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NEWS

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s new conceptual design is a sculptural tower clad in a material seldom used on highrises: wood. But is the bold plan enough to galvanize people into funding the project? > BY JANE T SMITH

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For the 20th annual Best of Vancouver issue, we’ve rolled out the people’s choices in 269 categories, as well as a whole lot of irreverent observations by our writers.

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Shannon Cluff has mentored more than 300 yoga instructors since 2006, so we knew who to approach when we wanted some advice. > BY AMANDA SIEBERT

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Together with Granville Island Brewing, the Georgia Straight is honouring its 20th annual Best of Vancouver issue with a special beer. > BY AMANDA SIEBERT

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NEWS

Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron is proposing a wood exterior for its stacked Vancouver Art Gallery design.

VAG makes statement in wood > BY JA NET SM IT H

hat’s the most provocative material you could use for a new architectural landmark in this city of glass and steel? What would make it really stand apart here? In the case of the just-unveiled conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery, it turns out to be traditional warm wood, almost from top to bottom of the sculptural complex that will sit at West Georgia and Cambie streets. The cladding speaks to the history of the city and the site, but also upends the notion that institutions have to be constructed out of hard, shiny metal and glass (not that there’s anything wrong with, say, Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or Randall Stout Architects’ zinc-steel-andglass Art Gallery of Alberta). “We’re in a context with a lot of high-rises, but if you take this building out of its context it’s really big,” says Christine Binswanger, partner in charge of the project for Herzog & de Meuron architects, the Swiss firm the VAG has hired for the job. She’s giving the Straight a sneak preview of the artists’ drawings and architectural model with gallery director Kathleen Bartels at the old VAG site. “So the

wood softens it. It’s unexpected. This kind of institution is not normally out of wood. And it will age in different ways,” she says, adding the team plans to work with B.C.’s leading wood technologists to pick materials and treatments that will work best. Wood is not a novelty for Herzog & de Meuron: it’s built a larch-clad, vaulted artists’ studio in Düsseldorf and a wood-trimmed rehab hospital in Basel. But here, the material will be a direct reference to the history of the new gallery’s site on the former Larwill Park. At the turn of the last century, it was a popular sporting field, surrounded, as Binswanger shows in an archival photograph, by twostorey wood houses. “To a degree, it is a shocking recall of the past,” Binswanger says. Visitors will be able to inspect artist renderings and a 3-D model of the VAG conceptual design in a free exhibit that opens Wednesday (September 30) at the gallery, where they’ll notice a range of other unique elements in the structure. Highly visible because it’s flanked by low buildings like the Queen Elizabeth Theatre complex and Seaforth Armoury, the tower looks like a playful stack of boxes, with some of the bigger ones up higher. Surrounding that tall structure, on the ground level, is a separate, long-and-

low single-storey building that frames the entire site at street level around a courtyard and offers up easily accessible galleries (like the Institute for Asian Art, which the VAG launched in 2014), as well as a café. “It’s got a human scale; it needed to be open and transparent,” comments Bartels. In other nods to its locale, the building plan calls for a 40,000-square-foot, partially covered, open-air courtyard where Vancouverites can escape the rain and catch art installations, performances, and other special events. That area’s sunken garden, featuring shade-loving rainforest trees and plants, offers a bit of greenery through windows in the below-ground parts of the gallery (where the lobby and several exhibition spaces sit). Another key feature of the facility is the ample use of natural light, whether it peeks in through horizontal glass along upper gallery walls, through skylights, or through wood-framed windows that offer well-placed views of the city and mountains. Herzog & de Meuron hopes to make the entire structure environmentally sustainable, to an LEED Gold standard. But the biggest changes for the VAG are practical ones. For a start, there is, at 85,000 square feet of exhibition space, double the room to show

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impact on a piece of land that has for years served mainly as a parking lot. Now the gallery has to raise the bulk of the $350-million price tag, but Bartels says actually having a building design to show will help launch the public campaign. It’s been a long, hard road to this point—one that has included controversy about the facility moving from the old courthouse on Robson Street, a brief plan to place it near the Plaza of Nations waterfront, and dire warnings about the gallery’s ability to raise the needed funds for a new building. In April, the VAG missed a city-imposed deadline to raise $150 million from the federal and provincial governments. That was on top of the $50 million the province has already committed. At a news conference on September 29, the gallery also announced it had raised an additional $23 million from its board of trustees. Yet the VAG has soldiered on with the plans, working with its board, staff, an artists’ committee, and other community members to help develop the conceptual design we see now. If all goes as planned, Bartels says, the schematics and design process would take a bit more than a year, with construction starting as early as late 2017. At the news conference on Tuesday, at least one prominent Vancouver art star, whose work sits in the VAG’s collection, threw his support behind the project: “I think they’ve captured something important about the city, not just about the idea of building a wooden building, but of finding a way to both present art, whether it’s historical or contemporary or modern, in an almost exaltedly precise way,” Jeff Wall said, “dealing with the fact that museums have to be more than just rooms with pictures and sculptures.” Now is the chance to see what others think: Bartels expects 50,000 people to see the free display of the plans at the VAG over the next three months. And that will provide another wave of feedback—not to mention an almost instant reaction to the idea of a striking tower of wood joining our skyline. -

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BLUE DOT ECONOMICS: RETHINKING ECONOMICS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT Learn about how the emerging discipline of ecological economics points toward more equitable and sustainable solutions to both economic and environmental problems. With David Suzuki and Peter Victor. Oct 1, 7-10 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $19.95, info www.voguetheatre.com/ events/blue-dot-economics-rethinkingeconomics-for-a-healthy-environment/.

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FORUMS 2THIS WEEK INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH Anant Bhan discusses the ethics and challenges of international human-subject research. Oct 1, 3:30-5 pm, IRMACS Theatre (Applied Sciences Building, SFU Burnaby, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby). Free, info www.sfu.ca/. SFU PHILOSOPHERS’ CAFÉ: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT POLICY Discuss if there is a war on science in Canada and what the relationship should be between the government and scientists. Oct 1, 7 pm, False Creek Community Centre (1318 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGED WORLD Jennifer Allen Simons discusses responsibility in a rapidly changing world. Oct 1, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ events/889805621088072/. CAN TECH GADGETS MAKE YOU SMARTER? Lively discussion with experts on the evolution and ethics of devices that target our brains to make us smarter and stronger. Oct 1, 7-9 pm, Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir). Free admission, info neuro ethics.med.ubc.ca/cafe-neuroethique/.

SFU PHILOSOPHERS’ CAFÉ: CAPITALISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT Discuss capitalism and the environment. Oct 5, 7 pm, Vancouver Public Library Kitsilano Branch (2425 Macdonald). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/continuingstudies/events/2015/10/capitalism-andthe-environment.html/. LORI SHENHER: THAT LONELY SECTION OF HELL Former police detective Lori Shenher will talk about her personal account of sexism, racism, and mishandling in Vancouver’s missing and murdered women investigation. Oct 5, 7-8:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/. THE RUBICON ELECTION OF 2015 Michael Harris discusses the consequences of the re-election of Stephen Harper. Oct 5, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.face book.com/events/862960537129899/. FEARLESS FLIRTING Learn how to get out of your own way and powerfully go after what you desire. Oct 5, 7:30-9:30 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Tix $20, info www.theartofloving.ca/. JAZZ TALKS WITH NEIL RITCHIE— BENNY GOODMAN/ARTIE SHAW These giants led big bands that featured their brilliant clarinet solos, and were also known for their difficult personalities. Oct 6, 10:30 am– 12:30 pm, West Vancouver Memorial Library (1950 Marine Dr., West Van). Free admission, info www.westvanlibrary.ca/. G-SPOT AND FEMALE EJACULATION Learn how to have a G-spot orgasm and ejaculation by yourself or from your partner using toys and hands. Oct 6, 7 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Tix $20, info www.artofloving.ca/. THE CANADIAN ELECTION AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR This panel will critically examine different aspects of Stephen Harper’s deliberate attempt to mobilize the electorate on the basis of division, conflict, and the politics of fear. Oct 6, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ events/1468392583491362/. DEMOCRACY CAFE: OVERCOMING VOTER APATHY A nonpartisan discussion

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IT’S A MINORITY! WHO GETS TO GOVERN? A panel of Canada’s constitutional experts explores what happens when a minority government is elected. Oct 7, 5:30-7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/dialogue/news-and-events/ archives/2015/who-governs-in-a-minor ity-.html/. PEACETALKS #28 RESPONDING TO DISASTER IN A DIGITAL AGE Christopher Libby, Roxanne Moore, and Chad Pacholik discuss disaster response, management, and preparedness. Oct 7, 6-7:30 pm, The Hive Vancouver (128 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www. peacegeeks.org/content/peacetalks28-responding-disaster-digital-age/. ROADMAP FOR BRINGING PERSONALIZED MEDICINE TO BRITISH COLUMBIA Learn ways to better maintain your health and get your treatments tailored for better efficacy and safety.

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HOW TO HAVE A GREAT ORGASM Women’s guide to self-pleasure includes all the details from the basics of getting started to more advanced tips and techniques. Oct 7, 7 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Tix $25, info www.artofloving.ca/. HISTORY OF THE BARNET VILLAGE Burnaby Village Museum curator Lisa Codd talks about the history of the former Barnett Village. Oct 7, 7-8 pm, Burnaby Public Library McGill Branch (4595 Albert St., Burnaby). Free admission, info www. burnabyvillagemuseum.ca/EN/main/ programs/by-series/public-programs/ burnaby-neighbourhood-history.html/. BEHIND THE SCENES: BECOMING A CHAMPION Panel discussion explores the consequences and rewards of a career in physical excellence. Oct 7, 7-8:30 pm, Richmond Public Library (100–7700 Minoru Gate). Free admission, info www. yourlibrary.ca/events/.

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BENEFITS 2JUST ANNOUNCED SPLASH At the Arts Umbrella’s annual fundraising gala, bid on close to 100 pieces of artwork by local and international artists. Includes cuisine by John Bishop and Culinary Capers. Oct 17, 7 pm, Granville Island. Tix $5,000/3,000/500/300, info www. artsumbrella.com/events/splash-2015/.

2THIS WEEK H’ARTS FOR THE HOMELESS Highlights of the gala fundraiser include live entertainment, music, dance, visual artists, art installations, and food. Proceeds help pay for medical and dental equipment at Lookout Society’s two Surrey health clinics. Oct 1, 5:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tickets $60, info www.lookoutsociety.ca/. PAINTINGS BY NUMBERS Annual fundraising gala at which you can choose a piece of art to take home. Proceeds go to the Federation of Canadian Artists. Oct 2, 6-10 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $800, info www.artists.ca/get_involved/paintings_by_ numbers_2015/. PUMPKINFEST 2015 HARVEST DANCE Harvest-themed family-friendly dance raises money for the West Vancouver Community Centre. Oct 3, 7-11 pm, West Vancouver Community Centre (2121 Marine Dr., West Van). Tix $35/15, info www.westvanpumpkinfest.ca/. CIBC RUN FOR THE CURE Volunteerled charity run raises money for breastcancer research, education, and advocacy. Oct 4, 7:30 am, Concord Pacific Place (88 Pacific). Tix $40/free if over $150 is raised, info www.cibc runforthecure.com/.

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FASHION 2THIS WEEK LUXREDUX: REVAMPED ECOLUXURY BY STEVIE CROWNE Canadian fashion designer Stevie Crowne debuts his latest ecoluxury collection. Oct 1, 7-10 pm, The Closet YVR (360 Carrall). Info www.facebook.com/ events/185800035084585/. WINTERLUXE UPCYCLED CASHMERE WEEKEND POP-UP Shop for toques, comfy blankets, cushions, and scarves made from 100-percent pre-loved cashmere. Oct 2, 5-10 pm, thisopenspace (434 Columbia). Info www.thisopenspace.com/.

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HARVEST HAUS Highlights of the annual harvest celebration include a keg-tapping opening ceremony, Bavarian musical performances, and European food stalls serving pretzels, bratwurst, sauerkraut, meat and cheeses, and schnitzel. Oct 1-3, 9-11, Queen Elizabeth Plaza (W. Georgia and Hamilton). Tix $35/25, info www.harvest haus.com/. VANCITY NITE TOURS GASTOWN PUB CRAWL Sample four free drinks at a pub crawl that takes you through the Blarney Stone, Portside Pub, Alexander Gastown, and M.I.A. Oct 3, 17, 8 pm, Vancity Nite Tours (Gastown). Tix $30, info www.vancitynitetours.com/.

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2JUST ANNOUNCED 11TH ANNUAL TASTE OF YALETOWN Local restaurants showcase their creativity and talent with menus at set price tiers of $25, $35, and $45. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Oct 15-29, various Yaletown restaurants. Info www.yaletowninfo.com/.

GHOSTLY GASTOWN TOURS On this 90-minute walking tour, learn about a town renowned for its Wild West legacy of drinking, gambling, and harsh justice in the form of hangings. Sep 30, 7:30 pm; Oct 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, and 30, 7:30 pm; Oct 31, 7:30 and 9 pm, Gastown. Tix $15, info www.ghostly gastowntours.com/.

LOST SOULS OF GASTOWN AT HALLOWEEN Forbidden Vancouver presents a spooky guided tour of Gastown’s very dark, very real history. Oct 1-31, Gastown. Tix $22/19, info www.forbidden vancouver.ca/home/the-lost-souls-ofgastown/.

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located deep in a thrill-filled Louisiana swamp. Oct 2-31 (closed Oct. 4-8 & 12), Potter’s Farm & Nursery, Inc. (12530 72nd Ave., Surrey). Tix at www.pottershouse ofhorrors.com/.

DOORS OPEN VANCOUVER Enjoy free, behind-the-scenes access to popular City of Vancouver sites as you learn what it takes to run a city while experiencing Vancouver’s architecture, green design, and cultural heritage at this all-ages event. Oct 3, various Vancouver venues. Info www.doorsopenvan.ca/. HALLOWEEN/HORROR POP CULTURE COLLECTIBLES FAIR Event features all kinds of horror movies, toys, masks, comics, and other scary collectibles. Oct 3, 11 am–4 pm, Scottish Cultural Centre (8886 Hudson). Info www.funpromo.ca/. THE HARLEQUIN HYPNOSIS SHOW Night of hypnosis and music by the Harlequin Hypnosis Show and Vancouver band Persons of Interest. Oct 3, 2, 6:30-10 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $29.95, info www.harle quinhypnosisshow.com/. NSFW: HIP HOP MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL.13 Party features performances by Little Miss Risk, Vixen Von Flex, Axis D’Evil, and hosts Villainy Loveless and Just Call Her Heather. Oct 3, 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $14/12, info nsfwvan.tumblr.com/.

KIDS’ STUFF 2JUST ANNOUNCED GHOST TRAIN IN STANLEY PARK The classic night train ride includes a 14-minute experience with lights, sounds, and live performers playing classic horror characters. Oct 9–Nov 1, 5:30-9:30 pm, Stanley Park Miniature Train (Stanley Park). Tix $11/8/6 (plus service charge) at www. ticketleader.ca/, info www.ghosttrain.ca/.

2THIS WEEK ARTISTS FOR KIDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE Event combines celebrations with hands-on art-making activities. Oct 1, 3:30-5:30 pm, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver). Free admission, info www.gor donsmithgallery.ca/. PUMPKINFEST 2015 Family-friendly activities include a pumpkin patch, a farm zone, live entertainment, a home and harvest competition, a family zone, an artisan market, an art show, a scarecrow competition, a scavenger hunt, and pumpkin carving. Oct 4, 10 am–3 pm, West Vancouver Community Centre (2121 Marine Dr., West Van). Free admission, info www.westvanpumpkinfest.ca/.

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SPORTS 2THIS WEEK LIONS VS. ROUGHRIDERS The B.C. Lions take on the Saskatchewan RoughRiders. Oct 3, 4 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $44-129 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. CANUCKS VS. OILERS The Vancouver Canucks take on the Edmonton Oilers. Oct 3, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $41.25-196.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. RAPTORS VS. CLIPPERS The Toronto Raptors take on the L.A. Clippers. Oct 4, 4 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $35-383 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

ATTRACTIONS SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE Highlights include hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, the Centre Stage

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OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK SEAHAWKS VS. LIONS The Seattle Seahawks take on the Detroit Lions. Oct 5, 5:30 pm, CenturyLink Field (formerly Qwest Field, 800 S. Occidental Ave., Seattle, Wash.). Tix US$62-645 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

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best of Vancouver Despite the high cost of housing and the

BY C A ROLY N ALI MA R TIN DU NPH Y A DRIA N MACK MIC HA EL MANN MIRA NDA NE LSON STEVE NEW TO N C A RL ITO PABLO JENNIE RA MSTAD DOUG SAR TI A M A NDA SIE BE R T C HA R LIE SMI TH JA NET S MI TH C R A IG TA KE U CH I MIKE USI NG E R SHAYNE L E TAI N IL LUSTR ATI O N

occasional SkyTrain breakdown, Vancouver remains the envy of the world. This year, our city ranked third in the U.K.–based Economist’s 2015 Global Liveability Ranking, thanks to our outstanding parks, stunning beaches, clean air, nearby skiing and hiking destinations, low crime rate, and lack of racial or religious strife. No other North American city came ahead of us. Another London-based international magazine, Monocle, placed Vancouver seventh on its list of the world’s most livable cities in 2015. Vancouver came first in North America and was one of only two cities on this continent to crack the Top 25. Meanwhile, the consulting company Mercer also named Vancouver the most livable North American city this year. According to Mercer, we ranked fifth in the world behind Vienna, Zurich, Auckland, and Munich. So what if Vienna can claim Sigmund Freud as a favourite son. Our city gave birth to the far more likable Scotty on Star Trek, aka James Doohan. That’s not to mention director, actor, and screenwriter Seth Rogen, who became part of the biggest news story in the world late last year when Sony Pictures refused to

distribute his satirical comedy The Interview. Of course, long-time residents of Vancouver don’t need publications from halfway around the world to shed light on our city’s charms. That’s because for the past 20 years, the Georgia Straight has been doing this through our annual Best of Vancouver issue. It’s the definitive guide to city life, and it offers a wealth of information for newcomers. This year, we’ve taken the public’s pulse in 269 categories, which are reported in 28 Readers’ Choices boxes sprinkled throughout this issue. The results were compiled from hundreds of thousands of responses to individual questions in our online survey. (People were given an incentive to vote with a contest offering a $1,500 gift certificate from Flight Centre.) Among the winners are AnnaLena for Best New Restaurant, Marcus Bowcott’s Trans Am Totem as the best public-art installation over the past 12 months, and Granville Island Brewing’s Lions Winter Ale for Best Locally Brewed Beer. In case you’re wondering, Parallel 49’s Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale came second in this category, followed by Central City’s Red Racer IPA. What sets the Straight’s Best of Vancouver issue apart, however, is our writers’ often irreverent choices, which run from pages 29 to 51. In this section, you’ll find out about the best urban geyser, the best culinary comeback, and the reason why there’s no longer any need to fear outlaw biker gangs.

All of this is not to say that Vancouver lacks problems. Parking is still a rip-off in our town. The future of our coastline is in jeopardy if a pipeline expansion brings hundreds of thousands more barrels of oil to Vancouver for export. The cost of housing is driving far too many talented residents out of Vancouver. And this summer’s drought and forest fires demonstrated that we’re not immune to the effects of climate change. But these concerns, at least over the short term, pale in comparison to those of the Middle East, where people are being murdered en masse for their religious or political beliefs. In Russia, politicians have passed laws to lock up gays and lesbians, and the judiciary sends punk rockers to the slammer. Over in China, freedom of speech ends as soon as you mention one of the three Ts: Tibet, Tiananmen, and Taiwan. Here in Vancouver, on the other hand, we attend film, music, arts, and cultural festivals to learn more about our neighbours. Nobody’s getting killed at VIFF, TaiwanFest, Music Waste, or the Korean Cultural Heritage Festival. It’s a model worth copying. This year, to celebrate our 20th Best of Vancouver issue, we’ve partnered with Granville Island Brewing to create a Georgia Straight Best of Vancouver beer, which is being presented to the winners. The bottle features the Straight’s mascot, Mr. Wuxtry, and will be available in limited quantities in 18 private liquor stores. For more on this, check out photojournalist Amanda Siebert’s article on page 72 or see her video on Straight.com. see page 29

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NEWS & POLITICS MOST MISSPELLED POLITICIAN’S NAME

Christy Clark All of these misspellings of our premier’s name appeared as real readers’ votes in this year’s Best of Vancouver survey: Chirsty Clark, chrisitie clarke, Christ Clark, Christ clarke, Christi clark, Christie Clark, Christy ? {Leader of provincial Liberals}, Christy C, Christy Clar, Christy clarj, Christy Clarke, Christy youknow-who, Christy’s Clarke, cristie clark, Cristy Clark, Crusty Clark, KIRSTY CLARK, Kristay Clark, Kristie Clark, Kristy Clark. SECOND-MOST-MISSPELLED LOCAL POLITICIAN’S NAME

Gregor Robertson Among the ways you can spell the mayor of Vancouver’s name, according to our humble readers: Greg Robertson, greggeor, Greggor Robertson, Gregoire Robertson, Gregor

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Chinese New Year Parade This is a tossup, actually. Vaisakhi, the Punjabi spring harvest festival, brings out hordes of politicians, who eagerly gobble up free food along the parade route. But in our estimation, even more elected officials show up in Chinatown every February for the walk east along Pender Street and back west down Keefer Street. Why is this? Probably because the Chinatown parade route isn’t nearly as long, so it’s not as gruelling. There are also plenty of politicos at the Pride parade, though this year their numbers were down. That’s because the B.C. Liberals and federal Conservatives were disinvited.

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The Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, located a short walk from the top end of the peak’s gondola ride, contains two fat grizzly bears, Grinder and Coola, that have been imprisoned in their (admittedly relatively spacious) confines since 2001. The for-profit mountain outfit probably labels them as “endangered” to deflect concerns about their captivity. But the provincial ministry that gave Grouse permission to display the majestic creatures—and that is under fire from many quarters for refusing to halt its grotesque grizzly-bear trophy hunt in 42 of B.C.’s 56 grizzly “population units”—says that there are so many grizzly bears

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Self-described “recovering cop” Lori Shenher has written a gripping tale about her years investigating the Downtown Eastside’s missing women. In her compelling memoir, That Lonely Section of Hell, Shenher reveals not only how the obvious suspect, Robert William Pickton, remained at large for so many years but also why the VPD focused more attention on home invasions than on catching a serial killer. This is more than a crime story; it’s a lesson in how anyone’s life can be torn asunder by unexpected circumstances—and that, in some instances, there truly is light at the end of a very dark tunnel. BEST REASON TO REVIVE THE VA NC OU V ER -T O - CHIL L I WA CK RAIL SERVICE

Voters in Metro Vancouver have rejected a proposed tax increase to fund a $7.5-billion transportation plan in the region. Politicians have said there is no Plan B. But according to light-rail advocate Malcolm Johnston, there is an alternative. Johnston has suggested the revival of the Vancouver-to-Chilliwack interurban rail service. It would run on the same path as the tracks used by the B.C. Electric Railway when the company operated the light-rail system until the 1950s. see next page

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Go to YouTube and you’ll find a series of videos entitled “Vancouver’s Worst Drivers”. The 45th episode was posted on September 16, chronicling more horrid dashcam images of crappy roadside manoeuvres. This latest video includes atrocious behaviour at intersections after the recent windstorm, with far too many motorists ignoring the fourway stop protocol. It seems there’s no shortage of idiots in our town with driver’s licences. BEST PURPOSING OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE VEHICLE

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A thief burgled the Canna Clinic marijuana dispensary in the 2400 block of East Hastings Street at about 4:30 a.m. on May 30 by ramming a vehicle through the storefront and scooping up armloads of pot before f leeing, scattering bud on the sidewalk and street before making his getaway. (Police arrested a 27-year-old man soon after.) One disbelieving late-night partier stumbling his way home started scooping the green manna into his backpack until detained by responding cops. They soon released him after determining he wasn’t involved in the crime and was probably merely treating his glaucoma. BEST LEGISLATION FOR WORKING DOGS

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The proposed new passenger ferry from downtown Vancouver to Victoria’s Inner Harbour. Oh, please, God. BEST UNFORESEEN RESULT OF THE AUGUST WINDSTORM

People in East Vancouver who were without power for a few days and who stripped store shelves of flashlights, lanterns, and candles and who packed into coffee shops with electricity to recharge smartphones and notepads realized how vulnerable they’d be in the face of a real disaster like the sureto-hit-but-we-just-don’t-know-when

BEST 2 EAST SIDE VINYL REVIVAL First there was Horses Records, the cubby-sized and satisfyingly pretentious boutique vinyl/cassette/book store that appeared at 2447 East Hastings Street last summer as if a conversation between Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell finally manifested itself into three dimensions, 40 years later and 4,000 kilometres away. Next came What’s Up? Hot Dog!, some five doors down on the same block (2481 East Hastings), where gourmet wieners were cooked up to a soundtrack of the Ramones and local diehards the Jolts. But things really started to cohere on this stretch of Hastings Sunrise when Hits and Misses Records (2629 East Hastings Street) appeared midsummer, offering vintage punk singles for shockingly low, low prices. From New York to London and on to Vancouver, punk rock was the mid-’70s answer to dramatic social decline. Hastings Sunrise, on the other hand, is evolving from its working-class roots into the city’s newest refuge for the struggling middle class. You can write your own thesis on the bizarre sociological implications of all that, but know that there’s no better place in Vancouver to find a tatty used copy of Mikhail Bakunin’s God and the State, the Buzzcocks’ “Promises” in its original picture sleeve, or the most authentic cuisine the Bowery ever had to offer.

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1. Zulu Records (tie) 1972 West 4th Avenue 1. HMV (tie) Various locations 2. Red Cat Records 4332 Main Street 3. Neptoon Records 3561 Main Street MUSICAL INSTRUMENT STORE

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1. Dollarama Various locations 2. Dollar Tree Various locations 3. Dollar Giant Various locations

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Not only do those new community shuttle buses have improved floor lighting, overhead handrails, and space-age-looking seats, they also have one of the best things that could have happened to sweaty bus riders in the summer: air conditioning! Some # 99 buses also now have air conditioning. (The trick, however, is to get people to actually heed the signs that instruct them not to open windows unless it’s an emergency.)

Printed on a T-shirt displayed in a shop window in Richmond’s Aberdeen Mall: “CHELOSOPHY: VICTORY OR NOTHING We are looking for the bottom part of the town. We talk to many beggars. Our noses inhale attentively the misery.” BEST REASON THAT WE BEST REASON TO TURN THE SHOWER OFF WHILE YOU’RE LATHERING UP

Metro Vancouver implemented Stage 3 water restrictions this year—which banned lawn-sprinkling, car-washing, and refilling pools and ponds— in response to the drought that hit the North American West Coast hard. Local reservoirs dipped to 50 percent in August. It was a sobering reminder that even though we live in a rain forest, we’re not immune to the unexpected and dramatic climate changes affecting the entire world. However, any water-conservation habits picked up during that dry period are

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BEST 2 NEWS FOR OUR VFX AND ANIMATION INDUSTRY Can you guess which city has the largest VFX and animation hubs in the world? Yep, you’re in it. After Sony Pictures Imageworks (shown above) relocated its headquarters to the newly renovated Nordstrom building in July here in our fair city, Vancouver became the city housing the biggest visual-effects and animation cluster on the planet. Among the other companies in the city are Method Studios, MPC, Animal Logic, and Industrial Light and Magic.

chilling. But if you’re looking for just the ticket. Granted, it’s getting a one all-purpose park that covers bit late in the season for its great everything, Confederation Park in new water park, but the playground (4575 Clancy Loranger Way) across Burnaby (250 Willingdon Avenue) is see page 37 from Queen Elizabeth Park, the geyser operates as an integral part of the LEED-certified building’s internal waterworks. When the centre’s cistern runs low, fresh water is pumped AUTO SERVICE CAR-SHARE SERVICE in, triggering a four- to six-metre (INDEPENDENT) 1. car2go spray. Old Faithful may bogart all 1. Pawlik Automotive 2. Evo Car Share the geyser press with its clockwork 30–966 Southwest Marine Drive 3. Modo timetable, but our Hillcrest spout is 2. Tremblay Motors much more coy, erupting only when SHOPPING MALL 1505 West 3rd Avenue the cistern runs low. Keep your eyes 1. Metropolis at Metrotown 3. Varsity Automotive peeled during dry times. 2. Pacific Centre 2880 Arbutus Street

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The stretch of Yukon Street southeast of its intersection with Broadway. On a sunny day, its half-dozen palm trees outside the block’s businesses are just screaming for the addition of a shoplifting celebrity or two to complete the illusion. BEST LOCAL PARK FOR PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING

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EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE NAMING OF THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN HONOUR OF OUR FOUNDING CHANCELLOR, JAKE KERR AND TO WELCOME OUR NEW CHANCELLOR, GEOFF PLANT.

BUILDING A LEGACY The naming of the faculty honours Jake Kerr’s extraordinary support and leadership and the catalyst role he has played in securing our new campus. The Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies offers world-class interdisciplinary programs in design, visual arts and media, and unique research opportunities, attracting exceptional students from around the world.

TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE On October 1st, 2015, as part of our 90th anniversary celebrations, we mark the occasion with the installation of our second Chancellor, Geoff Plant Q.C. A notable changemaker in the city of Vancouver and province of BC, we welcome Mr. Plant as our newest champion as we prepare to move to our new home.

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They come in all shapes, sizes, and colours, but they have one mission: to give love and comfort to the sick, lonely, and dying. Therapy dogs in Vancouver and across the province visit people in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, seniors’ centres, schools, and hospices. While dining in the dark has enabled diners to experience what it’s like to be blind, a new Kitsilano eatery has First-aid-training provider St. John Ambulance has more than 500 caoffered foodies an opportunity to interact with deaf people. Deafined opened in May at 2340 West 4th Avenue, nines registered in its therapy-dog featuring a Middle Eastern menu (with everything from watermelon and grilled halloumi cheese to crusted program in B.C. Also, members of steelhead trout) and a deaf wait staff. The menu includes instructions on how to order and communicate using the nonprofit Pets and Friends bring sign language. Craig Takeuchi photo. their dogs and other pets to hospitals and care facilities in the Lower out? No, you send the video poster two-day-old tuna sub and you state call with the officer, the offending Mainland and Fraser Valley. the following email: “I am hoping you hang out on Sundays that you tweet got deleted. Bravo, Vancouver BEST WAY TO SPEND TIME you can help me get in touch with are friends and not just twitter fol- Police Department. WITH DOGS AND EARN MONEY your friend…I am assuming from lowers.” The begging-to-be-tossedLangara College offers a program your October 5 2014 Twitter post on-Reddit email was forwarded to BEST ILLEGAL GARBAGE DUMP where he is hit in the face with a the friend, and after a brief phone Illegal dump sites in Vancouver are that takes dog-walking to a professional level. Students get a certificate after completing the dog-walker program. They get to learn about handling techniques, animal legislation and bylaws, and how to run a dog-walking business. Sounds like a fun alternative career, especially for dog lovers.

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If you’re like us, you’ll agree that Fear the Walking Dead has got off to something of a slow start. Instead of featuring flesh-eating zombies and enough gore to make Tom Savini puke, the Walking Dead prequel has played out like a slow-as-frozenmolasses family drama. But at least there’s an upside to things for those of us on the West Coast: Fear the Walking Dead has been partially filmed in Vancouver, which means Lotuslanders get to amuse themselves by spotting local landmarks. The show’s Paul R. Williams High School, for example, is actually the former RCMP E Division Headquarters in Vancouver. Episode 2, “So Close, Yet So Far”, finds the bedroom walls of a teenaged character adorned with a poster for locally spawned power-pop unit Tough Age, while Eveleigh Street behind the Bentall Centre provides the backdrop for a massive confrontation between police and protesters. The Surrey District Education Centre has doubled as the show’s Sisters of Mercy Hospital, while the barbershop riot scenes in the episode titled “The Dog” were filmed in an empty building at 346 Powell Street. If you missed all this, it’s probably because Fear the Walking Dead put you to sleep. BEST WAY TO GET VANCOUVER TO REMEMBER JON BON JOVI EXISTS

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Social movements like Occupy Wall Street point to the perceived widening gap between the wealthy and the less fortunate. SFU economics professor Krishna Pendakur will look at the distribution of wealth in Canada, introduce you to the Canadian 1% and discuss what we can do to reduce inequality. Dr. Pendakur has been appointed to Harvard as the 2016-17 William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair.

BEST 2 WIZARD HANGOUT Got crazy flipper fingers, not to mention a mountain of quarters that have been useless ever since payphones went extinct? There’s no better place to embrace your inner Tommy than the pinball paradise that is the PopUp Vintage Arcade (1146 Union Street). An offshoot of the Landyachtz Longboards store in Strathcona, the temporary space features classic Williams machines (The Addams Family, White Water) as well as newer tables guaranteed to thrill the most old-school of enthusiasts. (Don’t miss The Wizard of Oz by upstart Jersey Jack Pinball.) For those who remember when you had to go to Circuit Circus to play video games, there are also vintage Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Galaga machines. The best thing about the Pop-Up Vintage Arcade is, of course, that you’ve finally got an excuse to shut down the PlayStation, put away the Doritos, and leave the house, something that you probably haven’t done since discovering Grand Theft Auto V in the $9.99 discount basket at Shoppers Drug Mart. Although it was originally scheduled to close in October, the shop says it will now “stick around for a while. It’s proved popular.” Mike Usinger photo.

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more of about a dozen flavoured salts. Its name? The Potato Tornado.

This year, Vancouver City Hall f lew the trans pride (which features baby blue, pink, and white stripes) for the first time on a ceremonial pole during Pride Week. The rainbow f lag (as a symbol of the LGBT communities) was f lown on an even more prominent pole alongside the B.C. f lag. Both were raised on July 27. Not only did they add a splash of colour to Vancouver skies, they sent a message to all citizens about inclusivity for all sexual orientations and gender identities.

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Poncho’s Mexican Restaurant 827 Denman Street One of the veterans, Andale’s Mexican Restaurant, long ago disappeared from West Broadway, but Poncho’s carries on 27 years after it was founded by Kaeta Vazquez. She and her staff continue to serve their famously flaming Mexican coffees after almost three decades in business. Honourable mention in this category goes to Las Margaritas on West 4th Avenue. Dan Rodriguez has owned this Kitsilano landmark for 21 years after buying it from the Salazar family in 1994.

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With increasing demand for hops from local craft brewers and more hopheads taking up home brewing themselves, why not grow your own? Potted hop plants were spotted for sale this summer at the Burnaby City Hall farmers market; even if you don’t plan to harvest them, the climbing vines add a nice thematic backdrop to a patio trellis as you sip your IPA. BEST RISKY PLACE FOR CHEAP EATS

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We love everything about North Vancouver artist Marcus Bowcott’s subversive public artwork titled Trans Am Totem: five crushed cars on top of an old-growth red-cedar stump installed near the Georgia Viaduct (at Quebec Street and Milross Avenue) as part of the Vancouver Biennale. We love the way it comments on how Vancouver’s environmental piety clashes with its crass consumer culture. We love the way it parodies the fast cars racing by below and above it. We love the way it funks up the staid architecture of the glass apartment towers around it. We love the way it harks back to the forests and then the sawmills that once sat by False Creek. And most of all, we love the retro junkyard cars—from the macho white 1981 Trans Am down to the little pink VW Rabbit.

Bon’s Off Broadway 2451 Nanaimo Street Look up greasy spoon in the dictionary and you’ll probably find an entry for Bon’s. Known for its $2.95 all-day breakfasts, the place is festooned with the kind of grimy charm that will have you scrambling to remember if your shots are up-to-date. That being said, if loving cheap eats at a place that’s covered in graffiti is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

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Within four blocks of the Georgia Straight, there are five, count ’em, five Indian restaurants slugging it out for the stomachs of West Side diners. Next door is the elegant Maurya Indian Cuisine, which lures customers with a 10-percent discount for making reservations five hours in advance. Two blocks west, Atithi Indian Cuisine is offering $9 entrées with online takeout orders. A short distance to the west, Akbar’s Own serves tasty Mogul food. Then, of course, there’s the legendary Vij’s and Vij’s Rangoli in the South Granville area. Recently, the Vij’s Railway Express food truck was spotted

Hats Off Day, Burnaby Heights On the first Saturday in June, pedestrians f lood Hastings Street in Burnaby for Hats Off Day, a customer-appreciation festival in which merchants “take their hats off ” to the Burnaby Heights community. Amid a 10-block parade, fun run, and street festival, local restaurants offer some fantastic food at sidewalk stalls. This year, choices included charcoal-grilled sardines from Fortuna Bakery, arancini from Cioffi’s Meat Market & Deli, and f laky croissants from Chez Christophe Chocolaterie Patisserie. Prices really showed customer appreciation; for example,

the elegant Pear Tree Restaurant served a beautiful halibut and orzo salad with pickled spring vegetables for just $5, dished up by Bocuse d’Or competitor chef Scott Jaeger himself. Hats off, indeed! BEST CULINARY COMEBACK

Vancouver’s relentless condo sprawl can’t stop Umberto Menghi. In 2013, after 37 years of operation, Il Giardino closed when a real-estate developer purchased the land at 1382 Hornby Street. But last June, Menghi opened the brandnew Giardino Restaurant just steps away, at 1328 Hornby. The Italian chef hired back many of his original staff members, and diners can now enjoy his Tuscan cuisine— including the signature 38-ounce Porterhouse Fiorentina for two people—on an 80-seat enclosed patio at the back of the expansive restaurant. After all, it wouldn’t be Giardino without a garden.

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Planned as a tongue-in-cheek response to the exclusive Dîner en Blanc, for which attendees dress all in white, Ce Soir Noir’s open invite and public location made for a picturesque family-friendly picnic. Bubble artists entertained children while adults snuck wine and watched the sun set at CRAB Park—and all participants were encouraged to dress in black. Even Green Party candidate Pete Fry took part in the event, calling it a “great grassroots way of bringing the community together”. BEST LOCAL CRAFT BEER FOR NO-FUN CITY

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This year, the annual Davie Street Party during Pride Week removed all fences and allowed people to roam about freely without having to buy passes. Instead of making attendees feel like caged animals being watched by onlookers (see the item on Davie Village’s wildlife), the event saw a huge surge in attendance and turned into a true street party attended by LGBT people and allies. As a sign of its widespread appeal, numerous boyfriends were seen white-knuckling their girlfriends’ hands as they made their way through dancing crowds and food-stall lineups, full of people who were happy and gay. BEST COMEBACK OF A QUEER NIGHTLIFE INSTITUTION

The Odyssey Ever since the Odyssey closed its West End location in 2010, it has been on an odyssey to find new premises. That quest was finally completed when it reopened in late July of this year at 686 West Hastings. The new incarnation preserves beloved elements of the old version, once a cornerstone of the West End nightlife scene, including a Shower Power stall and a sense of intimacy. The new location outside the traditional gaybourhood reflects how times have changed and how greater acceptance of LGBT people means more geographic diversity among queer communities. BEST LEGGY NEW FUNDRAISER FOR LGBT REFUGEES

Strut Both gals and guys got into heels to strut their stuff on the seawall to raise funds for LGBT refugees on June 6. A vibrant new event, Strut, helped to raise awareness, and $43,300, for the Foundation of Hope, which assists charities that support queer refugees. As their slogan stated: “A mile in heels is easier than a lifetime in the closet.” see next page

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Davie Village Why? With all the nightlife turning into wildlife—including bears, pandas, otters, cougars, chicken hawks, and unicorns—it’s a jungle out there. BEST LGBT FLAG-FLAPPING ON THE NORTH SHORE

North Van City Hall and the North Van school district flew rainbow flags for Pride Week. Which prompts the question: when are you going to join the party, Richmond and Surrey? ACTIVITIES & EVENTS BEST WAR PARTY

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drove anything home—besides the fact that soap can be a scarily effective weapon—it’s that war is hell. The best compliment one can pay Richmond Indoor Paintball, then, is that its battle area is hellishly realistic. Billing itself as the best thing this side of Call of Duty, the indoor paintball field comes complete with derelict cars, stacks of oil drums and tires for cover, and a half-dozen abandoned-looking buildings with multiple entrances, staircases, and American Sniper– friendly windows. Think burned-out Baghdad during the George W. Bush years and you start to get the idea. Warriors range from newbies renting gear on their first tour of duty to returning veterans packing top-ofthe-line Planet Eclipse Geo CS1 paintball guns. Duck and cover—

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and remember that they aren’t welts, they’re battle scars that even Full Metal BEST LIVE SHOW WITH A VIEW Jacket’s Pte. J. T. “Joker” Davis would Kitsilano Showboat celebrated its 80th anniversary this summer, and there’s appreciate. still no better place to watch the sun BEST PLACE TO EXERCISE NAKED go down over the ocean while enjoyThe Wreck Beach Preservation Soci- ing free live entertainment. There’s ety gives Vancouverites a chance to let community spirit both on the Missisit all hang out once a year during the sippi riverboat–style stage overlooking Bare Buns Run, a five-kilometre jog Kitsilano Pool—where acts range along the beach. (There’s even an area from grade-school tap dancers to big dedicated to “slowpokes”.) Of course, if bands—and in the stands, where onyou don’t want to wait for the annual lookers wander over from Kits Beach fundraiser, you can enjoy a walk along and kids dance out their energy. “Capthe beach or a solo yoga sesh year- tain Bea” Leinbach had been a fixture round at the popular clothing-optional at performances since 1948, when she spot near UBC. took over Showboat’s management; she passed away last October at the BEST IMPRESARIO OF age of 93, but dedicated volunteers, inCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT cluding her son, Barry Leinbach, have Am Johal made sure that the show goes on. Through SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Am Johal and his BEST AQUATIC TOUR team book 100 events a year, attracting OF THE SUBURBS more than 8,000 people to public talks, Paddlewheeler Riverboat Tours screenings, and discussions. Johal has 788 Quayside Drive, New Westminster a knack for inviting speakers who fit in 604-525-4465 with the spirit of the Downtown East- Vancouverites often shudder at the side, whether it’s brazenly imaginative thought of living in the suburbs, community activists or daringly pro- envisioning only highways and gressive thinkers on a wide range of strip malls. We forget, however, that issues. SFU likes to brand itself as the see next page

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the city gets it right, civic o0.fficials have thought better of an electric tram around the seawall, a tunnel through Siwash Rock, and a half-acre, $600,000 artificial island in the middle of Lost Lagoon to house Theatre Under the Stars. One idea that did get the green light was the Stanley Park Miniature Train, which first landed on the drawing board after 1962’s Typhoon Freda ripped through the city’s biggest urban forest. Looking at a clearing of Mother Nature’s making, park deputy supervisor Bill Livingstone suggested the construction of a two-kilometre train track. Today, 200,000 park visitors ride the miniature rails each year, in cars attached to a replica of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Engine #374. Savvy trainspotters know that Engine #374 pulled Canada’s first transcontinental passenger train in the late 1880s. And devoted mini-railway riders know that the most magical times to board are Halloween and Christmas, when one of the park’s best attractions comes alive with elaborate displays. This year’s Halloween theme is horror-film classics, which sounds 100 percent less horrible than when the city decided to import a dozen non-native grey squirrels from Pennsylvania in 1910 and forgot to purchase squirrel condoms. BEST WALK FOR HARD-CORE DEAD-HEADS

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There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “Every day above ground is a good day.” What better way to appreciate this than attending All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery, now in its 11th year. The event is billed as “A Night for Honouring the Dead”, which should be your tipoff that no one will be re-creating the best parts of The Return of the Living Dead, Creepshow, or Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. Instead, All Souls—headed by Public Dreams alumna Paula Jardine and visual and celebration artist Marina Szijarto—gives Vancouverites the opportunity to reflect on the past. A non-denominational sacred event, the night promises people “an opportunity

to remember their dead, whether interred at Mountain View Cemetery or not, in a gentle atmosphere of contemplative beauty”, complete with music, art, and memorial making. As the great poet and prophet Nick Cave once observed, “Sooner or later, we all gotta die.” You can take baby steps towards appreciating that by heading to All Souls at Mountain View Cemetery from 6 to 10 p.m. on October 24. And please, leave the Walking Dead hoodie, baseball cap, and backpack at home. BEST BOARDWALK

It’s a toss-up between the Olympic Village and New West’s downtown waterfront. Vancouverites will say nothing can match the view of downtown from behind Creekside Community Centre or Myfanwy MacLeod’s five-metretall sculptures of sparrows in the village. Fans of the New West waterfront will counter that no dining options in the Olympic Village can compare to Wild Rice Market Bistro. Why not visit both and come to your own conclusions? BEST USE OF SOCCER AS A FORCE OF NICENESS

The Harry Manson Legacy soccer tournament, on October 17, takes place at the John Braithwaite Recreation Centre in North Vancouver. The inaugural five-a-side, coed, one-day tournament is intended to “bring First Nation and non-First Nation communities together through soccer”, according to founder Robert Janning. Harry Manson was an aboriginal soccer player on Vancouver Island near the turn of the past century, and one team entered has members from the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam First Nations. Two other teams have competed in the Vancouver Street Soccer League and the Homeless World Cup. BEST THRIFTING AREA

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or the past 16 years, Jennifer MacKay has been outfitting Vancouver’s style-savvy residents in the finest threads she can get her hands on. The Block, her boutique located in Gastown at the corner of Cordova and Homer, is packed with everything a fashion aficionado might need to create that perfect outfit for everything from a day at the office to a night on the town. “We’re at the point where we pretty much carry everything except underwear,” says MacKay, who wears many hats as the store’s owner and director. MacKay and her staff work to put together a carefully curated collection of wearable and affordable pieces that includes everything from basics and essentials to unique, hardto-find designer selections. The shop itself is open and inviting, complete with a stunning custom-built curved wall of shoes that a friend of MacKay designed especially for the store. “I’d wear every pair of shoes we have here,” she says of the assortment of everything from Loeffler Randall heels—like the sleek pair MacKay is rocking—to a rare pair of rubber Converse high-tops. MacKay’s style sense has been an integral part of running a successful business—which is precisely why we were curious to find out where she goes to keep her closet stocked with the latest and greatest items. Here are MacKay’s picks for Vancouver’s style bests.

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Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street “The Vancouver Art Gallery, or smaller art openings in the city. It’s a great place to see many different types of people, and you get a lot of tourists at galleries as well, so you’re seeing styles from everywhere.” BEST PLACE FOR UNIQUE ACCESSORIES

Over the 16 years of operating her boutique, the Block, Jennifer MacKay has learned the best places to style-watch, thrift shop, and splurge. Amanda Siebert photo.

I always go there first when I need Room at the Bay, and they definitely Eugene Choo a unique gift but have no idea what push the envelope. I’ve been surprised 3697 Main Street to get. They always set me straight.” by them, because in the past they’ve had some really nonconservative pieces.” Hudson’s Bay Company BEST PLACE FOR 674 Granville Street FORMAL WEAR BEST PLACE “The Block, Violet, and Eugene Choo TO FIND A WINTER COAT BEST LOCAL DESIGNER The Room at the Bay are all great options…but if those “Sunja Link. She creates modern 674 Granville Street Violet Boutique don’t work, just buy a classic Hudwearable pieces, which are designed “There’s some really great stuff at the 1563 West 6th Avenue son’s Bay coat.” and made in Vancouver. With that considered, it’s priced quite reasonably. What I’ve found is that her stuff really appeals to a lot of our customers, and it sits really well SPA (CHAIN) PLACE FOR A BEACHBARBERSHOP with a lot of items and lines that are 1. Spa Utopia 1. Barber & Co. READY TAN much more expensive.” 1. SunScape Tanning Studios Various locations Various locations vintage. The Main Exchange just opened, and a lot of people that I know really like it too. I love Erin Templeton, where you can also check out her leather-bag collection.”

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Grimson & Sons 470 Granville Street “A custom ring made by David at Grimson & Sons. David is a jeweller and he just makes these wonderful rings. He made this lion ring for me using a vintage mold, so they have this vintage feel to them, but they’re all new and custom-made.”

Eugene Choo 3697 Main Street “Eugene Choo for watches, blankets, vintage scarves, and hats—it’s BEST NEIGHBOURHOOD my husband’s store. Sometimes he’s FOR SHOPPING got some really interesting vintage “Definitely Gastown or Main Street.” pieces and one-offs, even though BEST SHOE STORE the store sells new items.” The Block BEST VINTAGE SHOPPING 350 West Cordova Street Duchesse Vintage “Sorry, I’m a bit biased, but there is 430 Columbia Street not a shoe in my store I would not wear. Some shoe stores have too Community Thrift & Vintage much stuff, but I think we have a 41 West Cordova Street well-edited selection of styles. The guys who work here help me pick The Main Exchange out the best men’s styles, too.” 185 East 16th Avenue Erin Templeton 511 Carrall Street “Duchesse, Community Thrift, and the Main Exchange are all great for

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Joue Design’s Dana Mooney pillows At Mint Interiors (1880 Fir Street, 604-568-0422) and the Living Lab (1121 West 15th Street, North Vancouver, 604-973-0263) www.jouedesign.com/ It’s all about the art in Joue Design’s collaboration with Vancouver abstract artist Dana Mooney. The new collection, named Lumenance (in eggplant) and Smokeshow (in navy), comes in two sizes: 12 by 18 inches ($120) and 22 by 22 inches ($210). Mooney’s artwork is printed see next page

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Bauhaus Restaurant 1 West Cordova Street 604-974-1147 If you’re going to name your restaurant after a highly influential and almost mythical art school, you’d best come correct. Natalie Boll and the team at Bauhaus have done an admirable job visually linking the restaurant to its inspiration city, Berlin, and its home in Vancouver. Renovations for the 100-year-old heritage building were overseen by designer Andrea Greenway, and the room features dining chairs inspired by Bauhaus teacher Marcel Breuer and bar chairs modelled on the iconic 1952 T-Chair by Katavolos, Littell, and Kelly. Pride of place goes to the graffiti-inspired This Is Not Art canvas by First Nations artist Corey Bulpitt. The street-art

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Jude light-bulb sock At Renew Gallery (5 East 5th Avenue) 604-872-3131 While restoring an original fixture, Renew Gallery’s Judith Cohen developed the reproduction Jude cutcrystal beaded light-bulb “sock” ($195). An elegant response to the naked-industrial-light-bulb trend, it’s handmade in Vancouver using antique olive-bronze hardware suspended on a knotted, woven cord. The socket can be fitted with an Edison-style or clear bulb for a refracted, glittery effect. BEST PLACE TO FIND DESIGN IDEAS

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ocking a tank that reads “Life is rad,” Shannon Cluff makes it instantly apparent that she isn’t your average yoga instructor. She’s mentored more than 300 yoga teachers since 2006, and her passion extends beyond leading classes and into the art of educating future instructors. Rad, indeed. Prior to becoming part of Karma Teachers’ teacher-training faculty, Cluff was the owner and director of Kitsilano’s Sanga Yoga Studio— a quaint, warm studio with a real community vibe—for eight years. While attending one of her classes back in 2012, I was amazed by Cluff ’s ability to instantly diagnose stiff joints or tired limbs and offer healing through appropriate postures. Talk about a yogi’s intuition.

Now that she’s sold her studio, she runs Lead With Love, a group mentorship program for students pursuing their 200-hour teachertraining certification. Cluff ’s favourite style of yoga to practise and teach is Vinyasa Flow, but she has taught everything from Ashtanga to Yin, as well as a few varieties of meditation. When your job is helping people put their minds and bodies at ease, it’s important to be in the know about the city’s best options for mats, clothing, locations, post-yoga snacks, and more. With that, here are Cluff ’s Vancouver yoga bests.

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orth Shore Rescue has been of the team, so it was just a way of a part of Mike Danks’s life,” Danks says in an interview at life for as long as he can a North Vancouver coffee shop. “I rememused to go to trainber. The Lynn ing with him and Valley resident’s knew right away dad introduced that as soon as I Gail Johnson him to the organcould, I would join ization when he himself was a volun- the team. So at 19 I did. teer. As one of several members who “It consumes an incredible amount donate their time as rescuers, Danks of time, but it’s a passion for me,” says loves it just as much now as he did the North Vancouver native. “I know when he started 20 years ago. for myself, working on a rescue is calm“My dad was a long-time member ing for me. It’s actually therapeutic.

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You know when you’re out on these calls that you’re going to make a positive difference for somebody, for a member of your community, and that’s true even for the very unfortunate calls where someone has not made it. You’re there for their family and you’re going to bring them back.” Danks is now the group’s team leader, having stepped into the shoes of the late and legendary Tim Jones. A firefighter with the City of North Vancouver, Danks is also a married father of three young children. During his rare downtime, he enjoys mountain biking with his family and hanging out at Lynn Valley Village. Humbly, he says it’s impossible for anyone to fill Jones’s shoes: Jones died suddenly last January and often put in more than 40 hours a week on top of his job as a paramedic. “I get a lot of support from fellow team members,” he says. “Collectively, everybody has stepped up…and we’re continuing Tim’s legacy.” Jones also advocated for public funding for search and rescue in general in B.C. He had launched a campaign to help North Shore Rescue (NSR) with its operating costs, which continues in his name with the Tim Jones Legacy Fund. Although the organization receives some government funds, consistent financial backing is lacking, making it an ongoing challenge to manage hefty expenses for things like gear, personal protective equipment, uniforms, and other supplies that, combined, cost tens of thousands of dollars. NSR continues to pursue Jones’s push for funding, though Danks admits it’s a mighty task for a group made up entirely of volunteers. “It’s an ongoing battle that we don’t have time to fight,” he says. “We’re about doing the rescues, so, unfortunately, it ends up on the back burner. see next page

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“For every rescue, there are probably 12 hours of work that goes into it behind the scenes,” he adds. The organization also has seven SAR stations and 10 emergency-supply caches throughout the North Shore, all of which have to be regularly checked, maintained, and replenished. Volunteers like Danks are required to train rigorously on a regular basis: every Tuesday night, plus one weekend out of every four. They’re expected to take special courses, too, such as wilderness first aid, in addition to the “callouts”, which often happen at night and in terrible weather. The group averages 80 to 90 calls a year, which works out to about two a week all year. In the summer, they’re looking mostly for missing or injured hikers; during the winter, it’s often lost or hurt skiers and snowboarders. Rescues can last several hours or even days—the Theta Lake rescue in 2007, for instance, went on for three days. Ideal candidates are extremely fit (for instance, they can do the Grouse Grind in less than an hour and can carry a backpack weighing up to 50 pounds over uneven terrain for long distances) and have experience hiking, climbing, mountaineering, and camping, among other criteria. In addition to conducting rescues in

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rent Seal was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, but that hasn’t stopped the local resident from pursuing his dreams. Five years ago, Seal graduated with a degree in business from SFU and was valedictorian. Now he’s getting ready to take on a multiyear adventure called MINDvsMOUNTAIN. He will climb Aconcagua (this winter), Denali (until recently known as Mount McKinley, next spring), and Everest (in the spring of 2017). To his knowledge, he says, he will be the first person in history living with schizophrenia to accomplish these mountain climbs. “I’m doing this to show people that mental illness is no longer a life sentence,” Seal tells the Straight. “With advancements in medication and treatment, and society’s openness to mental health, those of us who have With MINDvsMOUNTAIN, Brent Seal hopes to show that people who struggle with mental health can pursue their dreams. struggled with our mental health are more able to pursue our dreams to- reduce the stigma that accompanies explore subjects such as depression, Bozi’s family participated in the day than ever before. mental illness and raise money for addiction, and suicide. Maté and 1956 Hungarian Revolution. “As a result of the historical “I hope this project serves to high- the FamilySmart Network of the In- Bozi, coartistic director of Produclight that, mental illness or not, our stitute of Families for Child & Youth t ive Obsession, draw on traumatic trauma, there was family trauma,” dreams matter and Mental Health. The experiences from their own child- Maté explains. “When Rita wrote this we need to make network is an in- hoods to look at how healing came production, she found herself talkthem our top dependent non- about: Maté was an infant living in ing to me in her mind, so she thought priorities,” says profit organization Budapest when the Nazis invaded; why not just talk to me in the play Gail Johnson Seal, who founded that works to imMavrixx, a social enterprise that helps prove child and youth mental health in students, entrepreneurs, and young Canada by involving families in conprofessionals overcome challenges sultation, education, and partnerships. and live great lives. “People who have struggled with their mental health MATÉ GETS THEATRICAL Local need to be seen as contributors and doctor Gabor Maté is used to public PHARMACY & NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE speaking; he’s given hundreds of talks influencers, not problems.” In 2008, while at SFU, Seal found- around the globe on addiction, stress, would like to say ed Students for Mental Wellness. Just and childhood development, among a year earlier, he had attempted sui- other topics. He’s not one to get nervcide and been diagnosed with schizo- ous before an appearance, but his latest phrenia. Following a strong recovery gig is something altogether different. to the readers and his graduation, he’s completed Maté is playing himself in a new multiseveral ultramarathons and cohost- disciplinary production by writer, acfor voting us BEST — AGAIN! ed the Balancing Our Minds Youth tor, director, and therapist Rita Bozi. The Damage Is Done: A True Story Summit at Rogers Arena. His triple-peak project, which Seal combines theatre, dialogue, essay, launched on September 25, aims to video, music, and modern dance to

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EO: Bomber Brewing on Adanac. work together for a solution. It’s Have I been there? Yes. true that sidewalk riding is prohibited, but there also isn’t a safeGS: Where’s the best place to stop for feeling place for people on bicycles a beer along a cycling route on the on the street. They can email West Side? mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca to support protected bike lanes on EO: The Local [Public Eatery] in Denman and they can join HUB Kits. It has bike parking surround- Cycling, both of which would help ing the patio. free up space for pedestrians to have their own sidewalk. It’s kind GS: What’s the best coffee shop along of a narrow street and sidewalk the Hornby cycling route? for…the large amount of traffic of all types, foot and bike and cars. EO: Caffè Artigiano. It’s quite a squished space. GS: What’s your best response to ped- GS: Where’s the best place to get estrians who complain about cyclists your bike tuned up? riding on Denman Street sidewalks? EO: If you want to learn how to do EO: My response would be let’s some of the bike maintenance and

tuning yourself, Our Community secure to lock to. My particular pet Bikes is a great grassroots organiza- peeve is Carrall Street as it enters tion. Or any of the shops on HUB’s Gastown. It’s really brutal. member-benefit list at bikehub.ca/. GS: What’s the best lock to use to GS: What’s the best way for cyclists prevent bike theft? to avoid getting doored while riding around town? EO: The Abus Bordo folding lock is my favourite. We also say to listen to EO: Always ride a metre away from the tips in HUB’s bike-theft prevention parked cars to avoid the door zone. video about when, where, and how to Also, pay attention to movement use that lock to lock your bike properly. and lights in vehicles and ring your bell before you’re passing those ve- GS: What’s the best way to teach kids hicles and take extra care. We also to ride safely? say to take a HUB ride-the-road course to get more comfortable EO: Teach them the rules of the with city cycling to understand road and take them out on rides to how you can ride safely. And you reinforce what they’ve learned. And can tell your MLA that you want take a HUB cycling course as a parincreased penalties for people ent and/or get one into your child’s that open their door into mov- school. ing traffic, just like Ontario did this month. GS: What’s the best way to lobby politicians to promote better poliGS: Where’s the best bike parking in cies for cyclists? Vancouver? EO: Joining HUB Cycling as well as EO: This one is new so it’s not heavily sending emails and letters directly used yet, but it’s very high-quality. to elected officials at the municipal, It’s the Main Street SkyTrain secure provincial, and federal levels. You bike-parking area. can participate in monthly volunteer HUB committee meetings in your GS: What’s the worst location in the local area as well. city to park your bike? GS: Are there any questions that EO: I’d say Gastown because it I neglected to ask? does not have enough bike-parking racks. So bikes are getting taken EO: The best bike-friendly hotel. off of poles, and trees are getting We would say Accent Inns has done cut down. There are so many great a great job. They’re not in the City destinations that are very bike- of Vancouver proper, but they’re in able in Gastown but very few spots Burnaby. They have free bike rentto safely park. Signposts can be als, and you can bring your bike unscrewed from the ground, and right into the room. There’s a bicycle thieves will dismantle the sign wash and tuning station, a tool kit, to take your bike. It’s very tricky rags, a stand, and a laundry room. to find something that’s actually It’s really quite impressive. -

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ne of the first lessons a marijuana enthusiast learns is to purge a grow operation of males. Only the females of the cannabis plant—identifiable by pistillate flowers, in contrast to a male’s staminate flowers—produce the cannabinoid chemicals sought for their psychoactive effects. So gardeners pull the male plants out by their roots and discard them as useless. On the human side, nobody is actively purging Vancouver’s burgeoning marijuana industry of men, but many facets of the business are similarly dominated by women. “Here in Vancouver, women have been at the forefront of this industry from the very beginning,” said Jamie Shaw, president of the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (CAMCD). She recalled that one of North America’s first marijuana storefronts, the nonprofit B.C. Compassion Club Society, was founded in 1997 with feminist ideals at its core. “In our early days, 70 percent of the Canadian workforce was male, so we made it policy that 70 percent of our staff had to be female,” Shaw told the Georgia Straight. “And we still have that policy.” Hilary Black, who cofounded the Compassion Club alongside Shaw, recalls that things happened a little more organically. “I was 20 years old,” Black recounted. “We were all in our mid- to young 20s. It was just a group of women who were willing to engage in civil disobedience and provide services for marginalized and chronically ill people.” Regardless of how conscious the group was of its feminist bent back then, Black said the tradition is something worth keeping alive today.

Village Dispensary owner Andrea Dobbs is part of a wave of women at the forefront of Vancouver-based cannabis businesses. Travis Lupick photo.

“Women were the roots and the pioneers of medical cannabis in this country,” she emphasized. “And I think it is really important that we continue to see them having a leading voice and influence as the movement moves into an industry.” Almost 20 years after the Compassion Club opened its doors on Commercial Drive, there are plenty of Vancouver women following in its footsteps. Shaw pointed to Dori Dempster of the Medical Cannabis Dispensary, the Village Dispensary’s Andrea Dobbs, and Jessika Villano of Buddha Barn Medicinal Cannabis. Women are also behind some of the city’s most popular oils and edibles, Shaw continued—Brina Levitt of Green Penguin Delights, for example, and Apothecary Labs’ Gabriele Jerousek. Another is

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published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review on September 14. Bucking the academic trend of papers often being dominated by men’s names at the top, that study was coauthored by eight B.C. researchers, including Capler, plus Kim Crosby, Lynne Belle-Isle, and Susan Holtzman. “To do the dispensaries, that was civil disobedience,” she said. “And research was an area that needed pioneering as well because it is still a taboo topic.” Of course, the Canadian cannabis movement’s most visible face is also a woman’s. Jodie Emery has carried the crown since her husband, Marc, began a five-year prison sentence in 2010. He was released in August 2014 but has appeared content to see Jodie remain the lead spokesperson for the push to reform marijuana laws. In a telephone interview, Jodie Emery speculated that one of the reasons women have risen to the top of marijuana reform is that pot—or at least its more legitimate areas—is a relatively new industry that’s going mainstream after efforts began to force old-boys’ networks and institutional sexism out of the workplace. “Because the legal or semilegal marijuana industry is new, there are positions available for women that men may have otherwise filled before,” she said. “Women have had an equal opportunity to be involved.” That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement, she added. For example, Emery agreed that her husband’s name often still comes first in media reports on the reform movement, despite Marc taking a back seat for some time. “Something that women have always dealt with is being somebody based on their husband being somebody,” she said. “I struggle with it.…

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to make a connection with another former student, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Griffin gave District 9 credit for launching Vancouver’s thriving visual-effects industry. Now the soft-spoken Griffin has an even grander ambition: helping kickstart the film industry in Shanghai. Last year, the VFS, the University of Shanghai, and the Shanghai municipal government joined forces to try to replicate Griffin’s success in teaching local film students. “One of the things that impressed them was the impact that we had on our local industry,” he said. One of the school’s strengths is its production capabilities. There are 10 studios and plenty of equipment that’s available for no charge beyond what’s paid in tuition. One of the largest sets

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He added that a turnaround this quick couldn’t happen in a public university. At the same time, Griffin expressed admiration for public postsecondary institutions for their many strengths. And he’s especially pleased about the recent agreement with BCIT, which will enable anyone who’s graduated from the VFS over the past five years to receive a BCIT diploma in business management in one year or a BCIT bachelor of business administration degree in two years. Griffin said that the goal is to develop business-competent, entrepreneurially minded students with expertise in the entertainment industry. “It’s an extremely huge step for a large public institution to partner with us,” the VFS president said. “Ten years ago, this thing with

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s there any better way to mark an occasion than with beer? In celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Georgia Straight’s annual Best of Vancouver issue, we’ve collaborated with Granville Island Brewing to bring the city we love an exciting—not to mention delicious—way to join the festivities. Some partnerships occur out of necessity, while others come together naturally. It’s not difficult to draw parallels between Canada’s first microbrewery and its largest urban weekly newspaper. While their pioneering may have been separated by 17 years, Straight cofounder (and current editor and publisher) Dan McLeod and Granville Island Brewing founder Mitch Taylor both had visions of bringing Vancouverites something they’d never had access to before. For McLeod, it was an antiestablishment publication that would go on to break the barriers of censorship—and later hold the title of most prosecuted newspaper in Canadian history—while Taylor’s idea was a little more palatable for the general public: provide locals who were sick of drinking big-name brews with premium, natural, unpasteurized beer, brewed in the heart of Granville Island. The brewery seemed like a great fit to produce the Straight’s special-edition beer, based on its popularity among Vancouver’s beer drinkers. Granville Island Brewing is also a long-time Best of Vancouver winner. Navdeep Chhina, the Straight’s brand manager, said the special-edition beer will serve as a unique commemorative gift for this year’s Best of Vancouver winners, chosen by our readers. The Straight’s general manager, Matt McLeod, came up with the idea. “There are so many microbreweries in Vancouver, but we wanted something that reflected the legacy of the paper,” Chhina said.

“Just like we’ve been around for a long time, so has Granville Island Brewing.” No one could have guessed in the ’60s that a commemorative Georgia Straight beer would exist 40-odd years down the line, but since then, the publication has evolved into much more than a newspaper. “We are always looking for different ideas, and we don’t think of ourselves as just a newspaper—we see ourselves as part of the arts community and the local food industry, so this is just another step in that direction,” Chhina said. The process began in January. After meeting with Granville Island brewmaster Kevin Emms on multiple occasions to decide what the beer would taste like, Chhina and team decided on a Kölsch-style golden ale. “It made sense to make a gold-coloured beer because it seemed to match the occasion. We had to make something that would be pleasant for a lot of different people to drink, so a nice Kölsch came right to mind,” Emms said during an interview at the brewery. “It’s a mellow, easy-drinking beer with a grainy note and a little honey character, but it’s also got a slight bitterness to it, with a crisp finish,” he said. The brewmaster used a combination of German-style Canadian pilsner and caramel malts to provide a touch of sweetness and the beer’s rich, golden colour, while special varieties of Hallertauer Mittelfrüh and Perle bittering hops helped balance out the flavour. The two batches of 1,200 650-millilitre bottles were brewed over the course of five weeks, fermenting for three days and then conditioning and mellowing out for 21 days before being bottled at the brewery’s facility on Granville Island. “It’s our little public display of affection for Vancouver,” Emms said, referring to the beer’s name, PDA, which was the result of a companywide brainstorming session.

An easy-drinking beer marks the occasion of the Georgia Straight ’s 20th anniversary of its Best of Vancouver issue and honours the legacy of the paper and of Granville Island Brewing.

“We invited our staff members to propose a name for the beer,” Chhina said. “One of the ideas was ‘pretty damn awesome’, so that’s why we went with PDA. People will probably assume that it means ‘public display of affection’, but this beer is really a reflection of everything that we do, and everything about our city that is pretty damn awesome.” Long-time Straight contributor Mark Pilon is responsible for the artwork on the beer’s bright-orange label, featuring the iconic Vancouver Free Press paperboy logo set against the city skyline. Emms said it’s a great ref lection of the collaboration. “The label has the feeling of some of the beers in our small-batch program, but it’s got a lot of Georgia Straight feel as well,

obviously with a twist,” he explained. A portion of the 2,400 bottles will be allocated to the Straight’s Best of Vancouver winners, but a limited number will be available at 18 private liquor stores throughout the Lower Mainland, including Granville Island Brewing’s retail store. This one’s for you, Vancouver! Cheers to 20 years of bringing you the best this city has to offer. The Georgia Straight Best of Vancouver PDA is available in limited quantities at the Granville Island Brewing retail store as well as Bimini’s Liquor Store, Legacy Liquor Store, Toby’s on the Drive Liquor Store, and Sutton Place Wine Merchant in Vancouver. Visit Straight.com for locations outside of Vancouver.

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there are only about 100 of them f loating around Vancouver B.C. LDB stores. So what’s the big deal (and why the big price tag)? First off, this is the flagship, top-of-theline wine from a world-renowned Champagne family known for consistency and quality for generations. It’s been made from handselected, premium Côte des Blancs Chardonnay grapes since 1952, and only in excellent vintages; five percent of the initial wine pressing receives four months of aging in new French oak, which brings an extra layer of delicate but mighty fine toastiness to the final product. Once it’s fully assembled in bottle, the wine ages almost 10 years in the 800-year-old cellars of the SaintNicaise Abbey in Rheims. Consequently, while 2005 is the new release, its soul certainly goes back further when one considers the history of both the label and the cellar. I’m not gonna lie. One of the perks of this job is being able to taste wines like this and not having to fork over the dough to do so. At the same time, I have a rule that I’ll happily accept samples or attend tastings, but there’s never a guarantee I’ll write about them. Over the last year I’ve had the opportunity to try a few dozen Champagnes, spread across various price categories, with a good handful

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2AMERICAN REGIONAL MAMIE TAYLOR’S Modern American restaurant in Chinatown. 251 E. Georgia, 604-620-8818. t$$

★ MEMPHIS BLUES BARBEQUE HOUSE Hearty southern comfort food includes melt-in-your-mouth ribs and smoked FASSIL ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT chicken. 1342 Commercial Dr., 604-215-2599; Traditional Ethiopian food including vege- 1465 W. Broadway, 604-738-6806. For more tarian and meat dishes. 5–736 E. Broadway, locations, see www.straight.com/. lt$$ 604-879-2001. lt$$ OUISI BISTRO Cajun-Creole cuisine; HARAMBE ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT pre- and post-theatre dining spot on South Ethiopian cuisine featuring lamb stew and Granville. 3014 Granville, 604-732-7550. vegetarian dishes. 2149 Commercial Dr., bl$$$ 604-216-1060. l$$ PECKINPAH Carolina-style barbeque served in a casual setting. 2 Water, 604681-5411. lt$$ ★ RE-UP BBQ Slow-cooked pulled pork, brisket, and BBQ platters. 114–810 Quayside Dr., New West, 604-553-3997. lt$$

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PINPIN RESTAURANT Filipino and Chinese dishes. 6113 Fraser, 604-322-3086. lt$$ SAI WOO Swish Chinatown room offers globally inspired Chinese-Jamaican dishes. 158 E. Pender, 604-568-1117. $$$ TORAFUKU Asian-inspired sharing plates such as chicken wings and fried rice. 958 Main, 604-773-3805. $$ THE UNION Stylish Asian dishes including banh mi and vermicelli bowls, plus craft beer and cocktails. 219 Union, 604-5683230. t$$

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BEL CAFE European-style café serves up gourmet sandwiches, pastries, and sweets. 801 W. Georgia, 604-673-7000. bl$$ BELLA GELATERIA Popular artisan sweet shop featuring gelato, Napoletanastyle pizzas, and gelato martinis 1089 Marinaside Crescent, 778-737-7890; 1001 W. Cordova, 604-569-1010. blp$$ BREKA BAKERY & CAFE Highlights at this European bakery include almond chocolate croissants, cheese scones, and apple strudel slices. Wide variety of sausage rolls and sandwiches. 855 Davie, 604428-8080. bl$ CARTEMS DONUTERIE Fresh-baked doughnuts in varieties like Earl Grey and Maple Bacon Bourbon. 534 W. Pender, 604-671-6015. blt$ CHEZ CHRISTOPHE CHOCOLATERIE PATISSERIE Gourmet chocolates and pastries created by chocolatier and owner Christophe Bonzon. 4712 Hastings, Burnaby, 604-428-4200. blt$$ EARNEST ICE CREAM Small-batch ice cream shop featuring one-off flavours and traditional favourites. 1829 Quebec, 778-3790697; 3992 Fraser, 604-428-0697. $ FAUBOURG Cafe specializes in light mains like quiche and sandwiches, as well as croissants, brioche, and macarons. 2156 W. 41st, 604-266-2156; 769 Hornby, 604267-0769. For more locations, see www. straight.com/. bl$$ JJ BEAN COFFEE ROASTERS Light snacks and coffee made from locally roasted beans. 460 Railway, 604-253-7245; 3010 Main, 604-879-2326. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. blt$ LUCKY’S DOUGHNUTS Freshly made doughnuts like coconut Bismarcks and beignets. 2198 W. 4th, 604-420-4901; 2902 Main, 604-872-4901. blt$ MATCHSTICK COFFEE ROASTERS Specialty roastery and retailer. 639 East 15, 604-558-0639; 213 E. Georgia, 604-336-0213. lt$$ REVOLVER COFFEE Cozy yet sophisticated coffeehouse in Gastown. 325 Cambie, 604-558-4444. bl$ ★ THE SECRET GARDEN TEA COMPANY Tea, scones, desserts, and sandwiches. 5559 West Blvd., 604-261-3070. l$$

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★ DAI TUNG Good, cheap, everydayCantonese style dim sum. 108–1050 Kingsway, 604-872-2268. blt$ ★ DINESTY CHINESE RESTAURANT Shanghainese and Taiwanese dishes and delicious steamed pork dumplings. 1719 Robson, 604-669-7769; 160–8111 Ackroyd Rd., Richmond, 604-303-7772. lt$$

FATTY COW SEAFOOD HOT POT Chinese-style hot pot with fresh veggies, meat, seafood, and dumplings. 5108 Victoria, 604-568-6630. t$$$ JAMES ON HASTINGS CHINESE RESTAURANT Cantonese-style dishes; known for its dry-fried curry Dungeness crab. 2683 E. Hastings, 604-255-3188. ln$$ ★ KALVIN’S RESTAURANT Sichuaninfluenced comfort-food menu with attentive service. 5225 Victoria, 604-321-2888. lt$$

KEN’S CHINESE RESTAURANT Cantonese and western cuisine, with award-winning Golden Dungeness Crab. 1097 Kingsway, 604-876-6328. l$$ ★ KIRIN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Fine Cantonese dining featuring seafood dishes. 350 Gifford St., New West, 604-5288833. lt$$ ★ KIRIN Fine Cantonese dining featuring seafood dishes. 1172 Alberni, 604-944-8833. lt$$$

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LEGENDARY NOODLE HOUSE Handcrafted noodles and dim sum. 1074 Denman, 604-669-8551. lt$$ LIN CHINESE CUISINE AND TEA HOUSE Northern Chinese food with award-winning xiaolongbao in a casual environment. 1537 W. Broadway, 604-733-9696. lt$$ NORTHERN DELICACY Elegant Shanghai-style restaurant in Aberdeen Centre. 4151 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, 604-233-7050. l$$ NORTHERN DYNASTY Fine Chinese dining. 8391 Alexandra Rd., Richmond, 604-303-1192. $$ OLD BUDDIES SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Noodles, dumplings, and wontons made with shrimp and ground pork. 1120–8391 Alexandra Rd., 604-370-4833. $$ PEACEFUL RESTAURANT Northern Chinese cuisine, handcrafted noodles, rolls, dumplings, and buns. 43 E. 5th, 604-559-9511; 110-532 W. Broadway, 604879-9878. For more locations, see www. straight.com/. lt$$ ★ PINK PEARL CHINESE RESTAURANT Long-standing Chinese restaurant with dim sum and large banquet facilities. 1132 E. Hastings, 604-253-4316. lt$$

RED STAR SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Fine Chinese dining; delicious duck. 2200– 8181 Cambie Rd., Richmond, 604-270-3003; 8298 Granville, 604-261-8389. $$ SEA HARBOUR SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Busy dim sum eatery; specializes in panfried spike sea cucumber. 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-232-0816. l$$$ SHANGHAI RIVER Authentic Shanghainese food; busy dim sum spot. 7831 Westminster Hwy., Richmond, 604233-8885. $$$ SHANGHAI WONDERFUL RESTAURANT Northern Chinese cuisine. 8380 Lansdowne Rd., Richmond, 604-278-8829. $$

★ CHAMBAR RESTAURANT Busy Belgian restaurant with moules frites and a selection of imported beers. 568 Beatty, 604-879-7119. lp$$$$

OLD BAVARIA HAUS Traditional German fare including schnitzel, bratwurst, and rouladen. 233 6th St., New Wet, 604-5245824. $$$

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BISTRO PASTIS Classic bistro fare served with a contemporary touch. 2153 W. 4th, 604-731-5020. l$$$$

L’ABATTOIR Modern, French-inspired cuisine in a stylish Gastown space. 217 Carrall, 604-568-1701. p$$$ LEFT BANK Modern take on French cuisine incorporating African and Asian flourishes. 751 Denman, 604-687-1418. $$$ LES FAUX BOURGEOIS Cozy and casual Parisian-style bistro featuring classic French dishes. 663 E. 15th, 604-873-9733. $$$ PIED-A-TERRE Classics like Alsatian onion pie and steak frites. 3369 Cambie, 604-873-3131. l$$$

★ SALADE DE FRUITS CAFÉ Authentic French bistro classics, reasonable prices. In the French Cultural Centre. 1551 W. 7th, 604-714-5987. lbt$$

RAIN CITY JUICERY Cold-pressed juice shop offers up slushes, smoothies, and mixed juices. 417 Front St., New West. l$ ★ ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLATBREAD CO. Handmade thin-crust pizzas with organic toppings. 4186 Main, 604-566-9779; 1876 W. 1st, 604-730-0321. blpt$$

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LE BISTRO CHEZ MICHEL Classic French bistro food. View of city from large patio. 224 W. Esplanade, North Van, 604-924-4913. lpnt$$$$

BESTIE German street-food favourites like currywurst. 105 E. Pender, 604-620-1175. lt$$

OYAMA SAUSAGE COMPANY Public Market shop sells high-quality sausages, pâté, and more. 126–1689 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-327-7407. $$

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★ BACCHUS RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Modern French food in an elegant setting at the Wedgewood Hotel. 845 Hornby, 604-608-5319. bl$$$$

★ LA RÉGALADE Faithful interpretation of classic French bistro food. 103–2232 Marine Dr., West Van, 604-921-2228. l$$

LUKES GENERAL STORE Specialty shop curates gourmet coffees, chocolate, and more. 49 W. Hastings, 604-428-0700. blt$$

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★ AU COMPTOIR French-influenced dishes such as roasted pheasant and pain au chocolat. 2278 W. 4th, 604-569-2278. bl$$$

LA BELLE PATATE Casual, licensed joint specializing in 26 kinds of poutine. 1215 Davie, 604-569-1215. lt$$

LIQUIDS + SOLIDS CAFÉ & MARKET Fresh, locally made soups and sandwiches. 1550 W. Broadway, 604-558-0544; 901 E. Hastings, 604-336-7687. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. blt$$

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KROKODILE PEAR Cold-pressed, organic juices and smoothies. 1867 W. 1st, 604559-7327; 518 Davie, 604-336-3651. blt$$

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WHAT’S SHAKEN Gourmet madeto-order milkshakes. Dairy-, soy-, and gluten-free options available. 586 Davie, 604-559-8813. bl$

★ PROVENCE Marinaside location features local seafood, raw oyster bar, antipasto showcase, and extensive wine list. 1177 Marinaside, 604-681-4144; 4473 W. 10th, 604-222-1980. blpt$$$

THE JUICE TRUCK Juices and smoothies made with fresh fruit and vegetables. For truck locations, call 604-719-8861, follow @juicetruck on Twitter, or see www. straight.com/. Storefront at 28 West 5th Avenue. lt$

★ WALLY’S BURGERS Burgers, hot dogs, fries, and milkshakes. 4131 Dollarton Hwy., North Van, 604-765-5692; 207–810 Quayside Drive, 604-520-3881. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. lt$

★ FIVE SAILS Newly renovated room under European chef. Staggering view. Pan Pacific Hotel. 410–999 Canada Place, 604-844-2855. $$$$

THE DIRTY APRON COOKING SCHOOL & DELICATESSEN Cooking school and delicatessen with classes for amateur enthusiasts. 540 Beatty, 604-879-8588. bl$$

URBAN FARE Natural, organic, and local groceries. 305 Bute, 604-669-5831; 177 Davie, 604-975-7550. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. blt$$

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CIOFFI’S MEAT MARKET & DELI Deli items and 30 sausages made in house. 4142 E. Hastings, 604-291-9373. $$

TRACTOR EVERYDAY HEALTHY FOODS Fresh, creative salads, soups, stews, and sandwiches. 335 Burrard, 604-222-2557; 1903 W. 4th, 604-222-2557. l$$

★ LE CROCODILE Alsatian regional dishes flawlessly done. 100–909 Burrard, 604-669-4298. lp$$$$

BOSA FOODS Shop serves Italian sandwiches and coffee, as well as imported food. 562 Victoria, 604-253-5578; 1465 Kootenay, 604-253-5578. $$

★ TERRA BREADS Sandwiches, soups, and treats made daily from scratch. 2380 W. 4th, 604-736-1838; 53 W. 5th, 604-873-8111. For more locations, see www.straight. com/. blt$

WILD RICE Modern Chinese food with a river view. 122–810 Quayside Dr., New West, 778-397-0028. l$$$

VANCOUVER ALPEN CLUB Traditional German fare. 4875 Victoria, 604-874-3811. l$$$

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SOLLY’S BAGELRY Sandwiches on bagels and bread, Jewish baked goods. 4071 Main, 604-675-9770; 2873 W. Broadway, 604-738-2121. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. blt$

★ BISTRO WAGON ROUGE Sister restaurant to the Red Wagon serves French bistro fare. 1869 Powell, 604-251-4070. $$

LA BRASSERIE French and German eatery with fare like suckling pig and onion tart. 1091 Davie, 604-568-6499. $$

BREWERY & EATERY

SOFT PEAKS Organic soft-serve ice cream. 25 Alexander, 604-559-2071. l$

★ SUN SUI WAH SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Large room, dim sum, good congee, great squab. 102–4940 No. 3 Rd., Richmond, 604-273-8208; 3888 Main, 604-872-8822. l$$

★ BAUHAUS RESTAURANT Uwe Boll’s fine-dining restaurant with a Michelinstarred German chef. 1 W. Cordova, 604974-1147. l$$$$

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SIEGEL’S BAGELS Fresh, homemade bagels, breakfasts, and sandwiches. 1883 Cornwall, 604-737-8151; 1698 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-685-5670. blt$

★ TABLEAU BAR BISTRO French comfort food made with local ingredients. 1181 Melville, 604-639-8692. bl$$$

2GREEK ★ APOLLONIA GREEK RESTAURANT Friendly hideaway serving generous portions of Greek home cooking. 1830 Fir, 604-736-9559. lt$$$ ★ KALAMATA GREEK TAVERNA Greek food served with a contemporary approach. 1481 W. Broadway, 604-872-7050. lt$$

MARIA’S TAVERNA Family-run Greek restaurant. 2324 W. 4th, 604-731-4722. lp$$ PASPAROS TAVERNA Greek food in a relaxed atmosphere. Established in 1975. 132 W. 3rd St., North Van, 604-980-0331. lpnt$$$ STEPHO’S SOUVLAKI GREEK TAVERNA Popular Greek restaurant. 1124 Davie, 604683-2555; 1359 Robson, 604-685-9977. lt$$

2INDIAN ATITHI INDIAN CUISINE Home-style Indian food prepared and presented with care. Weekday lunch buffet. 2445 Burrard, 604-731-0221. lt$$ ★ HOUSE OF DOSAS Authentic South Indian and Sri Lankan dishes. 1391 Kingsway, 604-875-1283. blt$$

INDIAN OVEN Traditional Indian restaurant offering a selection of curries and tandoori dishes. 2006 W. 4th, 604-730-5069. lt$$ MAURYA INDIAN CUISINE Elegant, traditional Indian fine dining; extensive wine list. 1643 W. Broadway, 604-742-0622. blpt$$$

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★ MY SHANTI Vikram Vij enterprise focuses on regional Indian cuisine. 15869 Croydon Dr., Surrey, 604-560-4416. p$$$ ★ RANGOLI Sister venture to Vij’s with take-away meals, frozen dinners, and a selection of entrées. 1488 W. 11th, 604-7365711. lt$$ ★ VIJ’S Famous for artful cooking, engaging service. 1480 W. 11th, 604-7366664. $$$

2ITALIAN ★ ASK FOR LUIGI Casual, intimate restaurant specializes in handmade pasta. Excellent antipasti. Family-style dishes. Brunch. 305 Alexander, 604-428-2544. l$$

CAMPAGNOLO Casual, rustic Italian dining featuring seasonal dishes with a selection of Italian and B.C. wines. 1020 Main, 604-4846018; 2297 E. Hastings, 604-569-0456. l$$$ CIBO TRATTORIA Stylish room with upscale Italian food. 900 Seymour, 604602-9570. bl$$$ ★ CINCIN Mediterranean and classic Italian dishes from wood-burning oven. 1154 Robson, 604-688-7338. p$$$

CIOPPINO’S MEDITERRANEAN GRILL & ENOTECA Long-standing finedining Mediterranean grill. 1133 and 1129 Hamilton, 604-688-7466. lp$$$$ FRANCESCO’S RISTORANTE ITALIA Fine Italian cuisine made with Sicilian family recipes. 860 Burrard, 604-685-7770. lpt$$$$ GIARDINO RESTAURANT Umberto Menghi’s new spot serves Tuscan-style Italian cuisine. 1328 Hornby, 604-669-2422. $$$$

ITALIAN GARDEN RISTORANTE & PIZZERIA Extensive menu of pastas, thin-crust pizza, salads, and traditional dishes such as veal parmigiana. 3162 W. Broadway, 604-559-4433. $$$ NOOK Intimate, stylish room serves antipasto, pasta, and thin-crust pizza with Italian wines. 1525 Yew, 604-734-3381; 781 Denman, 604-568-4554. $$ ★ LA PENTOLA DELLA QUERCIA Sister restaurant to La Quercia serves northern Italian cuisine made with local ingredients. 350 Davie, 604-642-0557. bl$$$

PIZZA FABRIKA Neapolitan pizza made with gourmet ingredients. 1680 Robson, 604-559-1680. $$ PIZZERIA FARINA Main Street eatery serves seven types of pizza. 915 Main, 604-681-9334. $$ LA QUERCIA Cozy Italian restaurant offers family-style platters for two or more. 3689 W. 4th, 604-676-1007. $$$ TRATTORIA ITALIAN KITCHEN Casual Italian with pasta platters to share. Stylish, busy, room. 102-4501 Kingsway, 604-4248779; 1850 W. 4th, 604-732-1441. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. l$$

2JAPANESE THE EATERY Funky Kitsilano restaurant with innovative sushi, colourful cocktails, and hipster tunes. 3431 West Broadway, 604-738-5298. t$$ ★ GUU Popular izakaya with a boisterous atmosphere. 1698 Robson, 604-685-8678; 105–375 Water, 604-685-8682. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. lt$$

HAPA IZAKAYA Hip, lively room with well-prepared small plates. 1479 Robson, 604-689-4272; 1193 Hamilton, 604-681-4272. For more locations, see www.straight. com/. p$$

HOKKAIDO RAMEN SANTOUKA Authentic pork-broth-based ramen. 1690 Robson, 604-681-8121. t$$ ★ KIBUNE SUSHI Traditional sushi restaurant with bar seating, snug booths, and a small patio. 1508 Yew, 604-731-4482. pt$$

KINGYO IZAKAYA Lively West End spot with well-presented Japanese tapas, leafy room. 871 Denman, 604-608-1677. l$$ ★ KINOME JAPANESE KITCHEN Housemade soba, good-value omakase menu, and extensive sake list. 2511 W. Broadway, 778-379-1925. $$$

MIKU RESTAURANT Stylish Japanese eatery specializes in flame-seared, aburi-style sushi. 70–200 Granville, 604-568-3900. lp$$ MINAMI Flame-grilled aburi sushi served in an upscale, modern setting. 1118 Mainland, 604-685-8080. l$$$

TOSHI SUSHI Popular sushi house in Mount Pleasant. 181 E. 16th, 604-874-5173. $$$

cocktails focusing on mescal. 1622 Commercial, 604-559-8226. $$

2KOREAN

★ THE REEF Caribbean favourites like roti and jerk chicken. 4172 Main, 604-874-5375; 1018 Commercial, 604-568-5375. lp$$

DUNLEVY SNACK BAR Asian fusion featuring Korean favourites like pork belly steamed buns and bibimbap. 433 Dunlevy, 604-569-0454. t$ ★ INSADONG Tabletop Korean barbecue and hot-pot cooking. Fresh seafood tanks, house-made kimchi. 403 North Rd., Coquitlam, 604-936-3778. lpt$$$

JANG MO JIB Spicy, authentic Korean dishes, many soup-based. 5075 Kingsway, Burnaby, 604-439-0712; 1575 Robson, 604642-0712. For more locations, see www. straight.com/. lt$$ ZABU CHICKEN Korean-style fried chicken seasoned with soy, garlic, honey, onion, apple, and pineapple. 1635 Robson, 604-602-0021. lpt$$

OCTOPUS’ GARDEN Kitsilano sushi joint with chef and owner Sada Hoshika at the helm. 1995 Cornwall, 604-734-8971. $$$

2LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN

Q GO RAMEN Cheery ramen restaurant with a rustic communal table and a standup bar. 1443 W. Broadway, 604-568-9916. lt$

BARU LATINO RESTAURANTE South American cuisine with a selection of ceviche. 2535 Alma, 604-222-9171. $$$

RAMEN SANPACHI Japanese chain featuring classic and contemporary ramen dishes. Licensed. 770 Bute, 604-609-9938. l$$

CALABASH BISTRO Gastown restaurant serves Caribbean curries, jerk chicken, and oxtail stew. 428 Carrall, 604-568-5882. l$$

SHIZENYA Vegetarian-friendly Japanese cuisine made with organic brown rice and organic greens. 985 Hornby, 604-568-0013; 1102 W. Broadway, 604-569-3721. l$$ SUIKA Sister izakaya to Kingyo on Denman features Japanese bar snacks with a Korean influence. 1626 W. Broadway, 604-730-1678. $$ ★ TOJO’S Sushi and seafood from the city’s best-known Japanese restaurant. 1133 W. Broadway, 604-872-8050. pt$$$$

★ LA CASITA Warm décor, authentic dishes: flautas and quesadillas stuffed with chorizo. 101 W. Cordova, 604-646-2444. lpt$$ ★ CHICHA Peruvian-inspired cuisine such as anticuchos (grilled skewers) and potato causa. 136 E. Broadway, 604-620-3963. $$

CUCHILLO Modern pan-Latin tapas and classic cocktails in a sexy room. 261 Powell, 604-559-7585. $$$ D ROTI SHAK Family-run Trinidadian joint features roti, curries, and doubles. 808 12th St., New Westminster, 604-544-5994. lt$$ LAS MARGARITAS RESTAURANTE Y CANTINA Casual atmosphere. Mexican classics, weekend brunch. 1999 W. 4th, 604734-7117. lpt$$ ★ LOS CUERVOS TAQUERIA Y CANTINA Neighbourhood eatery serves tacos inspired by Mexico City. 603 Kingsway, 604-558-1518. t$$ ★ LA MEZCALERIA Cantina combines home-style dishes like fish tacos with

RINCONCITO SALVADOREAN RESTAURANT Small eatery specializes in pupusas filled with your choice of beans, cheese, or pork. 2062 Commercial, 604879-2600. tl$$ ★ SALSA & AGAVE MEXICAN GRILL Authentic, hearty Central Mexican dishes including burritos and carne asada. A budget find. 1223 Pacific Blvd., 604-4084228. lt$$ ★ TACOFINO Tacos filled with albacore tuna and skirt steak. 2327 E. Hastings, 604253-8226. lt$

TACOFINO TACO AND BURRITO BAR Bustling sit-down space also has takeout burrito bar. 15 W. Cordova, 604-899-7907. l$$ LA TAQUERIA Cheery space serves vegan, vegetarian, beef, pork, and fish tacos. 2549 Cambie, 604-558-2549; 322 W. Hastings, 604-568-4406. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. lt$

2MIDDLE EASTERN AFGHAN HORSEMEN Lamb, beef, and chicken shish kebabs, plus vegetarian dishes. 202–1833 Anderson, Granville Island, 604-873-5923. lt$$$ ★ JAMJAR Lebanese comfort food, served tapas-style. 2280 Commercial Dr., 604-252-3957. lt$$

KASHCOOL RESTAURANT Traditional Persian cuisine in warm, authentic space. 222 Pemberton Ave., North Van, 604-9043904. $$$ ★ KAYAN MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE Lebanese mezze, salads, and kebabs. Energetic atmosphere and live entertainment Fridays and Saturdays. 202–777 W. Broadway, 604-874-2777. lnpt$$$

NUBA RESTAURANT AND CAFÉ NUBA Authentic Lebanese food served in a casual, upbeat atmosphere. 1206 Seymour, 778-371-3266; 207B W. Hastings, 604688-1655. For more locations, see www. straight.com/. lt$$

BEST 2 FOOD & DRINK RESTAURANT (INDEPENDENT)

1. Chambar Restaurant 568 Beatty Street 2. The Eatery 3431 West Broadway 3. Vij’s 1480 West 11th Avenue RESTAURANT (CHAIN)

1. Cactus Club Cafe Various locations 2. Earls Restaurant Various locations 3. White Spot Various locations

FINE DINING RESTAURANT

1. Hawksworth Restaurant 801 West Georgia Street 2. Chambar Restaurant 568 Beatty Street 3. Bishop’s 2183 West 4th Avenue RESTAURANT BATHROOM

1. Cactus Club Cafe Various locations 2. Joey Restaurants Various locations 3. Earls Restaurant Various locations

KID-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT

1. Stepho’s Souvlaki Greek Taverna Various locations 2. Hawker’s Delight 4127 Main Street 3. Famous Warehouse 989 Granville Street RESTAURANT FOR MEAT

1. Keg Steakhouse & Bar Various locations 2. Memphis Blues Barbeque House Various locations 3. Gotham Steakhouse & Cocktail Bar 615 Seymour Street BISTRO

1. Tableau Bar Bistro 1181 Melville Street 2. Burgoo Various locations 3. Les Faux Bourgeois 663 East 15th Avenue RESTAURANT TO WORK FOR

1. Cactus Club Cafe Various locations 2. Earls Restaurant Various locations 3. Tap & Barrel Restaurant Various locations

ROMANTIC RESTAURANT

RESTAURANT PATIO

RESTAURANT TO TAKE OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS TO

1. Seasons in the Park Queen Elizabeth Park (West 33rd Avenue at Cambie Street) 2. Salmon House on the Hill 2229 Folkestone Way, West Vancouver 3. Sandbar Seafood Restaurant 1535 Johnston Street, Granville Island

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RESTAURANT FOR STRETCHING YOUR DOLLARS

1. White Spot Various locations 2. Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. Various locations 3. Red Robin Various locations

1. The Boathouse Restaurant Various locations 2. Seasons in the Park Queen Elizabeth Park (West 33rd Avenue at Cambie Street) 3. Chambar Restaurant 568 Beatty Street

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1. Dockside Restaurant 1253 Johnston Street, Granville Island 2. Hurricane Grill Various locations 3. Tap & Barrel Restaurant Various locations NEW RESTAURANT

1. AnnaLena 1809 West 1st Avenue 2. Meet on Main 4288 Main Street 3. Chewies Steam and Oyster Bar (tie) 110–1055 West Hastings Street 3. Bauhaus Restaurant (tie) 1 West Cordova Street

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★ SHALIZAR Nourishing stews, tender lamb shanks, kebabs, and garlicky eggplant dip accompanied by friendly service. 1863 Marine Dr., West Van, 604-9219500. lt$$

2PACIFIC NORTHWEST ★ ANNALENA Creative modern Canadian cuisine by chef Michael Robbins. 1809 W. 1st, 778-379-4052. $$$ ★ BEACH BAY CAFÉ AND PATIO Ingredient-driven dishes like Dungeness crab risotto with an English Bay view. 1193 Denman, 604-685-7337. p$$$ ★ BISHOP’S Elegant, understated West Coast menu with European influences. 2183 W. 4th, 604-738-2025. l$$$$ ★ BISTRO 101 Gourmet food prepared by Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts students; à la carte dining, buffets, and three-course set meals. 1505 W. 2nd, 604734-0101. l$$$

BOULEVARD KITCHEN & OYSTER BAR Upscale seafood-focused restaurant with flourishes such as tuna tartare prepared tableside. 845 Burrard, 604-642-2900. blp$$$$ ★ BURDOCK & CO. Shareable, small-plate cuisine highlights foraged and organic ingredients. 2702 Main, 604-879-0077. $$$ ★ COAST RESTAURANT Stylish setting showcases inventive West Coast seafood menu. 1054 Alberni, 604-685-5010. p$$$$ ★ EDIBLE CANADA Tasty West Coast dishes made with local ingredients. 1596 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-682-6681. blp$$$ ★ FABLE Modern Canadian cuisine created by Top Chef Canada competitor Trevor Bird. 1944 W. 4th, 604-732-1322. $$$ ★ FARMER’S APPRENTICE Local, organic ingredients inspire chef David Gunawan’s dishes, which change frequently. 1535 W. 6th, 604-620-2070. l$$$

THE FLYING PIG Casual “nouveau Canadian bistro” serves hearty beef and seafood dishes. 102 Water, 604-559-7968;

BEST 2 FOOD & DRINK JUICE BAR

1. The Juice Truck 28 West 5th Avenue 2. Jugo Juice Various locations 3. The Juicery Co. Various locations SPECIALTY CHEESE STORE

1. Les Amis du Fromage Various locations 2. Benton Brothers Fine Cheese Various locations 3. La Grotta Del Formaggio 1791 Commercial Drive BUTCHER

1. Market Meats 2326 West 4th Avenue 2. Windsor Quality Meats 4110 Main Street 3. Jackson’s Meats and Deli 2214 West 4th Avenue SEAFOOD STORE

1. The Daily Catch Seafood Company Various locations 2. 7 Seas Fish Co. Various locations 3. The Lobster Man 1807 Mast Tower Road, Granville Island GELATO

1. Bella Gelateria Various locations 2. La Casa Gelato 1033 Venables Street 3. Mario’s Gelati 88 East 1st Avenue

127 W. 2nd, 604-569-1111. For more locations, see www.straight.com/. l$$$

FROZEN YOGURT

COFFEE SHOP (LOCAL CHAIN)

1. Menchie’s Various locations 2. Qoola Various locations 3. Pinkberry Various locations

1. JJ Bean Coffee Roasters Various locations 2. Caffè Artigiano Various locations 3. Bean Around the World Coffees Various locations

ICE CREAM

1. Earnest Ice Cream Various locations 2. Rain or Shine Homemade Ice Cream Various locations 3. Marble Slab Creamery Various locations PROFESSIONAL CULINARY SCHOOL

1. Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts 101–1505 West 2nd Avenue 2. Vancouver Community College 250 West Pender Street 3. The Art Institute of Vancouver (tie) 2665 Renfrew Street 3. Northwest Culinary Academy of Vancouver (tie) 2725 Main Street PLACE FOR CASUAL COOKING CLASSES

1. The Dirty Apron Cooking School & Delicatessen 540 Beatty Street 2. The Gourmet Warehouse 1340 East Hastings Street 3. Quince 1780 West 3rd Avenue

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1. Ethical Bean Coffee 1315 Kootenay Street 2. Salt Spring Coffee B.C. Ferries–Tsawwassen Kiosk 3. Trees Organic Coffee & Roasting House Various locations TEA HOUSE

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Studio 58, BY ANDREA WAR N ER

the legendary theatre school tucked into the basement of Langara College, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in style. Not only did the program throw a star-studded bash on September 12, but Mayor Gregor Robertson officially proclaimed that day “Studio 58 Day in the City of Vancouver”. It’s a fitting tribute to a program that has helped change the landscape of Vancouver’s theatre scene, thanks to alumni who are bold, brazen DIY innovators, capable of everything from acting and set-building to costuming and starting their own companies upon graduation. To mark its half-century, Studio 58 wanted to bring the past into its present—and maybe put into motion some future collaborations. “We wanted to have as many graduates involved in one way or another,” says Kathryn Shaw, Studio 58’s artistic director, sitting in her small office on Langara’s main floor. This means that grads and current students are writing shows, students are acting opposite professional actors, and grads have been hired to design and direct. Former grad and 2010 Siminovitch Protégé Prize winner Anita Rochon directs the first show of the milestone anniversary season, Shake-

Still setting the stage on fire at 50

Chloe Richardson and Nathan Kay channel the Factory vibe in Studio 58’s new Romeo + Juliet (David Cooper photo); below left, artistic director Kathryn Shaw.

Founded by Kim “It was the fi rst time I’d ever encountered Collier, David Hud- that kind of aboriginal narrative,” says Loring, gins, Jonathon Young, speaking by phone from his Vancouver home. To celebrate its golden anniversary, Studio 58 is launching a Kevin Kerr in 1996, Loring, who is a member of the Lytton First Naseason of unconventional work with some of its brightest alumni and Electric Company has tion, was hooked. During his fi rst year at Studio speare’s beloved Romeo and Juliet, which Stu- been a leading force in Vancouver theatre. Ingen- 58, he wrote a short solo show that would, nine dio 58 is billing as Romeo + Juliet this time out. ious and spectacular, its projects tend to be wildly years later, become Where the Blood Mixes, his Rochon didn’t have to look too far for inspiration intellectual, emotional, and creative affairs that 2009 Governor General’s Award–winning play. about how to approach the iconic tragedy. challenge conventional staging. They have helped With his company, Savage Society, Loring “I began to contemplate: what would it have change Vancouver’s definition of a theatre space. is hoping to produce more tours and bring the been like to be a theatre student 50 years ago?” In part, Electric Company evolved out of Studio play back to Vancouver stages, but he’s also just Rochon says over the phone from her Vancouver 58’s teaching methods, which were established by finished one of his most ambitious projects home. “What was the world like 50 years its founder, Canadian theatre legend Antony Hol- ever, set in his hometown, about domestic vioago, when this little hub started incubat- land. Holland passed away at the age of 95 lence and abuse of power. ing students? So we set it in 1965. earlier this year, on July 29, so the 50th“We had 30 community members in “What really resonated with us was it anniversary hallmark is bittersweet. the play and we created eight original Check out… was the birth of youth culture and people But it’s also a chance to marvel at what STRAIGHT.COM songs, with arias and laments and fullwere talking about youth culture for Holland had the foresight to build five group songs,” Loring says. “It was alVisit our website the first time,” Rochon continues. “Of decades ago, as well as the ways Shaw most like a native opera. We worked for morning-after course, teenagers have always been dif- has developed the program since she on it all of August and we performed reviews and local arts news ferent than the older generation, but it took over as artistic director in 1985. it once. But now we have a totally built was more pronounced and more defined “Something we do that the other theshow and we’re going to try to tour it to in the media than it ever had been be- atre schools don’t, and it’s been a philosothe small towns in the Interior.” fore. That felt really relevant, these two phy from the day Antony started, is the students do Loring says Studio 58 gives its grads the tools to young lovers, these teenagers, who fall everything,” Shaw says. “The students work back- let their imaginations flow. in love and they’re the new world and stage. For three terms they’re crew members back“Studio is three-and-a-half years of lifetheir parents are the old world, and so stage, they’re learning everything back there: set, changing moments,” Loring says. “By the time you we set in 1965, New York City, in and props, publicity, sound, lights, and costumes. They graduate, you can pull a show out of a cardboard around Andy Warhol’s Factory.” understand the backstage and what goes into cre- box. They push you to your edges and get you to The 50th-anniversary season also ating something. It’s allowing them to then go out discover who you really are. If you’re a brilliant artpaints an accurate portrait of the pro- and start theatres, because they understand what ist already, but a little rough around the edges, they gram’s legacy of reinvention and challenging the they have to do to get it up and running.” help polish that out. Your core training at Studio is status quo. Romeo + Juliet reframes the central Students also learn to market themselves, and so strong, it just breeds these artistic leaders.” romance between two girls. There’s an emphasis to write grant proposals so that they can find the “It’s part of our mandate to get people to know on new work (The Crowd, commissioned with money to do their own work. who they are, tell their own stories, and be contributGreen Thumb Theatre from famed playwright “What I’m trying to do at this point is make the ing members of society at large,” Shaw says. “They’re George F. Walker) and unconventional work. students as employable as possible,” Shaw says. good people, that’s the great thing about the gradu(The Risky Night series will feature an adaptation “To get the idea that they can create their own ates of Studio 58. They grow so much as people. of Madame Bovary with a full-size French poo- work in fi lm or TV, that they can work on-stage. That’s what keeps me here. Seeing where they start dle in the title role.) And there’s a breaking-free They can be interpreters and original creators.” in the first term and where they end up two or three from traditional theatre spaces. Flee premieres at Kevin Loring is both an interpreter and a creator, years later, then to see where they go five or 10 years the Fox Cabaret, the fi rst play the venue has ever and is one of the program’s great success stories. later, it’s all so incredibly rewarding.” hosted. It’s a production of Studio 58 and, argu- Growing up, Loring was always writing poetry and ably, the program’s biggest professional postgrad prose, but when he discovered playwright Tomson Romeo + Juliet runs from Thursday (October 1) to October 18 at Langara College’s Studio 58. success story: Electric Company Theatre. Highway, it was life-changing.

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Editor’s choice BIG ON BACH Here’s a transcendent combination: the warm,

intimate a cappella choir musica intima with a program not just of Johann Sebastian Bach but of the three generations of talented composers around him. Bach and the Boys features the sparkling early music in the ensemble’s first show at the atmospheric St. James Community Hall—with Oktoberfest-style beer and pretzels afterward. The Bachs would approve. Musica intima presents Bach and the Boys at St. James Community Hall on Friday night (October 2).

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HIDDEN PASTS, DIGITAL FUTURES

(At SFU Woodward’s until October 16) Prepare to have your mind blown by the free 3-D installations.

RIGOLETTO (At the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until October 4) World-class voices and acting in a classic mounting of Verdi’s Italian tragedy.

ARE WE COOL NOW? (At the Cultch until

BEETHOVEN AND PAGANINI (At the Orpheum October 3 to 5) Charismatic Mexican maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the VSO.

Guest pick

October 10) Dan Mangan lends his songs to a theatrical indie-rock road trip. (See story on page 89.)

PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT

(At the Vancouver Playhouse September 30 and at SFU Woodward’s October 9) Vancouver International Film Fest’s fascinating portrait of an art icon.

THE BEST LAID PLANS Our arts fan this week is Bonnie

Sun, communications director at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, which is gearing up to run January 19 to February 7, 2016. Here’s her pick: “Best Laid Plans might turn out to be the funniest part of this thick and relentless election season. A timely musical, it’s a great way to exercise your civic duty: watch some live art, then go cast a ballot.” -

Touchstone Theatre and Patrick Street Productions’ The Best Laid Plans: A Musical is at the York Theatre until Saturday (October 3).

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In Are We Cool Now?, Penelope Corrin and Ben Elliott star in a story about a couple in their 20s who take an indie-rock-driven journey. Murray Mitchell photo.

Dan Mangan songs inspire stage road trip > B Y M IKE USING E R

always felt like something that I, as much as possible, want to change, even as I approach 45.” And what better way to connect with a younger demographic than by building Are We Cool Now? out of Mangan’s songs? Since breaking out of the underground with the 2009 hit “Robots” (which—sorry folks—isn’t in the play), Lotusland’s favourite DIY troubadour has established himself as one of the most keen-eyed songwriters in the country. Mangan’s work touches on everything from spending time with aging relatives to Main Street hipsters to the inevitability of death. What’s held true over the course of four critically lauded full-lengths is that his songs often seem happy on the surface, but dark at their centres. “I liked that his songs were lyrically interesting and emotionally complicated, but not immediately bare, like mainstream pop,” Gladstone says of discovering Mangan’s songs. “Something about the intricacy of his work made it really interesting to me.” Mangan elaborates on that: “I recently had a conversation with someone about what makes a hit song. When you say to someone, ‘I kissed a girl and I liked it,’ what’s it about? The answer is about kissing a girl and liking it. What’s ‘Umbrella’ about? It’s like, ‘When it’s raining, you can come under my umbrella.’ Hit songs are so insanely easy to explain. “Maybe that’s why,” he continues with a laugh, “I’m never going to have a truly big hit song. All my songs are ‘Well, it’s kind of like it’s good, but you’re worried about the fact that it might get less good, but then you know it’s good intrinsically underneath.’ ” Kind of like Are We Cool Now?, the title of which was inspired by a line from Mangan’s 2009 ode to being unhip, “The Indie Queens Are Waiting”. “This is a funny one to talk about, because I made this thing, with Dan’s permission, out of his music,” Gladstone says. “And he doesn’t even know what the show is.” And, for Mangan, that’s been part of the fun. “I sat in for an hour and a half or two the other day, at the rehearsal and with the musicians,” Mangan says. “That was a weird experience, to hear your music—many songs, not just one cover song—over and over again, done in a really different style. That really made me focus on the lyrics. Hearing someone else sing them, I was like, ‘Hey, that’s a pretty good line. Man, that song’s not bad.’ Because what happens is that you start forming opinions of your own work once you’ve played a song 800 times. “But I don’t know what the narrative is here, and I don’t know what the story is. I’ve kind of purposefully been at arm’s length from all this, because I know it would be hard for me to get involved and then not get really, really involved. I’m trying to trust Ami’s vision and trust the musicians.” -

onoured as Dan Mangan is to have Are We Cool Now? based on his songs, the much-loved Vancouver singer admits he hasn’t actually seen the indie-rock-flavoured play yet. As a result, he has things he’d like to know when he sits down with writer Amiel Gladstone and the Georgia Straight at Elysian Coffee near Broadway and Main. “This is a general question, but I honestly don’t know the answer,” Mangan says inquisitively. “Do you need any precursor knowledge of my music to get into the play?” Gladstone—who wasn’t overly familiar with Mangan’s records when he got the initial idea for Are We Cool Now?—is quick with his response. Based on a recent early mounting in Kamloops, he says, it’s okay if you don’t know Mangan from Mandingo. That might be, he suggests, because Are We Cool Now? was written to appeal to anyone who’s spent at least part of their time on this planet feeling hopelessly lost and adrift. The production—which has a live band re-creating Mangan’s songs, including a new original—focuses on a couple in their 20s setting out on a road trip, only to have the crushing realities of life lead to some serious reflection. In what’s being billed as a “rock music/theatre fusion”, the play’s main characters, stuck together while travelling, end up questioning everything from their place in the world to their relationship with each other. Gladstone can relate to their struggle, and not just because he wrote the story. “I was curious about that time of life, when you have more energy and things feel much more extreme,” the playwright says. “You can be more hopeful and also more devastated. In your late 20s, it’s a time of massive change, often hard and not pleasant. That was me for my late 20s—I was broke and depressed.” That doesn’t mean that Are We Cool Now? is an unrelenting downer. Gladstone, a veteran playwright whose recent credits include directing the hit Cinderella: An East Van Panto, understands that no one wants to head home feeling like it’s time to reach for the rusty razorblades in the medicine cabinet. “I always write trying to add as much humour as possible,” he offers. “I feel that’s important. And, well, I like laughing. But I know that some people have been surprised that it’s not just an all-out good time—there is some serious stuff that gets touched on. So I guess it does feel a bit bittersweet—it’s not just a full-on, all-out comedy.” Gladstone also had a more ambitious motive for Are We Cool Now?. “What I always wish about the art form that I’m doing is that more people my age, or around my age as I get older and older, is that more people in their 20s would come and Are We Cool Now? runs from Wedexperience theatre. It feels like the nesday (September 30) to October audience is always 45 and up. That’s 10 at the Cultch’s Historic Theatre. OCTOBER 1 – 8 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 89

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Ends and beginnings mark 4OUR > B Y JA NE T S M ITH

itting together in a café before rehearsals at the nearby Scotiabank Dance Centre, choreographer Joe Laughlin and dancer Kevin Tookey find themselves at turning points in their careers. Laughlin, at 54, is about to take the stage to perform for the first time in 10 years in his new 4OUR. For Tookey, who’s about two decades younger than Laughlin, the show will mark the end of his dance career and the start of a new journey: only a couple days after the show ends, he begins studying joinery and cabinetry at BCIT to become a professional woodworker. “This is a project I’m really passionate about. So it’s nice to go out with that,” says Tookey, who performs in 4OUR with dance veteran Gioconda Barbuto and Heather Dotto, as well as Laughlin. “I never wanted it to be a big deal. You never want to be forced out of what you love to do. I always wanted to have a backup plan.” “It is a life milestone,” Laughlin adds of what is potentially the collaborators’ last project together. “And that matches the themes of the work.” Laughlin started the work as a solo for Barbuto before it morphed into a quartet that meditates on memory, family, cross-generational relationships, and the moments that shape our lives. And something about it drove the former gymnast and Joe Ink founder to perform again. “Something in me said, ‘I’m a dancer. I love this, I miss this,’ ” he says. “I don’t have to dance the way I used to. I feel like I’ve discovered a new quality in myself. Once I committed to it, I was really happy to dance again. “I have these crushes on the dancers as a choreographer and here were three that I love, and it was hard not to want to go with them and play,” he adds with a smile. “They inspired me.”

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Kevin Tookey starts a new career after 4OUR. Michael Slobodian photo.

multimedia work, with immersive video projections by James Proudfoot that are sometimes screened on the sculptural white costumes by Alice Mansell. The varied music consists of a lot of Johann Sebastian Bach, straight up and remixed. Through the process, Laughlin has become more and more interested in how “mature” dancers move—and how much more life experience and depth they can bring to the stage. He jokes that he had to plead with the younger dancers during improvisations not to spend so much time getting up and down from the floor. “Gio and I laugh that we’re in this youth-oriented bungee-bodies art form. But there are more shows with older dancers these days—it’s a thing. More people are staying with it longer. It’s expanding the milieu of what a dancer is and what a dancer looks like and what they can do. “I’ve come to realize as a younger choreographer you make up movement and you’re interested in controlling movement,” Laughlin ref lects. “I’m 54, and I’m less interested in my movement and more in the whole piece and the connection with the audience.” With dancers like Laughlin performing longer, Tookey has plenty of time in his life to return to dance if he wants. For now, he’s finding some similar rewards in dance and woodworking: “Both are artistic. Both have an attention to detail and improvising. And there’s digging in your feet, finding a solution to every problem.” In an almost perfect sendoff, Tookey has crafted several wood pieces that appear on-stage in 4OUR—seating props and projection boxes that will give us a taste of what is to come from the artist in his new career. -

The close relationship between all four dancers has influenced Laughlin’s deep new exploration of life and memory. Laughlin has watched Tookey dance since the younger performer was 17 at the Banff Centre for the Arts; as Tookey puts it, “If I had to pick a dance dad in Vancouver, it would be you,” and for a split second, sitting side by side and each sporting a shaved head and grizzled beard, they do resemble father and son. In fact, Tookey has danced one of Laughlin’s best-known solos, Left, a “duet with a teacup”. But all the dancers are close: Barbuto and Laughlin, for instance, go back decades, and Tookey says of Dotto, “My relationship with her is very similar to my relationship with my sister.” 4OUR has also been influenced by some difficult times in the past year or so: Laughlin’s father passed away after a long struggle with cancer. And Laughlin and Tookey worked through it in the studio. “Then, three weeks later, Gio’s dad died and these guys [Tookey and Dotto] sort of parented us through Joe Ink’s 4OUR is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from Thursday to that,” Laughlin reveals. The result is a multilayered, Saturday (October 1 to 3).

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Violinist Joan Blackman, who has run Vetta Chamber Music for about eight years, says the key has been mixing well-known works with unknown ones.

Vetta Chamber Music celebrates 30 years > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY

or many music lovers, the return of violinist Victor Costanzi and cellist Eugene Osadchy to the local stage is well worth celebrating. As artists and as producers, the two contributed much to the emergence of Vancouver’s now-thriving chamber-music scene before departing, Costanzi to a freelance career in New York City, and Osadchy to a professorship at the University of North Texas. “It’s a look at the past, and there’ll be lots of nostalgia,” says a former Vetta String Quartet companion, violinist Joan Blackman, of the two concerts Costanzi and Osadchy will play this week. “People are coming from as far away as Nelson and all sorts of places to hear their old friends play, and there’ll be family there as well. It’s like a birthday celebration!” In fact, it is just that: Costanzi and Osadchy’s return marks the 30th anniversary of Vetta Chamber Music, the concert series they began in 1985 before bequeathing it to Blackman in 2007. At first, the Vetta series was simply a way for its eponymous string quartet to perform. “They just played for their friends, and their friends came and brought more friends. I think they paid themselves from what was in the kitty at the end,” says Blackman, on the line from her Salt Spring Island home. “It was really just about exploring the music, and sharing what we, as musicians, loved.” Once Vetta’s founders had emigrated, however, running a Vancouver series from the U.S. proved problematic. “At one point they decided, ‘Okay, we’re going to pack it in,’ ” Blackman reveals. “But then they thought, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t let it die. Let’s give it to Joan!’ “At first, I was a little shocked, because I had no idea how to run a series,” she continues. “But I think my

passion for being able to share my love of chamber music somehow got me through. And since then I think we’ve doubled the audience, at least.” If Blackman has her way, those crowds will double again. Vetta’s 2015-16 season features a fine mix of chamber-music classics and more contemporary offerings. “I like to bring things that are actually quite well-known, and then juxtapose them with something that is unknown,” the artistic director explains. “For instance, in the spring we’re playing a single-string version of [Antonio] Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and everybody plays that. But then we’re going to have Jeffrey Ryan’s piece Seasons of the Sea—and it’s narrated by Rosemary Georgeson, the First Nations storyteller, which is a completely new thing for our audience. But I’m hoping that because they’re both ‘seasons’—and because they’re both music, you know—that a connection can be made between what’s happening nowadays and what happened back in Italy.” As for this week’s birthday party, Blackman says that she had no hand in picking the tunes or, apart from Osadchy and Costanzi, the performers. “What I said to them,” she notes, “was ‘Look, you guys choose a program, with your favourite pieces and your favourite people.’ ” The Vetta veterans have enlisted violist Yariv Aloni and pianist Arthur Rowe to complete their all-star quartet, and they’ll be tackling timetested scores by Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, and Johannes Brahms. Like the musicians, these three works will be old friends to lovers of chamber music—but in such an intimate and celebratory setting they’ll no doubt be heard anew. Vetta Chamber Music presents Vetta Reunion at West Point Grey United Church on Thursday and Friday (October 1 and 2).

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Although both this script and interpretation are engaging, I wanted the production to make me believe that the play is better than it is. In Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize– winning drama, a Pakistani-born and thoroughly assimilated corporate lawyer named Amir is hosting a dinner party in his lavish Upper East Side apartment with his painter wife, Emily. Emily is on track for inclusion in a show at the Whitney, and their guests are Isaac, the show’s curator, and Jory, his partner, who works at the firm where Amir is also employed. Although Emily is a WASP, her art draws on the Islamic tradition, for which she has great respect. But Amir, who was born into a Muslim family, doesn’t share her reverence: he refers to the Koran as “one very long hate-mail letter to humanity”. Still, Amir’s loyalties are conflicted: the fennel and anchovy salad really starts to fly when he admits that, although he was appalled by the violence of the 9/11 attacks, he couldn’t help but feel a blush of atavistic pride as well. “I forgot which ‘we’ I was,” he explains. It’s a nicely complicated setup. But the script is schematic: every character has a tidy relationship to Islam and sociopolitical displacement, and they become mouthpieces. Emily is the intellectually curious but naive

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liberal. Isaac, who’s Jewish, reacts with outrage to any expression of sympathy for radical Islam. And Jory, who’s black, shares Amir’s outsider status, but is none too thrilled when he declares himself the real nigger in their law firm. Amir’s nephew Abe becomes the model of increasingly radicalized youth. Performances of profound emotional depth could complicate and elevate the script. Amir is Othello in a way, a successful figure who constantly has his difference forced upon him. Patrick Sabongui does very fine work as Amir: confidently plotting a credible trajectory, he’s at his best when Amir starts to get drunk and more dangerous. That said, Sabongui doesn’t raise the stakes to the level of tragedy: in his portrait, we don’t see a man who’s brought down by his arrogance, we don’t register early rumblings of his unresolved rage, we simply see a nice guy who surprises himself. Kyra Zagorsky’s Emily is honestly and shockingly vulnerable in the script’s most extreme moments. In Zagorsky’s contained work, Emily’s intelligence is always clear, but depths are hinted at—lust, for instance—that go largely unexplored. Marci T. House plays Jory as a scold. Her performance is funny and true, but greater playfulness might effectively mix things up. Conor Wylie is impressively assured as Abe. And Robert Moloney’s Isaac is the most relaxed figure on-stage. The character is a loudmouth, but it would be great to see what would happen if more of the actors let it rip. The luxurious set is by Ted Roberts. Disgraced is current. This production is solid. It could all be better. > COLIN THOMAS

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rare standing ovation—and that’s not a bad way for the company to go out before changing to a springfestival-only format. Rigoletto boasts singers who not only can handle the wide-ranging dynamics and acrobatic notes of Verdi’s classic tragedy, but are strongenough actors to find new colours in some well-known characters. This is not a stand-and-sing production. In fact, Simone Osborne, as the lovelorn daughter of the title character, performs the first part of her “Caro nome” aria lying splayed on the floor because she’s so overcome by her crush. Not that you’d notice from the way she sails through the notes with the joy of a bird at sunrise. The rising Vancouver-born soprano, on her much-ballyhooed return home, brings extra fire to the put-upon Gilda. She’s the only person in the world whom embittered court jester Rigoletto cares for, but his attempts to hide her away from the courtiers and keep her pure come to ruin when the lecherous Duke of Mantua targets her. Rather than play her as fragile and naive to the Duke’s smooth-talking ways, Osborne endows Gilda with strength and youthful passion. It’s fun to watch the young singer let loose with the vocal pyrotechnics, reaching the heights out of real emotion, and finding rich shades in the lower register. Osborne’s luminescent soprano mixes perfectly with Gordon Hawkins’s oaky, heartfelt baritone. Under Nancy Hermiston’s direction, the

Hometown soprano Simone Osborne brought extra fire and passion to the lovelorn Gilda in Vancouver Opera’s Rigoletto. Tim Matheson photo.

two build an unusually intimate, believable father-daughter bond in this Rigoletto. Instead of being standoffish and strict, as he can be in some versions, Rigoletto pulls Gilda to his chest, where she curls her head from the pain of the outside world. His Rigoletto is visibly tormented, and he excels at the music’s volatile range of volumes. Watch the way Hawkins finds a mix of terror, sadness, and even a little madness in his lurching humpback’s repeated refrain “Quel vecchio maledivami!” or “That old man cursed me!” Their voices are matched by the other leads: Bruce Sledge is a true Verdi tenor, effortlessly projecting the composer’s mellifluous music. The third act’s quartet, with him, Hawkins, Osborne, and the smoky-voiced mezzo Carolyn Sproule, is as gorgeous as it is wonderfully modulated. The Duke is suitably cruel here, tossing wine at a conquest in the first act, but he could use a little more sex appeal—some of the swagger, perhaps, of bass Matthew Treviño’s sinister,

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leather-panted assassin, Sparafucile. Conductor Jonathan Darlington and his orchestra give versatile support to Rigoletto’s crack cast, manoeuvring adeptly through a range of tempos and dynamics. Check out the overture, where crying horns and buzzing violins build to a crashing crescendo. Production-design-wise, this mounting is not out-of-the-box— not like the controversial cage-set version we saw here six years ago. The traditional sets, on loan from Utah Opera, use the multilevel, limestone towers of 16th-century Italy to create a cramped intensity. They work best in the third act, with the crumbling walls of Sparafucile’s house and a misty canal. So, conceptually, this Rigoletto may not be ambitious. But who needs high concept when you have music and characters this topnotch? Apparently, not the majority of the VO audience, who aren’t always prone to get on their feet to clap. > JANET SMITH

an orchestra during a performance: pushing or pulling at the tempo, their body furiously pulsing, with nary a glance at their accompanying musicians. Violinist Miriam Fried is no such player. Whether she seamlessly adapted to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s pacing or the orchestra did to hers, a rare synergy was achieved Saturday night during her performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 for the opening of the VSO’s 2015-16 season. Fried played as though she considered herself just part of the whole—a scarce attitude in a profession in which a fair amount of hubris isn’t just par for the course, but is considered necessary for success. Before the flourish of the soloist’s first bars, she even quietly picked up her instrument and played along with the first violins for a spell, aligning herself with her fellow musicians. When she elegantly launched into the arpeggios of the opening solo passage, she did so facing the concertmaster, rather than the audience, the crystalline sounds of her Stradivarius filling the Orpheum hall. This first “Allegro, ma non troppo” movement, despite its moments of tension (there’s that foreboding, repeated four-note motif that darkens the sweetness), was an exercise in fluidity; the following “Larghetto” was equally so, showcasing Fried’s remarkable bow control and poise. The chirpy “Rondo” was a delightful romp, perfectly balanced to the end. As a whole, the performance was a study in effortless precision, and what it may have lacked in fire it gained in tranquillity. This was not the only draw of the evening, however: the world premiere of Vivian Fung’s Biennale Snapshots

opened the second half of the concert. A set of five musical sketches commissioned by the Vancouver Biennale and inspired by artworks in the event’s current outdoor exhibition, the piece both charmed and challenged its audience. The first movement, “Breath Song” (inspired by Sumakshi Singh’s work of the same name in Squamish), had the musicians whispering, exhaling, blowing soundlessly through brass and woodwind instruments, and flapping paper—among other techniques. Crucially, this was arranged into a coherent musical shape that engaged rather than alienated. “Tree” (inspired by Konstantin Dimopoulos’s multisited The Blue Trees) had echoes of Edgard Varèse and his theories of sound masses: a single note in the French horns grows organically into an atmospheric wall of sound, and then a series of overlapping downward glissandi leads into the ending—the players waving their sheet music in the air. “Graffiti Mashup” (inspired by OSGEMEOS’s Giants on Granville Island’s concrete silos) was a rhythmic cacophony that quoted tropicália and hip-hop, while “Interludium: Water Rising” (inspired by Ren Jun’s “Water” sculptures) built wave upon wave of chords swelling and fading, with dizzying glissandi. “Grass” (inspired by Ai Weiwei’s F Grass) completed the work in an angry and blustery fanfare that pitted loud pedal tones in the brass against piercing woodwinds and frenetic strings. If Miriam Fried was what everyone was talking about when they arrived at the concert, which also featured brilliant performances of Hector Berlioz’s Le Corsaire, Op. 21 and Richard Strauss’s Suite From Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, Vivian Fung was all they talked about when they left. And if the show was any indication of what’s yet to come from the VSO this season, it’s going to be quite a ride. > JESSICA WERB

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In one of his diverse works, Ryan Gander wields marble resin in I is...(IV) at the Contemporary Art Gallery. Patrick Quayle photo.

Boundless imaginings hit CAG VISUAL AR TS RYAN GANDER: MAKE EVERY SHOW LIKE IT’S YOUR LAST At the Contemporary Art Gallery until November 1

Parapossibility is a word British artist Ryan Gander uses while discussing the nature of his art-making. In a recent public conversation with Contemporary Art Gallery director Nigel Prince, Gander said that “parapossibility” is a kind of creative proposition, an imaginary condition of being able to do anything and be anywhere. To us, the word suggests that his art could be a wormhole into an alternative universe—a universe of boundless imagining where, again, anything is possible. Or if not anything, then very many things. Gander’s internationally acclaimed, concept-driven practice is so wideranging and various that it’s difficult to nail down. (In the BBC video that accompanies the show, he is described as “a cultural magpie”.) Based in London, he queries and investigates contemporary life, social trends, material culture, and, of course, the making and displaying of art, past and present. He creates visual fictions, often with elaborate narratives attached to them. And he engages the idea of play. In addition to forays into photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art, Gander has designed running shoes, paperweights, coins, maps, a crossword puzzle, and a chess set—and is working on a kitchen sink. He has cobbled

together a series of IKEA-style lamps from everyday items such as a car jack, a fishing rod, and stacked rolls of tape. And he has also created a little book of artists’ cocktails, whose contributors include a number of his creative alter egos—fictional artists, two of whom bear the anagram names of Santo Sterne and Aston Ernest. The show includes marble resin sculpture, acrylic painting, digital video, a wall calendar, a fibreglass party balloon, a TV ad, a crumpled piece of paper bearing a seating plan for a make-believe art-world dinner, a dozen lamps (on display in the CAG’s outdoor windows), and animatronic eyes. The computer-operated, cartoonstyle eyes, titled Magnus Opus, are set into the wall near the entrance to the CAG’s Alvin Balkind Gallery. The work is activated by a motion sensor: when the viewer walks into and around the room, the plastic brows rise, lower, and tilt downward in interest, surprise, or perplexity; the eyelids open widely, squint thoughtfully, and shut with a resounding clap; and the blue irises peer up, down, sideways, and straight ahead. Magnus Opus reverses the expected dynamic: instead of our looking at what’s on the gallery walls, the gallery walls look at us, prompting us to think about how active or passive, critical or accepting our customary art-viewing experience might be. It’s an appealing and amusing work, although in his talk Gander declaimed it as being too simple and said, “I’m always suspicious of work that people like.” What interests him is work that stays with viewers because it is not immediately forthcoming or

comprehensible. The best art, he said, speaks to us through a condition of incompleteness, through what’s invisible or absent. A prime example is his acrylic painting on glass, Please be patient—Penny Eve Gander smiling at Olive May Gander in the darkness, The Midland Hotel, Manchester, Tuesday, 22nd of July, 2014. It consists of a few abstract smudges of grey and black paint on a circular piece of glass—that is, the work on view is the palette that Gander used while painting a portrait of his daughters (just one in a large series of portraits of friends and family). He then destroyed the portrait and kept the palette, which he sees as far more interesting. Painting, he told the BBC, “seems quite a futile, illogical, unintelligent act to me”. Unintelligent or not, the work’s title and the colours on the palette stimulate the viewer to consider the tradition of the painted portrait and imagine what this particular portrait might have looked like. Imagineering, Gander’s fake TV ad for a fictional British government initiative, extols the adult embrace of childlike imagination. Produced by a German advertising firm to Gander’s specifications, it registers the artist’s alarm over funding cuts to cultural programs in the U.K. At the same time, and perversely, it is an utterly cheesy and unimaginative production, with clouds of shiny soap bubbles drifting by as adorable children play hopscotch or daydream or slurp spaghetti. It’s as if Gander’s parapossibility had been turned inside out by a dim-bulb bureaucrat, creating a wormhole into a very dull universe indeed.

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THE IT GIRL MUSICAL Full-length musical based on the Paramount picture It, set in 1920s New York City. Oct 1-17, 8-10 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $20-25, info www.dramanatrix productions.com/. MAYBE THIS TIME: A BROADWAY SHOWCASE An evening of solos and duets from select Broadway and offBroadway productions. Oct 3, 7 pm, The

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HIGH TEA When a disaster floods the world in tea, caffeine connoisseurs James and Jamesy use imagination, physical feats, and humour to keep afloat. To Oct 4, 8 pm, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix from $15, info www.phtheatre.org/show/high-tea/. LOVE BOMB Shameless Hussy Productions presents the world premiere of a rock concert/play that sees an uninvited guest cause a singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music to take on a life of its own. To Oct 10, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $28-33, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/onstage/ love-bomb/. ANNAPURNA Christy Webb directs the Canadian premiere of Sharr Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play about a couple that reunites after 20 years apart. To Oct 10, 8 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $25/18, info www. annapurnavancouver.ca/. ARE WE COOL NOW? A musical exploration of contemporary relationships, featuring the songs of Dan Mangan. To Oct 10, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/are-wecool-now/.

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Jack Mercer (front and centre, with acoustic guitar) is a real-life tugboat captain, so you can bet he’s tying Dear Rouge’s Drew McTaggart up with some serious nautical knots. Rebecca Blissett photo.

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a bottle of Wild Turkey in one hand and a blazing Colt Peacemaker in the other. Backed by his Whiskey Bandits—viola player Ian Cromwell, bassist Tom Kuzma, and drummer Nate Campbell—the singer, multi-instrumentalist, and honest-to-God Vancouver acts share their favourite albums, the year’s tugboat captain does gunbest gigs, and where they’d eat on a tycoon’s dime smoke country in the tradWe love this time of year. There’s a slight chill in ition of greats like Waylon the air, but we’re warmed by the sight of leaves Jennings, Willie Nelson, and, of course, Johnny that are just starting to turn fiery hues of yellow, Cash. Yes, saddle up with Mercer, and you can alorange, and red. Our two favourite days on the most smell the mud and the blood and the beer. calendar—Halloween and Christmas, of course— are drawing ever closer. Best of all, after spending BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: the rest of the year telling readers about our fa- “It would absolutely have to be For You by Twin vourite musical things, we get to turn things over Bandit’s Jamie Elliott and Hannah Walker. I’ve to the musicians themselves. That gives us a much- known Jamie for many years, but when I first needed break and gives you, dear reader, the per- heard her and Hannah harmonize those sweet, seductive melodies I almost melted. We had the spectives of those who are truly in the know. As usual, we rounded up a few of Vancouver’s pleasure of gigging with them a few times over most excellent bands and solo artists and picked the past year and they are two of the finest singerthe brains of those who handle the frontperson songwriters around. Go buy it!” duties. We wanted to know which local releases they can’t get enough of, where they would open THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “Hands down, it was a club if money were no object, and, in the spirit Shakey Graves at the Commodore Ballroom [on of a certain former Canadian Idol contestant from July 22]. He is one of the best performers touring Mission, which other Vancouver musicians they at the moment and he had the sold-out crowd in the palm of his hand. I think everyone would have really, really, really, really, really, really like. Not to toot our own horn, but we like to think followed him off a cliff if he’d asked us to do so! we know how to pick ’em. Previous participants in That is how much of a captivating talent he is.” this feature include Dan Mangan, Said the Whale, White Lung, Hannah Georgas, Fake Shark, the New BEST ALBUM EVER: “To be honest, when Pornographers, Mother Mother, the Pack a.d., and people ask me this question I want to throw my entire record collection at them and say ‘Fuck it, Mounties. You might have heard of some of them. So without further ado, read on to learn which you choose!’ It is a decision that is more based on local musician finds Nardwuar the Human Servi- mood than preference and we all know how quickette both frightening and intriguing; what tugboat ly moods can change. Current mood: Townes Van captain wants to party on the Expo 86 relic known Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter. One of the greatest as the McBarge; and who’s dying to try a pizza songwriters of all time. Period.” topped by tiger prawns, lobster ratatouille, smoked steelhead, Russian Osetra caviar, and Italian white FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S truffles—but only if Canucks head honcho Fran- DINNER? “Shebeen Whiskey House [212 Carrall Street], hold the food. We’ll take one of everycesco Aquilini is willing to pick up the $850 tab. thing because they have a very impressive selecJACK MERCER AND THE WHISKEY tion of whisky from all over the world, and I can’t BANDITS imagine what the bill would be like after that sitting! Thanks, Francesco!” Remember that old Johnny Cash hit where a boy named Sue ends up fighting his father IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I in the middle of the street, kicking and gouging in REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, the mud and the blood and the beer? On his REALLY LIKE? “It is too bad that he has recently unvarnished-Americana full-length Lonesome gotten engaged, because I really, really, really like Dreams & Wild Things, Jack Mercer sounds like the Kyle Grant Statham from the band Bear Mounkind of guy who’d be standing on the sidelines with tain. When he wears that white onesie and does

his signature ‘stumble three-step, you think I’m drunk but I’m totally sober, awesome sex time’ move on-stage? Wow, what a fuckin’ stud…” YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The old derelict McBarge

from Expo 86 that’s anchored in Indian Arm. As a bonus, I am also a tugboat captain by day and could tow it to new locations each week!” > MIKE USINGER

DEAR ROUGE

Dear Rouge arguably didn’t need any help

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Danielle McTaggart (they’re partners in life as well as in music) landed a single in the upper echelons of the Canadian charts before they even had a full-length record out, let alone a label. Now, with the powerhouse backing of Universal Music, Dear Rouge’s debut long-player, Black to Gold, is taking the band’s crackling, synth-fortified pop-rock to the masses. (Well, even more of the masses.)

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[Danielle] “Yukon Blonde’s On Blonde. We chose that because we heard the single on the radio, ‘Saturday Night’, and there was just something so great about that song. It just had such great feeling. The synths were really amazing. And we were just like, ‘Who is this amazing band?’ And it turned out to be Yukon Blonde, so then we checked out their whole album and it’s all just really cool. Right up our alley. It’s kind of got the ’80s feeling to it. They’re really talented guys, really great guys, and we just respect their journey.” THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: [Drew] “We were kind

of floored by Alabama Shakes up at Squamish [on August 9], because we were able to watch them out front-of-house, so we got to hear their sound, and then we were able to go side-stage. They’re playing on this great big stage and they’re tucked in together—like, really tight—and it was just one of those moments where you just saw this musicianship on-stage, and dedication to it. But they still were putting on a show, because it was so great from a musical standpoint. And then Brittany [Howard], you have to watch her when you see them. You can’t leave. You’re like, ‘What is she gonna do next?’ ”

BEST ALBUM EVER: [Drew] “I always like to

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INTERCULTURAL INNOVATIONS II B.C. Chinese Music Ensemble and Nu:BC Collective perform music by five visiting Shanghai composers. Oct 6, 8 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $25/15, info 604327-8807, mail@bccma.net.

UNWRAPPING CULTURE Co. Erasga + Pichet Klunchun Dance Company present a collaboration by male dance artists Alvin Erasga Tolentino and Pichet Klunchun. Presented as part of the Dance Centre’s Global Connections series. Oct 15-17, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/22, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/global_dance_connections/.

MUSIC OF A THOUSAND AUTUMNS The Turning Point Ensemble performs Alexina Louie’s Music for a Thousand Autumns, Dorothy Chang’s Three Windows, and new commissions by Anthony Tan and Farangis Nurulla-Khoja. Oct 7-8, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $12-37, info www.turningpointensemble.ca/.

2THIS WEEK JOE INK PRESENTS 4OUR JOE INK and Vancouver choreographer Joe Laughlin present the world premiere of a piece that explores the dynamics of family. Sep 30–Oct 3, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $20, info www.joeink.ca/. DJ NIGHT AT HOT CLUB SWING DJs spin music at the October installment of Hot Club Swing, which features a beginner drop-in lesson and social dancing. Oct 3, 8-11:45 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $8 at the door, info www.face book.com/events/831356083645947/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS CARMEN Karen Flamenco presents a version of Bizet’s classic opera that fuses flamenco dance and orchestral melodies. Oct 23-24, 7 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $26-42.50, info www. karenflamenco.com/.

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COMEDY 2ONGOING SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT Beneath up-and-coming comedian Sarah Tiana’s sweet, Georgia-peach exterior are some pretty damn biting observations about being single in the South, where everyone asks why you’re not married yet. In fact, in one of Tiana’s better-known bits, she makes it clear she prefers the term sexually active to single. Think of this saucy southern belle as a kind of Amy Schumer with a drawl—and y’all can head on down to the Comedy MIX to check out her insights on the sexes from Thursday to Saturday (October 1 to 3).

RIGOLETTO Vancouver Opera presents Verdi’s opera about a lecherous duke and his hunchbacked court jester. To Oct 4, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $50, info 604-683-0222, www.van couveropera.ca/.

STRINGS ATTACHED The Arietta String Quartet and guest violist Jinhee Park perform Michael Haydn’s Viola Quintet and Frank Bridge’s Quartet No. 1. Oct 2, 12:10-1 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Concert included with gallery admission/ membership, info www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/.

VETTA REUNION Vetta Chamber Music, violinist Victor Costanzi, violist Yariv Aloni, cellist Eugene Osadchy, and pianist Arthur Rowe perform works by Fauré and Brahms. Oct 1, 2 pm; Oct 2, 7:30 pm, West Point Grey United Church (4595 W. 8th). Tix $32/27/20/17, info www.vettamusic.com/.

PADMASHREE PANDITA TRIPTI MUKHERJEE Pandit Jasraj School of Music Foundation presents classical Indian vocalist. Oct 3, 7 pm, Burnaby Hall (7837 Canada Way, Burnaby). Tix $25 , info www.pjsomvancouver.org/.

LINCOLN PIANO TRIO Violinist Yuel Yawney, cellist Heather Hay, and pianist Kinza Tyrrell perform classical music. Oct 2, 12 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Free admission, info www.capilanou.ca/music/ events/Cap-Classics-Concerts-2015-2016/.

BEETHOVEN AND PAGANINI Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts violinist Tianwa Yang and the VSO in a program of works by Beethoven, Paganini, Bach, and Stokowski. Oct 3, 8 pm; Oct 4, 2 pm; Oct 5, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.

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YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2DARRYL LENOX Oct 1-3 2JOHN CULLEN Oct 8-10 2MIKE MACDONALD Oct 15-17 2NATASHA LEGGERO Oct 23-24 2BOBBY LEE Nov 13-14 2GODFREY Dec 4-5 LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604525-2262, www.lafflines.com/. 2RON VAUDRY Oct 2-3 2TOBY HARGRAVE Oct 9-10 2MIKE MACDONALD: A CRAZY NIGHT OF COMEDY Oct 14 2GABRIEL RUTLEDGE Oct 16-17 2GERALD GERALD GERALDSON Oct 30-31 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 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2SARAH TIANA Oct 1-3 2K. TREVOR WILSON Oct 8-10 2MICHAEL KOSTA Oct 15-17. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm, every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Sep 30–Oct 7, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK LUX LAUGHS COMEDY COMPETITION Brett Nikolic hosts comedy by headliner Kathleen McGee and Ashlee Eff, Jamie Hrushowy, Katie Burrell, Vishal Ramesh, Tia Jeannette, Erin Darts, Kate Belton, Lydia Catherine Hamilton-Twiss, and Brett Skillen. Sep 30, 7:30-10 pm, Lux Lounge (1180 Howe). Tix $8/5, info www.facebook. com/pages/Lux-Laughs/792180980878958/. SARAH TIANA Los Angeles comedian known for hosting Comedy Central’s recent roast of Justin Beiber. Oct 1-3, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa). Tix $20/18/15, info www. thecomedymix.com/. VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FESTIVAL The 16th celebration of improv comedy showcases local, national, and international improv groups. Oct 6-10, Granville Island. Tix $12-50, info www.vancouverimprovfest.com/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK THE WRITER’S STUDIO READING SERIES Past and present TWS students and local authors read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. This month’s guest is Janet Fretter. Oct 1, 8-10 pm, Cottage Bistro (4470 Main). Free admission, info www.sfu. ca/continuing-studies/events/2015/10/twsreading-series1.html. TOM KONYVES AND CAROLYN SOUAID Launch and readings from Tom Konyves’s book of poems Perfect Answers to Silent Questions and Carolyn Souiad’s The World We Invented. Oct 3, 7 pm, People’s Co-op Bookstore (1391 Commercial). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/TomKonyves-Carolyn-Souaid-Poetry-BooksReadings-520213361475612/timeline/. SFU WRITER’S STUDIO 15TH ANNIVERSARY READING: E.R. BROWN Author E.R. Brown reads from his debut novel, Almost Criminal, and shares insights into writing, innovation, and experimentation in the genre. Oct 5, 7-8:30 pm, Alma VanDusen Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. VPL WRITER IN RESIDENCE: ASHLEY LITTLE - WRITING DAMN GOOD DIALOGUE Hear how to develop an ear for dialogue, practise writing dialogue, and learn ways to craft truly great dialogue. Oct 7, 2-5 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.

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1. Car Free Vancouver Day 2. West 4th Avenue Khatsahlano Street Party 3. Greek Day ARTISAN/CRAFT FAIR

1. Arts Club Theatre Company 1. Circle Craft Christmas Market 2. Bard on the Beach Shakespeare 2. Make It Vancouver! Festival 3. Portobello West Fashion + Art 3. Vancouver TheatreSports League Market (tie) 3. Got Craft? (tie) PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY

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1. The Comedy MIX 1015 Burrard Street, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa 2. Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club 2837 Cambie Street 3. Lafflines Comedy Club 530 Columbia Street BURLESQUE SHOW

1. The Biltmore: Kitty Nights Burlesque 2. Geekenders 3. Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society LITERARY EVENT

1. The Vancouver Writers Fest 2. Word Vancouver 3. Vancouver Poetry Slam Kent, Ian McAllister, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Solie, Laura van den Berg, Marlon James, Nicole Brossard, Paul Yee, Robert J. Wiersema, Sarah Dunant, TJ Dawe, and Wab Kinew. Oct 20-25, Granville Island. Info www.writersfest.bc.ca/.

ET CETERA 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE 12TH ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Annual event celebrates the culture of the Downtown Eastside with 12 days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, processions, spoken word, panels, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibitions, multimedia, art talks, history walking tours, and a diverse array of artists. Oct 28–Nov 8, Carnegie Theatre (401 Main). Tix free to $25, info www.heartofthecityfestival.com/.

2THIS WEEK CREATIVE PUBLICS: ART-MAKING INSPIRED BY FEDERAL ELECTION ISSUES Roving, pop-up, voter-engagement project bringing together artists, students, and community members in Vancouver to make art inspired by political issues leading up to the Canadian federal election in October 2015. To Oct 2, 12-4 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.creativepublics.ca/. HIDDEN PASTS, DIGITAL FUTURES: A FESTIVAL OF IMMERSIVE ARTS Experience the digital creations of Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine, Robert Lepage, and Stan Douglas and the NFB Digital Studio. Step into three-dimensional worlds and be transported to heritage sites a world away. To Oct 18, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu. ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/20152016Fall/HPDF.html. A WISE NIGHT WITH C.R. AVERY C.R. Avery presents an intimate evening of music, theatre, and magic. Oct 2, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/12, info www.wisehall.ca/.

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VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST Annual celebration of the written word includes authors Anakana Schofield, Bill Richardson, Carellin Brooks, Daniel Galera, Elaine Lui, Farzana Doctor, George Bowering, Hannah

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2MATERIAL FUTURE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF HERZOG & DE MEURON AND THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (exhibition

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1. Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street 2. Museum of Anthropology 6393 Northwest Marine Drive, UBC 3. Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street PRIVATE ART GALLERY

1. Rennie Collection at Wing Sang 51 East Pender Street 2. Equinox Gallery 525 Great Northern Way 3. Bau-Xi Gallery (tie) 3045 Granville Street 3. Ayden Gallery (tie) 2nd floor, 88 West Pender Street LIVE PERFORMING ARTS VENUE

1. Queen Elizabeth Theatre 650 Hamilton Street 2. Orpheum Theatre 601 Smithe Street 3. Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (tie) 6265 Crescent Road, UBC 3. The Cultch (tie) 1895 Venables Street featuring the Pritzker Prize–winning Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, known for its innovative and elegant buildings and its significant contribution to the design of contemporary museums) to Oct 4 2OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: 500 YEARS OF ITALIAN PAINTING FROM GLASGOW MUSEUMS (exhibit examines the thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art—from the religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the 19th century) to Oct 4

MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-822-5087, www.moa. ubc.ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built) to Dec 30 2HEAVEN, HELL & SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN: PORTUGUESE POPULAR ART (exhibition of Portuguese popular art includes graffiti and mural paintings, puppets, figurines, and carnival masks) to Oct 12 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver. ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30

OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS WHISTLER READERS AND WRITERS FESTIVAL Event brings together Canadian and international authors for a weekend packed with readings, workshops, panels, and music. Oct 16-18, Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard). Info www.whistlerwritersfest.com/.

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their new path to creativity, when they were expanding as a band—as they started doing drugs. It was also coming from their pop-acceptable side. Between that and Revolver— but more so Rubber Soul—it was the cross-paths of where they were heading to creatively and where they came from. It was just beautiful.” FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? [Dan-

ielle] “We picked this place that we just heard about. It’s called Steveston Pizza [100–3400 Moncton Street, Richmond], and they have this pizza [the Seenay] that’s worth $850. We thought that was hilarious. We just wanted to know why it’s worth that much, so we would choose that $850 pizza. When would you ever feel like spending that much money on pizza? But I do love pizza, and it’s one of my favourite meals.”

IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE?

[Danielle] “I really, really, really like Steve Bays from Hot Hot Heat. For one, he has some amazing, beautiful, curly, luscious locks. And, more importantly, he is a very good guy, and for all his experience and all his skills and all his talent, he’s just so down-toearth and likable and real and honest. I think sometimes you meet musicians who have had that much experience and they’re egotistical and have some kind of air about them, and he just is a really good human. I strive to one day have the same qualities, including the hair.” YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? [Drew]

“Danielle and I love the Diamond [6 Powell Street] for cocktails. We go there frequently. We look at that spot below the Diamond, and there’s nothing there except for a convenience store, and that’s where we would make this sweet venue, club, livemusic bar. That would be amazing.

With the Diamond on top, too, for to support them and because they’ve involved. It’s a really way cool way the specialty drinks.” got tasty breakfasts.” of showcasing talent from all over > JOHN LUCAS Vancouver. Also, it includes music IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE from my friend GARY, who passed JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, away maybe four months ago now. SUPERMOON WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY So they’re releasing his music postSinger-bassist Adrienne LaBelle LIKE? “Lauren Smith of Tough Age mortem, which I think is a really, used to kick up a pop-friendly because she shreds bass harder than really beautiful thing.” racket around town as a member of anyone in town and looks so cool THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “James Movieland. Although that band sadly while doing it.” Blake at Sasquatch Festival [on May broke up, LaBelle—along with Movieland bandmates Alie Lynch (guitar) YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S 24]. He was pitch-perfect. It was and Selina Crammond (drums), plus YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The just a magical performance and the new recruit Katie Gravestock (gui- revolving restaurant [Top of Van- sound was incredible. At that partar)—formed Supermoon and issued couver] at the Harbour Centre [555 ticular moment, at that particular this year’s lovably ragtag Comet Love- West Hastings Street]. We would stage, it was just perfect. His charisjoy EP. Filled with giddy group har- open it there because it’s closer to the ma when performing sort of reminds monies and noisy distortion, its six moon and we want to be as close to me of Joni Mitchell in a lot of ways, scrappy songs are made all the more the moon as possible. It’s accessible and I’m a huge Joni Mitchell fan.” addictive by their succinct 13-minute by elevator, so anyone can come. We would make it all-ages and make it BEST ALBUM EVER: “That’s a loadedrun time. ass question, but I’d have to go with run by Safe Amp.” BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER > ALEX HUDSON Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues. I like THAN YOURS: “Fountain’s Fountain everything about it. The harmonies 2, because they are a sweet band of EKALI are timeless, and the songwriting is sweet people and that album is great!” incredible. I like to put it on when I’m “This guy’s in Said the Whale?” hungover or stressed, which is pretty THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “Built to says everyone who has listened frequently, I guess you could say.” Spill, Slam Dunk, and Iceberg Ferg to Ekali’s evocative, Burial-esque at the Commodore [on July 25] was tracks, then learned he also goes by FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYa really good show. Slam Dunk was the name Nathan Shaw and plays bass ING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Blue sweet because Doug Martsch [of for the local indie darlings. It’s true, Water Cafe [1095 Hamilton Street]. Built to Spill] actually played bass and this Red Bull Music Academy It’s really expensive and I love seawith them. Caitlin [Gallupe], their alum’s remixes and collabs are num- food. I really wanna try it, but noregular bass player, was doing the erous and impressive. Sure, technic- body has ever offered to take me out Girls Rock Camp in the Yukon. ally he only has one wholly original there. I have no problem with him Every now and then he would sing song to his name, “Unfaith”, but that spending that Canucks money on me vocal parts for the Slam Dunk songs one got sampled on Drake’s If You’re for a night.” and you would hear Doug Martsch’s Reading This It’s Too Late. Perhaps voice. And Built to Spill’s perform- you’ve heard of it? Probably. It’s the IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPance was, of course, pretty good.” best-selling album released this year. SEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO Naturally, Shaw thought someone DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? BEST ALBUM EVER: “Gang of was fucking with him when he woke “Rook Milo. He’s got that island-boy Four’s Entertainment. It’s political up one morning to a clearance request swag going on. I can’t explain what and catchy and I always put that re- from the 6 God, but he knew it was that is, it’s just a thing. Musically, he’s cord on whenever people come over. true when the album dropped a week really consistent and he’s got a sick Instant crowd-pleaser. It’s the best later, complete with “Preach”, which style. He’s not trying to be anything, collection of sassy and solid hits features his handiwork. Not resting he’s just doing his own thing.” through and through. So good.” on that rather remarkable validation, he has an EP planned for the new year, YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAY- along with a world tour—an actual YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The ING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Café world tour and not his girl’s tour. BoatHouse Restaurant on Kits Beach du Soleil [1393 Commercial Drive]. [1305 Arbutus Street]. I’d like to transAs a band, we eat brunch there quite BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER form it into a waterfront nightclub. It’s often. They’re really sweet people— THAN YOURS: “Chapel Sound on a beach, it’s pretty sick. I was thinkit’s a family-run restaurant. We Compilation Vol. 1. It’s so diverse ing I’d make it really tropical. It will be would go there just because we want and there are many different people called Aesthetic and feature tropical

foliage in abundance, as well as birds of prey freely flying about.”

> MICHAEL MANN

GABRIEL SAVAGE

After doing time in straight-

2 ahead rock bands like the Niche

earlier in his career, Gabriel Savage has made a seemingly effortless transition into the role of electro-savvy producer. On the released-this-summer single “Rain”, we get a slice of moody heaven that sounds as indebted to the sauve elegance of early Bryan Ferry as to Vancouver’s legendary Sonar nightclub during its late-’90s glory years. No less stellar is “RefleX”, where strobe-lit bass drops and hypnotically torqued synths suggest Savage would be a nobrainer for next year’s Bass Camp rager at the Pemberton Music Festival. Watch for the producer to release a reimagined version of Chris Isaak’s classic “Wicked Game” later this year.

BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: “I really enjoyed the

solo EP release, Ulysses, that came from Ulysses Coppard, who is one half of the PEAK Performance finalists Smash Boom Pow. Also, the new songs from Trevor Hoffmann have been rad—I really like the recent work he’s done with Gabriela Geneva on ‘Me or You’. That girl’s got talent. I’d love to work with her in the near future.” THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “I see a lot of live music, so that’s difficult to narrow down. Steve Hill is very talented—I saw him when he was in town at the Railway Club [on June 26] and am stoked to hear he’ll be back in town soon. Also, the New York experimental rock duo Ratatat had an awesome music and light show at the Vogue in July. In terms of locals, though, I love the energy that Eric Campbell & the Dirt bring to their shows.” BEST ALBUM EVER: “That’s tough, because my tastes are all over the map. I grew up listening to a lot of early Elvis, Sinatra, and Cash, but I don’t think I can choose just one album see next page

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Left to right: Fake Tears’ Elisha May Rembold and Larissa Loyva, Felix Cartal, Tommy Genesis, and Daniel Rincon (aka NAP) are opening a clubhouse in the Hotel Europe’s basement. Rebecca Blissett photo.

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from either. I guess I’d have to say the [self-titled] debut album from the Doors; you can really hear the raw intensity of the band and how they feed off of each other. I’ve also read that it only took them six days to produce it, so that alone makes it take the cake, in my opinion. Although if I had to choose a more recent album, I’d have to say Motion from Calvin Harris.” FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Goth-

am Steakhouse [615 Seymour Street]. They’ve got great food and a superb cocktail menu. I’m all about a good cocktail.”

IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE?

“Chersea, without a doubt! She has such a great talent and it’s only just being discovered. Plus, she’s a babe, so it’s music to the ears and eyes!”

YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “I’ve al-

ways thought that the Penthouse [1019 Seymour Street] would make an awesome music venue and nightclub, but after attending the Jonathan Fluevog Jr. wedding at the John Fluevog Shoes store in Gastown [65 Water Street], I realize that it has such great potential for social events. I’d really like to try throwing some parties there one day, with John’s permission, of course. However, if that weren’t an option, I’d totally go with the Penthouse—and I wouldn’t change it much, either. I’d just revamp their sound system and get a permit for the top floor.”

BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: [Loyva] “We are

in love with Sur Une Plage’s album Legerdemain. The simplistic yet intricate synth parts and considered lyrics come together to create something new and unique. The duo is a huge inspiration to Fake Tears.”

THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: [Rembold]

“Sleater-Kinney at the Commodore Ballroom [on May 6]. I would say it was like a time warp, but I haven’t stopped listening to Sleater-Kinney since I first fell in love back in the mid 1990s! This show was a true reminder of how perfectly amazing they still are and have always been. I feel no guilt for shedding a few tears during the performance. The show was breathtaking and is my number one choice for this year’s best concert.” BEST ALBUM EVER: [Loyva] “Pulp’s Different Class. I was 15 when this album came out in 1995. While it’s hard to pick a favourite Pulp album, I’ll just say it was this one because I heard it first and it changed my life! Pulp started recording and putting out records in the early ’80s, and have embraced noise, goth, pop, disco, and epic song forms over the years. The lyrics are saucy and provocative sexually and politically. Pulp continues to be my favourite band, and is increasingly respected among the musical elite.” FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? [Rem-

bold] “Let’s go to Tojo’s [1133 West Broadway]! Does Aquilini have to be there? We’ve never been to Tojo’s, but we love sushi and we love indulging in fancy things! And we believe > MIKE USINGER the hype.”

FAKE TEARS

Larissa Loyva and Elisha May

2 Rembold are Fake Tears, a synth-

and-vocals combo that crafts afterthe-party electro-pop with ethereal harmonies that will have you weeping (or at least pretending to) well into the wee small hours. The duo’s debut album, Nightshifting, came out in August on the long-running Vancouver indie label Mint Records.

YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? [Rem-

bold] “The Bayside Lounge [1755 Davie Street] has the most stunning (public) sunset views in English Bay. Maybe we could build a stage where the circular bar is. We’d keep all the amazing wait staff and their caesar menu.” > JOHN LUCAS

FELIX CARTAL

Felix Cartal was inspired to

2 make dance music by MGH!-

fronted club nights like 1/2 Alive and Glory Days. Curious, as for the majority those nights merely inspired a massive hangover and a trip to a walk-in clinic. Since then, the output of this amiable fella, known as Taelor Deitcher to his friends, has been nothing short of prolific. To the delight of partiers around the world, there have been releases on Steve Aoki’s imprint Dim Mak, remixes of Jack Ü and Zedd, and a biweekly podcast called Weekend Workout. (I dare you to try to scroll through everything he’s posted to SoundCloud.) Recently, he made the move to a major, and he’s gearing up for a forthcoming LP titled Life Online on Universal, which will be released in 2016. In the meantime, he’s teasing us with euphoric tracks like “Something to Live For” and “With You” that are sure to inspire spirited sing-alongs at your next bigroom gathering, followed by a massive hangover and a trip to a walk-in clinic. BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: “Vanic’s remix of

Major Lazer’s ‘Be Together’. I feel like he found his sound recently. His last few releases have been really consistent and have started to follow a path that I think is really interesting to watch. That’s when someone’s career IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEP- is going to do well, when they find SEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO that direction. It’s hard to find and DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? that excites me about it.” [Loyva] “We think Chandra Melting Tallow of Mourning Coup is as talent- THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “Cœur de ed as she is beautiful. Jeremy Schmidt Pirate at the Commodore [on Sepof Sinoia Caves and Black Mountain tember 19]. It was so Canadian, becomes in a close second as a rad and cause it was a bilingual show. She very talented synth player in his own said almost all her banter in both right! (And that hair!) Jay Arner, who languages. It was like listening to recorded our album Nightshifting, can the intercom before an Air Canada flight. I loved that about it. Her singing buy us drinks anytime.”

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is so good. It’s incredible how true to TOMMY GENESIS the record she sounds.” This year, Vancouver-bred rapBEST ALBUM EVER: “Radiohead, per Tommy Genesis has spread Kid A. I feel like it’s a cliché saying her words through local art spaces that, because Pitchfork gave it 10 out and while touring as the Canadian of 10 and they kind of annoy me. It’s representative of the mostly Atlantareally a brave album. It’s interesting based Awful Records team. If the when a band that has had that much title of her recent World Vision fullsuccess will still make an album length didn’t tip you off, she’s already that’s different from what they’ve on her way to bringing savvy avant done before. I also like that it made poetics and wavy beat work to the electronic music accessible for rock masses on a global scale. dudes, like me at the time.”

FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Bao Bei

Chinese Brasserie [163 Keefer Street]. The idea of a fusion restaurant infuriates me as a concept, but there’s a lot of good ones in Vancouver. Even the idea of saying ‘fusion’ offends me as a musician because that’s usually what the worst music is. But Bao Bei is really good. Every time I’m there I wanna order everything on the menu. So if there was a taster menu, I could spend unlimited money and just nibble at each thing, I would totally do that.”

IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? “MGH! [formerly

my!gay!husband!]. There’s only one my!gay!husband! and it’s him. I like people that are fully themselves. He’s an original and I think he does a lot of great things for the city. I like all those dudes from that scene. They always support me, which is cool. I don’t feel like my music is the same as what they’re doing. No one gives a shit, in a good way.”

BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: “It’ll probably be my

homie Jay Worthy. He spends a lot of time in L.A., but his mom lives here, so I see him a lot. He just released an EP by the name of LNDN DRGS—the group is also called LNDN DRGS, which is him and his producer Sean House. It’s old-school West Coast rap. He samples a lot of soul music. It sounds like an old record, but everything he’s saying is contemporary.”

THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “I saw

FKA twigs play back in November [on November 17 at the Commodore Ballroom]. Her performances are choreographed, so it came across as theatrical, almost like a musical. It was beautiful and serene, with a lot of movement. It also kind of gave me a Matthew Barney vibe: you expected something creepy and weird to happen.”

BEST ALBUM EVER: “It’d have

to be Houdini by the Melvins. It’s a weird album for me to like, because I make rap music, but I went through a punk phase when I was little. That album has stuck with YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S me, I still play it. It reminds me of a YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The ice lot of people in my life. My favourrink on Robson [800 Robson Street]. ite song is ‘Shevil’.” I have two reasons. One, it would just be so Canadian—the idea of things FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYthat are really Canadian is funny to ING—WHERE’S DINNER? “I eat a me. I like buying into the idea of mak- lot of homemade food and random ing fun of us for the reasons people sushi, but my favourite place to go around the world make fun of us. And is Caffè Brixton [212 East Georgia then two, I think of roller rinks and Street]. Me and my friend Willow go there was always that dance culture there and draw and paint for hours. in roller rinks. It’d be fun. Imagine if They serve food and alcohol, so it’s everyone was skating and you had a the best of both worlds. Also, Drake went there when he was in town.” really good DJ. That could be dope.” > MICHAEL MANN

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The Isotopes, Holy Hum, and Stefana Fratila re-enact a scene from Walter Hill’s The Warriors at What’s Up? Hot Dog!, much to the chagrin of the restaurant’s owner, Jenna Hagarty. Emily Cooper photo.

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IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? “Nardwuar the Human Ser-

viette. I like his style. He scares me! He’s always thinking ahead of everyone else. I always see him around and he just intrigues me.”

YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The

Hotel Europe in Gastown [43 Powell Street]. I would buy that entire building, gut it, and have each floor be an after-hours. But on the top floor, I’d have a venue where acts would come through. It’s a historic building in Gastown, but apartments are always on Craigslist. I would want to call it the Rihanna, because I think it’d be bossy. It’ll be a rap venue.” > GREGORY ADAMS

NAP

Are you also overcome with

2 an uncontrollable urge to grab

NAP, give him a big hug, then lick his shorn head every time you see him walking around East Van? Okay, maybe that’s just me. Do not lick his head unless you know his real name is Daniel Rincon and he practises at Deep Blue (255 East 2nd Avenue; it’s the rundown blue shack on the north side of the street). But do listen to his album, as it’s the best local punk album of the year—this, of course, means it’s actually underground dance music. Uncharted is a nine-track throwback to when dance music was raw and weird and could keep a party going without the assistance of bass drops, Lil Jon, or firehoses that spray neon paint all over you. Who needs any of that when you’ve got two 303s and know how to use them? Rincon will get you reaching for your old KLF,

Orb, and Plastikman CDs. And hug who plays in Weed. He’s a total heartthrob rock star with long hair. him next time you see him, too. Always has a hoodie even if it’s really BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER hot. He has his hair dyed blond on THAN YOURS: “Ramzi, Houti Kush. one side and brown on the other. It’s on another tip. It sounds like an He’s total rock ’n’ roll.” alien jungle. Out of all the underground electronic music happening YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S in Vancouver, she’s doing something YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “The special. You see her play and it’s like McBarge [Burrard Inlet]. It’s the most jacked-up spot ever. It’d be fun to being on a crazy ketamine trip.” have crazy techno raves on the weekTHE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “Phar- end there. You could do a 50-personmakon at the Fox Cabaret [on Febru- guest-list thing and make it a very ary 21]. Forget about it. She’s one of limited Illuminati kind of thing.” > MICHAEL MANN the most incredible performers I’ve ever seen. I actually booked her at the Fox thinking maybe 50 people would HOLY HUM come, but it was almost sold-out. She Whether he’s fronting postrock completely destroyed the room. She unit In Medias Res or crafting gave my friend an epileptic attack. So brutal. She blew up three speakers at ambient soundscapes as Holy Hum, the venue. It was insane. Seeing a show Andrew Lee is a seasoned talent with a like that at an actual club is pretty bad- pristine vision. On Holy Hum’s latest ass. Usually, ones like that happen in releases, Appendix A + B and Appendix C, the latter a poignant tribute to dark basements and DIY spots.” Lee’s late father, the singer-songwriter BEST ALBUM EVER: “SPK, layers softly glowing drones with Leichenschrei. It’s like a turn off the synth, guitar, and cello. They creep lights and smoke a jay kinda album. over you like tendrils of mist and leave It was my introduction to noise a long-lasting impression. music. It’s not just boring static, it’s a trip. It’s one of the darkest and most BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER morbid pieces of recorded music THAN YOURS: “Why Live? by Tim ever. This thing will take you to hell. the Mute. My friend Mark Soo, who is a brilliant artist, gave me a bit of It’s so sick. I love it.” musical advice back in 2009, a basic FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAY- concept that I can’t adhere to, because ING—WHERE’S DINNER? “The I lack the refined sense of humour. Cactus Club [various locations]. I find He told me to ‘never sing a sad song it wonderful to be able to go to sev- sad.’ There are moments on Why Live? eral places in the city where there’s a where you can’t tell if Tim is trying to menu you’re familiar with. Bellinis! be funny or tragically heartbreaking. I love Bellinis and any of the apps. It’s I admire that contrast.” a wonderful place.” THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “It wasn’t IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE technically a gig, but I got invited to JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, jam with members of the seminal WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY art-rock band U-J3RK5 and had a LIKE? “My buddy Hugo Noriega, pretty transformative experience.

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There was a lot of freeform experimental expression. I wasn’t so much a part of it as I was standing outside of it, watching and hearing it unfold in front of me. I thought these old geezers would be Eric Clapton fare, but they seriously blew me out of the water and are on another plane of freedom when it comes to jamming.” BEST ALBUM EVER: “The most formative album for me and one that I always return to is Nirvana’s In Utero. It has a lot of different points of entry thematically and aesthetically. It’s sonically abrasive and at times sounds very vulnerable and earnest. The record also references smell a lot, so it has a palpable feeling when you listen to it. And it’s the record that I obsessed over in Grade 5 while learning to play the guitar and starting my first band.” FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Who

is Francesco Aquilini and why is he buying me dinner? If I’m eating out, I’m usually at Au Petit Café [4851 Main Street]. I’ll get a bowl of pho, a chicken banh mi sandwich, and a Vietnamese iced coffee poured over sweet condensed milk. Or you can find me at the H-Mart food court [590 Robson Street] eating jajangmyeon and soondae.” IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? “I really like Dan Bejar’s hair.” YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “I

would open up a venue in any one of the unoccupied condos in Vancouver and do small house shows. But if that was considered illegal, I would open up a venue on the rooftop of the

Wing Sang Building in Chinatown [51 East Pender Street].”

> VIVIAN PENCZ

STEFANA FRATILA

Politically charged artist Stef-

2 ana Fratila has been making

beautifully rare music in Vancouver for years. But her latest record, Efemera, is Fratila’s first output as a solo electronic producer. Listening to Efemera’s hypnotizing swirls of synths, beats, and melodies, you would never know that the sylphlike songbird is new to the electronic realm. Fratila’s eclectic spirit is integral to her songwriting prowess.

BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: “There are so many,

but my favourite is Mourning Coup’s Baby Blue. Each song is so powerful and beautiful in its own way. I’ll never forget a very special moment on tour this summer. I woke up listening to the song ‘Somnium’ right as my plane landed in my hometown, Sibiu, in Romania.” THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “Jenny

Hval at the Cobalt with Briana Marela and Mu [on August 28]. So much presence. I also really enjoyed dancing to Moon B’s set when he came through. It’s pretty cool that he’s an L.A. dad who also keeps the freaks on the floor.”

BEST ALBUM EVER: “ESG’s Come

Away With ESG. They are a group of beautiful and badass South Bronx women who made the funkiest and most minimalist postpunk record ever. Every hip-hop artist you can think of has sampled them. It’s an album I keep going back to year after year. It’s such inspiring and empowering music.” see next page

FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? “Sweet

Revenge Patisserie [4160 Main Street]. There’s this one really weird waiter there, and who could say no to liqueur in their tea? I guess it’s not where you would have dinner per se, but Francesco would be putting his money towards a truly memorable dessert feast—the kind where everyone spills out their darkest secrets and yet makes no regrettable decisions.”

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IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE? “I’m no longer in high school,

so I can’t say Dan Bejar with the same kind of inappropriate conviction. Tom Whalen of New Vaders is the city’s new up-and-coming crooner. Everyone loves him, because he’s the best!” YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “I would

open one called True Love at Prospect Point [5601 Stanley Park Drive] and it would be open all night long!”

> VIVIAN PENCZ

ISOTOPES

How much material can one

2 band write about baseball? A

lot, evidently. Singer Evan October founded the Isotopes back in 2007 and, following a smattering of shortform releases, the band—which also includes drummer Trevor Uppercutz, bassist Justin Safely, guitarist Matt Shatters, and announcer Rad Jockstrap—made its full-length debut with this year’s Nuclear Strikezone. Its rousing pop-punk anthems are catchy enough that they will even appeal to those who aren’t fans of baseball (although that definitely helps).

BEST LOCAL RELEASE OTHER THAN YOURS: “The best local re-

lease of the past 12 months is Nervous Talk’s [self-titled] full-length LP. There’s a lot of punk bands out there that aren’t writing very good songs, and these guys are excellent at songwriting, and it really stands out to me as easily the best punk-rock album out of the city this year, including our record.”

THE YEAR’S BEST GIG: “ToyGuitar at the Cobalt [on June 20] was by far my favourite show that I was at this year. They’re from San Francisco, they’re on Fat Wreck Chords, and they’re a really cool rock ’n’ roll band.” BEST ALBUM EVER: “I’m going to have to go with Screeching Weasel’s My Brain Hurts. It’s a really wellwritten record. Lyrically, it stands out both as really good and also ahead of where punk in general was at that time, which was 1991, I believe.” FRANCESCO AQUILINI’S PAYING—WHERE’S DINNER? “What’s

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IN THE SPIRIT OF CARLY RAE JEPSEN’S “I REALLY LIKE YOU”, WHO DO YOU REALLY, REALLY LIKE?

“Carly Rae Jepsen is local, so my first choice would obviously be her. I think she’s gorgeous and I would relish the opportunity to let her know that in person. I hope she’s a Georgia Straight reader. I’m sure she is from time to time when she’s in town.”

YOU WON LOTTO MAX. WHERE’S YOUR CLUB OPENING UP? “That

bingo hall at Main and 11th [Planet Bingo, 2655 Main Street]. We’d take that place over and rename it SkyDome. The floors will be turf and we’ll do 81 shows there a year, so if you’re a punk band coming through Vancouver, you know you’re going up against the ’Topes.” > ALEX HUDSON

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Watson probes the dirty sounds of science Patrick Watson has been releas-

2 ing albums for a decade and a

half, but despite his obvious passion for his chosen profession, the Montreal songwriter now finds other pursuits to be more fertile than music. “I love reading about quantum mechanics. I love physics; I find physics super touching and super fascinating,” he tells the Straight, on the line from a tour stop in Illinois. “We’re in the era where most of the creative fields are in sciences. We’re in an era where what they are exploring is weirder than any song anybody’s put out in the last hundred years.” This outlook provided the spark for Watson’s most recent album, Love Songs for Robots, which finds the singer and his eponymous band venturing into futuristic sonic territory that represents a significant departure from the chamber pop and lush indie rock they have typically favoured over the years. “I realized that a lot of our records are very folk-feeling, but all I read is science journals and science-fiction stories,” Watson notes of the new LP’s genesis. “I just wanted to find a way to make all of those discussions touching and put them in a human context.” Watson—along with guitarist Simon Angell, bassist Mishka Stein, and drummer Robbie Kuster— sought to achieve this science-minded sound by incorporating analogue synthesizers into their setup and finding inspiration in the 1982 sci-fi film Blade Runner. The frontman asks, “Do you remember Blade Runner, the colours in that film? It’s pretty science-y, but you don’t ever think about that because it’s [set in] a dirty city. It’s pretty human. Really dark red, kind of sensual. All of that stuff is what I wanted the record to sound like.” This multifaceted aesthetic can be heard on the standout cut “Good Morning Mr. Wolf”, which pingpongs between cloud-scraping

Patrick Watson aims for what he calls the “wind-blown” look, but ends up coming closer to Jacobim Mugatu’s Derelicte.

postrock crescendos and gentle ukulele comedowns. Elsewhere on Love Songs for Robots, the celestial orchestrations of “Bollywood” have more in common with Kid A than with the film movement that inspired its title, while the sprawling “Turn Into the Noise” is a collision of cabaret grandeur and interstellar soul balladry. Ethereal ambient tones frequently go toe to toe with acoustic guitar or piano, while Watson’s tender falsetto is placed at the forefront. To capture this uniquely human approach to synthesizer music, the players recorded live off the floor without a click track, in sessions that took place at Hollywood’s revered Capitol Studios. “It was just old-school: you’ve got Nat King Cole’s piano, Frank Sinatra’s microphone. It’s a pretty inspiring place. We just did a couple

of live takes, took the best one, did a couple of overdubs, and moved on.” Despite the band’s overhauled approach, Watson hopes that fans don’t define Love Songs for Robots by its instrumental palette. “If you heard electronic music and you didn’t think it was electronic music,” he offers, “I would say that would be success.” > ALEX HUDSON

Patrick Watson plays the Commodore Ballroom on Monday (October 5).

For Vieux Farka Touré, the road goes ever on Mali is a vast, landlocked African

2 country, with the Sahara desert in its north, that’s been criss-crossed for thousands of years by nomads.

Though guitarist Vieux Farka Touré comes from the settled Malian community of Niafunke—where his father, the late desert-blues legend Ali Farka Touré, lived and farmed—he seems to have picked up the yen to stay on the move. In recent weeks he’s played in Germany, France, Switzerland, and India, and is currently on his second tour this year of North America. “I travel constantly with my regular musicians Tim Keiper [drums] and Shahzad Ismaily [bass],” says the globe-trotting Touré, reached in New York and speaking in French with a heavy Malian accent. “But when this tour’s done I’m going home to Niafunke to rest a bit, then there are more concerts in Mali and also in Dakar [Senegal]. It never stops.” Touré, named Vieux after his grandfather, is one of the most soughtafter guitarists in Africa, but he only

picked up the instrument at the age of 23, in 2004. Before that, he played percussion and was principal drummer in the Orchestra of Niafunke. He learned the guitar in secret, as his famous father initially disapproved of him becoming a musician like himself. Touré junior has made up for any lost time, however—releasing six solo albums of electric and acoustic guitar in the past eight years, performing to an estimated billion TV viewers at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and collaborating with several leading musicians from other lands, most prominently Israeli world music and jazz pianist Idan Raichel. For his latest release, Touristes, Touré has teamed up with rising U.S. singer and songwriter Julia Easterlin, who layers her music using a looping machine. “My manager came up with the idea of working with her. She should be touring with me but unfortunately she’s had to leave for family reasons. It’s the first time I’ve collaborated with a woman musician. She’s got a magnificent voice, and the album came together really naturally. Most of the compositions are mine, but she also brought her own music and ideas. We’re very happy with the result. I love the process of collaborating and discovering new things that you could never come up with on your own.” Touré mixes a love of ancient traditions with the urge to experiment, making use of the latest music technology. His songs are characterized by deep grooves and the strong Tuareg, Berber, and Arabic influences from the north that colour much of the music of central Mali, to which he adds jangling cascades of notes and rock-inspired solos that sting and soar. “I refer a great deal to traditional music and call-andresponse songs. That’s my great base for developing other, more contemporary things. I listen to a lot of rock and rap and like to draw on the differences see page 109

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Vieux Farka Touré performs at the Rickshaw Theatre on Tuesday (October 6).

Burning Palms rewrites the psych-rock rulebook As if to prove she’s indeed at one Mother Nature, Simone Stopford isn’t in a rundown motel or filthy tour van when the Georgia Straight reaches her near San Diego. Instead, the singer-guitarist for Tucson, Arizona, psych unit Burning Palms is hanging out on a beach that she describes as nothing less than magical. Normally, that would suggest that Stopford is enjoying some decidedly un–rock ’n’ roll downtime, perhaps recharging her batteries before a round of touring for the band’s brilliantly trippy debut disc, Burning Palms. Laughing, she says that’s not exactly the case. “We’re camping on the most beautiful beach, just north of San Diego,” Stopford says. “It’s really wonderful—just breathtaking. Tour life really isn’t that bad, you know.” In fact, learn to play your angles, and it can be pretty grand. “We figured out a while ago that camping is—weather permitting— way better than staying in a flea-ridden hotel,” she offers. “Plus, we’re all pretty outdoorsy, so we went as far as to get ourselves sponsored by a camping company up in Portland. They actually sent us some tents and sleeping bags and a whole bunch of gear.” Stopford’s love of wide-open spaces explains how she ended up in Tucson with Burning Palms, which she cofounded with vocalist Julia DeConcini. Born in England, she spent years living around the globe as a publicist, A&R rep, and MTV

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marketing director. During a stint in Australia, she picked up a guitar left behind by a departed boyfriend and began writing songs. “What’s interesting is that when I first started writing in Sydney, I was sitting in my bedroom for hours on end up in an attic,” Stopford says. “As I was writing, I really had strong visions of a desert setting and sunsets, and a strong feeling of nature, and of God being bigger than us. I wasn’t in that environment at all, but somehow ended up there.” Burning Palms sounds like the desert in the same deliriously heatbaked way as the Meat Puppets’ Meat Puppets II or everything released by the Texas-spawned Black Angels. From the creeping nightmare “Young Hunter” to the sunrise-in-the-Sahara mysticism of “Church of Ra”, there’s plenty to make you wonder if Stopford pops peyote into her morning coffee. What really stands out, though, is her flair for sonic fireworks; just when the mystical morphine-drip ballad “Ajo” is at its quietest, she roars out of nowhere with a salvo of double-distorted guitar violence. While she sounds insanely selfassured as a musician, the move from boardrooms to playing in a band didn’t come easy. “Honestly, I’m up there every night playing guitar, singing, and now playing bass as well,” Stopford says selfdeprecatingly. “But I really don’t know what I’m doing. I can probably play three or four chords if you asked me to. I’m more just playing sounds that I’ve made up. I have thought about taking lessons over the years, and even just sitting down with some YouTube instructionals would probably make me a better musician, but I’m nervous that if I learn to play properly, I’m going to fall into the trap of writing really obvious stuff.” And whether she’s camping on tour or writing her own rules for psychrock, Stopford is obviously determined to play by no one’s rules but her own. That she’s pulling it off is a bonus. “I actually get the giggles a lot of nights because I can see guys standing

The electrified fence that delineates the perimeter of the Burning Palms compound is cleverly disguised as foliage. James Michael Juarez photo.

in the front row staring at my hands, really focusing on what I’m doing, trying to follow along,” Stopford says with a big laugh. “Then a confused look comes over their faces and they stop watching after a while because they realize it’s all just a bunch of nonsense.” > MIKE USINGER

Burning Palms plays the Cobalt on Thursday (October 1).

Burke takes Irish music right back to its roots Kevin Burke has written a

2 song. It may not sound like a

big deal, but—though he’s a natural storyteller—the legendary Irish fiddler has never penned one before in a long career winding back to his teens in London in the ’60s. That

by the time I was 15 or 16, I’d go out with my schoolmates to hear bands like Manfred Mann, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, maybe on a Friday night—then Saturday and Sunday it was Irish music in the Irish pubs. I didn’t see it as incongruous at all.” Soon after leaving school, Burke, already a champion fiddler, joined feisty singer Christy Moore’s band and then the hugely influential Bothy Band, a tradition-based outfit with rock-’n’-roll attitude and drive. After the Bothies split up, Burke moved to Portland, where he’s forged a solo career, as well as cofounding the groups Open House, Patrick Street, and Celtic Fiddle Festival. His presence in Oregon has boosted Celtic music on the West Coast in a major way. On this Vancouver visit Burke will perform solo, the way Irish music was played until the mid-’60s. “A lot of people don’t realize or maybe have forgotten that it was unaccompanied, and if there was more than one musician they’d probably be playing in unison. The odd time there might be piano accompaniment, but it was very rare to see a guitar—and in most cases it wasn’t welcome. The older people I knew weren’t comfortable with it. “I thought it would be fun to remind people what Irish music was like in its natural state, so I started doing solo concerts, and despite some initial resistance I get many bookings along the lines ‘Would you mind not bringing an accompanist?’ I find it kind of liberating—and challenging because if anything goes wrong you know who to blame. I like to talk about where the tunes came from, the characters I met when learning them, and why I think they’re deserving of an airing. I also play pieces from related traditions in North America, Scandinavia, and other Celtic lands. And I may do ‘London Town’ in Vancouver, but people can relax—I definitely won’t attempt any Stones or Kinks songs,” Burke stresses, with a chuckle.

was an exciting time and place for the development of Irish music, and recently a songwriting friend offered to help Burke turn his memories of those years into a ditty. “We came up with ‘London Town’— about the thousands of people like my parents who left Ireland after the war and settled in London and felt a bit adrift as any immigrant would,” says Burke, reached at his home in Portland, Oregon. “Traditional music was the unifying thing for them and lifted up their spirits when times were hard.” Burke absorbed the songs and airs he heard on the family record player and in the Irish community, while at the same time studying classical violin. And there was much other music > TONY MONTAGUE around to inspire him. “My parents were from Sligo [on the north-west coast of Ireland] and there was a Kevin Burke performs at St. James steady diet of music from there. But Hall on Sunday (October 4).

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When she’s not rapping about life as a child of immigrants, Horsepowar does a frighteningly accurate Serj Tankian impression. Mike Powar photo.

Horsepowar channels Desi life into hip-hop

ot many 23-year-olds can with samples from Powar’s favourite say that they’ve hosted a Bollywood movies, the EP starts off radio show, been part of a with the artist dropping verses at slam-poetry team, starred breakneck speed over a whistled tune in countless theatre productions, on “www.desigurl.com”. It’s subtle, but and released two EPs, but for one a great way to ease listeners into a style Richmond-born rapper with South that at times becomes much more agAsian roots, these are just a few en- gressive. Take “Queen”, for example. tries on a performance-filled résumé Powar’s perfect blend of downright that continues to grow. dirty hip-hop beats and flamboyant She’s charismatic, upbeat, and Bollywood samples will have you wonpoised to drop rhymes at any second, dering whether you should be twerkbut it might come as a surprise that ing or “installing light bulbs”. Jasleen Powar, who Powar sticks to goes by Horsea mellow flow on powar on-stage, “Hold Me Homnever planned to ies”, a comingAmanda Siebert get into hip-hop. of-age track that It was the Bollywood enthusiast’s en- drops references to her neighbourcounters at Café Deux Soleils’ youth hood in Richmond and the quirks poetry slam that first spurred her in- that come with being the daughter terest in the art of verse and balladry. of immigrant parents: “Us Desi girls “I was too scared to get up there trying to live this double life/parents and read my stuff at first, but I start- came from the Ketha for a better life/ ed watching every chance I could,” all they wanted was for their culture says Powar on her cellphone from to survive”. Victoria, where she’s finishing a deThings really come alive on the EP’s gree in applied theatre at UVic. last track, “Best Actress Award Goes “I got to link up with a lot of cool to Rob Schneider”, as Powar rhymes people. They’d come up to me and about making it big over a hypnotizsay that I had a neat flow, and that it ing blend of sitars and strings. sounded like rap,” she says. “It wasn’t Of the EP, Powar says “It’s 110 so foreign for me to rhyme and to percent me,” but she recognizes that vibe, but we weren’t allowed music, she’s not the only one who can idenso I guess I just did it my way.” tify with the lyrics. It wasn’t until Powar’s second year “My older family has this old way of university—when she was in the of thinking, and now you have these thick of what she refers to as her “let’s new-age Indian kids who are trying fuck shit up” party stage—that she to battle this hybrid life. It’s a strugbegan experimenting with joke rap. gle, because there are certain aspects The first song she ever wrote, of my culture that I’m not necessarcalled “Dank Pu$$”, was produced ily proud of,” she says. by a friend who went by the name of “If I marry someone who’s not Fascist. “It was a style he was down Punjabi, I’m not going to have that for, and it was super obnoxious and support. It’s not even just an Indian vulgar, but he was as invested as thing; I’m rapping about what a lot of I was, so it was fun,” she remembers. girls who are children of immigrant But much like an all-night college parents are feeling.” bender, the pleasantries faded quickWhile she isn’t focused on purly. “Joke rap only takes you so far,” suing a career in acting unless her says Powar. Bollywood career takes off, her vi“Saying shit to try and trip people sion for Horsepowar is much bigger up was fun, but it wasn’t really who than just rap. I was,” she says, emphasizing that it “I see myself as super big. I like wasn’t music she was proud of, es- interviewing, broadcasting, acting, pecially because she wasn’t comfort- fashion, and I want to create as many able sharing it with her parents or forms of art as I can under Horseyoung nieces and nephews. powar,” she says. “I needed to remove myself from “I haven’t even gotten to where I that world, and ask what good music want to sound and how I want to be actually is and what it talks about,” perceived. I’m finding it and evolvsays Powar. ing, but I need to forget about views Her latest release, a five-track EP and likes and focus on the craft.” titled Bollywoes, trades tongue-inWhile she hasn’t planned any cheek vulgarity for real-life experi- shows for the near future, Powar ences, chronicling the struggles of a plans to release another EP by the Desi girl living in suburbia. Loaded end of the year. -

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Del Rey’s latest sounds sluggish LANA DEL REY Honeymoon (Universal)

Steering ever further from the winning formula she concocted with her 2012 breakthrough, Born to Die, Lana Del Rey has returned with her sprawling fourth album, Honeymoon. You will find no “Summertime Sadness”–style hit on this record. But as fascinatingly as always, listening to the pop diva’s music is like getting stoned and swigging Jim Beam in the dark of your bedroom, while you play reels of old home movies and tragic Hollywood classics. Screeching into view like a swerving Cadillac with Hitchcock-pitch strings and romantic melodrama, the title track sets the stage with lavish set pieces of dilapidated L.A. daydreams. Warbling with her trademark honey-dunked, lethargic pipes, Del Rey sounds more controlled and mature than ever before. The music is still heavily produced in a beautiful, sumptuous way, the guitars plucked as if underwater in a seedy motel pool. The tracks “Terrence Loves You” and “God Knows I Tried” go nowhere, but the journey is strangely divine. The cover of Nina Simone’s “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” sounds surprisingly fresh and apt for Del Rey’s mysterious persona. That said, the ongoing hype remains unjustified. Honeymoon is sluggish to the point of Quaaludeinduced extremes, and the lack of memorable melodies only deepens the sloth of the record’s latter half. Del Rey’s lyrics are vastly improved, even poetic. But she continues to glorify domestic abuse while singing husky odes to violent men, sadly embodying the sexist image of tortured vixen who loves to be punished. Del Rey has an intriguing musical vision. She is clearly in ultimate

control of the dew-sparkled web of myths she has woven for her selfdescribed “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” alter ego. If Del Rey can break out of the male-fantasy mould she appears stuck in and focus more on songwriting than on style, she may be able to pull herself back from the brink of staledom.

is a subtly unsettling ballad, while the juggernaut single “Can’t Feel My Face” utilizes a veiled “drug-as-love” metaphor that makes it easy to forget about the words and get lost in the banging beat. The Weeknd clearly knows his way around an unforgettable pop hook; if he can widen his horizons as a storyteller, he’ll be the > VIVIAN PENCZ complete package.

THE WEEKND Beauty Behind the Madness (XO/ Republic)

When the Weeknd first emerged in 2011 with a trilogy of buzzedabout mix tapes, the Toronto singer born Abel Tesfaye shied away from the press and rarely made public appearances. His reclusive tendencies increased the mystique of his shadowy “noir & B” songs, which typically concerned destructive tales of sex and drug abuse. Since then, his public persona has become more approachable, but most of his lyrics on Beauty Behind the Madness continue to dwell on the same debauched themes. Musically speaking, this latest LP is a bright, big-budget blockbuster that marks a departure from the nocturnal stylings of his early work. The gorgeously lush pop sound means that Tesfaye’s raunchy words, once so integral to his aesthetic, are now clunky and out of place. On the sonically stately soul ballad “Tell Your Friends”, he invites everyone to “tell your friends” about his love of drugs and promiscuous sex; on the woozy “Often”, he boasts that he partakes in drugs and promiscuous sex “often”. Notice a trend here? What’s particularly frustrating about the Weeknd’s lyrical limitations is that, when he steps outside of his hedonism-glorifying comfort zone, the results are sublime. In particular, the grandly orchestral “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)”

> ALEX HUDSON

CHELSEA WOLFE Abyss (Sargent House)

To love Chelsea Wolfe is to

2 play with the dark passenger

that travels within us all. She’s like Elvira, Sylvia Plath, and Joni Mitchell all rolled into one—a creature at once mythical and larger than life yet grounded by her convictions. Producer Ben Chisholm, who’s forged from the Trent Reznor mould, helped inject more electronics into Wolfe’s sound while playing synth, bass, and piano as well as handling the photography and layout for her fifth album. Abyss has the feel of a rock opera— it marches with a deliberate pace in a journey through post-grunge, gothic folk, industrial, and baroque pop that’s unified by the surreal terror of Wolfe. The dissonant strings blending their descending glissandi with screams that give the impression of people falling to their doom in “Crazy Love” is just one of the brilliant moments when her theme and sound wrap around each other. Yet for all of her dead-serious imagery and heavy, evocative instrumentals, there’s a vulnerability in Wolfe’s vocals that draws the listener in closer. This is most apparent on “Iron Moon”, its gently plucked melody, sparse drums, and near-whisper vocals offset by a doom-guitar dirge and distorted-howl chorus. It’s easy

to lose oneself in this Abyss, which is simply spellbinding stuff.

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RYAN ADAMS 1989 (PaxAmericana/Blue Note)

At surface level, Ryan Adams’s tribute to Taylor Swift’s 1989 screams of gimmickry. After all, folksy covers of mainstream pop songs are usually best suited to dorm-room parties and campfire sing-alongs, not major releases such as this one. To Adams’s credit, however, his take on 1989 is more than just a curious stylistic exercise, and he manages to inject his own personality into these worldconquering hit songs. He worked on these covers in the wake of his split with ex-wife Mandy Moore, and his sense of heartbreak is palpable when he transforms the defiant anthems “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” into mournful latenight ballads. Haters gonna hate, but these versions are better suited to wallowing than shaking it off. Beyond changing the emotional tone of 1989, Adams takes significant liberties with the material. He edits a number of the lyrics—particularly the gendered pronouns—and alters some of the melodies. His heartland-rock adaptation of “Welcome to New York” tweaks the chorus hook to be rueful rather than triumphant, while his 6/8 strumming on “Out of the Woods” makes it scarcely recognizable as the same song as the danceable original. Although these renditions confirm Adams’s skill as an arranger, his reworking of 1989 succeeds primarily because of the strength of the original songs. If Adams can convince a few narrow-minded rockists to listen to Swift’s fantastic pop hit, then this album will have served a worthy purpose.

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THE BOOM BOOMS Vancouver indiesoul band tours in support of sophomore release Love Is Overdue, with guest Michael Bernard Fitzgerald. Oct 2, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.

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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE ENIGMAS Local garage-rock band performs with guests the Wasted Strays and Making Strangers. Oct 10, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $12, info www.face book.com/TheEnigmasBand/. ANDRA DAY American soul-blues singersongwriter tours in support of debut album Cheers to the Fall. Nov 2, doors 8 pm,show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, $12 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GOOD FOR GRAPES Vancouver-based indie-folk band tours in support of latest album The Ropes. Nov 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www .ticketweb.ca/. HEADSTONES Canadian guitar-rock band tours in support of latest release One in the Chamber Music. Nov 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.com modoreballroom.com/. BARNEY BENTALL & THE CARIBOO EXPRESS Fundraising concert with guests Dustin Bentall, Ridley Bent, Matt Masters, and Wendy Bird. Proceeds go to the Potluck Café Society, which creates jobs and provides healthy food for people living in the Downtown Eastside. Nov 28, 6:30-11 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix 41.95-52.45, info www.barneybentall.com/. KIASMOS Experimental duo tours in support of self-titled debut release, with guests Florestano. Dec 12, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. PITY SEX Michigan indie-rock band tours in support of upcoming release, with guests Colleen Green and Eskimeaux. Dec 22, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

ADAM COHEN Even though his father is apparently semi well-known for something or other, we’re fans of Adam Cohen because he’s always stood on his own two feet. Screw waiting for a trust fund. Cohen knew what he wanted early and went after it, mastering every rock instrument that matters before he hit his teens, and then launching a career that’s been impressively varied. There’s been tours of duty in the rock trenches with the band Low Millions, songwriting for legends like Bette Midler, and critically praised solo albums. Expect to hear songs from Cohen’s latest, We Go Home, when he plays a Centennial Theatre benefit show for the North Shore Disability Resource Centre on Saturday (October 3). That’s right, it’s a benefit—just one more reason to admire a guy who’s always stood in no one’s shadow.

THE TEA PARTY Canadian hard-rock trio featuring singer-guitarist Jeff Martin. Oct 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix $49.50/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticket master.ca/. JASON ALDEAN American country singer-songwriter performs on his Burn

2THIS WEEK UB40 The Georgia Straight presents British reggae-pop band (“Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine”), featuring Ali Campbell, Astro, and Mickey Virtue. Oct 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $59.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. BURNING PALMS Arizona psych-rock band tours in support of self-titled debut release. Oct 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, ad www.ticketweb.ca/. AIR SUPPLY Multiplatinum soft-rock duo from Australia (“Every Woman in the World”, “All Out of Love”). Oct 1, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix $49.50/39.50/34.50 (plus service charges and fees), info www.hardrockcasino vancouver.com/.

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CANNIBAL OX Underground hip-hop duo from Harlem, New York, with guest Liam Tracy. Oct 2, 7-11 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortune soundclub.com/. OVERKILL & SYMPHONY X Music by Overkill and Symphony X. Oct 2, 7-11:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35-100, info www.facebook.com/ events/1617969811752830/. ALPHA YAYA DIALLO - WEST AFRICAN SUMMIT Juno Award-winning band presents a performance with dancer N’nato Camara, musician Naby Camara, and kora player Boujou Badialy Cissoko. Oct 2, 8 pm, The ACT Arts Centre (11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge). Info www.theactmapleridge.org/.

pop singer-songwriter tours in support of debut release Goon, with guests Wet. Oct 3, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

TITUS ANDRONICUS American indierock band tours in support of latest

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TWENTY ONE PILOTS Indie-pop/hiphop duo from Columbus, Ohio, tours in support of latest album Blurryface. Apr 11, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, $39.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

DIE MANNEQUIN AND FAKE SHARK Toronto rock ‘n’ roll band coheadlines with Vancouver freak-pop band. Oct 2, 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/.

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THE WOOD BROTHERS American roots-blues band tours in support of new release Paradise. Jan 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.

BRAIDS Montreal experimental-pop band tours in support of latest release Deep in the Iris. Oct 2, doors 9 pm, show 9:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

ALCEST French black-metal/shoegaze GET YER YA YA’S OUT Vancouver musiband, with guest Emma Ruth Rundle. Oct 1, cians Steve Dawson and the Black Hen 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $20 (plus Band, Barney Bentall, Rich Hope, and service charges and fees) at Red Cat Craig Northey reimagine the classic Records and www.ticketfly.com/. Rolling Stones album. Oct 2-3, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West THE TENORS Canadian vocal group Van). Oct 2 SOLD OUT, tix for Oct 3 at tours in support of upcoming studio www.kaymeekcentre.com/, info www album Under One Sky. Oct 2, Abbotsford .kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/2112/. Centre (33800 King Rd., Abbotsford). Tix at www.livenation.com/. TOBIAS JESSO JR. Vancouver-born

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FUNK THE HALLS Holiday party features music by Vancouver electronic-dance duo the Funk Hunters. Dec 22, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 2, 10 am, from $28.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.

It Down tour, with guests Cole Swindell, Tyler Farr, and Dee Jay Silver. Oct 2, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $69.50/49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.live nation.com/.

Rock stacking... Tired of the selfish insensitive people disrupting nature. Let’s end this invasive practice. Fight the urge to stack rocks and make your mark. If you put them up take them down and put things back the way you found them. Stop you selfish, insensitive people disrupting the natural beauty of the wilderness with your own personal art installations. Let’s check our egos at home and leave the earth’s natural beauty alone. Her geology, as it stands, is already perfect.

How do I love? I had a dream that a thousand people were surrounding me. They all started hugging me and for once in my life I had a warm feeling. But then I woke up to the sad reality that I push people away... I want love but I don’t. I want to be loved but I just can’t handle it. I can’t seem to reciprocate love. I emanate rejection but crave affection... I just want to learn to love and be loved. Sadness seeps from my pores. I live in a very sad, sad reality.

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release The Most Lamentable Tragedy, with guests Spider Bags and Baked. Oct 3, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

MR. VEGAS The Georgia Straight presents Jamaican reggae artist and the 440 Band, with guest Purple Soul, performing on the Reggae Euphoria West Coast tour. Oct 3, doors 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. FACEFEST XX–THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY Music by Johnny Keen, the Rustic Sinners, Tarantula Head, Ketchy Shuby, Eddy D & the Sex Bombs, Stab’em in the Abdomen, the Rain and the Sidewalk, the Hay Dolls, Orchard Pinkish & His Horny Hands, Pill Squad, WackLatter, the Wasted Strays, Chopper and the Saucermen, Crummy, Evan Symons, Gnash Rambler, Wett Stilettos, Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, Gold Stars are for Suckers, and the Fabulous Rootabeggars. Oct 3, 7 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ events/154988374835263/. ADAM COHEN Canadian singersongwriter performs at a benefit for the North Shore Disability Resource Centre Foundation, with guests the Jeff Standfield Band. Oct 3, 7:30 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $35 at www.centennial theatre.com/, info www.nsdrc.org/. ASH Indie-rock band from Northern Ireland tours in support of new album Kablammo!. Oct 4, doors 8 pm, show

9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

THUNDERCAT Los Angeles bassist and singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam. Oct 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Alexander (91 Powell). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. NICK DIAMONDS Islands frontman tours in support of latest solo release City of Quartz. Oct 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN The Georgia Straight presents British indierock band with guests Jamie N Commons. Oct 4, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. SOULFLY Phoenix-based metal band tours in support of latest release Archangel, with guests Soilwork, Decapitated, Shattered Sun, Dead Asylum, and Pyramidion. Oct 4, 5:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

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THE UNDERACHIEVERS Brooklyn hiphop act performs on its Forevermore Express tour, with guests Pouya and the Buffet Boys, Kirk Knight, and Bodega Bamz. Oct 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. NEIL YOUNG + PROMISE OF THE REAL Can-Am rock legend performs on his Rebel Content Tour, with guest City and Colour. Partial proceeds go to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund. Oct 5, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $150/99/79/59/35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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NEGURA BUNGET Black-metal band from Romania, with guests Grimegod and Dynfari. Oct 5, 7-11:30 pm, Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards). Tix $15, info www. facebook.com/events/1633602250208011/. TOVE LO Swedish indie-pop singersongwriter performs on her Queen of the Clouds tour, with guest Erik Hassle. Oct 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

KEVIN BURKE The Rogue Folk Club presents Irish fiddler. Oct 4, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15100420.

PEACHES Canadian electronic dancepunk musician and singer-songwriter. Oct 6, 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $28.50 (plus service charge and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

PATRICK WATSON Montreal-based singer-songwriter tours in support of fifth studio album Love Songs for Robots. Oct 5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.

BATTLES New York experimental-rock band. Oct 6, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

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1. Celebrities Nightclub 1022 Davie Street 2. Fortune Sound Club 147 East Pender Street 3. Venue (tie) 881 Granville Street 3. Republic (tie) 958 Granville Street NIGHTCLUB

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MIKKY EKKO American indie-pop musician tours in support of debut studio release Time, with guests Transviolet. Oct 6, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Live band karaoke hosted by Sami Ghawi and Reuben Avery Tue at 9:30 pm.

BLACKBIRD PUBLIC HOUSE & OYSTER BAR 905 Dunsmuir, 604-899-4456. Bistro and public house with oyster bar, barbershop, Scotch bar, and live music Wed-Fri. Open daily at 11 am. Happy hour 3-6 pm.

VIEUX FARKA TOURE & JULIA EASTERLIN The Georgia Straight presents Malian and American musicians’ collaborative project Touristes, performing in Vancouver for the first time. Oct 6, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $22, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

BELMONT BAR 1006 Granville, 604-6054340. Fresh and local fare, craft beer and wine on tap, and live entertainment nightly. Open daily at 5 pm.

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BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2TITUS ANDRONICUS Oct 3 2ASH Oct 4 2ANGEL OLSEN Oct 8 2VACATIONER Oct 10 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS 2OCTOBURLESQUE! THANKSGIVING LONG WEEKEND BASH Oct 11 2CIVIL CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL TWILIGHT Oct 14 2RIPPLE ILLUSION Oct Indoor electronica festival features 16 2SCHLOCK THE VOTE! A DELIGHTFULY music by Above & Beyond, Hardwell, IRREVERENT POLITICAL CABARET Oct 18 Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Andrew Rayel, 2THE BROS. LANDRETH Oct 22 2DELTA Oliver Heldens, Klingande, Tchami, 3LAU, RAE Oct 24 2WICKED WAYS - A SUPER Bakermat, Jauz, Mercer, Jai Wolf, Vanic, VILLAINOUS COSPLAY BASH Oct 25 2BEN Wiwek, Snails, Slander, and Nghtmre. Dec CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS Oct 26 26-27, 5 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). 2SMALL BLACK Oct 27 2NATALIE PRASS Tix $250/175/150 (plus service charges and Oct 31 2HALLOWEEN BONE-US BASH! Nov 1 2ANDRA DAY Nov 2 2IN THE VALLEY fees) at www.contact-festival.com/. BELOW Nov 3 2LUNA Nov 4 2KATE BOY Nov 17 2BLITZEN TRAPPER Nov 20 CLUBS & VENUES 2HEALTH Dec 7 2KIASMOS Dec 12 ACADEMIC PUBLIC HOUSE 1619 W. Broadway, 604-733-4141. Pub fare, cheap

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straight choices TITUS ANDRONICUS As well-reviewed as Titus Andronicus’s new The Most Lamentable Tragedy has been, it’s hard not to be disappointed. Why, fans of the American anti-rockers might ask? That’s simple: The Most Lamentable Tragedy isn’t The Monitor, Titus Andronicus’s insanely perfect release from 2010. Not to revisit ancient history, but The Monitor was a concept album connecting the American Civil War to the emotional traumas of singer Patrick Stickles. Evidently not lacking for ambition, Stickles goes back to the bigger-is-better blueprint with The Most Lamentable Tragedy, an old-school rock opera clocking in at an epic hour and a half. Over the course of 29 songs, Titus Andronicus—at the Biltmore on Saturday (October 3)—deals with the various miseries of growing up while trying to come to terms with only being young once. As proven by the album’s 79 out of 100 approval rating on Metacritic, The Most Lamentable Tragedy doesn’t lack for fans. Meanwhile, we’ll be the ones in the front row this weekend hoping to hear everything from The Monitor. That’s the great thing about going in ready to be disappointed—you’re practically guaranteed a good time.

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Mumdance w/ guests

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BUTCHER & BULLOCK 911 W. Pender, 604-662-8866. Traditional pub and beer hall in downtown business district featuring 28 draft beer taps, craft beers, interesting cocktails, and honest pub food. Open from 11:30 am till late every day. DJ Ray Black Sat. CHARLES BAR 136 W. Cordova, 604568-8040. Gastown sports bar features nine-foot HD screen and DJs on weekend nights. Wavy Fridays with DJs Seko&Marvel; Back & Forth Saturdays with rap, R&B, and club classics. Open Sun-Thu from 11:30 am to 1 am, Fri-Sat from 11:30 am to 3 am. CINEMA PUBLIC HOUSE 901 Granville, 604-694-0202. Pub featuring craft beer and cocktails, pub food, late-night menu, and weekend brunch. DJs all night Wed-Sun. Happy hour 3-6 pm. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2BURNING PALMS Oct 1 2BRAIDS Oct 2 2NSFW: HIP HOP MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL.13 Oct 3 2NICK DIAMONDS Oct 4 2AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR Oct 6 2VIET CONG Oct 14 2NOBUNNY Oct 19 2DUNE RATS Oct 24 2JOYCE MANOR Oct 27 2WE HUNT BUFFALO Oct 29 2THE SLOTHS Nov 5 2BRONCHO Nov 14 2JOANNA GRUESOME Nov 15 2GARDENS AND VILLA Nov 17 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 19 2NIKKI LANE Nov 21 2KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS Nov 22 2BELL WITCH Dec 3 2TACOCAT AND SALLIE FORD Dec 12 2PITY SEX Dec 22 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2THE FRATELLIS Sep 30 2UB40 Oct 1 2THE BOOM BOOMS Oct 2 2CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN Oct 4 2PATRICK WATSON Oct 5 2PEACHES Oct 6 254-40 Oct 10 2LIANNE LA HAVAS Oct 11 2THE DARKNESS Oct 13 2GWAR Oct 16 2DESTROYER Oct 17 2MS MR Oct 19 2THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Oct 20 2XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS Oct 22 2MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS

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WHO ARE YOU As someone who’s been trying to make a living writing books these past 16 years, I’m Chris Walter: angry, paranoid, defensive, and aggressive at the same time, highly delusional, financially embarrassed, and crazier than Ted Cruz on Pride Day. I probably shouldn’t have decided to make drunks, punks, junkies, and whores the sole focus of my endeavours, but it seems a little late to switch it up now.

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Sicario opens with the discovery of 42 plastic-

2 wrapped corpses inside a miserable Arizona

tract home and only gets more intense from there. From the perspective of Emily Blunt’s FBI agent, Kate, this grim event is a sign that Mexico’s drug war has crossed the border big-time. When she’s recruited into a special task force charged with smoking out a mysterious drug lord, Kate has to accept that all borders are meaningless, including the ones separating the good guys from the bad. Working from a tight script by actor Taylor Sheridan, Quebec’s Denis Villeneuve directs Sicario with the same ruthless lack of sentiment he brought to 2013’s breakthrough Prisoners, joined again by the Coen brothers’ favourite lensman, Roger Deakins. A white-knuckle set piece takes Deakins back to those twin hellholes from No Country for Old Men, El Paso and Juárez, where Kate is hauled into a not-so-legal operation that starts with headless stiffs strung from bridges on one side of the line and ends in a traffic jam and a fresh pile of bodies on the other. And this constitutes a good day to her temporary commander,

Bringing home the drug war

When Mexico’s drug war crosses over into the U.S., FBI agent Kate (Emily Blunt) is recruited for a special task force assigned to track down a dangerous drug lord.

cast. Watney is alone, but we are let into a densely populated world of NASA bureauDenis Villeneuve’s Sicario offers blunt truths about narcotics; crats, techs, and astronauts, Ridley Scott’s Martian puts science back into science fiction all pushing themselves to get Matt, a gum-chewing, sandal-wearing agent of Watney off that cold, red rock. There might be a more poetic version of this story mysterious provenance and an even more enigmatic form of idealism played by Josh Brolin (still where Watney is completely isolated and faces extermination with nary a quip or improvised plan on a blinding roll after, what, a decade now?). Matt’s a pussy compared to Alejandro, mind you (and it is called Sunshine), but it would not be as (Benicio Del Toro, given a part that finally puts his enjoyable. Scott is able to keep up the tension by pafearsome energy to good use again), his colleague cing out setbacks, but this is really a movie about in a caper that simultaneously horrifies, endangers, joy: of survival and optimism, sure, but mostly of and leads Kate to suspect that she’s being used by rationality, innovation, and sheer intelligence. For putting the science back into science ficforces that exist way outside any morality she’s acquainted with, let alone such antiquities as oversight. tion, the movie deserves to be seen. As a great It’s a brilliant feint on the part of these extreme- popcorn experience, it will be. > RON YAMAUCHI ly talented filmmakers. Shoot a straight arrow into a gravity-free clusterfuck like the drug war, and watch how it gets sent back tied in a bloody COMING HOME knot with its head snapped off. Starring Gong Li. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. > ADRIAN MACK

THE MARTIAN

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Starring Lorenza Izzo and Ariel Levy. Rated 18A. For showtimes, please see page 126

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bellious energy of mid-’60s youth into a 10-year orgy of destruction that displaced and killed millions and Mark Watney (Matt Damon) surveys the set back China’s development for a generation. wreckage of his tiny base on Mars. Injured, Novelist and screenwriter Yan Geling has vispoorly supplied, and abandoned on an airless ited this era before, most notably in Joan Chen’s planet, he is in as much trouble as a person can get. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, Geling’s autoResigned, Watney tells the video log that he has biographical tale of being “reeducated”. Here, one option. “I’m going to have to science the shit directing great Zhang Yimou, who previously out of this,” he sighs. adapted The Flowers of War into an expensive That line encapsulates the tone of The Martian, period piece, takes on a more stripped-down Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the novel by Andy tale, in which the three principals are stand-ins Weir. It’s also a mission statement, a declaration for the country’s walking wounded. that it’s better to solve problems than to despair, This trio consists of Professor Lu (Hero’s exand that bravery and good humour might be cellent Chen Daoming), in prison for unspecified choices rather than accidents of character. “rightist” activities; his loyal wife, Feng (Zhang’s Scott’s ability to create interesting scenery has usual muse, Gong Li); and their daughter, Dannever been questioned, but some of his recent dan (newcomer Zhang Huiwen). When Lu eswork has been marred by strange casting choices capes, he heads back to Beijing, but the daugh(Exodus: Gods and Kings) or incomplete scripts ter’s promising career in ballet is hampered by (Prometheus and Robin Hood). The Martian, by Dad’s name. So Dandan flips her noodle and contrast, is extremely tight and also impeccably turns him in at the first opportunity.

tion genre, which was best exemplified by Italian director Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. That 1980 gore epic was extremely graphic for its time, so realistically graphic, in fact, that at one point Deodato was charged with the on-screen murders of four actors portraying missing filmmakers in the pseudodocumentary work. Director Eli Roth was obviously hugely inspired by Cannibal Holocaust, because he dedicated his new cannibal horror film, The Green Inferno, to Deodato, and copied his idea of incorporating real indigenous tribes into the shoot. But if he was attempting to deliver similar social commentary— about the real or perceived differences between the “civilized” and the “uncivilized”—he should at least have packaged it in a flick worth seeing. Beautiful Lorenza Izzo (Roth’s wife) stars as an idealistic New York City college student who falls under the influence of a hunky campus activist (Ariel Levy) organizing a group trip to Peru to

V I FF S P OTLI GHTS FRENC H I DE NTI TY I SSUE S thorny items this time around. Titles like the starkly satirical In the Shadow of Women (October 4 and 5), the bizarrely abstract Portrait of the Artist (October 2 and 3), and even the teen musical We Did It on a Song (October 5 and 7) look at changing class and gender roles in a France under increasing pressure from without and within. Intriguingly, one of the most challenging films is also one of the most seemingly easygoing. The harmonious urban surfaces (with a notable lack of drugs and violence) and frequently sun-dappled cinematography of My Friend Victoria (screening October 1 and 3) belie a roiling critique of French identity politics. To make his eighth feature in almost two decades (Young Girls in

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During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman

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The first 20 minutes are gripping, but once we flash forward, a soporific pattern sets in. Mom hasn’t forgiven daughter for the betrayal, and has also developed a form of amnesia that makes it impossible to recognize her husband on his return. Unlike in the American film of the same name, no one walks into the ocean in a fit of selfsacrifice. But the broken family members of this Coming Home do spend the remaining 90 minutes trying to out-noble each other. The muted colours, syrupy score, and repetitive scenes drain all life out of these symbolic characters, untroubled by anything so gauche as sexual need or political specificity. In Zhang’s view, apparently, the Cultural Revolution was just an unfortunate force of nature, like pestilence and famine. Because no one would ever make those happen, right?

Black was the most recent), writerdirector Jean-Paul Civeyrac adapted a Doris Lessing novella called Victoria and the Stavenys. He took the 2003 tale of an orphaned daughter of black African parents from ’90s London and moved it to present-day Paris. But he kept the basic trajectory, about a girl (played as an adult by memorable newcomer Guslagie Malanga), Victoria, who forms a lifetime attachment—from a kind of quietly obsessive distance—with a family of well-to-do white liberals. “Well, really it could be any great western city,” Civeyrac says, in French, on the line from his home in Paris. (We should mention that the conversation was facilitated by Paris-based Vancouverite Lori Thicke, founder of the nonprofit Translators Without Borders.) “There are differences between

My Friend Victoria offers a critique of contemporary French society.

big cities, but I thought I could transpose the story without losing anything. I make films in France, of course, but I wanted to talk about the problems raised in the

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book specifically to the French.” One thing he did leave out is the story’s religious content. “The responses in the original are very English, and the real problems that foreigners have in adapting to France are really not about religion. Journalists focus on religion but everyday people do not. I wanted the film to be a kind of mirror for the people of France, who still have not quite grasped their own colonial history and its consequences.” He also maintained the tale’s literary quality by having it narrated off-screen by Victoria’s best friend, Fanny, here played by Nadia Moussa, also new to movies. “I invented that part,” admits the director, who will attend his new film’s second screening here. “Doris Lessing had Fanny as a character, but I wanted to shift

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the focus and have her tell the story, to show that a black woman from a poor immigrant background could write a book and succeed in modern France.” Although the film’s narrator is assimilated and deeply French in values and language—which sometimes recalls the belle époque realism of Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola—she remains almost invisible. The focus stays fixed on Victoria, who has no real interests and ambitions beyond the inchoate yearning that sets in on her first visit to the spacious flat of the family here called the Savinets. “It’s clear that whatever she does, she will somehow remain outside of society,” Civeyrac concludes. “She’s a poetic figure of foreignness, floating through the world—home, but never really at home.” -

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Even if the name means nothing to you, the Roland TR-808 drum machine has played a role in your life. The machine’s dirty bass was the signature sound of the early days of hip-hop and the basis for modern EDM. But don’t take our word for it—Alexander Dunn’s film features testimony from Damon Albarn, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Diplo, Fatboy Slim, Rick Rubin, Bernard Sumner, Phil Collins, Pharrell Williams and others. “A must-see.”—Rolling Stone. Dedicated to our dear, departed friend, Peter Culley.

In Simon Rouby’s evocative animated feature, a 12-year-old West African boy tracks his older brother’s journey from village to port, to troop carrier and on to the war-torn fields of France, 1914. Despite the chaos, he clings to the hope that his brother can be returned home safely. Reminiscent of War Horse in its knack for conjuring fresh perspectives on well-trodden ground, this gorgeous fable will appeal to teens and pre-teens, as well as their parents and grandparents.

In Alice Winocour’s taut, beautifully controlled drama, an Afghanistan veteran prone to panic attacks (Rust and Bone’s Matthias Schoenaerts, indelible) is hired to protect a wealthy businessman’s wife (Diane Kruger) and child at their luxurious coastal estate. Are the dangers he detects real or are they just PTSD symptoms caused by his war-time experiences? “A pulsing, sexy thriller... Schoenaerts at this point should be certified as a genuine movie star.”—Vanity Fair

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Delving into the psychological manipulation and shock therapy of Yale’s infamous “obedience experiments” of the 60s, Michael Almereyda unleashes daring cinema that demands to be seen. As pioneer/ puppet master Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) pushes subjects past their breaking point, he also shatters the fourth wall, offering haunting glimpses into the mind of a man who’d be branded a monster. “A conceptually exciting, intellectually searching portrait...”— New York Times

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Hadwin’s Judgement

Homme Less

Hurricane

Into the Forest

(CANADA/UK, 88 MIN.)

(USA/AUSTRIA, 83 MIN.)

(UK/FRANCE, 82 MIN.)

(CANADA, 101 MIN.)

In his compelling drama/documentary hybrid, Sasha Snow explores the complexities of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer who chainsawed down a 300-yearold sacred tree on Haida Gwaii as a protest against rampant logging in the area. Inspired by John Vaillant’s Governor General’s Award-winning book, The Golden Spruce, Snow focusses on the more mysterious elements of Hadwin’s story and fate, crafting “[a] gorgeously photographed, compulsively watchable, sympathetic doc...”—Globe & Mail

By day, Mark Reay enjoys an enviable life as a New York fashion freelancer, snapping photos, visiting fashion houses and using upscale eateries as makeshift offices. At night, he retreats to a rooftop where he lives under a tarp. He’s a well-coifed embodiment of contradictions: classy but destitute; talented but unlucky at life. However, rather than simply trying to pay the rent, he doggedly chases the dream. Thomas Wirthensohn’s documentary is “an often beautiful portrait of [New York’s] promise and cruelty.”—Village Voice

Beginning its journey as an ominous sandstorm in Senegal, then heading west across the Atlantic to toss enormous ships and waves topsy-turvy before finally crashing into the jungles of the Caribbean, Hurricane Lucy is our home for 82 minutes, and it is a truly awesome, scary and incredible place. Lizards, bats, horses, homeless men, rivers, ocean reefs, the US Gulf coast... all bend before Lucy’s immense power. Andy Byatt (Blue Planet) and Cyril Barbançon create this genuinely thrilling and immersive experience.

The BC coastal forest is in all its glory as a father and his two daughters drive off to their remote and idyllic getaway home. They have little sense at first of the growing apocalypse that they are leaving in their wake. It will come to them. Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella and Callum Keith Rennie star in this Patricia Rozema-directed adaptation of Jean Hegland’s novel.

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London Road

Nasty Baby

The Measure of a Man

High-Rise

(UK, 91 MIN.)

(USA/CHILE/FRANCE, 100 MIN.)

(FRANCE, 93 MIN.)

(UK, 112 MIN.)

In 2006, a serial killer cut a bloody swath through Ipswich’s red light district. Rufus Norris’ gripping adaptation of Alecky Bythe’s radical stage show draws its script from actual interviews with area residents, police, media and sex workers, and sets them to an enthralling score. What unfolds is a remarkable true story of ordinary people coming together during the darkest of experiences. “An utterly gripping, macabre but finally very moving cine-opera...”—Guardian

Having cajoled a friend (Kristen Wiig) into carrying their baby, a Brooklyn artist (director Sebastián Silva) discovers that his sperm count isn’t up to snuff and taps in his unenthused partner (Tunde Adebimpe). His disastrous video installation and increasingly unstable neighbour ensure that chaos reigns in Silva’s incisive, merciless satire. “A startling drama of extreme moral ambiguity... [and] a vibrant, thoughtful piece about modern life...”—Hollywood Reporter

The zero-sum game that is the “law of the market” (the French title)—wherein if one wants a job another must be let go—lies at the heart of Stéphane Brizé’s profoundly humanist drama. Vincent Lindon is superb as an unemployed mechanic whose new job in security at a big-box supermarket forces him to make decisions that go against everything he believes in... “A powerfully affecting social drama... Lindon [gives] a veritable master class in understated humanism.”—Variety

Ben Wheatley’s bold adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel takes no prisoners. This scorching satire on class, hedonism and depravity in an imploding luxury apartment building is an even more apocalyptic class polemic than Snowpiercer. Throw in exquisitely unsettling turns from Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, a string quartet cover of ABBA’s 1975 hit “SOS,” an orgy or two and spice with cannibalism, and you have a tour de force of astonishing architectural ambition.

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Innocence of Memories (UK/TURKEY, 90 MIN.)

Following his Patience (After Sebald), visual essayist Grant Gee turns his lens toward another great writer, Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk, and to Istanbul and the museum—both actual and fictional—that Pamuk created there. Simon Schama describes this Museum of Innocence as “the single most powerfully beautiful, humane and affecting work of contemporary art anywhere in the world.” It has inspired this beguiling film which turns cinema back to its roots in dreams, visions, the search for meaning and communal memorialization. SUN. OCT 4, 9:30 PM, CENTRE FOR ARTS WED. OCT 7, 3:15 PM, CENTRE FOR ARTS

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he Vancouver International Film Festival has begun, and we’re still glued to our seats here at the Georgia Straight screening room, pumping out more perfectly formed little reviews that you can shake a stick at (if that’s your idea of fun). Happy viewing, and please make sure you visit Straight.com for additional reviews, notes, and features. 100 YEN LOVE (Japan) When the

slovenly, 32-year-old Ichiko is pushed out of her family nest by her mother, she incrementally transforms from slacker to spitfire when she takes up boxing. In this darkly comedic commentary on Japan’s sexism and achievement-oriented society, Ichiko (played wonderfully by Ando Sakura) ranks as one of the most unlikely film heroines. Although replete with amusing characters who sometimes veer into silliness, the film doesn’t shy away from the hard knocks of life either. International Village, October 2 (9:45 p.m.) and 4 (4:15 p.m.) > CRAIG TAKEUCHI

In Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days provides insights into the foolishness of young hearts as a man recalls his first love, Esther (Lou Roy-Lecollinet).

in one of the melodramas she helps stage on celluloid. The resolution tries a little hard to force a psychological explanation on the material, but this film—shot in shimmery black and COPING MECHANISMS (Canada) white—has style to burn. InternationThis collection of homegrown shorts al Village, October 3 (4:15 p.m.) and 8 contains many of the pluses and (8 p.m.) > JANET SMITH minuses associated with new filmmakers working on limited budgets. MUST SEE DEEP TIME (USA) All have intriguing premises, and the Director Noah Hutton brings a sursettings are enjoyably varied—from prising amount of visual flair to wounded women in the boxing ring his subject: an oil boom’s impact to a lifeguard’s divided attention at on a North Dakota farming comEnglish Bay. The acting is good, by munity. You’ll love the way he edits and large, but oh, when people open together impressions gathered over their mouths, the dialogue is uni- several years—close-ups of ancient formly weak. (The final moments unearthed fossils, aerial shots of the of most, such as the beautifully shot changing landscape, street signs her“Wave” and the ambitiously struc- alding the arrival of stripper wrestured “Never Steady, Never Still”, tling and Subway, interviews with are especially disappointing.) On the long-time residents, tours through other hand, the drolly nostalgic “If I pop-up tract housing, and moments Was God” is a phenomenal offering spent with the local aboriginal tribe. from definite non-newcomer Cordell What he achieves, helped by a drivBarker. Amazingly, this nine-minute ing doomsday score, goes beyond a NFB gem is only his third stand-alone mere environmental-protest film and cartoon since his 1988 breakthrough, feels more like an epic end-time poem. “The Cat Came Back”. The design ele- SFU, October 1 (10:45 a.m.); Vancity, ments are downright revolutionary, October 2 (9:30 p.m.) > JS while the humour is all too basically EX P E R I M E NTE R human. Vancity, October 1 (9:15 p.m.) MUST SEE (USA) Indie auteur Michael Almereyand 8 (4:30 p.m.) > KEN EISNER da has made vampire movies and DÉCOR (Egypt) In this inventive look biker flicks, but he’s never attempted at women’s roles in urban Egypt, an anything as quietly, formally disturboverworked movie-set designer walks ing as Experimenter. It looks at the life in and out of a life where she is a trad- and work—mostly the latter—of Ivy itional stay-at-home mother. It starts League researcher Stanley Milgram to become unclear which existence (a fatally controlled Peter Sarsgaard), is real, or whether she’s lost herself whose studies in obedience made

The Green Inferno

him the Alfred Kinsey of fascism. His early-’60s experiments in faux punishment revealed how readily humans can be induced to torment each other, as long as responsibility is taken by someone claiming authority. He also examined the tenuous connections between people, popularizing the “six degrees of separation” concept that has since come to mean a celebrityinfused form of empathy. The director uses rear projections, direct audience address, and other cleverly designed distancing devices, perhaps more than they’re strictly needed to merge theatre and science. (Still, we are talking about someone played on TV by William Shatner.) Winona Ryder’s role as his not-so-suffering wife feels like a slightly missed opportunity. But the movie itself is a rewarding experiment in reaching an audience with profound messages not everyone will like. International Village, October 1 (1:30 p.m.); Rio, October 7 (8:45 p.m.) > KE HILDA (Mexico) Susana, a neglected,

affluent Mexican housewife desperate for emotional support, becomes inappropriately dependent upon Hilda, her new nanny and maid. As Susana becomes increasingly controlling, Hilda’s secretive, taciturn ways become just as curious as Susana’s erratic behaviour. The film excels more as a quiet thriller and class commentary than a psychological profile, following Susana’s deterioration as she longs to reconnect with the spark of her student-activist days. A mesmerizing illustration of how luxury can

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protest the destruction of the rainforest. The plan is to confront the bulldozing work crews—and their gun-toting militia—and live-stream footage to the Internet, causing global outrage. But when the activists head home after successfully pulling off the stunt, their small plane crashes in the jungle, and they’re either killed on the spot with arrows or taken captive by the same natives they’ve just risked their lives to protect. Around this time Roth reverts to the gruesome set pieces he utilized to much stronger effect in his 2005 torture-porn epic, Hostel. He hands things over to the makeup-FX team at KNB-EFX, who ramp up the nastiness by showing the chubbiest captive being held down and eaten alive—with choice portions from various parts of his head lopped off and devoured. The rest of the film documents the captives’ Jules Ostin (played by Anne Hathaway) finds efforts to avoid becoming the next lunch, but if inspiration from a retired executive in The Intern. you’ve seen Roth’s other works you know their Still, the Brooklyn boy was marked by the chances aren’t that great. It’s a total shame that this time around the celebrated fearmonger was Big Freeze, having been born to a Russian more concerned with bodily functions and corny Jewish mother (played here by Robin Weigert) and, most likely, a Hungarian physicist she jokes than with generating any worthy scares. > STEVE NEWTON never married. As seen in the weaker early parts of Pawn Sacrifice (which look and sound PAWN SACRIFICE like re-creations from those cheesy true-crime shows), Fischer’s family was hounded by the Starring Tobey Maguire. Rated PG. For FBI. By the time the chess prodigy was old showtimes, please see page 126 enough to be played by Tobey Maguire (who People are still searching for Bobby also produced), he was developing his unifiedFischer, even if few like what they find field conspiracy theory, somehow blaming when they get there. The latest effort ties its Communists, the CIA, and international subject’s incipient craziness to the paranoia Jewry for the shape of the world. of the Cold War. But if anyone was a pawn in This didn’t stop him taking government supthe stalemate between the U.S. and the Soviet port, in the form of an agent who was really an Union, it wasn’t Bobby Fischer. agent (Michael Stuhlbarg), helping him move

turn people into the living dead. Rio, insights into young amour fou even more so in Arnaud Desplechin’s masOctober 7 (6:30 p.m.) > CT terful film. Busted at the border for inMUST SEE HOME CARE (Czech nocently radical transgressions from Republic/Slovak Republic) The max- the past, Paul ends up recounting im that you can’t care for others if the epic story of his first love, Esther. you don’t care for yourself first gets Young, brave, inspired, and both too a bittersweet spin in this small-town smart (and wounded) for their own comedy-drama. When a devoted good, Paul and Esther are bonded home-care nurse discovers she’s the inside a psychological mystery whose one in need of help, her world-view clues still elude him, but not us, proand relationships undergo a para- vided we’re open to seeing them. SFU, digm shift (with feminist leanings) October 2 (6:30 p.m.); International as she seeks out new perspectives on Village, October 4 (3:30 p.m.) > AM health, life, and love. Well performed Rear and executed, the film, with its life- OBSERVANCE (Australia) affirming spirit, is one that art-house Window for those of you who wished films that confuse humourless de- Miss Lonelyhearts had been fleshed pression for depth could learn from. out with a way nastier back story, this SFU, October 7 (6:15 p.m.) and 8 (3:30 stylish flick about a PI surveilling the blond crumpet across the road has p.m.) > CT a lot to recommend it. Not least of IN TRANSIT (USA) The final direct- all, Observance successfully piles on ing effort from doc hero Albert May- the dread as it throws all manner of sles (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter), distracting angles at the viewer—dead who died this year at 88, found him kids, liminal fishing trips, hints of with a team of filmmakers gaining body horror—all on its way to a WTF almost unbelievable intimacy with ending. If the destination is faintly disordinary passengers on the now- appointing, the journey is still pretty ironically named Empire Builder, a rad. Rio, October 1 (11 p.m.); Cinemalong-distance train running through theque, October 3 (1:30 p.m.) > AM some of the most economically and environmentally devastated parts PAULINA (Brazil/France/Argentina) of the U.S. Although culled from This tough-minded and ultimately remultiple trips both east and west, a warding movie reads as strikingly radthrough-line is provided by several ical in today’s environment, and that’s compelling travellers, including a past- before you know it’s a faithful remake due pregnant woman hoping to join of another Argentine effort from way her family in time and a young black back in 1960, before various juntas father who finds spiritual guidance made real discussion of social themes from an old man he stumbles upon impossible. Unforgettable Dolores in this real-life journey. Don’t miss it. Fonzi plays the daughter of a big-shot International Village, October 5 (10:30 judge, eschewing her privilege in order to teach roughshod, largely indigenous a.m.), 7 (7 p.m.), and 8 (2 p.m.) > KE youth in a remote region. Through a JUMBO WILD (Canada) It’d be a series of dark misunderstandings, she’s spoiler to reveal what Grant Costello, subjected to a serious attack, and her VP of the much hated Jumbo Glacier response is a challenge to her father, Resort project in the Kootenays, says her boyfriend, the small community, at the halfway point of this lively doc. and the audience. One of the film’s key But you couldn’t imagine a more per- producers, Nacho Viale, is a grandson fect encapsulation of the blind idiocy of the original’s director and his leadthat drives an enterprise like this one, actress wife. Rio, October 1 (8:30 p.m.); conceived by an architect whose desire SFU, October 4 (1:15 p.m.) > KE to build his “cathedral” (a year-round (Canada) Whistler, basically) still remains un- MUST SEE SABALI thwarted by the fact that nobody else The French title translates as The Heart wants the fucking thing, including a of Mrs. Sabali, which is apt, because a precarious grizzly-bear population. transplant alters the life of a mousy, But, hey: why deny an old man his middle-aged woman (the oddly cast dream, right? SFU, October 8 (6:15 Marie Brassard), who leaves her sexp.m.) and 9 (11 a.m.) > ADRIAN MACK less relationship in search of a new love. She has an ardent suitor (Tu Dors MY GOLDEN DAYS (France) The Nicole’s Francis La Haye) who paints evocation of period is subtle and the see next page

up the international ranks just as Americans and Russians recognized in chess an irresistible metaphor for their nuclear gamesmanship. Fischer had his sights set on Russian champion Boris Spassky, and he wanted to beat Boris bad enough to go anywhere—meaning Reykjavík, for a 1972 face-off that would, in its way, rival Ali’s Rumble in the Jungle for the toe-to-toe competition of the ’70s. The moment Liev Schreiber arrives as Spassky, in Ray-Bans and a black limousine, the game is over. Speaking only Russian, Schreiber steals the movie (shot mostly in Iceland and Canada), and the prawn-sized Maguire looks doubly furious. The real Fischer was taller than his opponent, and blond, but director Ed Zwick (Glory)—working from a schematic script by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) and Stephen J. Rivele (Nixon)—sees this chess master as a kind of mousy everyman, cracking under the stress of competing ideologies. The film gets better as it moves along, but it’s really about a guy who was beaten by life before he even got to the board. > KEN EISNER

THE INTERN Starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 126

As a veteran writer-director, Nancy

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nor visual flair. But her films—exemplified by blandly interchangeable titles like What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, and It’s Complicated—have managed to capture something current in the male-female zeitgeist. The Intern again speaks to the moment, at least for white, upper-middle-class hipsters and forebears untroubled by actual real-estate prices. The main venue here is a Brooklyn

factory converted into a wall-free loft for the Internet fashion startup run by Anne Hathaway’s convincingly ambitious Jules Ostin. The name sounds androgynous, but the situation is straight-up can-she-really-have-it-all? Her 200 employees just love Jules’s inability to delegate, remember appointments, or clean up her own desk. She doesn’t sleep or eat properly, and rarely sees her stay-at-home husband (the charismafree Anders Holm) and adorable daughter (JoJo Kushner) at their perfect brownstone. Sounds like somebody needs a damn intern. A new seniors-outreach trend has supplanted the man-bun, so that’s how our harried heroine ends up with 70-year-old Ben Whittaker, a retired and recently widowed executive. This is Robert De Niro, deploying a relatively restrained version of the patented face-crumpling with which he denotes “comedy”. Turns out that this nattily suited and frighteningly punctual font of unpushy wisdom worked in the selfsame factory, back when it churned out those quaint keepsakes called phone books. Jules is ostentatiously rattled by his cool, history-rich efficacy, and the intergenerational intimacy his presence demands. For its first of two long hours, the film handles this low-key conflict blamelessly. But the moment she realizes that Ben’s the coolest thing since Frank Sinatra, the movie falls apart. Suddenly, Meyers sends Mr. Suit and his casual-Friday work buddies on a heist, and I’m not kidding. Subsequently, it’s one random thing after another, with Ben providing exactly the right solution to every problem—including the apparent needs of the almost-ageappropriate in-house masseuse (a placid Rene Russo). No one pauses to question Ben’s own motivations in all of this. But why look beneath the surface when the mirror is so flattering? > KEN EISNER

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esides being one of the leading lights in China’s socalled Fifth Generation of filmmakers, Zhang Yimou is also, for moviegoers of a certain vintage, one of his country’s best-loved historical storytellers. His period films often contemplate pivotal moments in China’s past, told from conflicting points of view, offering ways of remembering a past clouded with painful memories. As he’s a professional rememberer, then, it’s interesting that Zhang’s latest, Coming Home, opening Friday (October 2), is about a crisis of memory, in both the actual and metaphorical sense. The film tells the story of a woman (Gong Li, star of many of Zhang’s most famous films, including Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, and Raise the Red Lantern) who doesn’t recognize her husband when he returns from many years in a labour camp during the Cultural Revolution. “Right now, Chinese culture is in a process of forgetting,” Zhang told the Georgia Straight through an interpreter during an interview at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. “The culture is more interested in more superficial things. Movies are like fast food.” The question is: who will watch a film like Coming Home? Most members of the contemporary moviegoing audience in China were born in the 1990s, so they have little memory or understanding of the Cultural Revolution. Still, something interesting happened after the movie opened domestically in May 2014. As Zhang followed discussions prompted by the film online, he noticed that a lot of young people were saying that they brought their parents with them to see the movie in the theatre, to get their

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lobsters on tree rings and may be inappropriate in other ways. At the same time, that new organ keeps pulling her in the direction of the family of the African woman who donated it—and this leads to several musical interludes with blind Malian singers Amadou et Mariam. Following all that? It doesn’t matter, really, because the chief appeal of this 80-minute feature from Quebecer Ryan McKenna is fantastic set design, which emphasizes almost shocking blocks of primary colours, especially around the fictional railroad company where everyone seems to work. A quirky treat on many levels. International Village, October 2 (9:15 p.m.); Cinematheque, October 4 (4 p.m.) > KE THE SECOND MOTHER (Brazil) The English title of this expertly judged upstairs-downstairs tale should be A Second Mother, as in the role of Val (played by Brazil’s great Regina Casé), a live-in maid who has essentially raised the only offspring of a wealthy São Paulo family. Consequently, she wasn’t even a first mother to her own daughter (Camila Márdila), newly arrived from the remote northeast. The young woman, who wants to be an architect and never got the memo about being anyone’s servant, immediately disturbs the household’s delicate hierarchy, but not in the heavy-handed ways you would expect. Anna Muylaert’s carefully composed images provide a cool stage for some hot acting—all of which manages to be amusingly uplifting rather than sociologically bleak. Centre, October 1 (6 p.m.); International Village, October 6 (4:15 p.m.) > KE THE SIMILARS (Mexico) It’s tempt-

ing to think that the breakout success of The Incident—one of the best films in last year’s Altered States program—provided the amazing gusto

REEL READS: IMITATION GAME Screening of the recent drama about Alan Turing’s attempt to break the German enigma code during World War II. Oct 8, 6:30-8:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.

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JUMBO WILD Documentary by Sweetgrass Productions tells the true story of the decades-long battle over the future of British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley. Oct 10, 7 pm, Patagonia Vancouver (1994 W. 4th). Free admission, info www.patagonia. com/us/the-new-localism/Jumbo-Wild/.

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Filmmaker Zhang Yimou aims to help Chinese youth learn about history.

parents to tell them more stories about their history. “There is certainly a feeling that we are struggling to remember our past,” he said. “I believe that movies are the most potent, powerful form of art; I have this sense of responsibility to use my movies to influence other people’s lives, especially young people in today’s China, to let them know more about history.” The kind of movies Zhang makes are rare in the Chinese market right now, but there’s a double meaning behind that title. It refers to the character’s homecoming but also speaks to the fact that Zhang considers Coming Home to be a return to his early days of moviemaking. “Of course, one single film cannot change the status quo,” he quickly added. “But I will do what I can. This has always been my dream and desire. I’m using this film to express my feelings, and there’s nothing metaphorical about that.” -

PAWN SACRIFICE Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, and Peter Sarsgaard star in Love & Other Drugs director Edward Zwick’s biographical drama about American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer. Rated PG. 114 mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver and SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas SICARIO Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicio Del Toro star in Enemy director Denis Villeneuve’s crime drama about an FBI agent who’s enlisted to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Rated 14A. 121 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Dunbar Theatre, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Rialto, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas THE MARTIAN Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, and Kristen Wiig star in Ridley Scott’s action flick about an astronaut who is abandoned on Mars and must survive on his own. Rated PG. 142 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Cineplex Park Theatre, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas

that animates writer-director Isaac Ezban’s second feature (hot off the press as it arrives here). The pulpy THE WALK Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premise this time around dumps a Charlotte Le Bon, and Ben Kingsley in A Christmas Carol writer-director bunch of desperate people into a bus star Robert Zemeckis’s biographical drama station as the entire world succumbs about a high-wire artist who attempts to to an impossibly huge hurricane. walk the void between the World Trade And then it gets really weird, with Center towers in 1974. Rated PG. 123 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Scotiabank Ezban drumming up a high visual Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Metropolis style to match his outlandish con- Cinemas and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas cept, and almost succeeding heroically at both. Rio, October 8 (8:45 REPERTORY CINEMAS p.m.); Cinematheque, October 9 (1:30 Times are current as of Friday, October 2 p.m.) > AM MUST SEE THE SUMMER OF SANGAILÉ (Lithuania) This heady

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(Taiwan) Two Taipei widows mourn the loss of their respective partners after a devastating car crash. Abrasive Yuwei (Stone, of Taiwanese alt-rock band Mayday) turns into a flaming asshole by taking things out on everyone around him, while the introverted Ming (Vancouver’s Karena Lam) embarks upon the trip to Okinawa that she had planned to take with her fiancé. Gorgeously shot, this gentle meditation on grieving, based on the structure of the Buddhist 100day lamentation period and its various stages, is tender and wistful but never gloomy. For the most part, the story avoids elegiac clichés, or turns them on their head with surprises, as the two survivors learn to continue with their lives. International Village, October 6 (9 p.m.) and 7 (3:45 p.m.) > CT

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The event runs at Vancity Theatre. The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts, The Cinematheque, Cineplex Odeon International Village, Rio Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and SFU’s Woodward’s Cultural Programs at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Tix $2-900, info 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/.

VIFF INDUSTRY CONFERENCE Screenbased media conference offers valuable insights into the multi-faceted elements shaping the future of the industry. To Oct 3, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info www. viff.org/industry/. BURNABY MOUNTAIN RESISTANCE: HOW IT WENT DOWN Screening of the feature-length documentary about the Burnaby Mountain movement. Proceeds go to Unist’ot’en Camp & filmmaker. Oct 3, 4 pm, Spartacus Books (3378 Findlay). Admission by donation, info www.facebook.com/events/1702345033321981/. NEW YORK PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Screenings of short films that show a unique Portuguese perspective. Includes “Beasts”, “Emma’s Fine”, “Gu”, “Exit Road”, “OOBE”, “Emilia”, “Complete Remission”, “The River”, “The Giant”, and “Amphi”. Oct 10-11, 11 am-3 pm, Museum of

RUN FREE: THE TRUE STORY OF CABALLO BLANCO Documentary tells the story of American runner Micah True and his quest to create an ultra marathon in Mexico’s Copper Canyon to promote and preserve Tarahumara running tradition. Oct 14, 7-9 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $20 at the door, info www.facebook.com/events/741797369279269/. CINEPLEX COMMUNITY DAY Familyfriendly morning of free movies. All donations and concession-sale proceeds will go to Free the Children. Oct 24, 8:30 am, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver (900 Burrard). Free admission, info www.cineplex.com/Promos/CommunityDay/.

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o remain in the spirit of the Georgia Straight’s annual Best of Vancouver issue, here are my picks for the realestate sector over the past year.

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of Art + Design’s campus at the corner of Great Northern Way and Thornton Avenue. Canvas is also in an area with several galleries, including Catriona Jeffries, Monte Clark, and Equinox. BIGGEST REAL-ESTATE HAIRCUT

According to some Shaughnessy property Wesbrook Village at UBC owners, Vancouver city council shaved almost On the south side of UBC’s Point Grey campus, $1 billion off the value of their homes by creata new walkable neighbourhood has emerged in ing a heritage district in the area bounded by a wooded area. It has all the Oak Street, West 16th Avamenities for daily living, enue, Arbutus Street, and including a new community King Edward Avenue. It’s centre, and it’s on the edge of Charlie Smith a parting gift from Brian Pacific Spirit Regional Park. Jackson, the general manager For craft-beer lovers, there are 120 options at of planning and development, who retires at Biercraft. Think of Wesbrook Village as UBC’s the end of this year. Council’s move will unversion of the Olympic Village, minus False doubtedly enrich the law fi rm that ends up Creek but with a lot more trees. fighting this measure in B.C. Supreme Court.

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Telus Garden There’s only one office tower in Vancouver with almost 300 rooftop solar panels. Telus Garden, which was developed by Westbank, continuously draws in fresh air from the outside to circulate inside. The building also draws heat from Telus’s nearby data system on Seymour Street to keep workers warm. There’s even a vegetable garden.

Edmonds Town Centre in Burnaby Once upon a time, the corner of Edmonds Street and Kingsway was known as a rough neighbourhood. The elites in Burnaby would cluster around Capitol Hill, secure that they were far away from the riffraff. Nowadays, housing prices in South Burnaby exceed those in North Burnaby, thanks to the transformation of Edmonds Town Centre. The next big project is Cressey’s Kings Crossing, which will make many people forget that Value Village ever existed across the street from the Tommy Douglas library branch. The addition of the Edmonds Community Centre, which includes the Fred Randall Pool, shows how shrewd municipal planning can spur urban renewal.

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Strathcona Village In a bygone era, homes would be sold on the basis of their features—i.e., the number of bedrooms, quality of appliances, and views. Rennie Marketing Systems turned that formula upside down at 900 East Hastings Street by focusing on all the nice people in the area, including Gourmet Warehouse owner Caren McSherry, J J Bean Coffee owner John Neate, and Les Amis du Fromage co-owner Joe Chaput. The marketing campaign also emphasized low prices in messages that looked more like they were coming from a big-box retailer than from a condo marketer. The units quickly sold out, with most of the buyers living within 10 kilometres of their new homes.

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Downtown New Westminster Condo prices are far lower in the Royal City than in Vancouver and Burnaby. New West has five SkyTrain stations in a city that only had 66,000 residents in the 2011 census, making it possible to live there without a car. There’s also been a stunning transformation of the waterfront, not to mention great dog-walking at Quayside Park. The city plans to tear down 40 percent of BEST NEW CONDO NAME the Front Street Parkade, which will create a Canvas jazzy new streetscape. New West is also developThe name of Onni’s project captures the spirit ing better cycling and pedestrian connections of the city’s newest arts hub. It’s on the edge of linking neighbourhoods to the riverfront. It all the yet-to-be-completed Emily Carr University sounds magnificent for first-time buyers. -

Step back in time at Sea Ranch 17B! The perfect Plug and Play recreational property! Come have a look and start making memories to last a lifetime! Only 30 minutes from West Vancouver!

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savage love I’ve been dating this guy for almost two months. It’s been pretty good, except the sex isn’t really the best. I have this other male friend who has had a crush on me. Long story short: my friend made a move on me the other night. I told him I couldn’t, and he knew why, but to be honest, I was insanely turned on by his forwardness. He apologized, but a week later we hung out, and I told him that it really intrigued me, and we ended up having crazy cool sex— satisfying in all the ways the guy I’m dating isn’t. I haven’t told the guy I’m seeing about this and I don’t plan to. But I feel guilty. I keep rationalizing that we have never had a talk about exclusivity, and I therefore have no obligation to him. I want to keep fucking my friend, but I also enjoy dating this other guy. Am I an asshole? Am I obligated to disclose that I’m not interested in monogamy with him? > TOO MANY INTRIGUES

Are you an asshole? That can’t be ruled out, TMI, but I can’t make a determination with the limited data you’ve provided. One asshole move— and cheating on Mr. Two Months was definitely an asshole move—does not an asshole make. We know this because while everyone is guilty of the occasional asshole move, not everyone is an asshole. Assholes are made when asshole moves come one right after the other, and an ever-thickening layer of asshole moves hardens into total assholery. Anyway, while you might not have

> BY DAN SAVAGE

had a conversation with the guy you’re currently dating/cheating on about exclusivity, you wouldn’t feel guilty about what/who you did if you didn’t think Mr. Two Months was operating under the assumption that you two were exclusive. So the cheating was an asshole move and your rationalization, as you seem to be aware, is a pile of self-serving bullshit that’s equal parts transparent and unnecessary. Because as much as you like hanging out with Mr. Two Months, the sex hasn’t been good for you and you haven’t been good to him. Don’t negotiate a nonmonogamous agreement. End it.

I am a 23-year-old straight male who has a pattern of getting into long-distance relationships that become semi-long-term relationships before I get depressed by the monotony of it all and wind up breaking up with the person. I resolved that in the relationship I’m currently in—nine months and counting—I would keep it casual, which resulted in it turning into an open mono/poly relationship, meaning I’m poly and she’s monogamous. She is great, cute, and intelligent, and there is nothing destructive or dishonest about our relationship. I just find myself not wanting to talk to her every day, and the weekly Skype calls feel like a chore. We have a great time when we visit each other, but I only feel like catching up when I see her in person. Is this the price I have to pay to keep her happy? > NOT AN ASSHOLE

I’ve read that young people don’t make phone calls anymore—talking on the phone is for olds (full disclosure: we olds hardly speak to each other on the phone anymore, either)—so I’m surprised your young-and-mono GF wants to hear your young-and-poly voice on a daily basis. I think you should propose a young-and-fun compromise: texting instead of phoning during the week and a Skype/masturbation session on the weekend.

I’m a straight 28-year-old female, in a relationship with my boyfriend for two years. We live together, and on the weekends we care for his kid. We are very much in love and have a supportive, happy relationship. I’ve always had a hard time being monogamous. In every relationship, I tend to get a wandering eye around the two-year mark. Recently, I went by myself to see a friend’s band and ended up meeting a man I had an insane chemistry with. We spent the whole evening together and wound up making out before I literally ran away. The next day, stonecold sober, I called him, drove to his house, and we fucked like crazy. It was animalistic and intense, and I felt like a fucking porn star. It was awesome. My boyfriend and I have sex that I truly enjoy, and I usually get off, but he struggles to be dominant, rough, or talk dirty, which are things I really get off on. He says he’s too self-conscious to be dominant in bed. This stranger did all the things I wish my boyfriend would do. To test the waters, I casually mentioned an arrangement where we

but you must make it clear to him that a closed relationship is a recipe for disaster—because sooner or later, you will cheat on him. If he fights you on that point, LIAR, if he tells you that he’s sure you’re capable of being monogamous, then you can tell him that by > LIKES IT ALL ROUGH “sooner or later” you meant “last week, with this dude I met in a bar”. A loving and supportive partner, a happy relationship, and good I think your answer to BFF last sex that occasionally tips into the week missed an essential piece of amazing column—yeah, most information. She refers to herself as people would tell you that’s not engaging in “drunken” threesomes only enough, LIAR, it’s a better and hookups. I think she needs to relationship than the one they’re examine her own behaviour, not currently in, recently left, or ever that of her roommate and FWB, and hope to find. But the fact that most the fact that her relationships seem people would like to trade places to be fuelled by the effects of her with you isn’t relevant, LIAR, be- alcohol consumption. I’m guessing cause what you have with your her letter was fuzzy for a reason. It boyfriend isn’t enough for you. You was probably written in a drunkwant love, happiness, stability, and en haze. Nothing you say will get the freedom to fuck other guys— through to her unless you address and you would want that freedom her use of alcohol. > ALCOHOL NOT THE SOLUTION even if your boyfriend was capable of dominating you in the sack just Full disclosure: I was drinking when the way you like. Seeing as you know this about I wrote my response to BFF. So just as yourself—seeing as you know that it’s possible that alcohol played a role in monogamy isn’t for you (see: the wan- the drama BFF described, it’s possible dering eye at 24 months, the fucking I neglected to point that fact out bethat other guy at his place)—making cause I was a little drunky myself. a monogamous commitment you know you can’t keep is an asshole On the Lovecast, Dan chats with trans move. So here’s what you’re gonna pioneer luminary Kate Bornstein. Find do: tell your lovely, loving boyfriend the Savage Lovecast (Dan’s weekly that nonmonogamy is a nonnegoti- podcast) every Tuesday at www. able. You are willing, of course, to straight.com/ . Email: mail@savage negotiate with him about the form love.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at your open relationship might take, www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.

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Mars and Jupiter in Virgo is a helpful strip-it-down and/or geton-task influence. Despite Mercury retrograde, you should make decent headway with the work, upgrades, and learning curve. Something you’ve run across or used in the past is worth another go-round. If you aren’t sure or secure, give it more time. Tuesday onward gives you more to go on.

Despite Mercury retrograde, Jupiter in good shape with Pluto loans you good coping skills. You’ll find a talent for stretching your resources and working around what you need to. You’ll also have sharper instincts for spotting what works and what isn’t worth your time or money. Back out or say no if you want to. Sunday onward, you’re on to something fresh.

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Mercury retrograde continues to be aptly timed for a rethink or revisit. Venus in Leo keeps you making the most of it through next Thursday. Along with the rest of the stars, you should feel that you’re coming up with the right equation for yourself. Tuesday’s stars run the gamut. Wednesday pieces it together for you easily, readily, and well.

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Shop around for a better deal or interest rate. Stay flexible, get a second opinion, aim for win/win, but don’t scrimp on your needs. Taking more time to observe, plan, negotiate, or make it official is advised through Tuesday. Mercury retrograde ends next Friday, but as of next Wednesday, you’re okay to hit go and/or sign the contract. January 20–February 18

As is typical of Mercury retrograde, you can meet up with folks you haven’t interfaced with for a while. Perhaps you’ll hear from those who live elsewhere. If something you’ve hoped for doesn’t pan out, know that it simply creates room for something better. Friday is your best social night. Through Tuesday, take it one step at a time. February 18–March 20

Mercury retrograde may set you back somewhat, but as early as the weekend, you should find yourself regaining good ground. Even so, proceed with caution through Tuesday night. Mars in opposition to Neptune is good for romance, relaxation, and creativity, but not for details or practicality. Enjoy and splurge, but also remember to stay within reasonable limits. -

Continue to give yourself extra wiggle room until Mercury finishes retrograde. Thursday can see you back out of a commitment or revise a goal. Spontaneity delivers best through the weekend, too. Go by feel on Tuesday. Tuesday evening is good for romance, creative pursuits, letting it slip, or zoning out. Wednesday puts you in the right place, time, Book a reading with Rose Marcus at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/. and headspace.

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