to sell marijuana. Bylaw officers have issued 565 of those tickets since enforcement began on May 1. So far, 128 of them have been paid. The city has also filed 27 court injunctions ordering those illicit dispensaries to close. Every marijuana storefront operating in Canada remains in contravention of the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Despite the shops breaking the law, the Vancouver Police Department has repeatedly stated it does not deem dispensaries a priority for enforcement. Ottawa is in the process of legalizing recreational marijuana, but that legislation will not be tabled until the spring of 2017. > TRAVIS LUPICK

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Premier crafts policies with eye on election

hen Premier Christy Heyman took Vancouver-Fairview Clark chooses a Fri- and Vancouver–Point Grey from the day in late August to B.C. Liberals, largely because Clark make an announce- paid lip service to climate change. ment, you know she doesn’t want it This might explain why Clark’s to attract much attention. That’s be- recent carbon-tax announcement cause communications experts often came when few were paying attensay that many voters ignore news- tion. Her housing announcements, casts on weekends. Especially during on the other hand, have been delivthe Summer Olympics. ered with the goal of achieving maxLast Friday (August 19), Clark re- imum publicity. That’s because the vealed that she isn’t going to raise the premier is hoping that her new tax revenue-neut ra l on foreign buyers carbon tax beof Lower Mainyond the existing land residential level of $30 per Charlie Smith real estate will tonne in 2018. She help the B.C. Liberrejected the recommendation of the als retake Vancouver-Fairview and Climate Leadership Team, which will possibly Vancouver–Point Grey, as delight cheerleaders of B.C.’s fossil- well as Burnaby-Lougheed and two fuel industries. And it’s red meat to Coquitlam seats. B.C. Liberal voters in the B.C. Interior, At the same time, the B.C. Liberwho don’t have as many public-trans- als know they’re in serious trouble portation options as those living in the on Vancouver Island, where they Lower Mainland or Greater Victoria. hold only two seats. Michelle Stilwell The political calculus over seats may retain Parksville-Qualicum, but appears to be driving many govern- Courtenay-Comox could fall to the ment policies. The new $3.5-billion, NDP, based on how well the NDP did 10-lane toll bridge over the Fra- in this area in the 2015 federal election. ser River is seen as a terrible idea by In addition, the New Democrats many transportation experts. Almost have a decent chance of capturing all Lower Mainland mayors, with the B.C. Liberal–held Burnaby North, exception of Delta’s Lois Jackson, Delta North, and Maple Ridge–Pitt oppose replacing the George Mas- Meadows if the political winds blow sey Tunnel with this colossally ex- in their favour. pensive monstrosity. Yet the premier A close B.C. election could be won is barrelling ahead on this new toll or lost in heavily populated Lower bridge even though the Port Mann Mainland suburbs like Surrey. toll bridge is expected to lose more Surrey South, Surrey-Cloverdale, than $100 million this year. and Surrey–White Rock should all Meanwhile, TransLink has suf- be safe B.C. Liberal seats in 2017. fered $35-million to $45-million an- Surrey-Whalley, Surrey-Newton, and nual losses on the Golden Ears toll Surrey–Green Timbers have reliably bridge. It’s because baby boomers voted NDP since the 2005 election. don’t drive as much as they used to That leaves Surrey-Fleetwood, Surand millennials are less likely than rey-Guildford, and Surrey-Panorama previous generations to get behind up for grabs, as well as Delta North, the wheel. Surely, Transportation which straddles the border with and Infrastructure Minister Todd the northern part of Surrey. Stone realizes this, but this doesn’t Of course, a pre-election anmean there will be any going back nouncement of a new rapid-transit on blacktop politics. project in Surrey might take care of That’s because the new Fraser River that for the B.C. Liberals. crossing could be extremely popular Meanwhile, Richmond and New with many residents of Tsawwassen Westminster will share a new riding, and Ladner, not to mention retailers which reflects growing populations in the new 1.2-million-square-foot in both cities. It’s called RichmondTsawwassen Mills mall. Ladner and Queensborough and possibly offers Tsawwassen are in the constituency the NDP its best chance in Richmond. of Delta South, which is held by inAs well, the NDP is almost always dependent MLA Vicki Huntington. competitive in Vancouver-FraserSo by supporting the new bridge, view, which is represented by Justice the premier is hoping that she will Minister Suzanne Anton. She could bring Delta South back into the B.C. survive next year’s election thanks to Liberal fold for the first time since the her high profile in the constituency, 2005 provincial election. The bridge- various school-funding announceconstruction project would also give ments, and provincial money for a Clark an opportunity to don a hard- new seniors’ centre. hat for photo ops during the 2017 B.C. elections are won one seat at election campaign. This will appeal to a time. A new bridge can help the blue-collar males across the province. B.C. Liberals take one constituency. Similarly, not raising the carbon Perhaps a refusal to raise the cartax might help her MLAs from Prince bon tax could contribute to victorGeorge and Kamloops, as well as in ies in two to four more. Throw in a Cariboo South, Cariboo-Chilcotin, major rapid-transit announcement and Fraser-Nicola. Those regions in Surrey and provincial largesse have all gone NDP in the past. in Vancouver-Fraserview, and you Admittedly, the premier’s refusal start to understand how Christy to advance carbon pricing could Clark practises politics. make things easier for NDP MLAs It’s all about getting elected. In her George Heyman and David Eby in eyes, a carbon tax is something that next year’s election. In 2013, Eby and only the nerds worry about. -

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Barbara Williams writes a brutally frank love letter to a rough-and-tumble childhood spent in our province’s working-class towns and camps.

Leaving travels B.C.’s blue-collar back roads RE VIEW S THE HOPE IN LEAVING By Barbara Williams. Seven Stories, 240 pp, hardcover

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inhabitants. Because of its size and geography, most of us will only ever see a fraction of our home province. Literature is supposed to help us at least imagine the roads not taken, to shorten the mental distance between Vancouver and Vanderhoof, Surrey and Sicamous. The Hope in Leaving, by Barbara Williams, is the type of book that bridges the conceptual divides between rural and urban, past and present, helping us better understand this vast province. A compelling memoir, it reads like a novel that just happens to convey some history of many of the obscure towns, villages, and camps in B.C. where generations of workers have toiled in dangerous isolation to build the fortunes of others. Williams, now a successful, Genie-nominated actress living in Southern California, grew up with an itinerant labourer father. His temperament was as volatile as his employment. Through a series of vignettes, Williams recounts how she coped with the instability and the oddities of small-town, working-class life. The book begins with the haunting dream Williams had on the day she planned to leave B.C. From there, the narrative alternates between memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the day—at age 24, when she had finally decided to pursue a career in theatre in Toronto— when her troubled brother Randy committed suicide. Daringly for a memoir, she uses a lot of imagined dialogue to fill in the back story of her parents and grandparents. Like a brutally frank love letter, Williams is unsparing in describing her family. Despite her mother’s resilience, it was a difficult and, to say the least, atypical childhood. One anecdote stands out as a kind of summary of the narrative. One day as a young kid, Barbara greets her father at the dock on Harrison Lake, thinking he’s bringing her a promised new TV from Chilliwack. He shows up empty-handed, and when the little girl gets mad her father reminds her she’s never learned to swim. Then he gruffly picks her up and throws her off the dock; she thrashes around dangerously before scrambling to shore.

The Hope in Leaving is literary nonfiction with its sleeves rolled up. Williams, a first-time author, has clearly put in the work at rehearsals. The result is an essential addition to our understanding and appreciation of B.C. > DERRICK O’KEEFE

MARY WEPT OVER THE FEET OF JESUS By Chester Brown. Drawn & Quarterly, 280 pp, hardcover

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Jesus, Chester Brown makes a few arguments that might be called unorthodox. One is that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was probably a sex worker (and proud of it), and that Jesus himself was proprostitution. Another is that God doesn’t expect blind, slavish devotion and obedience from his followers, but instead rewards those who think for themselves. Brown is not a biblical scholar, and from reading his afterword, acknowledgments, and notes—which occupy almost 100 pages of this 280-page book—one could easily conclude that he has arrived at the above notions because he would really like them to be true. Brown’s last book, Paying for It, chronicled the Montrealbased cartoonist’s own experience of hiring prostitutes. The follow-up attempts to show that western society’s anti-sex-work bias doesn’t align with Christ’s true teachings. To wrap your head around where Brown is coming from, it might help to know that he identifies as a Christian but doesn’t believe that Jesus was the son of God. Needless to say, he doesn’t put much stock in the immaculate-conception idea. Brown is asking important questions, even if the answers he proposes won’t sit well with most of his fellow Christians. In any case, you don’t have to buy Brown’s thorny thesis to appreciate the rest of Mary Wept, in which he graphically retells a number of biblical parables, including the stories of Cain and Abel, Ruth, Job, and Bathsheba. His simple, clean illustration style (familiar to readers of past works such as Louis Riel) is, as always, wonderful, and his preference for contemporary speech over King James–style language (as when Adam tells Abel, “It looks to me like you’re sitting on your ass”) does much to make the characters relatable. It might not change your mind on the issues of prostitution and religious obedience, but it is a fascinating read nonetheless. > JOHN LUCAS

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’m standing on a small grassy hill outside the Kennedy Space Center’s front gates, squinting into a bright blue sky where an inchlong flame streaks upward. I’ve arrived just in time to witness the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, that will send an unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. It’s a wild feeling, taking me back to childhood. Families around me point their cameras toward the heavens. The rumbling gets louder as the rocket soars higher, miles away over the southern horizon. A giant plume of smoke shaped like a question mark appears. Seconds later, there’s a smaller puff. Then it’s gone, vanishing into the infinite blue. I’m exhilarated, but only temporarily. Minutes later, I learn that the launch failed. Investigators will establish that the rocket exploded due to helium leaking into an oxygen tank. As a layman watching from afar, I was clueless. Good thing I’m not in charge of the U.S. space program. Following the glory days of the 1960s and ’70s, image problems have plagued the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). January 28, 2016, will mark the 30th anniversary of the Challenger space-shuttle disaster. Seven crew members perished in that 1986 explosion, which occurred one minute and 13 seconds into the flight. (In fairness, SpaceX would regain some prestige in December by successfully landing a Falcon 9 rocket upright at Cape Canaveral after sending it into space, marking a significant advance toward reusable rockets.) As I stroll around the Rocket Garden today in brilliant sunshine, my impulse is to immerse myself in a different kind of remembrance. Gleaming vintage spacecraft, some more than 30 metres tall, represent the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs that climaxed with Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. That triumphant image, of course, is what NASA would prefer the 1.5 million visitors who tour the Kennedy Space Center each year to take away. Inside the packed Astronaut Encounter theatre, Tom Jones—who looks more like the 1980s Chevy Chase than the singer of the same name— aims to spark children’s dreams of joining NASA, using humour and adventurous anecdotes. The 60-year-old holder of a PhD in planetary science did four space flights, including a record-setting 1996 mission with almost 18 days

Visitors to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center can watch rocket launches and explore NASA’s history in the space race. Kennedy Space Center photo.

in orbit aboard the Atlantis shuttle. “After being up there for two weeks, I was ready for a cheeseburger and a shower, neither of which you can get in space,” he quips. Unimpressed that NASA got just 0.4 percent of the federal budget last year ($17.7 billion out of $3.7 trillion), Jones emphasizes the practical value of the agency’s work. “Research at the space station contributes to advances in biomedicine,” he says. “And remember the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013? An asteroid that size could wipe out Orlando. NASA is working on ways to nudge those asteroids away from Earth.” However, yesteryear is where it’s at when I board a bus to the nearby Apollo/Saturn V Center. En route, we pass the Vehicle Assembly Building—the world’s largest single-storey building, at 160 metres—with a huge U.S. flag on the side. Inside the center, a video montage on huge screens puts the space race in historical context, with tumultuous images of women’s liberation, the Doors, and the Vietnam War. A newspaper headline that reads “Oh, What a Flopnik!” alludes to the U.S.’s early struggles to catch up after the Soviet Union’s groundbreaking 1957 Sputnik satellite launch. (Ironically, in recent years the Americans have relied heavily on Russian rockets.) I’m fascinated by the decision to re-create the Christmas 1968 Apollo 8 mission in the launch control room instead of focusing on the more famous ’69 moon landing. (Perhaps NASA simply wants to give all its alumni equal time.) Countdown clocks, footage of technicians, and TV clips from CBS, ABC, and NBC recapture the drama of the first manned mission to orbit the moon.

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ow that she’s a working mom herself, registered dietitian Caitlin Boudreau knows how fortunate she was to have healthy, tasty lunches to take to school when she was growing up, especially since both her parents worked outside the home. The founder of Wee Nourish admits, though, that there was a time when her folks must have been scrambling to get her and her siblings’ brown bags filled. “I was lucky that my parents worked hard to make great lunches for me, which I now realize is a massive feat, given that I was the third child and both my parents worked,” Boudreau says. “I won’t lie, though. I do remember a phase where I was packed the same thing every day: a juice box, sandwich, and apple or banana. “The sandwiches were… interesting,” she adds. “Not sure if it was my dad—he was the one who made them—or the era, but who decided While trendy kyaraben, or cute bento, are time-intensive to make, they’re one way to animate kids’ packed lunches. peanut butter with regular butter and lettuce was a good idea? I’m not would rather fork over money for a grain rice or bread, for example); and with veggies. Stews with meats and proud to say I think I threw out a lot Starbucks wrap than face a home- some vegetables. Maybe add some vegetables take some time upfront fruit. “The goal isn’t Pinterest-worthy to make but can be used for many of those lunches and would go buy made ham sandwich day after day. Boudreau, who specializes in help- masterpieces,” she says. meals and freeze well.” junk fast food at the cafeteria.” She suggests that people think Then there are twists on lunchtime Most parents dread that scenario: ing parents with picky eaters, says that their kids tossing the food they so when it comes to whipping up whole- outside the sandwich bag. “We can standbys: instead of a chicken caesar lovingly (if rushingly) packed for some, portable midday meals, it’s easy to get some great ideas when we look wrap, stuff a tortilla with whatever get stuck in a rut. Af- at what other cultures serve their appeals to you. (Boudreau’s threethem in favour of ter a while, a lunch kids for lunch,” Boudreau says. Ex- year-old is currently fond of tuna a bag of chips and of hummus, pita, amples? Simple burritos or baked or and cheese.) Make pancakes with a Snapple. Now and baby carrots refried beans with a side of rice and sweet potato, pumpkin, or yogurt, is the time when Gail Johnson becomes pretty darn veggies. Stir-fried rice with beef or which are variations on the classic most moms and dads start bracing themselves for the boring. At the same time, no one wants chicken and veggies, using extra rice that don’t call for much sugar. Surrey dentist Greg Chang, a start of the school year and the reboot the pressure of creating a lunch that made for dinner the night before. “Eggs can be eaten at meals other trained chef who founded SuperChefs of the morning routine that involves Gordon Ramsay would approve of. A satisfying lunch that will sustain than breakfast; try omelettes or frit- of the Universe, a course and TV stuffing something nutritious and delicious into their kids’ lunch box. you through the afternoon consists of tatas,” she says. “Shrimp skewers show that teach kids how to cook, And it’s not just young students who three core elements, Boudreau says: a with cucumber and cherry toma- suggests investing in a Thermos. “Having a Thermos to keep lunchface the potential dullsville of brown- good source of protein, such as meat, toes sound fancy but are really just bag lunches: so do working folk who fish, legumes, or tofu; a starch (whole- cooked shrimp shoved on a stick es hot will always ensure a successful

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lunch if it contains some of their [kids’] favourite meals, including hearty soups or stir-fry rice and noodle dishes,” Chang says. “Making extra casseroles at dinner ensures some great leftovers for a warm lunch the next day.” He also recommends getting kids involved in making their own food. “This is key, as kids will eat what they have made themselves,” he says. “Wraps with their favourite deli meats, fruit-and-vegetable kebabs, noodle and pasta salads, are some ideas for cold lunches.” It also helps to think inside the box—the bento box, that is. Those Japanese-style boxed lunches allow for nutritional balance and colour since they can be fi lled with small portions of a variety of food; think cut-up fruit and vegetables, cheese, crackers, deli meat, edamame, pickles, mini quesadillas and sandwiches, and so on. For those who do have the time and inclination to make masterpieces, check out kyaraben, also known as “cute bento”, in which popular anime characters, animals, and even nature scenes are created with food. The style is a growing trend in Japan, where there are kyaraben contests and cookbooks and where moms make elaborate Pokémon characters out of everything from fi sh and meatballs to rice and beans using stencils, cutters, and hole punchers for nori (dried seaweed). “Be warned that these lunches can take a lot of time and effort to create but no doubt will create lunches that will please your little ones,” Chang says, “and add hours to your school preparation chore list.” -

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TERROIR KITCHEN (2232 Marine Drive, West Vancouver) A simple but flavourful zucchini carpaccio with pine nuts, marjoram, Parmesan, Cabernet vinegar, and shallots.

JOE FORTES SEAFOOD & CHOP HOUSE (777 Thurlow Street) Beef carpaccio with grainy mustard, roasted garlic, Grana Padano, and crispy capers—a staple on its happy hour menu.

RAISU (2340 West 4th Avenue) This new eatery offers a seared-scallop carpaccio with soy-based dressing and plum-seaweed paste.

PHNOM PENH (244 East Georgia Street) Its marinated butter beef with cilantro, garlic, and other spices leaves a satisfying, tangy aftertaste.

ZAKKUSHI (823 Denman Street, 4075 Main Street) Scallop-and-octopus carpaccio that is drenched in yuzu flavour and topped with miso dressing.

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hen Calgary bartender Walter Chell created the caesar in 1969, he had no idea that the beverage inspired by his favourite pasta dish, spaghetti alle vongole, would go on to become Canada’s signature cocktail. Fastforward to 2016, and two Vancouver-bred caesar enthusiasts are paying tribute to the man behind the famous concoction with a Canadianmade mix that is true to its roots. Aaron Harowitz and Zack Silverman put themselves through university by working behind the bar, making thousands of caesars throughout their school years. “The only thing on the market as far as caesars went was a massmarket mix owned by a big American company, full of MSG, high-fructose corn syrup, and artificial colours and flavours,” Harowitz tells the Straight over a caesar at a Railtown bar. “We recognized that that was crazy, especially for something so iconically Canadian, so we had the idea that we could make a craft , all-natural caesar mix, made here in Canada, and people would be into it.”

He and Silverman spent a year developing recipes, and in late 2013, after finding an artisanal juice producer who agreed to work with them, they made their first run of what has come to be known as Walter Craft Caesar Mix—aptly named after Chell. “At the time, it seemed like so much money and so many bottles,” Harowitz says, “and now, we laugh, because after our first production run, we stood in the warehouse looking at all the pallets of product going, ‘Oh my God, what now?’ “We had no distribution and no sales, and it was just the two of us.” It didn’t take long for support to grow for the craft blend. Since that first production run, they’ve introduced Walter to numerous restaurants, bars, and grocers across the country. Caesar lovers everywhere will be happy to know that Walter comes in two varieties: Classic Spice, complete with grated horseradish, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, sea salt, and ground pepper; and Mild Spice, a more customizable blend made with a fraction of the seasoning. Compare Walter to your standard caesar mix, and you’ll find a few notable differences. Not only is

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artist, didn’t set out to create a career for herself in cyberspace. Based in Montreal, she was born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, grew up in the suburb of Châteauguay, and studied design art at Concordia University. “When I started [there], the supplies that we had to get were Rapidograph pens, inks, erasers,” she says with a laugh. “That’s how old I am.” Skawennati is speaking to the Georgia Straight while seated on a sofa in the Contemporary Art Gallery’s Burrard Marina Field House, where she has been artist in residence for the past couple of weeks. She is in the early stages of a CAG commission to create a work for exhibition in 2017, but more immediately, she has been in Vancouver to lead an extended machinima workshop with aboriginal youth. The word machinima, she explains, is a cross between machine and cinema and denotes a means of producing animated films by using computer graphics and video-game technology. In coordination with the CAG, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and the Museum of Anthropology, Skawennati has been working with six participants in MOA’s Native Youth Program, demonstrating ways in which oral storytelling traditions can be “reimagined” in virtual environments. “We’ve been talking about indigenous self-representation in media,” she says. “We want to use a medium that we think youth are excited about, and that they feel is theirs.” As for her own introduction to new media, it occurred in her third undergrad year, when she took a new and, for her, groundbreaking course in the computer as a design tool. “I loved it,” she says, describing early HyperCard experiments and an introduction to hardware and software intended for artists. “I saw great potential,” she adds, musing that she came of age as an artist at the same time that digital technologies revealed their creative possibilities. Her first job after university (she added a graduate diploma in institutional

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In works such as She Is Dancing With Herself, artist Skawennati (below left) gives Native cultural history a powerful presence in virtual worlds.

Sciences and Human- of video games,” she says. “We wanted to impart a ities Research Council level of pride.…We wanted to make sure that they Artist Skawennati has tapped the creative possibilities of the grant with the hopes knew that their cultural history as Native people of expanding indigen- was interesting and useful and could fit into this digital age, and now she’s sharing them with aboriginal youth ous presence online. It world.” The youth she has been working with here administration to her BFA) was with Montreal’s enabled them to establish and codirect Aboriginal have been telling two Northwest Coast legends Oboro Gallery, an artist-run centre dedicated to Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), described on her by creating machinimas through the online virexploring new technologies and supporting trans- website as a research network of artists, academics, tual world Second Life. The final machinimas will cultural projects. Still, when Skawennati and technologists investigating, creating, and be shared through the Contemporary Art Gallery and Museum of Anthropology arrived at Oboro, she was the only person critiquing indigenous virtual environwebsites, along with documentation in the place with an email address, she re- ments. “We wanted to make sure that Check out… calls, laughing again. Through email, she aboriginal people were participating STRAIGHT.COM of the creative process and reflections from participants. learned about chat rooms, and through in cyberspace,” Skawennati tells the Visit our website “Second Life is very seductive and chat rooms, she conceived one of her first Straight, “and cyberspace was Web for morning-after fascinating to me,” Skawennati says. major digital projects, CyberPowWow, pages, video games, virtual worlds, reviews and local arts news “It’s a rich medium and it’s highly which occurred in four curated iterations apps now—all these places we go that customizable.…You can change your over 10 years, from the late ’90s onward. are not part of this physical world.” “ avatars to look like different characters, “CyberPowWow was about uniting At the same time that Skawennati has people, bringing together individuals, been pursuing her own highly acclaimed creative you can build jet packs and bridges and diamond especially Native artists who were sep- projects, such as TimeTraveller™—a multiplatform rings—something as small as jewellery and somearated by vast geographical differences,” future fiction featuring nine machinimas, each thing as huge as a skyscraper.” It’s also, she adds, she says. “When I was making it, I was depicting a significant moment in indigenous his- “futuristic”, which makes it a powerful metaphor. thinking, ‘What is this thing we were tory—she has also been codirecting AbTeC’s Skins “I’m really interested, in my art practice, in telldoing?’… We were creating an aborigin- Machinima Workshop. This is the program of ing stories about Native people that are in the fual territory in cyberspace, a space to call storytelling in cyberspace she is introducing to ab- ture,” she says. “The majority of images I saw of our own.” Fastforward to 2005, she says, when she original youth in Vancouver, as she has done else- Native people were in the past, unhappy-looking, and her partner Jason E. Lewis, an associate profes- where. “We wanted to give these kids digital tools and unnamed. I want us to be there, in the future, sor of computation arts at Concordia, won a Social to empower them as creators, not just consumers alive and kicking and thriving.” -

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TRIXX (At the Comedy MIX from August 25 to 27) The standup, a former DJ, is rawly honest, with his own angle on race. He also does a mean Drake.

N’NATO BARA FA! (At Ron Basford Park on August 28) An afternoon of West African heat, outdoors at All Over the Map—for free.

THE BOOK OF MORMON (At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre to September 4) Inappropriate Broadway from the guys at South Park.

ALICIA TOBIN’S COME DRAW WITH ME (At Hot Art Wet City on August 26) The comedian and guests mix art-making and laughs.

BRIAN REGAN (At the Vogue Theatre on August 28) The “comic’s comic” proves clean can be hilarious.

Guest pick ALL TOGETHER NOW Our choice this week comes from actor, playwright, and puppeteer Tara Travis (host of Puppet Slam Summer Edition on August 26, Fringe performer in Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Best Picture [September 8 to 18], and cofounder of the Vancouver International Puppet Festival October 14 to 16). She’s recommending All Together Now: “I am a seeker of deeply connected, interactive human experiences, and there’s nothing more intimate than looking at people’s weird stuff! Imprints of memory and the character of a person are palpable when perusing one’s private collections—it’s a helpful reminder of the threads that connect us. These are not artifacts from a time long gone; they are in the now, they belong to someone now, they mean something now. I love that there are opportunities to participate, too. There are little boxes where you can leave something, or you’re encouraged to send a photo of your own collection and share it on Twitter or Instagram.” All Together Now is at the Museum of Vancouver to January 8, 2017.

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ormeshia Sumbry-Edwards is one of the U.S.’s most influential tap stars, a master who’s taught classes from Rio to Tokyo. But as she travelled the world watching the next generation of dancers, she started to realize something was missing from all the eyepopping technique she was seeing. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” the affable hoofer tells the Straight from her home in New Jersey before heading here for the Vancouver International Tap Dance Festival (next Thursday to Sunday [September 1 to 4]). “I appreciate all the artistry that’s happening, but there’s a bit of a disconnect, and I’d say, ‘Wow, they’re doing amazing things, the way they’re using the vocabulary and the body of the dancers.’ But I wasn’t feeling anything. I wasn’t able to connect. “Then I realized: it was a matter of groove, that I know as swing, that was missing.” Sumbry-Edwards’s next step was to test out her theory, coaxing her students to try work that wasn’t technically challenging, but was full of that propulsive, rhythmic feel that defines swing. “It was amazing!” she reports. “These amazing technicians were not able to hold down their vocabulary if they were trying to swing.” The dance form, she deduced, had almost fully detached from its roots in the expressive, swinging 1930s. “How do you move forward when you don’t understand what was? There’s the disconnect not only with the rhythm but also the history of the form.” A full-blown show has risen out of And Still You Must Swing is at the that eureka moment, fittingly called Vancouver International Tap Dance And Still You Must Swing, a project Festival next Friday (September 2).

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THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2TRIXX Aug 25-27 2ERICA SIGURDSON Sep 1-3 2DAN QUINN Sep 8-10 2STEPH TOLEV Sep 15-17 2KEVIN FOXX Sep 22-24 2PAUL MYREHAUG Sep 29–Oct 1

OPERA AND ARIAS: THE MAGIC FLUTE Bard on the Beach presents a staging of Mozart’s classic opera featuring the UBC Opera Ensemble and members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. Aug 29, 2-7:30 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix $20, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.

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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2BRETT MARTIN Aug 26-27 2ROB PUE Sep 2-3. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. The Big Picture: An Improvised Movie (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Firecracker! (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); OK Tinder (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Aug 24-31, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

COLIN MOCHRIE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL Canadian improv comedian, Vancouver TheatreSports League alumnus, and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star presents an evening of laughter. Sep 23, 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $79/69, info www.vtsl.com/.

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PETER VS CHRIS Canadian Comedy Award-winning duo Peter ‘n’ Chris present a new sketch-comedy show. Aug 24, 5 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25, info www.vancouverfringe.com/.

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LITERARY EVENTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED CHERIE SMITH JCC JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL Annual celebration of Jewish literature features meet-the-author opportunities, readings and panel discussions, the annual book club event, a screenwriting workshop, children’s and youth authors, wellness and food subjects, interdisciplinary and multimedia events. Nov 27–Dec 1, Jewish Community Centre (950 W. 41st). Info www.jewishbookfestival.ca/.

2THIS WEEK NEW VOICES: SHARE YOUR WRITING AT THE LIBRARY Emerging local authors share their published or unpublished literary works. Aug 29, 7-8:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl. ca/events/.

BY HAND, ROD, AND STRINGS Shows like Avenue Q might have opened your eyes to the world of adult puppetry. Consider that just small preparation for Puppet Slam Summer Edition: Skool’s Out!, a showcase of the truly mind-blowing array of warped and wonderful talent we have in the art form here in Vancouver. Each artist has 10 minutes to entertain the crowd, and you can brace yourself for puppet nudity, some coarse language, and not just laughs but a gamut of emotions as wide-ranging as the fuzzy, twisted characters on-stage. And the extravaganza, on Friday (August 26) on the Granville Island Revue Stage, will just be a short taste test before the new Vancouver International Puppet Festival on Granville Island in October; stay tuned. TRIXX Canadian standup comedian performs a solo show. Aug 25-27, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. BRETT MARTIN Standup comedian performs a solo show. Aug 26, 8 pm; Aug 27, 7 pm; Aug 27, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy

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ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK PUPPET SLAM SUMMER EDITION Vancouver puppeteers attempt to wow, shock, delight, and disturb you in 10-minute performances. Aug 26, 8 pm, Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street). Tix $20, info www.vipuppetfest.com/. INDIA LIVE The South Asian Family Association presents Punjabi music star Malkit Singh, a community rangoli, gatka demonstrations, roti making, a dance floor, yoga classes, a cricket workshop, music by Nishant Sharma and Kirti Arneja, turban and sari tying classes, a photo wall station, and a henna booth. Aug 27, 12-7 pm, 700 Granville Street. Free admission, info www. facebook.com/events/611652989013189/.

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othing says “hello” like a slap in the face. That’s how Christian Sida-Valenzuela describes I Promise You Anarchy, the gala opener at this year’s Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, screening Thursday (August 25). “It’s a tough film to open a festival with, but we wanted something shocking,” says VLAFF’s reliably provocative artistic director, during a call to the Straight. “It’s a very strong film, but it’s also beautifully and aesthetically wise.” Sida-Valenzuela goes on to praise cinematographer Maria Seco’s luminous work on the movie—about two skateboarding lovers in Mexico City and the bizarre service they bring to the country’s drug cartels— and generously commends the Julio Hernández Cordón–directed feature as “arty in a good way”, with “a strong script, and nonprofessional actors who are very fresh in their acting ways. We just thought it was a great film to start the festivities with.” It sure sounds like it, although—between its New Directors and Canada Looks South programs, not to mention the face-slappingly subversive ¡ACTIVISMO! series—you could probably jump in anywhere at VLAFF’s 14th year and come up rosy-cheeked. With Brazil as this year’s guest country, Sida-Valenzuela’s team have managed to headline a retrospective of Anna Muylaert’s work with the North American premiere of Don’t Call Me Son. Nominally queer-themed like I Promise You Anarchy, the jury-award winner at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival closes proceedings on September 4 with a visit from Muylaert herself, “one of the greatest filmmakers from Latin America, in general”, as Sida-Valenzuela puts it. The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences evidently agrees; Muylaert was invited to join the Oscar nominating committee this year. Furthering its attention on Brazilian cinema, VLAFF also offers two from the legendary Glauber Rocha, 1964’s Black God, White Devil and 1967’s Entranced Earth. Equally, as Sida-Valenzuela notes, Latin American film has enjoyed a universal growth spurt in the last 10 years, with product like Ciro Guerra’s international art-house smash Embrace of the Serpent bringing Colombia its first-ever Oscar nomination in 2016. “I’m not saying that because it’s nominated for an Oscar, that makes it an amazing film,” he says of the feature, which returns to Vancouver thanks to VLAFF. “But this is an amazing film.” It’s only one of many. The Vancouver Latin American Film Festival runs from Thursday (August 25) to September 4. More information is at www.vlaff.org/.

I Promise You Anarchy and Don’t Call Me Son (from left) are the daring opener and closer of this year’s reliably provocative Vancouver Latin American Film Festival.

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Struggling with the embarrassment of riches at this year’s Vancouver Latin American Film Festival? Too much goodness? Can’t make up your mind? Here—we can help. These are the Straight’s top 10 picks for the 2016 edition.

I PROMISE YOU ANARCHY (Mexico) It takes some cojones to open your festival with a wild and sexy scream from the gutter like I Promise You Anarchy, in which skatepunks (and lovers) Miguel and Johnny (Diego Calva and Eduardo Eliseo Martínez, both cast via Facebook by director Julio Hernández Cordón) run the dangerous business of illegal blood donation and banking for the drug cartels, all while gliding around Mexico City to a surpassingly cool indierock soundtrack. SFU Woodward’s, August 25 (7 p.m.); Cinematheque, August 27 (9 p.m.) NEON BULL (Brazil) From VLAFF’s New Dir-

ectors series, this vivid, widescreen portrait of Brazil’s vaquejada—an exhibition sport in which rodeo cowboys pull the bull to the ground by its tail—is almost certainly the only film in this year’s program that depicts two men trying to secretly masturbate a horse. That aside, Gabriel Mascaro’s film is overtly earthy and lusty in plenty of other ways, all of them unforgettable. “One of the most spectacular films coming from Latin America in quite a while, in terms of originality,” promises VLAFF director Christian Sida-Valenzuela. Cinematheque, August 26 (3:15 p.m.) and September 1 (9:15 p.m.) DITCHES (Argentina)

A man retreats to the snowy and inhospitable mountains of Patagonia on a quest to absolve himself of a guilt that goes unnamed in this haunting second entry in VLAFF’s

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New Directors series. Once there, Zamora (Diego Alonso) must reckon with an epidemic of missing girls and women in the region, and—an affecting theme for Vancouverites—the inexplicable ambivalence that goes with it. Cinematheque, August 27 (3 p.m.) and August 31 (3:15 p.m.) PEPE MUJICA: LESSONS FROM THE FLOWERBED (Uruguay/Germany) Among

other things, the man described by the Guardian as the “world’s most radical president” was famed for living in a one-bedroom house, driving a 1987 Beetle, and giving away 90 percent of his income. This glowing portrait of the Uruguayan president and former Marxist guerrilla who legalized pot and gay marriage while telling Barack Obama that Americans should read more is likely the most uplifting (and perhaps necessary) entry in VLAFF’s politically charged ¡ACTIVISMO! series. Cinematheque, August 28 (7:30 p.m.)

EL CLUB (Chile)

While the okay-not-great Spotlight was being lauded by North American critics and the Academy earlier this year, Pablo Larrain’s stunning film offered a much more challenging and rewarding take on the abuses of the Catholic Church. Five disgraced and unrepentant priests cool their jets in a seaside villa under the watchful eye of Sister Monica (the great Antonia Zegers), a retired nun with her own demons to manage—or not. Cinematheque, August 28 (9:15 p.m.) and August 30 (7:15 p.m.)

BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL (Brazil)

With Brazil as its guest country, VLAFF celebrates the work of Glauber Rocha, the grandaddy of the Cinema Novo movement. Folk mysticism and the era’s harsh political realities clash in this 1964 film, Rocha’s second and most acclaimed feature. Vancity, August 30 (6:30 p.m.)

2 Saint’s alive GLEASON Told that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at

the age of 34, Steve Gleason expected to survive another two to five years. The documentary Gleason, opening Friday (August 26), is assembled from the five-year video diary the former New Orleans Saints defensive back made for his first child, whose coming arrival Gleason learned about at the same time that he received his diagnosis. What he creates for his son, in the words of the Straight ’s John Lekich, is “a kind of emotional road map to life”. Go to Straight.com for our full review. -

THE BALLAD OF OPPENHEIMER PARK (Canada/Mexico) Filmmaker Juan Manuel Sepúlveda spent two years in Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park as he prepped this remarkable coproduction, a semi-doc screening in the Canada Looks South program, made with the inhabitants of one of the city’s most significant, if fraught, spaces. Vancity, September 1 (8 p.m.) THE CLAN (Argentina) Like El Club, VLAFF

brings Pablo Trapero’s chilling, sideways take on the period after the Dirty War back to Vancouver as part of its International Hits series. An impressed Janet Smith wrote in the Straight at the time of its release in April: “As fascinating as a historical document as it is as a gruesome Scorsese-esque crime story.” SFU Woodward’s, September 3 (5 p.m.)

DON’T CALL ME SON (Brazil) Bookending its queer programming, VLAFF’s closing film also happens to be the North American premiere of Anna Muylaert’s latest, in which the teenage Pierre discovers he’s not who or what he thinks he was. The class-conscious Muylaert, who will be in attendance, is fast becoming one of the great voices in international cinema, and this is a major scoop for the festival. SFU Woodward’s, September 4 (6:30 p.m.)

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THE SECOND MOTHER (Brazil) VLAFF’s Anna Muylaert retrospective means a return visit for this 2015 comic drama, a hit at the Vancouver International Film Festival and a favourite at Sundance. As the Straight’s Ken Eisner wrote: “[The director’s] carefully composed images provide a cool stage for some hot acting— all of which manages to be amusingly uplifting rather than sociologically bleak.” Cinematheque, August 31 (6:30 p.m.)

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DEAD ON FILM 5TH ANNUAL SHORT HORROR FILM COMPETITION The only

criterion is that someone has to die (violently) in the latest edition of the Rio Theatre’s popular and very nasty comp. A $1,000 cash prize is just part of the winner’s booty when the limbs start flying again on Thursday (August 25).

DON’T BREATHE Uruguayan filmmaker

Fede Alvarez did an unreasonably good job with 2013’s vicious Evil Dead remake. Seasoned horror hounds have evidently been left breathless by his latest effort, in which a bunch of stupid kids try to rob a blind military vet. Don’t Breathe opens Friday (August 26).

GREASE SING-ALONG Continuing its

weird obsession with the cinematic work of Olivia Newton-John, the Rio Theatre offers us the opportunity to belt out “Hopelessly Devoted to You” when Randall Kleiser’s 1978 megahit hits the big screen again on Friday (August 26). Hopefully, Toomorrow is next.

RUMBLE FISH If it isn’t Francis Coppola’s last great film,

this adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel surely deserves more love than it received upon its release in 1983. Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, and Tom Waits fill out the spectacular cast, but it’s Mickey Rourke who steals the movie, sporting the world’s greatest hair as the Motorcycle Boy. Stewart Copeland’s nervy and offbeat soundtrack and Stephen H. Burum’s spectacular black-and-white photography run a close second. Screening at the Vancity on Monday (August 29). AUGUST 25 – SEPTEMBER 1 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 25

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Back to Texas for one last picture show > B Y A DRIA N M A C K

aylor Sheridan makes a remarkable statement about Hell or High Water during a call to the Straight from L.A. “There was not a moment of the film that didn’t look like I imagined as I was writing it,” the screenwriter says, audibly to his own surprise as much as anyone else’s. But it seems that the Texasset cops ’n’ robbers f lick (now playing)—easily one of the best American films of the year—was guided, or at least favoured, by any number of sympathetic forces. “It came together extremely fast after sitting for almost three years,” Sheridan says. “I think [director] David [Mackenzie] signed on in late spring, and I don’t know how he did it, but he was shooting eight or 10 weeks later. It just flew. Flew.” Unlikely as it sounds, the Scottish filmmaker’s sensibilities mesh perfectly with the ruggedly American material, although it seems as though Sheridan’s life experiences were baked right into that screenplay, the second to arrive on the big screen by the Sons of Anarchy actor

According to screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (left), it wasn’t lost on Jeff Bridges that Hell or High Water took the actor back to where it all began.

turned screenwriter after last year’s no less impressive Sicario. If the previous film took a blunt, top-down look at America’s preposterous “war on drugs”, Hell or High Water peers upward from the hard soil of Sheridan’s home state, where generational poverty finds itself in an endgame with postcrash casino economics and the fallout of predatory lending. “Go back and watch it again and you’ll see all these characters, they’re all facing some type of crisis at the moment that we meet them,” notes

the writer, whose tale begins with a series of small-town bank heists committed by the dirt-poor Howard brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster). It gradually becomes clear—both to the viewer and to Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges), a Texas Ranger on the verge of retirement—that any notion of simple morality is unbuttoned by the Howards’ motives, which tie back to a malignant mortgage handed to their dying mother. “He understands,” says Sheridan. “It doesn’t mean he agrees. He’s put

in an extremely tight moral crux, as is Toby [Howard], and they’re sort of bonded forever in what they did and didn’t do. It’s heavy stuff.” It’s also very sincere stuff, imbued with the screenwriter’s own familiarity with the territory, both geographic and psychic. The Texas-drenched soundtrack, featuring the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, was at least partly written into the film by Sheridan. “When I grew up as a kid we didn’t have a lot of money,” he says, “so we didn’t have a stereo. But there was an 8-track player in our truck, and so my dad and mom would get a six-pack and we’d all sit in the truck and idle in the driveway and listen to Waylon Jennings. It was the soundtrack of my youth. I grew up on a ranch in west central Texas, so these are all the people I grew up around. It was a really easy script to write from that standpoint. I knew that world so well.” No less unaffected is Bridges himself, skirting some sort of grace state in the midst of uniformly inspired performances (including the most memorable dirt-bowl T-bone-steak-diner waitress we’re ever likely to see). You wonder if Sheridan had the veteran

American actor in mind all along. “You know,” he says, with a laugh, “yes! The character of Marcus is based on my uncle, and then it’s a mixture of voices in my head. You have to be really careful when you’re writing a screenplay, if you write it for one specific individual, because if you don’t get that individual, usually the role reflects that person so much that everyone else goes, ‘Nah, this reads like Bridges. I don’t wanna try and play Jeff Bridges.’ And yet it was hard not to. He’s the first person we went to. It’s just extremely logical, you know? The whole thing just made perfect sense, castingwise.” It also makes sense in ways that are more ineffably logical, given the arc of Bridges’s career, and where it really began for him back in 1971. “Well, you know,” starts Sheridan, who cites Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and a certain Larry McMurtry among his own writerly influences. “Look, Last Picture Show, if you think about it, that’s Archer City, and Archer City is the first bank that’s robbed in Hell or High Water. I didn’t do it intentionally, but yeah— that wasn’t lost on him. That wasn’t lost on Jeff. He’s like, ‘You know, I shot a movie here 45 years ago.’ ” -

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cess of Vancouver–via–New York breakout act Bob Moses, but let’s start with where the duo of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance are blessed to find themselves on this summer day. “I’m in my swimsuit and my flip-flops and it’s pretty gorgeous here right now,” says Howie, who’s talking to the Straight on his cellphone from the legendary EDM mecca of Ibiza, Spain. “It’s super hot and we’ve just been chilling at the beach all day. We play tonight at Space, but right now I’ve just been having a lazy day.” If the singer-guitarist is savouring his downtime before taking the stage of one of the world’s most famous dance clubs, it’s because times when there’s little to do are now a rarity for Bob Moses. Also speaking from Ibiza, Vallance hops on the phone sounding like a man who can barely believe his luck. “The last year has been crazy and overwhelming, but in the best way possible,” reports Vallance, who holds down the synth and keyboard

Two friends live the dream

As Bob Moses discovered recently, the only thing weirder than waking up in the desert with no knowledge of how you got there is doing so sans underwear.

her, and that will be my to do classwork and then practise and write songs. introduction into the big, “I worked as hard as I could,” he says, “seven scary world outside of days a week.” Vancouver,’ ” Vallance reAs academically oriented as his family is, no calls. “ ‘Either I’ll fall flat one should have been surprised that he ended Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance of Bob Moses left on my face and come back up a musician. Vancouver to conquer the world with their chill EDM with my tail between my “I don’t remember much as a kid, but I do rememduties when Bob Moses plays live. “There have legs, or maybe I’ll find something.’ ” ber being in the bathroom and singing a lot,” Howie been so many moments that the only time I’m And find something he did—namely, a kid he says with a laugh. “My mom tells these stories when really able to think about them is when things once knew in high school named Tom Howie, lead- she’s trying to embarrass me at dinner parties get quiet. Like I’ll be sitting on an airplane after ing to a partnership that blossomed into Bob Moses. where she’ll say, ‘Tom would go into the bathroom playing an amazing show, or four or five amazing when he was four years old, and he’d just sit on the shows, and then sometimes I’ll look over at Tom JIMMY VALLANCE DESCRIBES himself as 50 toilet singing. Three or four hours would go by, and percent introvert and 50 percent extrovert. and go, ‘I can’t believe that we get to do this.’ ” then I’d have to go get him. Then one day, at four, he “So which side is going to show up,” he sighs, announced that he was going to be a musician, and Dream gigs have included last year’s appearance at the desert-baked bacchanal known as Burning “I don’t really know.” as a backup plan he was going to be an actor.’ Being Given the two sides of his personality, when he an actor isn’t a very good backup plan, but at least Man. Even though Bob Moses was still months away from releasing its critically lauded debut al- arrived in New York he found cracking the city I had a backup plan when I was four.” bum, Days Gone By, Howie and Vallance found both easy and hard. By the time Howie decided to move to New “I had a little DJ career going, so I had a label that York post-Berklee, acting had long been off the themselves playing DJ Lee Burridge’s infamous Robot Heart bus. Hop on YouTube and you’ll find was asking me to hand things in,” Vallance remem- table. And so was the idea of being the next Jeff the two locked into a deliriously chill groove on bers. “I wasn’t just aiming in the dark—I felt like I Buckley or Dave Matthews. Burridge’s double-decker mobile stage. Flanking had something to accomplish. The first thing I had “I had done this EP at the end of high school that them, lost in a sonic world of Bob Moses’s making, to do when I showed up in New York was a remix for was solo acoustic, and listening back I’m trying so are blissed-out revellers who look straight from the Sia, way before she was famous. I think she’d just re- hard to be Dave Matthews that it was cringeworthy,” leased an album called Some People Have Real Prob- Howie says. “I was playing all the local talent nights set of George Miller’s Road Warrior reboot. On the mainstream side of things, Ellen De- lems. She was doing more singer-songwriter stuff. We and I sold out my first run of 2,000 pressed CDs. Generes is among those captivated by the group’s were with the same management company and they I felt like a mini high-school rock star. But I was 18 charms. This past January, Howie and Vallance wanted an EDM remix back before EDM was EDM.” and I needed a bit more guidance. Someone should Quickly, Vallance started to meet people who have said to me, ‘These 10 songs that you brought found themselves seducing North America’s soccer moms with their gorgeous “Tearing Me Up” turned him on to a burgeoning underground in are shit. This one is okay, now go write 10 more.’ on the comedian’s Ellen DeGeneres Show. The of- electronic music scene in New York. “So I was really confused,” he continues. “I’d “People I’d meet would like the same music as written all these songs on acoustic guitar and done ficial story is that America’s favourite Oscar host heard Bob Moses on the car radio, pulled over, me, and they’d be like, ‘You should come check this okay with it, but I definitely did not want to be ‘singand then immediately told her producers to track out,’” he recounts. “There’d be 50 people watching a er-songwriter guy’. When I wrote for my old punk guy who, ironically enough, is now one of the main band, I’d imagine all the parts and tell the drummer down and book the group. The triumphs haven’t stopped there. Days Gone headliners in Ibiza. Back then, it would be 30 people what to play. So I had a bigger vision of what I wantBy has been universally praised as an instant down- there for him in a little warehouse, and maybe the ed to do. That was later actualized in Bob Moses.” tempo-house classic by critics, and Vallance and cops would shut it down. Sometimes you’d show up Howie have been profiled everywhere from U.S. in- and there would be a sign on the door going ‘Sorry, AS HAS BEEN REPEATED in every profile of Bob stitutions like Spin to the U.K.’s impossibly influen- the party’s over.’ But I liked that there was this real- Moses, Howie and Vallance accidentally bumped tial Resident Advisor. There have been high-profile ly cool-sounding type of house music that people into each other in a New York parking lot. Despite appearances at blue-chip North American festivals were playing in these dark, smoky warehouses. coming from different musical backgrounds, they Coachella and Lollapalooza, and invitations to So- You felt important going there, even though, look- quickly developed a chemistry, releasing a series of ing back, it wasn’t a big deal. It felt special, and that well-received EPs. Days Gone By is rooted in a subnar and Melt! across the Atlantic. limely chilled-out strain of house, but also suggests Speaking volumes about the group’s trajectory, made me go, ‘I want to somehow be part of this.’” that Howie and Vallance aren’t interested in being Back in high school, Vallance wouldn’t have Bob Moses’s first appearance in Vancouver came placed in an easily labelled box. Listen closein 2013, the Lotusland-born Howie and Vallance picked Howie as the partner who’d help him ly and you’ll pick up traces of everything playing a house party. When the two musicians punch his ticket into New York’s downfrom celestial psychedelia and choppedreturn to Vancouver from their adopted home of tempo-house scene. Both were headed Check out… New York City in a couple of weeks, they’ll head- for careers in music at an early age. STRAIGHT.COM and-screwed jazz to T.Rex glam and sunshine-superman pop. Vallance—the son of songwriter Jim line the legendary Commodore Ballroom. Make our website The two acknowledge that they are For all of these accomplishments, something Vallance, who’s scored countless hits your source for concert reviews very different from each other. Howie is important stands out when you talk to Howie and writing with Bryan Adams, including and local music happily obsessed with the business side Vallance. And that’s a sense of relief that things “Cuts Like a Knife” and “Summer of of music, has little use for TV, and tends are working out more brilliantly than they could ’69”—was already immersed in the world to be the reflective worrier in Bob Moses. ever have dreamed when they left Vancouver for of DJing at that time. Howie attended the Vallance is less likely to obsess over things. When same school, moving from fronting the early-teen America’s east coast. Howie, who initially headed to Boston’s Berklee punk band Coalition to a singer-songwriter phase not making music, he can also have trouble focusing. “I love, and I have always loved, video games,” College of Music before moving to New York, was in the vein of Jeff Buckley and Ray Lamontagne. After graduating, Howie enrolled at UBC, Vallance says. “I drive Tom nuts. He’s like, ‘You mostly intent on not disappointing his family. “I remember it being a troubled time in that I felt where he quickly discovered that academics can never just sit’—he’s always saying that. The really restless, but I didn’t really know what to do weren’t his calling. thing about video games is that I can always sit musically,” he recalls. “I also had a lot of hang-ups “I did a year but barely went to class,” he re- still. It’s the only thing that shuts my mind off.” about being a musician. My mom’s a lawyer, my dad’s flects. “I took a light course load, would do my asBob Moses quickly made inroads when Howie a professor of engineering, my stepmom’s a doctor, signments as quick as I could—or not do them— and Vallance began working together. Right from my grandfather’s a theoretical physicist—everybody and then go to my friend’s house and write music the start, the idea of being a live act was totally imis super highly educated. My mom was my main and produce demos.” portant to them. Vallance’s ability to network— His mom suggested he attend Berklee, which How- even if he’s only successfully social 50 percent of champion—she was like, ‘You can do this—you’re really good.’ But generally the feeling was ‘What ie eventually did, excelling with nearly straight As. the time—proved invaluable. “I moved into this shitty apartment in Allston, do you mean, you want to be a musician? Nobody “I used to go and hang out at those warehouse which is like the shitty student neighbourhood in shows, and because they were so small you could makes money in music. Go and get a real job.’” As for Vallance, he moved from Vancouver to Boston, with four other guys,” he says. “I remem- talk to the people who ran them,” Vallance recalls. New York after graduating to follow a high-school ber the first night being there, or maybe it was the “You could talk to the DJs. When people are just sweetheart who was studying fashion. The city had second. I had these curtains that I’d had at my starting out—and it doesn’t matter if you’re talking long fascinated him as a hedonistic but magical childhood house in Vancouver, and my same du- about a party or a brand—they remember the first place, one that tied into his obsession with CBGB vet cover. I remember going, ‘Okay, now I’m here, 50 people that show up all the time. And when you and the birth of iconic punk trailblazers like Talk- and I’ve accepted money from my parents to go to start getting successful, you remember those people ing Heads and the Ramones. Electronic-music music school, so I have to fucking make it—I don’t from the beginning. Always. I just got in with these titans Moby and James Murphy of LCD Sound- care what it takes, I’m going to do it.’ It was a very guys early. So when it came to Tom and I needing a system were also major inspirations, with Vallance clear vision, also mixed with me being absolutely gig, I’d say, ‘Hey, do you mind if we open the night?’” loving the way they used art to convey both the shit-scared. Like, so fucking scared that I couldn’t As evidenced by Bob Moses playing places good and bad sides of living in New York. speak, but also knowing ‘I have to do it.’ ” like Space in Ibiza, the days of asking to open at “My girlfriend was moving there, so I was like, Howie figures he went out to socialize about warehouse parties are long gone. The past year has see page 31 ‘You know what? I’m going to hitch a ride with three times that first semester, choosing instead AUGUST 25 – SEPTEMBER 1 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27

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Stellan dabbles with killin’ REV IEWS IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE Starring Stellan Skarsgård. Rating unavailable

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Tarantino ’90s gangster movies in this Scandinavian effort, which still musters a hardheaded charm of its own. Stellan Skarsgård is the unfortunately named Nils Dickman, a snowplow operator in one of the more remote areas of Hoth (aka Norway) and the humble recipient, as the film opens, of the citizen-of-the-year award. When Dickman’s adult son is found dead of an overdose—a coroner’s conclusion that neither he nor his wife can quite believe—the seemingly meek civic worker, on a tip-off, sets about unravelling the plot that led to his death. In his fourth feature with the actor, starting with 1995’s Zero Kelvin, director Hans Petter Moland makes the most of Skarsgård’s subterranean emotional makeup, sending him into battle with little more than the sad grimace of a man who looks like he’s still very sorry about Nymphomaniac. This works especially well as the increasingly nihilistic Dickman murders his way, with implacable determination, through a narcotics ring governed by the vegan “Count” (Pål Sverre Hagennt, last seen round these parts as Thor Heyerdahl in Kon-Tiki), whose fearsome reputation tends to deflate instantly around a deeply unimpressed ex-wife (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen). It’s details like that, or the left-field domestic asides between two secretly gay henchmen, that make In Order of Disappearance feel both overfamiliar and oddly welcome (its freshness further aided by crisp, gleaming location photography). Adding to Dickman’s burden is his implied status as a lilywhite immigrant, while a discussion

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A sad-faced Stellan Skarsgård gets a tad low in In Order of Disappearance.

between two killers linking northern climates with an efficiently run social democracy points to deeper themes, most of them lost on a distinctly un-Norwegian (but efficiently entertained) film critic. Eventually, Dickman’s quest triggers a war with a rival gang of Serbians, and so arrives, in the shape of the great Bruno Ganz, another sad father grappling with loss and the means to do violence. Seeing these two actors together, both symbols of a populist international cinema that thrives in the face of Hollywood noisemaking, should be enough to get your bum in the seat.

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MISS SHARON JONES! A documentary by Barbara Kopple. Rating unavailable

Sharon Jones more than earns exclamation mark in the title of this fast-moving doc, even if the film itself does nothing to shout

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about. That’s surprising, since it is produced and directed by Barbara Kopple, two-time Oscar winner (Harlan County U.S.A. is a film-school perennial) and maker of several socially minded music docs. Kopple leans heavily on the highenergy engagement of her subject, a late-blooming leader—now 60—of the retro-soul movement associated with her Brooklyn backing band, the Dap-Kings. Its label, Daptone, did a similar revival with Charles Bradley, an even older singer who had toiled in the background, as did Jones, who performed in wedding bands and behind other singers before her ascension, less than 15 years ago. Aside from the wedding-band bit, however, the movie gives you almost nothing about her biography or creative history. Instead, after a scattershot opening that throws myriad trailerlike clips through the editing blender, Miss Sharon Jones! leads with the singer’s ongoing battle with cancer and pretty much stays there for 90 minutes. Endless rounds of hospital visits are interrupted by formulaic chats with bandmates who—guess what?—express their concern for her well-being and ability to keep going. There’s zero attention paid to who writes and arranges the somewhat forgettable, ’60s-style songs that appear to be handed to her fully formed. But does she really have so little input? There’s some decent rehearsal footage, itself leading to a triumphant return that belatedly makes the case for her greatness as a singer and performer. Throughout, Jones displays exemplary courage and patience, using her downtime to dabble in paintby-numbers art projects. Given the rare intimacy the filmmaker was allowed, it’s a shame that Kopple took the same approach. > KEN EISNER

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Parquet Courts takes a path of reinvention It’s considered one of the cities on Planet Earth, but that doesn’t mean New York comes without major challenges, especially if you’re committed to making art instead of a killing on Wall Street. Parquet Courts singer-guitarist Austin Brown pledges an undying love for his adopted home, but at the same time acknowledges that it’s getting harder and harder to live there. “New York is a really difficult place, and it isn’t getting much easier,” the Texas-spawned musician says, talking on his cellphone from California’s Venice Beach, where Parquet Courts is on a tour stop. “What’s happening in New York is what I saw in San Francisco—where it’s becoming so expensive that basically only rich people can live there.” That difficulty is magnified when Brown gets home from tour. “I tend to be exhausted or roadworn, and when you get back you want to be in a place where you can unwind,” he relates. “It’s a really busy place where lots of people are working really hard. It’s also really dirty. I never minded these things before, but it’s becoming so overwhelmingly expensive that it’s got me thinking if it’s the kind of place that I can be anymore.” The upside of this is that Brown and his bandmates—singer-guitarist Andrew Savage, bassist Sean Yeaton, and drummer Max Savage—found themselves with no shortage of inspiring things to write about when they began working on Human Performance, their excellent fourth album as Parquet Courts. While the Big Apple isn’t the sole focus of the 14-track release, there are enough lyrical references to make the record a great companion piece to LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver, Lou Reed’s New York, and Nas’s Illmatic. On the wiry protopunker “2 Dead Cops”, Parquet Courts rips a page straight from the local news, recounting the true tale of police officers being gunned down in Brooklyn: “Said a police bastard, ‘We lost two lives’/G-train delayed, ‘What else is new.’ ” “Captive of the Sun”—which gives you a good idea what Sonic Youth might have sounded like if Thurston Moore had been obsessed with hip-hop—features the line “Skullshaking cadence of the J train rolls/ The rhythm of defeat, repeating like a pulse.” Brown calls “Captive of the Sun” one of the most important songs on Human Performance, mostly because it showcases Parquet Courts as a band determined to push itself artistically. “We didn’t do the things that came most natural this time,” he reveals. “We’ve written a lot of Parquet Courts songs—it’s really easy

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for us to write songs that sound like our band. Human Performance was us trying to write songs that wouldn’t fit on any of our other records, that were distinctly new, but also distinctly us.” So although 2014’s Sunbathing Animal scored on top 10 lists for its driving update of classic college rock, the quartet decided to reinvent itself. Hence, you get “Paraphrased” channelling double-nickels-on-thedime punk, “Human Performance” dragging golden country through Loungeville, and “I Was Just Here” serving math rock at its most angular. Brown says Parquet Courts has learned something over the past few years, namely that there’s nothing wrong with embracing one’s inner art star. He and Savage knocked off a quick EP, Tally All the Things That You Broke, before recording Sunbathing Animal, and then followed that up with a quickly released 2014 full-length called Content Nausea. Both were issued under the banner of Parkay Quarts, and contained songs deemed in some way unfit for Parquet Courts. “We recorded 30 songs altogether, before whittling them down to the ones that made the record,” Brown says of Human Performance. “Songs like ‘Captive of the Sun’ or ‘Dust’ and ‘I Was Just Here’ were kind of outliers in the whole process. But they became the ones that were most important to the record. Songs where we’d initially say ‘That’s kind of weird—I don’t know if it fits in with what we’re doing’ became important. In the way that Tally All the Things That You Broke was a collection of odd songs that didn’t make it onto Sunbathing Animal, this time around, making Human Performance, we really wanted to champion those outliers. Those are the songs that are most unique and say the most about what we’re capable of doing.” As much as one could be forgiven for thinking that New York has ground down Parquet Courts, Human Performance ends on an almost hopeful note, with a soothing female voice popping up in the middle of “Dead Again” to intone “With your eyes open, or your eyes closed/Take a moment to connect with where you are.” Brown knows exactly where he’s going to be when he gets back off the road. And while he’s in the middle of a rough patch, one gets the feeling that maybe everything will be okay. “I think New York is the greatest city in the world,” he says. “I fell in love with the place when I moved here eight years ago. I still love it, but we’re just having a difficult time in our relationship now.”

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China Syndrome makes pop for grownups

ou don’t get many infectious pop tunes written from the perspective of mature adults. There are plenty of teenfriendly “I Wanna Rock” anthems, but what about a song about being humiliated by a peer’s career success? You have to have been around a while to feel those feelings, and even longer to be able to comment on them. That’s part of what makes “My Pal Dan”, off China Syndrome’s 2015 LP The Usual Angst, so brilliant. It takes on a subject fraught with ambivalence—feeling like a “big fool” who has “gone back to high school” in the company of a more successful friend—and makes it catchy and danceable, complete with a Stax-style horn section borrowed from the Beladeans. Or take “October Mansion”, on the same album. It’s a relationship song where one partner tries to convince the other they should get We’re not saying who, but a certain member of China Syndrome modelled his look after CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. married. “Sometimes I wonder just what you’re afraid of,” China Syn- me and my wife used to live in. When raceway—probably had the biggest if a really good band came to town, drome frontman Tim Chan sings. we lived there, we got married, so it rep. Their 1988 LP Happy Go Lucky people would get out to see it, regard“What’s the point in us waiting for was kind of evoking that.” Such touch- was produced by Seattle’s Conrad less of genre,” he contends. es reflect the everyday adult insecurity Uno, best known for his association Chan argues, however, that there so long?” have been a lot of really good power These are songs of experience, not of the album title. with the Young Fresh Fellows. “Scott McCaughey from the Fel- pop bands in Vancouver that have Chan’s band history dates back to innocence: China Syndrome writes the Ryvals, which he formed in Vic- lows was really supportive of us,” often been overlooked. “They don’t pop songs for grownups. “Thanks, that’s exactly what we try toria around 1980 with long-time Chan remembers, noting that the Se- really seem to get the play here comto do,” Chan says. collaborator Eric attle-scene veteran then hooked them pared to old-school punk,” he conWe’re tucked into Lowe. There have up with Uno. tends. A good example of this is the Somehow, though—since form- Sweaters, Chan says, featuring fellow a corner of Fasbeen maybe a cinating Rhythm, dozen bands since, ing China Syndrome in 2003 Victoria-to-Vancouver transplant Al MacInnis a Nanaimo record often with delight- in Vancouver, where he is now Pete Campbell. shop every bit the equal of anything ful names: the Electric Bananas, Hat based—Chan hasn’t quite found If China Syndrome does tend to Vancouver has to offer. Head, and, perhaps most improbably, his audience. It might be down to get overlooked locally, it isn’t beChan is on a mini-tour of his old the Howling Breakdancing Grapefruit his affable personality; he might be cause of quality. The Usual Angst is stomping grounds, having played a Society (a fuck band known for “par- too nice, “not aggressive enough” one of the most enjoyable albums well-attended homecoming gig in odying hair metal and hardcore at the to push as hard as it takes to get to come out of Vancouver this Victoria the night before. He explains same time”). noticed. century, and the current incarnathat he wrote “My Pal Dan” around It might also have to do with a dif- tion of the band—including Vern In Vancouver, meanwhile, he’s had the time of his last high-school re- side projects with Full Leather Jacket ference in scenes. Victoria, to Chan, Beamish on guitars, Mike Chang union. “Maybe I’m a glutton for pun- and, presently, Pill Squad, along with seems more appreciative of power on bass, and Kevin DuBois on ishment. I never have a good time, but Tracy Brooks, Ed Hurrell, and Full pop than Vancouver, in part because drums—cooks live. Check out the I’ve been to a few of them now.” it’s a smaller scene there. Leather Jacket alum Scott Beadle. cover of Squeeze’s “Another Nail in “October Mansion”, meantime, is “Victoria doesn’t see the good My Heart” on the China Syndrome But of his past bands, 64 Funnynamed after “an apartment in Victoria cars—named for an event at a Seattle shows that Vancouver would get, so website for another example of how

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much musical intelligence all four musicians bring to the plate. If the name China Syndrome seems a bit on the nose for a band with two Chinese-Canadian dudes in it, it’s worth noting that it was “totally unrelated” to Chan’s identity. The singer offers that the name was actually inspired by the 1979 film The China Syndrome, a taut thriller about a fictional nuclearpower-plant meltdown outside of Los Angeles. “When I first started jamming with the guys, we were doing a lot of new wave and punk, and looking back at the late ’70s. That movie was out around that time. We just thought it was a neat name.” In fact, one of the other names Chan came up with was even more explicitly Chinese-Canadian, though you kind of need to speak Cantonese to get the joke: the Pender Guys. “At that time I lived on Pender Street, and in Cantonese, Pender Street is Pender Gai, and there’s a popular Chinese radio show called Pender Gai, and I thought ‘Pender Guys’ was kind of a funny play on that. Which nobody would get!” While being of Chinese-Canadian background hasn’t really affected Chan’s place in the music scene, growing up with a “quite traditional” Chinese family meant being discouraged from getting into music, he says. “My parents never encouraged it—they wanted me to be a doctor. But luckily, I had an uncle that moved in with us when I was really young, and he brought all this pop music over from Hong Kong—the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Bee Gees.…He’d be constantly playing it around the house. I loved it and got into it and said, ‘Can you please teach me how to play guitar?’ So it’s all kind of his fault.” -

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Power” grafted onto the balls-to-thewall riff from the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”, and “Killing in the Name” is a straightforward reading of RATM’s debut single. Prophets of Rage’s rehashing of its members’ past output gets ridiculous with “Shut ’Em Down”. It’s a PE song from 25 years ago, but this version is based on Cypress Hill’s 2010 cover, which featured some dude named Tom Morello. That leaves us with “The Party’s Over”. Let’s just say you’ll love it—if you happen to be a fan of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill.

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to you, it stays with you for life,” Vallance continues. “You learn to deal with it. But even still, when I meet someone today, I’ll be like, ‘Don’t fuck this up—look them in the eye, shake their hand, and then remember their name.’ But now there’s also the part of me that’s like, when I’m on-stage, I don’t give a shit anymore.” The reason for that is simple: there’s more than one way to measure success. And for Bob Moses, it isn’t necessarily just about getting to hang out in sun-soaked Ibiza, wonderful as such experiences may be. “This is the kind of gig where you get put in the cool pool simply because of the nature of it,” Vallance argues. “Secretly, I’m not in the cool pool. It doesn’t make sense, and I find the whole thing really entertaining and funny. We have peers and colleagues who are just obsessed with everything being perfect— not in a musical sense, but all the kind of auxiliary things. We don’t care about getting the crazy light show or the latest LED system. We’re more like, ‘Let’s try and write the best songs that we can, and then have this almost punk-rock thing where you go up there, like, plug in, and go.’ We don’t take any of this all that seriously. And that is why we’re having so much fun.” -

seen Vallance and Howie tour the world relentlessly. “We were in Australia at the end of April and May, and then all summer it’s been back and forth between Europe and Canada and North America,” Howie says. “Not just three gigs on a weekend, but 10 gigs in a row. It’s been a great adventure.” Bob Moses has kept so busy that there’s been no time to work on a Days Gone By follow-up. (Until they are able to hunker down and begin writing again, fans will have to be satisfied with a new deluxe edition of Days Gone By loaded with live cuts, an acoustic version of “Before I Fall”, and remixes by heavy hitters like ATrak and Joris Voorn.) Vallance acknowledges that, even today, he has trouble processing everything. “I try and wear cool clothes or whatever,” he says, “but there’s always this thing where… I dunno. I remember when I was a teenager—I used to have bad skin. I’d always be self-conscious about going out in public. It would be like, ‘People know, but they aren’t saying anything.’ That mentality has really stuck with me, where people are too polite to say anything, but it’s still there. “When you’re a teenager going Bob Moses plays the Commodore through adolescence and that happens Ballroom next Saturday (September 3).

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FLIGHT FACILITIES Australian electronica duo composed of Hugo Gruzman and James Lyell. Oct 5, doors 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $28 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and wwwbplive.ca/. STICKY FINGERS Australian reggaefusion band tours in support of upcoming release Westway (The Glamour and the Slums). Oct 7, doors 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. COLD WAR KIDS American indie-rock band tours in support of latest release Hold My Home. October 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. JACUZZI BOYS Florida rock band tours in support of upcoming release Ping Pong. Oct 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. AGAINST ME! American punk-rock band tours in support of upcoming studio album Shape Shift With Me, with guest David Hause. Oct 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Canadian garage-rock duo tours in support of latest release Bad News Boys, with guests Paint Fumes. Oct 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Aug 26, 9 am, $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. K.FLAY Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist tours in support of latest EP release Crush Me. Oct 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE VEILS London-based indie-alt band tours in support of fifth studio album Total Depravity. Nov 11, doors 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. LAPSLEY English electronica singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Long Way Home. Nov 11, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. DUNE RATS AND DZ DEATHRAYS Australian rock bands coheadline on their Death Rats Tour. Nov 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Aug 25, 10 am, $14 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

ALLAH-LAS Los Angeles rock band tours in support of upcoming release Calico Review. Sep 27, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

MAX FROST Austin pop singer-songwriter tours in support of latest EP release Intoxication, with guest Sinclair. Nov 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

HATEBREED Connecticut heavy-metal band, with guests Devildriver and Devil You Know. Sep 28, doors 7:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

LEMAITRE Norwegian electronica duo composed of Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund. Nov 17, doors 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.

PEACHES Canadian electropop musician tours in support of latest release Rub. Sep 28, doors 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $28.50 (plus service

THE JAPANESE HOUSE London singersongwriter tours in support of latest EP release Clean. Dec 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Aug 24,

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MERCHANDISE Florida-based shoegaze trio tours in support of fifth album A Corpse Wired for Sound, with guests Gun Outfit. Dec 2, doors 7 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. NIGHTMARES ON WAX Experimental DJ and electronica producer tours in support of upcoming EP release The Ground Floor, with guests Romare and Hubzz. Dec 10, doors 10 pm, show 10:30 pm, Open Studios (200-252 E. 1st). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $25-30 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Beatstreet Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

CHRIS STAPLETON American countrybluegrass singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Traveller, with guest Lindi Ortega. March 27, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Aug 26, 10 am, $70/50/30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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KRADLE Burnaby metal quartet from the ’80s performs a reunion show in memory of late singer Tod Larkin, with guests Chelsea’s WAX TAILOR French electronica DJ-producer tours in support of new album Tail. Aug 26, doors 7 pm, show 7:45 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $14/10, info www. By Any Beats Necessary. Feb 17, doors 8 venuelive.ca/events/kradle-chelseas-tail/. pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red HUGH FRASER BENEFIT Live music by Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. Hugh Fraser and the 16-piece Vancouver

FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS Los Angeles indie-pop band tours in support of upcoming self-titled studio album, with guests Phases. Aug 24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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ENCHANTED EVENINGS CONCERT SERIES Take in the garden and live music by Jim Byrnes. Aug 25, 7 pm, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (578 Carrall). Tix $25-60, info www.enchanted evenings.ca/. GWEN STEFANI American pop-rock singer-songwriter performs on her This Is What the Truth Feels Like 2016 Tour, with guest Eve. Aug 25, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $39.95 to $149.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. FOLKY STRUM STRUM The Rogue Arts Festival launch party features music by the B.C. folk band, with guests Samson’s Delilah and the Staggers and Jaggs. Aug 25, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Info www. facebook.com/events/215973415465773/. ZAKK WYLDE American hard-rock/metal guitarist tours in support of new LP Book of Shadows II, with guests Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown and Jared James Nichols. Aug 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm,

Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation, featuring saxophonist P.J. Perry. Aug 26, 8 pm, Pat’s Pub & Brewhouse (403 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.hughfraser.com/.

SUNSET MUSIC SERIES Every Friday will include Summit Lodge Restaurant barbecue and musical performances including classic rock, European folk, indie-soul, modern-acoustic, R&B, and world fusion. Performers include Jocelyn Pettit (Aug 26), Team Tim Hewitt (Sep 2), Sea to Sky Orchestra (Sep 9), and Lovecoast (Sep 16). To Sep 16, Fridays from 6-9 pm, Sea to Sky Gondola (36800 Hwy 99, Squamish). Tix $39.95, info www.seatoskygondola.com/. AMERICAS MASTERS GAMES Music by the Boom Booms, Taylor James, Gay Nineties, Willa, Eagle Song Dancers, DJ Crysal A’Dara, Marie Hui, Famous Players Band, CocoJafro, Locked and Loaded, Scott Shea, Quickness, the Bad Beats, the Undercovers, DJ Leanne, DJ O, DJ Pri, and DJ Miss M. Aug 26-Sep 4, Jack Poole Plaza (Thurlow and W. Cordova). Info www.americasmastersgames2016.com/. CATES PARK CONCERT SERIES Featuring performances by Porteau, Eryn & Co, and DCM Bandfactory. Aug 27, 4-7 pm, Cates Park (North Van). Free admission, info www.musart.ca/. WENCY CORNEJO AND INTROVOYS Filipino alt-rock vocalist coheadlines with Filipino pop-rock band. Aug 27, 6:30 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $30, info www.facebook.com/innovision.ca/. TURNOVER American rock band tours in support of latest release Peripheral Vision. Aug 27, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. PARQUET COURTS New York–based indie-rock band tours in support of latest release Human Performance. Aug 27, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $23 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. DURAN DURAN British pop legends from the ’80s (“Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Rio”) perform on their Paper Gods Tour, with guests Chic, featuring Nile Rodgers. Aug 28, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $125/99/59/45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. DAVID BAZAN Seattle indie-rock singersongwriter, with guests Michael Nau and Cotton Jones. Aug 28, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/, info www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1140585/. RODRIGUEZ American folk-rock vocalistguitarist performs tunes from albums Cold Fact and Coming From Reality. Aug 29, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $99.50/75/55 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. SKYE & ROSS British trip-hop musicians and Morcheeba members Skye Edwards and Ross Godfrey tour in support of upcoming album. Aug 30, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK LEGENDS VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL Performances by Sublime With Rome, Dirty Heads, the Sheepdogs, Bif Naked, Daniel Wesley, Forgotten Rebels, Randy and Mr Lahey (Trailer Park Boys), the Boom Booms, Redeye Empire, Vince Vaccaro, Mat the Alien, the Librarian, Good for Grapes, Los Furios, Antipolitic, Powerclown, Bocephus King, Phono Pony. Aug 26-28, Lake Cowichan, B.C.. Tix $30-270, info www.legendsvalleymusicfestival.com/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BUMBERSHOOT Seattle’s 46th annual music and arts festival features live music, comedy, theatre, film, visual arts, and children’s programming. Participating artists include Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Death Cab for Cutie, KYGO, Tame Impala, G-Eazy, Halsey, DJ Snake, Porter Robinson, Bryson Tiller, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Billy Idol, ZHU, Father John Misty, Explosions in the Sky, Third Eye Blind, Logic, Andrew Bird, and Reggie Watts. Sep 2-4, Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.). Tix at www.bumbershoot.com/.

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savage love DEAR READERS:

This is the final week of my summer vacation—but you’ve been getting a new column every week I’ve been gone, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Our fi nal guest Dan Savage is an independent designer, illustrator, and animation director based in Brooklyn, New York. He created Yule Log 2.0 (watchyulelog.com), a collaborative art project where animators around the world reimagine the famous Yule log fireplace. He has worked with the New York Times, Herman Miller, and Google; he’s taught design and animation at NYU and SVA; and he’s won a bunch of design-industry awards you probably haven’t heard of. “I was excited to do this, even though I have no authority on the topic,” said Daniel Savage, awardwinning independent designer. “But I, surprisingly, felt pretty confident in my answers, as ridiculous as they may be.”

I’m a 41-year-old straight woman who stayed a virgin way longer than I should have (thank you, church and cultural slut-shaming). I wasn’t 100 percent “good”, i.e., I was one of those “not PIV=not really sex” girls, so I indulged in outercourse and other “cheats”. When I fi nally realized that “not until marriage” wasn’t working for me and did the real thing, I discovered I loved it. Go me, right?

Unfortunately, I’m not good at dating, so I usually go a long time between relationships. The relationship I’m in now is the fi rst one I’ve had in two years. “Guy” is nice to me: calls me beautiful, sticks up for me, comes to watch me play with a community orchestra (my own family and friends don’t even come to my shows). But we don’t have much in common (hobbies, political outlook, religious beliefs), and sometimes our conversations feel laboured. But that’s okay, right? At least I’m getting my sexual needs met, right? Well, no. Every single time we’ve tried to have sex, Guy either can’t get hard or stays hard for only a few minutes. I’ve tried going down on him, using my hands, different positions—nothing works. He’s never had an orgasm with me. We don’t even kiss that much. I don’t say anything because I don’t want to hurt his feelings and because I’m really grateful to him for wanting to be with me and being nice to me. He says sorry and that he’s asked the doctor about it, but we don’t get anywhere. It feels lonelier than when I was single. To be blunt, I don’t want to date him anymore. But I feel too guilty to break up with him. He really cares about me, and he didn’t do anything wrong. We’ve dated for four months, and I don’t know if I’m giving up too soon. Where would I be if previous boyfriends had ditched me for being inexperienced instead

> BY DAN SAVAGE of showing me the ropes? Don’t whole rig? What is the equitable way I accept this as fate? But just this morof doing this? ning, we went for round two, and I was I owe Guy the same thing? > TOO DOWN TO BE WITTY > PURCHASING EROTIC GEAR having a hard time coming, and out GOOD ETIQUETTE, DAN? of nowhere she pops up and jerks me First off, I think a long time between off till climax. It really took me back. relationships is good. I also think not You’re 26 years old, PEGGED; buy Would it be bad to fake having comhaving things in common can be okay the damn thing. How much could it ing issues in hopes she does it again? if you create new hobbies and experi- possibly cost? I know if I were in your Is that unfair? > TUGBOAT CAPTAIN ences you can share. Having said situation, I would want full control that, TDTBW, four months is plenty over what goes up my ass. If she owns of time to know if it’s working. He it, would she use it while you weren’t It’s interesting that your problem isn’t sounds super boring. The sooner you around? With strangers? No, thanks. the fact that she cheated on you, TC, break it off with him the better. You Plus if you split the cost, who gets to or the relationship problems, or the don’t want to hurt him any more than keep it when you break up? Just buy it constant fighting. No, it’s the lack of you have to, especially if he’s really and enjoy. If you struggle with picking handjob enthusiasm. Honestly, man, it seems like you have much deeper into you, and the longer you draw it it out, might I suggest starting small? issues here—but the handjob problem out, the more it’s going to hurt. No amount of “training” is going to get I’ve always enjoyed reading is the only concrete thing you point to? The girlfriend you’ve got sounds this dude hard. The only rope being your column—maybe I just get turned shown here is his flaccid ding-dong. on by other people’s sexual endeav- super selfish, and fi nding a new It doesn’t seem like you even want to ours or maybe reading about other girl—one who wouldn’t cheat on people’s sexual frustrations makes my you and would be excited to jump be his friend if you broke up. I wouldn’t feel guilty at all about situation seem better in comparison. into a relationship and be down dumping him. Sometimes you gotta So what am I writing about? Well, with a little tug—isn’t going to be I suppose the question is this: when that difficult of a task. I mean, your think about number one. does one just become blatantly un- fetish seems like it’s an easy one to My girl and I are both 26, and grateful? I’ve been in a two-year mixed explore. we opened up our marriage. Now relationship (she’s Native and 24, I’m But to answer your actual quesI’ve got a girlfriend with whom I am white and 29), and we fight a lot. She tion: I would go ahead and fake it. getting to have some of the kinky fun cheated on me a couple times early Fuck it, lie to her. It seems like she that was lacking at home. Here is my in the relationship. She says I pres- has no issues lying to you! question: things are really casual be- sured her into getting into a relationtween me and this new girl. I want ship when she wasn’t ready to “settle Follow Daniel Savage on Twitter at @ to do some pegging, but I don’t know down”, which I suppose I could see. somethingsavage and visit his webwho should buy the strap-on? Me, My problem is I have a handjob fet- site at www.somethingsavage.com/. because it’s my ass and my idea? Or ish and my girlfriend has a disinterest On the Lovecast, a special guest rant her, because she would wear it and in it to the point where she just won’t by writer Sherman Alexie: www. would also think it was super hot? do it. But why am I bitching? I get laid savagelovecast.com/. Email: mail@ Should I buy the dildo and she buys every day, for the most part, surprise savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter the harness? Going halfsies on the blowjobs, 69ing, you name it. Should @fakedansavage.

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ARIES

retrograde, starting Tuesday, puts backtrack, but it’s simply doing a necessary cleanup first. more on your plate.

March 20–April 20

Use it; don’t lose it. Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury dish up a great weekend backdrop. Choose pleasure, socializing, productivity, or bargainshopping, it’s all good. As of Monday, Venus enhances your social life, and romantic and financial prospects. Watch for someone in particular to claim more of your attention. Mercury retrograde, starting Tuesday, puts you back to work—in more ways than you plan.

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TAURUS

April 20–May 21

Thursday could keep you guessing, but after the fact you’ll see that you actually made some progress. A change of scenery does you plenty of good this weekend. Friday through Sunday, soak up on the good stuff; spend extra time making up for lost time. Venus in Libra and Mercury retrograde put personal and relationship improvement at the top of the priority checklist.

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May 21–June 21

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June 21–July 22

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July 22–August 23

Thursday, you may feel uncertain or at a loss, but as of Friday you’ll gain a better handle on it. It’s a great weekend to share with family and friends, for outdoor recreations, event-going, indulging yourself or another. Venus into Libra, starting Monday, increases harmony and cooperation, spending too. As of Tuesday, more due diligence and better budgeting are recommended.

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August 23–September 23

Mars on the move-along with Saturn and Neptune is pivotal for you. Both mark a time-is-ripe moment that is infused with wonderful potential. But that’s not all. You’ll gain a boost from the solar eclipse on September 1. Yes, Mercury retrograde can put you on a

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September 23–October 23

Past Thursday, you’ll gain a better feel of what to say, how to play it, or which to choose. Friday through Sunday, emotions can get the better of you, especially when another or memories pull on the heart. Venus into Libra, starting Monday, is great for an energy and attention boost. Mercury turns retrograde on Tuesday. Play it safe with health and information-sharing.

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SCORPIO

October 23–November 22

You’ll get more out of it if you ease up rather than force or push on Thursday. Friday, make it good for yourself; give in, indulge. Saturday/ Sunday are great for heart-to-heart talks and pleasure-seeking. Let a special someone know just how much you care. Venus into Libra, starting Monday, enhances romance and creativity. Tuesday, revisit, improvise.

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Thursday, you could get somewhere or nowhere. You’ll get a better response out of Friday’s stars. Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury make you a happy camper, no matter what you get up to for this full-to-the-brim weekend. There can be good news, an event or a milestone to celebrate. Tuesday, revisit it; make a change; trust your instinct. January 20–February 18

You simply can’t get enough of the good stuff this weekend. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter can start a conversation, a visit, or an idea track that seems to have no end. Conversely, they can also load you up with work, cleanup, or added expense. You can’t do it all. In fact, once Mercury turns retrograde, you might have to redo it. February 18—March 20

Thursday/Friday dissolves a barrier and begins a better cut to the chase. Saturday/Sunday, soak it in, soak it up, splurge on yourself or another. When it comes to good sharing and good times, you simply can’t get enough. Venus into Libra, starting Tuesday, benefits finances and relationships, but as of Tuesday, Mercury begins a backtrack. -

Mars and Saturn have just completed a two-year manifesting cycle and now place you at the start of your next great adventure. The next two weeks can be uncertain yet shaping. Give yourself extra time to feel your way along and trust that time will give you a better sense of direction. Saturday through Mon- Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s day, enjoy, indulge, love. Tuesday, free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. take it moment to moment.

> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < CHERYL AT KIBUNE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: Kibune Met you briefly at Kibune. Beautiful eyes and cheek bones. I would never make you pay for diesel.

DENMAN HARLEY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 17, 2016 WHERE: Denman and Pendrell You: beautiful blonde driving a black Road King, black t shirt, black shorts. Me: on a Red Dyna, white t-shirt, black shorts. Would love to meet for a coffee and maybe a road trip!!

HAIR LIKE A LION - 17 OAK

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 18, 2016 WHERE: #17 Oak Bus You - stunning blue eyes and a gorgeous mane of curly brown hair. Me shaved head and blue eyes. We exchanged glances and then an old lady got on the bus and commented how beautiful your hair was (I agree). You said it was like a lion; that made me smile and was going to say hi but had to get off at my stop. Would love to grab a drink or coffee sometime and get to know you!

YOU LITERALLY HAD FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 31, 2016 WHERE: The Island!

I was reading a Kurt Vonnegut poem out loud; you patiently waited, then started talking about old shoes. Me: blue jacket, white shirt, big silly grin. You: white dress, seafoam shoes, and a summer wreath on your head. We danced to a (very impressive) Beatle’s cover band. We laughed when they said they were playing “Something” (as in, anything, instead of the actual song). Just an insane evening. Lost track of a lot of things, but don’t want to lose track of you. Send me an email?

BEARDY AT ARBUTUS CAFE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: Arbutus Cafe in Kitsilano You said it was a cramped corner, we shared the sugar bowl. Me, blonde, kinda sweaty from a workout, you, tall, beard, rings, but not on ring finger? Wish I’d said more...

CROSSING GRANVILLE STREET ON BROADWAY @ 2AM SUNDAY INTO MONDAY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: Broadway and Granville Me: Asian male 5’5” wearing jeans and dark t-shirt carrying black laptop bag heading west You: Beautiful Asian girl 5’ blonde dyed hair white top plaid button shirt, jean blue shorts walking with two guys one white guy and one East Indian guy heading east. Would love to get your number and take you out for coffee as a prelude for things to come. :)

A GIRL AND HER HORSE

AWESOME NURSE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: 4th and Vine Around 0820 Monday morning, on the sidewalk by Whole Foods, we greeted each other, and then again in the checkout area at the Safeway. You’re an early 40's woman with a beautiful smile... you left Safeway with coffee and sunflowers and we exchanged greetings a third time at Vine and West 3rd. I’d love to meet you for a drink.

COMMERCIAL BROADWAY ALL BLACK PHOTOGRAPHER

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 21, 2016 WHERE: Commercial at Broadway You: all black, handsome, camera around your neck, casually lounging on the corner of the Drive and Broadway all suave like. Me: stopped at the light on my old ten speed. Curious. Looked over and exchanged glances at least a couple times. You’re handsome and intriguing. Meet ups? What color was my bike?

BIKING ON A HOT THURSDAY NIGHT -- ADANAC BIKE ROUTE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 11, 2016 WHERE: Union Street Bike Route I pulled up beside you on Union Street bike route near Jackson -- you on commuter bike w/bags and long flowing top (beautiful), sassy short blond hair and gorgeous smile, maybe 40 something -- me, in road biking gear w/ sunnies, white helmet, sea green Trek bike -- I said, it's hot (for biking) and you said you liked my bike and then I was tongue tied... you caught up at traffic light at Gore and I was too shy to stop and give you my number... if you’re interested in a ride or coffee let me know.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: St. Paul’s Hospital

You’d been riding your pinto and stopped for some excited children by the gate to a friend’s place, where we were having a get together. I’m very glad you did. I really enjoyed your lively, outgoing personality; and, I’d love to pickup our conversation where we left off and get to know more about you, and horses too. I was the fellow that asked you the breed of your pretty mare. ;)

You were my nurse at St. Paul’s Hospital emergency. I think you said your name is Jessica. I was a bit of a whimp, but you were so nice to me and made me feel better, which is awesome, because it was night time. I definitely need to see you again. Coffee sometime?

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 14, 2016 WHERE: Bard on the Beach Not so much as a encounter... From not so far away I saw you walk through the gates with another lady. You striking with a beautiful Rose tattoo a certain vibe and the way you carried yourself caught my eye I thought, oh look, Kate Hudson. And later in the theater you were in a section opposite me. Did my best not to stare.. I’m certain you never noticed me. I pictured you and I on a date... dinner, Bard drinks and strolls on the beach... The beautiful smile throughout the show you seemed to have enjoyed. Have not stopped daydreaming of you. Show ended with Bianca singing... wish I could quote directly... My heart was wounded the first I saw you... Hope you enjoyed the show. Maybe I will see you again.

IF WE COULD RECONNECT....

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 22, 2016 WHERE: in Georgia Straight I saw your post in “I Saw You”. Have been trying to contact you for a week, but have not heard anything back. We met 9 years ago, POF, my name is Lianne, I am Jewish, live in Kits, went to Israel, etc, etc. Many friends have forwarded me this post and I would love to reconnect. Please be in touch if you see this. That would be amazing.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 21, 2016 WHERE: East 11 West of Commerical Was walking w/ friend and you pulled up behind up us on sidewalk w/your bike -you lived right there. You were beautiful and looked pastoral w/your bike and basket... wondering if you’re noticed me!?! Me -- dark short hair, slim. You -feminine... maybe single?

You were sitting on the side bench @ Van Art & Leisure on Main St., I sat down, we chatted about music and drum circles. I dug your style. you had to leave to go pick up your friend. would love to meet up

Headed east on the SkyTrain, you sat next to me. You’ve got “no place like home” tattooed on the inside of your left wrist. I was the bald guy with flames tattooed up the insides of mine. I spent the entire ride wanting to ask you your name and number. I’ve never done it before but wish I had this time.

ENCHANTING SMILE

I was chowing down at Pizza Garden on Main. You, long skirt, beautiful dark hair and an amazing smile that you held on me. I, black shirt and brown hair. I ran out to see you and you went in and got an ice cream and walked up 14th.

OH MY GOD WHERE’S OMAD?!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 17, 2016 WHERE: New West 7-11

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 20, 2016 WHERE: Kestrel Books, 4th Avenue You had blondish hair and were wearing yoga togs and running shoes, I had a black t-shirt, beige shorts and white runners. You had a great smile and we exchanged hellos, but I drove home wishing I had had the courage to talk to you more. Coffee/ Drinks?

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 15, 2016 WHERE: Eastbound SkyTrain

KESTREL BOOKS, SATURDAY

We met at 7-11 in New Westminster at the end of July, possibly the 17th or 24th. We talked about tattoos and dogs. I am the voluptuous blond with blue eyes. You asked me to blaze and I said no, been kicking my ass ever since. Would love to hear from you. How many tattoos do I have???

TRAFFIC CONTROL GIRL IN A TRUCK, BARNET HIGHWAY POCO

YOGA BLUE SOCKS...

I SHOULD HAVE ASKED YOU

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 17, 2016 WHERE: 14th and Main

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 21, 2016 WHERE: Vancouver Art & Leisure

Wasn’t in a good mood, in a rush,and you and your friend were having a great conversation and didn’t want to interrupt you. But sitting beside you with your sparkly personality made me feel better. I’m the tall 6’+ dark haired guy.

NATASHA! IT’S STEW!

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 19, 2016 WHERE: Seabus Going to Vancouver

WITH YOUR BIKE ON EAST 11 (OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE)

OTHELLO. AUGUST 14 GODDESS AND HER SUNFLOWERS, SAFEWAY 4TH AND VINE

PETITE BRUNETTE LADY, SEABUS-FRIDAY NIGHT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 20, 2016 WHERE: Maple Ridge

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 15, 2016 WHERE: Adanac Bike Route

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 17, 2016 WHERE: Lynn Valley Village, North Vancouver

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 17, 2016 WHERE: Barnet Highway, Port Coquitlam

I complimented you and your cool blue socks while riding the Adanac bike route on Monday night. Unfortunately, we parted ways before I was able to make mention of your pretty face, warm smile, and sexy bicycle. Our encounter was quite brief. Perhaps we could make a little more time for each other. Perhaps in the form of a bike ride and a drink. Or...

You came up the stairs in Lynn Valley Village headed to a yoga class, I was photographing the music in the village as you passed me; I saw a hint of a beautiful smile. You were wearing black yoga wear with grey halter top, brown gladiator sandals and a necklace with a green rectangular brooch. I would love to photograph you.

You’re the stunning slender brunette with the sparkling eyes and warm smile who pulled alongside me and asked if the lightbar on my truck was reds and blues, or just oranges. I asked you if you were the boss lady or a tech, and you said you were both. You waved as you drove offnot seeing a ring on your tanned hands. Can we meet for a drink?

GREEN ROSES

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 20, 2016 WHERE: Main Street I was checking out the Mural Festival on Main when something more beautiful then the art caught my eye. You were wearing a cute dress with green roses, I was walking my dog drinking an iced coffee. Would love to see you again.

TALL, DARK AND HANDSOME

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 19, 2016 WHERE: Davie and Thurlow We were at the intersection of Davie and Thurlow outside of Starbucks. You had a red shirt and a skateboard, tall and handsome. I had pink hair in a braid and you asked me for a smoke. Shoulda got your name and number, felt like we vibed. Did we?

LOTUSLAND CANNABIS CLUB

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 6, 2016 WHERE: Victoria Dr. and 33rd Ave. You were the one working that time I went in to purchase some.... You are a very gorgeous female. I like your voice. I was the guy who commented on your playlist. You even told me that you just downloaded it that same day. Anyway maybe one of this day we can have a sesh? Have some drinks or what ever.

KITS BEACH WITH A LITTLE BABY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: AUGUST 16, 2016 WHERE: Kits Beach Grass Area by Pool. You: were wearing a black bikini and had a little baby with you. I sat down on the bench next to you was eating my hot dog. I looked at you but was to chicken to come and talk to you. I wasn't sure if you were single or not. I think you were the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Some creepy guy came next to you and started to stretch I saw the look in your face like you were creeped out. Anyway, I would love to see you again so thought I would give this a chance. I have nothing to do. I hope I see you again, you were really beautiful.

EAST VAN WRECK GODDESS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 18, 2016 WHERE: Wreck

You: black tight shorty shorts, lady man bun: black and gold shroud; gorgeous. Me: interested

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