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Eyal Weizman is a pioneer in researching the architecture of violence, which has given humanrights groups the ability to conduct forensic investigations into state-sponsored attacks. > BY CHARLIE SMITH
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The rise of motion capture has changed the game for Trisko Talent Management and other agencies that represent actors. > BY CHARLIE SMITH
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owadays, war often takes place in urban environments. This can have tragic consequences, as when a recent U.S. air strikes killed at least 22 people in a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. University of London–based architect and author Eyal Weizman is familiar with sloppy mistakes arising from U.S. bombing missions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier. In a free event in Vancouver next Thursday (October 15), he will discuss how his pioneering research into forensic architecture is helping Amnesty International and other organizations investigate potential war crimes arising from drone strikes and other acts of state-sponsored violence. “Most people that die in contemporary wars die in buildings,” Weizman told the Georgia Straight by phone from his office at the University of London. “The majority of those die in their own homes. The nature of contemporary violence is inherently urban and architectural—and, therefore, buildings become evidence.” The Israeli architect became interested in this field while working with the human-rights group B’Tselem on a map of settlements in the West Bank. He said that in 2002, the organization wanted to determine if it could identify violations of international law “on the drawing board” in how these settlements were being planned and designed. Out of this work evolved an interest in how architectural tools could document the destruction of urban areas. In 2010, he spearheaded the creation of a multidisciplinary team to work for a project called Forensic Architecture, which is based at Goldsmiths, University of London, and funded by the European Research Council. “We refer to our work as counterforensics,” Weizman said. “Why counterforensics? Because forensics is the work of the police—this is how the state looks at citizens.” His group, on the other hand, helps nongovernmental organizations examine alleged crimes perpetrated by states when they engage in war. Evidence is gathered not only through examining the destruction of buildings and changes to the landscape but also by compiling images of
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war scenes captured through social media. He explained that satellite monitoring in a country like Syria can help researchers reach conclusions about long-term environmental transformations, including those triggered by climatic changes. It’s also possible to create computerized architectural models to help witnesses to war crimes retrieve repressed memories of severely traumatic events. “We have developed new tools and techniques and have assembled a lot of existing knowledge under the umbrella of Forensic Architecture,” he said. According to Weizman, one of the organization’s successes came in documenting Israel’s use of white phosphorus munitions in its war against Gaza in the winter of 2008–09. He noted that the Americans had also used white phosphorus in an attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. The chemical causes deep burns, which can lead to multiple organ failure. Israel initially maintained that it was using these weapons in accor dance with international law, but that claim was challenged by Human Rights Watch and other organizations. According to Weizman, Israel didn’t rely on white phosphorus munitions against Palestinians in a 2014 conflict. “In fact, it wasn’t used in the most recent attack on Gaza,” he said. “You can effect changes.” That war broke out shortly after Palestine declared that it had accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. And this had Palestinians eager to document any atrocities. “Many took photographs and videos of incidents around them,” Weizman said. “Many people risked their lives to provide that
evidence and uploaded it online.” In other conflict zones, it’s not always possible to do this. Weizman pointed out that in South Waziristan in Pakistan, military officials set up checkpoints to prevent electroniccommunications devices from entering that tribal area. He said that because “very, very few images and videos” are taken, the U.S. government was able to initially deny the magnitude of violence caused by its armed unmanned aircraft. “When it first started, they said people were simply dying from bombbuilding accidents,” Weizman said. Forensic Architecture has also helped gather evidence of genocide committed by the Guatemalan government in a 1982 military campaign against hundreds of Mayan villages. Then president and army general Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted in 2013 of genocide and crimes against humanity. However, that ruling was subsequently overturned and a new trial will begin in January. Weizman said that many buildings in the villages were destroyed, but his team has investigated the contours of these settlements by the distribution of flora, including certain fruit trees. “You need to understand that warfare is a transformation of the built environment,” he stated. “It is not only kinetic violence directed at bodies; it is what we call environmental violence.” -
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nyone who’s seen the TV show Entourage is likely familiar with Ari Gold. This character, played by Jeremy Piven, conveyed to the world that some Hollywood agents are foul-mouthed, hyperaggressive, short-tempered workaholics. The mere mention of Ari Gold causes the three actors’ agents at Vancouver-based Trisko Talent Management to erupt in laughter during an interview in the company’s secondfloor boardroom in Yaletown. “I think the Ari Golds are out there—and there are some smalltown Vancouver agents that play Ari Gold,” Dylan Maher tells the Georgia Straight with a wry smile. “The stereotype exists for a reason.” However, Maher, Aaron Alexander, and company founder Natasha Trisko are quick to insist that this isn’t their way of doing business. The company recently won the Georgia Straight readers’ vote for best local modelling and talent agency in the annual Best of Vancouver issue. According to Trisko, it was because each agent has a different set of skills, enabling the company to represent clients seeking work in film, TV, commercials, voice-overs, modelling, and motion capture. Trisko says the trio represents about 250 actors, taking an industrystandard 15-percent commission for placing clients in films and television programs. The commission is 10 percent for finding theatre work. So what does it take to succeed as an actor? “You have to constantly train,” Trisko says. “You’ve got to hone your craft. You’ve got to take care of yourself physically, mentally, and you’ve got to be willing to put in the work. It doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a road to get there, and it’s a hard road.”
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She started representing actors at the age of 19 after studying business at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. At that time, Trisko was too young to sign contracts, so she would bring them back to her boss to approve. Within six years, she struck out on her own, running her business out of a condo in Gastown, beginning in 2006. “It was exciting and scary,” she recalls. “Most of my actors that were with me at the previous company ended up coming over, and we had a solid roster from the beginning.” She invited Maher into the company because he had some experience in both acting and casting. Alexander, also an experienced actor, joined later. Alexander says with a laugh that actors sometimes think their agent doesn’t understand what career path they want to take. “I’m like, ‘Your agent probably knows exactly the type of career path you should take,’ ” he adds. “There’s no fast track.” The company’s client list includes actors Mackenzie Gray, Diana Bang, Karin Konoval, and Chelah Horsdal, as well as comedians Ryan Beale and Darcy Michael. Another client,
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FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE As part of the Peter Wall Downtown Lecture Series, Israeli architect and scholar Eyal Weizman explores how architecture can provide new tools of political analysis and intervention. Registration required. Oct 15, doors 6:30 pm, talk 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Free admission, info www.pwias.ubc.ca/. NEUROPLASTICITY AND EDUCATION: STRENGTHENING THE CONNECTION Five leading experts in the fields of neuroscience and education, including UBC’s Dr. Lara Boyd and UC professor emeritus Michael M. Merzenich, will speak about the huge potential for positive change that comes when we understand the connections between our brain’s ability to grow and educational practice. Oct 23, 7 am, Westin (1601 Bayshore). Info www.neuro plasticityandeducation.com/.
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BEARING WITNESS: HUMAN RIGHTS ON FILM Discussion about human rights on film and the filmmakers who often take significant personal and financial risks to bring important stories to the big screen. Oct 14, 7 pm, The Post at 750 (750 Hamilton). Free admission, info bearingwitness.eventbrite.ca/.
ART FROM THE ATTIC Sale of over 1,500 drawings, paintings, photos, posters, and prints raises money for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, Stephen Lewis Foundation. Oct 10, 10 am–3 pm, Scandinavian Community Centre (6540 Thomas St., Burnaby). Free admission, info www.greatervangogos.org/.
REALITY CHECK Tim Flannery, Andrea Reimer, and Ross Beaty discuss climate change, the resource economy, and the road to Paris. Oct 14, 7 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Info www.sfu. ca/dialogue/.
FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES LIVING IN CAMPS Night of entertainment, including food, music, dance and silent auction. Oct 14, 7-10:30 pm, St. James Community Square (3214 W. 10th). Tix $30, info riadh@muslih.com.
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/.
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LOST SOULS OF GASTOWN AT HALLOWEEN Forbidden Vancouver presents a spooky guided tour of Gastown’s very dark, very real history. To Oct 31, Gastown. Tix $22/19, info www.forbidden vancouver.ca/. THAT FILTHY SHOW Night of burlesque, comedy, and music featuring Bloody Betty, Colin Lamb, Dustin L. Holling, Stephen Peever, Dotty Davis, and Adam Zed. Oct 8, 9-11 pm, Funky Winker Beans (37 W. Hastings). Tix $7, info www.ThatFilthyShow.com/.
ATTRACTIONS SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE Highlights include hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, the Centre Stage for live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre. Admission $29/23.50 adults, $25.25/19.75 seniors and youth, $22.25/16.75 kids (those two and under free). Closed Mondays. 1455 Quebec. Info 604-443-7443, www.scienceworld.ca/
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FRIGHT NIGHTS AT PLAYLAND Annual Halloween-themed event features seven haunted houses, 15 fear-inducing rides, and the Radiant Heat Fire Troupe. Oct 9–Nov 1, 7 pm, Playland (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $20-40, info www.frightnights.ca/.
GRANVILLE ISLAND TURKEY TROT KIDS RUN, PRESCHOOLER DASH Kidsonly 1.1-kilometre and 350-metre races raise money for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and the Arts Umbrella. Oct 11, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Info www.turkeytrot.ca/.
GRANVILLE ISLAND TURKEY TROT The 18th annual event features a 10-kilometre run, walk, or stroll. Oct 11-12, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Info www.turkeytrot.ca/. OCTOBURLESQUE! Kitty Nights presents a night of burlesque fun and games featuring Audrey Hipturn, Burgundy Brixx, Laya Lushious, Roma Antics, and the Purrrfessor. Oct 11, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $9-17, info www.kittynights.com/vancouver.html.
LIONS VS. BLUE BOMBERS The B.C. Lions take on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Canadian Football League action. Oct 10, 7 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $44-129 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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CANUCKS VS. FLAMES The Vancouver Canucks take on the Calgary Flames in National Hockey League action. Oct 10, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $80.25-281.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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hanksgiving tradition involves you Instead of struggling to carve a whole bird, serving turkey and then watching as you could serve guests elegant slices of turkey your guests pass out on the couch in a roulade. Over the phone, Elizabeth Bryan, happy food coma. The problem is, you chef-owner of Dock Lunch (152 East 11th Avmay not be feeding enough mouths to warrant enue), recommends either deboning a leg and roasting a whole bird. Or you may just not thigh yourself or getting your butcher to do want the hassle and stress of such a big under- the job. For this dish, she then rubs the meat taking. But fear not! Two chefs and a turkey under the skin, and on the underside, with farmer have come to the rescue with inspira- a decadent mélange of butter, garlic, thyme, tion for inventive turkey dishes suitable for hazelnuts, and smoked schinkenspeck (cured smaller gatherings. German ham/bacon). She Kathy Robbins, cowraps the deboned turkey owner of K & M Farms meat around cornbread, (28494 Maclure Road, cranberry, celery, and leek Tara Lee Abbotsford), which raises stuffing, and then ties it up free-range turkeys, suggests buying a three- in a few places before roasting it in the oven. to four-pound turkey roast (boneless, with Bryan likes to give Thanksgiving a southwhite and dark meat) as an alternative to a ern twist, since her family is from the Deep whole turkey. You could also go with breasts South of the U.S. She says that you can buy for individual portions for your guests. Over smoked turkey legs and thighs, chop the the phone, she explains that she likes to mar- meat up, and then use it to make gumbo-laya inate the breasts overnight in buttermilk to (a combo of gumbo and jambalaya), along tenderize them, and roast them in the oven with onion, celery, bell pepper, andouille on top of stuffing (which could include tur- sausage, and even prawns and red beans if key sausage). Alternatively, for a crunchy you want an ultra-hearty dish. You’d serve it texture, you could bread them in panko and with rice “dirtied” with turkey liver. Bryan minced fresh herbs, such as rosemary and says chopped smoked turkey would also be sage, and pan-fry them. delicious in Hoppin’ John, a southern pilaf If you don’t mind firing up the barbie, you of tomato, onion, celery, and black-eyed peas could cut the breasts into strips, or buy turkey (for good luck). tenders, and thread the meat onto skewers for “With turkey, the options are endless begrilling. Or tenders would work for stir-fries in cause the breast is so versatile,” says Peter an Asian spin on Thanksgiving. Isacu, executive chef of Seasons in the Park Robbins says ground turkey is another great (Queen Elizabeth Park, West 33rd Avenue at option for those wanting a taste of turkey for the Cambie Street), during a chat at the restauholiday. She adds that K & M Farms ground tur- rant. Last year, Seasons served 600 turkey key has thigh meat, in addition to breast meat, dinners at Thanksgiving, so Isacu definitely for added flavour. For her family, she makes let- knows his turkey. He says that basically, turtuce wraps that feature a stir-fried mixture of key breast can be used as a substitute in any ground turkey, red pepper, onion, green beans, recipe that calls for chicken or veal. celery, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, and For example, instead of veal, he says you sambal oelek. She also uses ground turkey for could pound slices of turkey breast until thin meatballs, which she serves in a cranberry-or- and whip up a scaloppine in lemon butter or ange barbecue sauce or a spaghetti sauce, and a Marsala sauce. Your favourite braises and in meat loaf. Robbins often makes a turkey- stews could be transformed by turkey, such quinoa meat loaf, topped with barbecue sauce as chicken à la king, a dish that usually inand mashed potatoes, which she bakes in muf- volves diced chicken in a mushroom cream fin tins to make mini meat loaves. sauce served over rice. You could also offer
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Elizabeth Bryan of Dock Lunch suggests using less than an entire bird for your Thanksgiving festivities, such as this deboned turkey leg wrapped around stuffing and then roasted. Tracey Kusiewicz photo.
your guests turkey pot pie, Isacu says, which would be a lovely autumn supper. And instead of fried chicken, Isacu says you could lightly flour turkey wings and deep-fry them. Isacu understands the need to have turkey, even for a modest gathering, since his kids would revolt if they didn’t have it for Thanksgiving. If dinner seems too daunting, he
suggests celebrating with a brunch at which you serve eggs Benny with slices of roasted turkey breast in place of the usual ham, or sandwiches of roasted turkey-breast slices with cranberry mayo, provolone, and arugula on ciabatta. Even sans the whole bird, you’ll be stuffed, with your turkey craving more than satisfied. -
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Chef Pino Posteraro of Cioppino’s leans toward flavours that reflect the seasons, including his roasted chicken dish
t’s hard to disagree with a chef who runs believes an executive chef needs to provide one of the city’s most notable fine-dining clear leadership to the team. establishments. “There is no Italian or “I used to tell my guys to think about cooking French or Chinese cuisine, just good food like hockey. What would a coach do if you didn’t and bad food,” according to Pino Posteraro. perform? They always understood after that.” For over 15 years, The hockey analogy also Posteraro has been showextends to the work ethic ing Vancouverites which of his kitchen staff. type he cooks. “The way Canadian kids Amanda Siebert The renowned chef at grow up with hockey, with Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill & Enoteca moms and dads religiously sacrificing their (1133 Hamilton Street) was born and raised in mornings—this is the way that all the people Lago, Italy. Growing up on a farm, he learned that have trained with me have shown their to cook from his mother, and he started cre- commitment and dedication, and it’s why they ating farm-to-table dishes in Vancouver long go on to succeed.” before the philosophy gained popularity at loA number of Posteraro’s former sous-chefs cal restaurants. Doing this is simply a way of have moved on from his kitchen to run their remaining true to his roots. own successful restaurants. But he doesn’t “I have a very good memory of growing up. take the credit. “Yes, I am there to train and to I can still smell the seasons changing and taste coach and to mentor,” he explained, “but in the the flavours that come with those seasons,” end, they are very serious about succeeding.” Posteraro said during an interview with the Cioppino’s is known as much for its menu Straight at Cioppino’s. of rich Italian dishes and topnotch service as “When you see what suppliers have to offer it is for its wine list, which spans upwards of you, and you can go back to those memories 120 pages. More than 45,000 bottles and 3,600 of traditional cooking that I have, it’s easy to labels are available to guests, with many varPerfect for a chilly fall evening, Easy Roasted Chicken is something Pino Posteraro can cook for his evolve those recipes to suit Vancouver in 2015.” ieties lining the walls of the restaurant. family in less than an hour, and this hearty meal only makes “one dish dirty”. Amanda Siebert photo. Ingredients, Posteraro stressed, are more “If we want to provide our guests with the METHOD important than techniques, trends, or ideas. perfect experience, we need to provide not PINO POSTERARO’S EASY “Italian food is all about respect for the in- only the best of the food but the best of the ROASTED CHICKEN 1. Preheat oven to 475 ° F (240 ° C). gredients. It’s important to be a good techni- wine,” Posteraro said. “It’s a very important INGREDIENTS 2. On a clean cutting board, dice potatoes and cian, and I’m very privileged to have worked part of Italian culture.” thinly slice shallots. Cut okra crosswise. Set aside. with some incredible chefs that have shown So is dining regularly with family. When 2.2 lb (1 kg) boneless, skinless organic 3. Place chicken thighs in a roasting pan and me how to master the techniques. But the right cooking at home, Posteraro also chooses the chicken thighs drizzle with vinegar and olive oil. Add potaingredients will speak for themselves with lit- best ingredients, and he keeps things simple 2 shallots toes, shallots, and okra. tle intervention,” he said. “Today I received a but delicious. 3 pods okra 4. Sprinkle oregano, garlic, and salt on beautiful shipment of heirloom tomatoes. You He said of the dish below, “I like to make this 6 large yellow potatoes, peeled everything. Pour in chicken stock. wouldn’t want to overwhelm them with an dish for my family every Sunday. It takes less 4 Tbsp (60 mL) red-wine vinegar 5. Bake 45 to 60 minutes, flipping the chicken orgy of flavours.” than an hour, and I only make one dish dirty.” 2 Tbsp (30 mL) extra-virgin olive oil and vegetables halfway to ensure even cooking. Posteraro admitted that his engagement Perfect to prepare on a chilly fall evening, 1 tsp (5 mL) dried oregano Serve family-style or divide between 4 plates. with his staff once involved hand gestures this hearty meal is full of flavour. The red-wine 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed and bellowing across the kitchen. But he said vinegar gives it a hint of sweetness, and the 1 ½ Tbsp (20 mL) sea salt Yield: 4 servings. Recipe has not been tested he’s traded the stereotypical fiery Italian de- dish’s slow cooking method leaves the chicken 2 cups (500 mL) chicken stock by the Georgia Straight. meanour for a more restrained one. Still, he and vegetables tender.
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so I would have to go with Munich. There’s so much tradition in German brewing, and they have been doing it for so long that all their beers reflect the hundreds of years of perfecting their recipes. I also really enjoy drinking a litre of beer out of a stein and cheers-ing my friends. Beers, WHO ARE YOU My name is Graham bratwursts, and dirndls… It sounds With, and I am the head brewer at Par- like a fantastic place. allel 49 Brewing. I manage recipe development, brewing operations, qual- FIRST BEER BREWED The first beer I ever home-brewed on my own was ity control, and engineering projects. a recipe from Dan’s Homebrewing YOUR DAD’S FAVOURITE BEER in East Vancouver. It was the StrathWhen I was little, I remember him cona Pale Ale, and almost everyone I having Old Style Pilsners in the fridge. know who started home-brewing at My brothers and I would fight over Dan’s brewed that beer first. It turned who got to get him one. We used to out great, and I brewed it numerous open it before bringing it to him and times. When Dan passed away a few steal sips. That lasted until the time years back, I had the honour of bewhere my brothers and I drank about ing able to brew 1,500 litres of it with half the beer by the time it got to him. the crew from Dan’s at Parallel 49 as His tastes have matured over the years, a memorial beer. Without that beer, and now his go-to beer is Czechvar, I might be working as a wastewater also known as Budvar in Europe. engineer somewhere.
FIRST GO-TO BRAND When I was finally old enough to go for beers in a pub or purchase them from a liquor store, I was usually ordering stuff from the Sleeman lineup. I remember the Silver Creek Lager and the Cream Ale. They were flavourful enough and were great on a hot day. I’d bring a few to the skateboard park, and usually after two beers, you’d cut your nerves and would gain the confidence to do something gnarly. Any more than that and you’d start to lose coordination. I have great memories at the Whistler bowl with a few of those in the creek beside it cooling down.
Hop Head IPA by Tree Brewing. I remember being blown away by the huge aroma of citrus hops that I hadn’t experienced before. It was my go-to six-pack for quite a while. After I had that beer, the world of IPAs opened up to me. I started trying all the local B.C. breweries that made IPAs. Now there are so many great IPAs in B.C., and I do feel like that beer influenced the way I brew our hoppy beers.
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aspiring distiller, award-winning shower singer, intermediate-level Spanish speaker, lover of cocktails and spirits, odd-occasion burlesque performer, dog lover, antique hunter, twostepper, trail trekker, yoga practiser, salad hacker, rock ’n’ roller, Ukrainian and Métis blood, businesswoman, abstract painter, bottled blond, greeneyed, lifelong bartender!
Green Day, Edmonton, Alberta, July 9, 1994. I was 14, tall, lanky, thin like Twiggy, wore jeans that were too baggy and a shirt that was too small. I went with my cousin without our parents and we squeezed our way through the mosh pit right up to the front row. I lodged myself right up to the bars at the front so that I was only feet away from the stage. It was amazing, I remember at one point Billie Joe drank a beer and then sprayed it into the crowd and everyone went nuts… I couldn’t move because I was getting so squished up against the railing but I loved it. After the concert was over my cousin and I walked out wondering what the hell just happened—our first concert was epic and I even had bruises on my ribs to prove it. The next day at volleyball practice was particularly painful.
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there to experience it: the song. That concert was just what I needed at that point in my life. TOP THREE RECORDS Rolling Stones Hot Rocks I turned “Paint It Black” up real loud the first time I had a stereo in my room when I was barely a teenager. I love this album. Paul Simon Graceland My mom used to listen to this album and we would always have a sing-along. The album came out when I was 6 and I remember listening to it with my mom and memorizing all the words, dancing around and singing to it, feeling like I was hearing the world. As a little girl living in Alberta, those South African deep voices, tribal rhythms, and eclectic sound stood out to me. I still sing along to this album today and know all the words by heart. The Naked and Famous In Rolling Waves Good friend and fellow bartender Gez at the Keefer Bar is friends with the drummer, Jesse, since they were boys. Every time they come into town, a Keefer crew goes to the concerts and then we hang with the band at the Keefer afterwards until the wee hours of the morning. The album is
syrups I always have a plethora of miscellaneous simple syrups in one section. I cook with them, make drinks with them—what can I say, I’m a bartender! Last time I moved, my fridge box was mostly syrups, fortified wines, and a couple of bottles of hot sauce. Bottled cocktails In addition to the syrup section of my fridge, I always have some sort of bottled cocktail going, sometimes some small single-serves, and right now I have two large, multiportion ones. They are perfect if I have friends over or just want one drink after work and don’t want to do anything but pour it over ice. Blackberry Bitter cocktail: equal parts gin, Martini Bianco, and Campari in a jar filled with blackberries. Super delicious! Fruits and veggies I love my fruits and vegetables, and am addicted to big salads. The combinations are always different—one of my faves is papaya, purple cabbage, green onions, kale, and, of course, citrus! Add some Polish mayo, a bit of balsamic vinegar, and pepper, and I’m in heaven. -
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ROAGNA 2008 PAJÈ BARBARESCO (Piedmont, Italy; $98 and
Roagna’s Pajè Barbaresco is good whether you keep it or quaff it.
incorporating ancient techniques such as clay-amphora aging. Wine lovers are all the better for it: Foradori’s wines are extremely charismatic and honest, as authentic as they FORADORI 2011 SGARZON TER- come. She’s one of the only producers OLDEGO (Trentino–Alto Adige, Italy; on the planet with a strong focus $55 and up, prion Teroldego, an vate liquor stores) indigenous grape You’re 11 years variety sometimes old and growing referred to as “the Kurtis Kolt up at your parents’ Syrah of the Dolonorthern Italian estate winery when mites” and one I’m increasingly beyour father tragically succumbs to coming fascinated with. Indeed, you cancer. Even though you’re so young, can think Syrah, but definitely more you decide to carry on his legacy by of a cooler-climate take and a little on devoting your life to wine. In the the lighter side. This single-vineyard coming years you assist your mother, bottling offers fresh lilacs and blackwho’s now managing the winery, by tea aromatics, with Coronation grape, helping out wherever you can in the black plum, wild strawberry, and a vineyards and the cellar, eventually smidge of white pepper on the palate, going to school to study the trade. At everything held in place by wella mere 19 years old, you officially grab polished tannins. the reins as winemaker and continue If you want to experience Foraon that path for the next decade and a dori’s wines and this unique grape half, until the cyclical nature of mak- variety, there’s a multivineyard vering wine, basically following the same sion on B.C. Liquor Store shelves for “recipe” year in and year out, begins $36.99 that’s aged in both stainless to wear on you and your passion steel and oak rather than the amstarts to wane. phora. It’s not quite as layered or This is where Elisabetta Foradori nuanced as the Sgarzon label, but found herself at the turn of this cen- it’s still mighty delicious and could tury, when she made the decision to easily become a new favourite. As a reignite her enthusiasm by making side note, Stag’s Hollow Winery has wine in a more natural way, turning planted a few Teroldego vines right away from modern, conventional here in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley; stay methods to biodynamic farming and tuned for details as they come.
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have been friends for almost three decades. In fact, Panych remembers the very night his friend Jill Daum spotted Mann and declared he was the one. “She kind of earmarked John as her property before he knew it,” Panych recalls with a laugh, over the phone. “We saw him at the Arts Club and she was like, ‘That’s the guy I’m gonna get.’ We were like, ‘Okay, go for it.’ I thought he was gay. We go back that far.” Their friendship was easy and supportive. Whenever Panych wrote a new play, he and his partner, Ken Macdonald, would go over to Mann’s and Daum’s house. A bottle of wine, a reading, and Mann, the lead singer of Spirit of the West and an actor, would play new songs. Panych and Mann collaborated frequently, but their new project, The Waiting Room, a play with music, which opens at the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage on Wednesday (October 7), is a labour of love and deeply personal— particularly to Mann. It’s inspired by his 2009 battle with colorectal cancer, an experience he chronicled from beginning to end in a collection of songs. “For me, writing songs is very therapeutic,” Mann tells the Straight via email, a form of communication he finds easier this day, for reasons we’ll explain below. “These songs just kept coming. I was always joking that I was writing an album of chart-bustin’ cancer anthems.” The Arts Club commissioned him to create a solo show and Mann kept writing songs but the script eluded him, so he called Panych, who was now living in Toronto. “He came out and he would try to tell me the story of his colorectal cancer, and it was evident that he was having trouble remembering and even recalling what he’d said a couple of hours before,” Panych recalls. “I just thought it was kind of, like, dozy, stoned—rock-star stuff.”
Singing through the fear
John Mann sings while Jonathon Young plays a man battling cancer in The Waiting Room, a show that’s taken on new urgency. Emily Cooper photo.
a source of fear, but It’s a bittersweet time for everybody involved, courage and bravery and every performance feels like a once-in-aJohn Mann called on Morris Panych to turn his songs about a cancer and challenges—the lifetime chance, which is also, in many ways, way life is.” the point of the play. battle into a play; now a new fight is giving the work extra meaning Panych originally “Morris has written a beautiful and very Finally, Daum called from Vancouver to tell wanted Mann to star in the lead role, but that funny show,” Mann writes. “Two of the big nughim: Mann had early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. proved impossible with the Alzheimer’s. But gets of wisdom I carry with me from his script “Everything changed after that,” Panych Mann is on-stage, singing all of his songs are: ‘The people who love us suffer with us and says. Daum f lew out to help piece together the throughout the show, and his presence is that’s part of the joy of loving.’ That we narrative. Mann had completed 90 percent of powerful. shouldn’t try and protect people we the songs before his diagnosis, and there was “It’s very tricky for him right now love from our pain. Also that ‘We’re Check out… a certain chronology inherent in them. Panych to perform the songs in the show,” STRAIGHT.COM all afraid of what’s going to happen also wanted to keep the focus on Mann’s cancer Panych says. “He’s got a lot of help. but it happens anyway.’ There’s no Visit our website journey without bringing the Alzheimer’s into But he sometimes has lapses, even reason for it and we shouldn’t look for morning-after the narrative. The result is a refreshingly can- with the iPad [he uses for lyrics], for one. We should live each day and reviews and local arts news did and at times blisteringly funny exploration he’s not really sure where he is. It’s not wait for life to happen.” of cancer. kind of an ongoing situation, it just “Even from the beginning, I was “Morris has taken some of my situations and changes all the time.…We don’t know like, I just wanna have a good time,” turned them into very funny scenes,” Mann how quickly and seriously his condition will Panych says. “I just want to surround myself writes. “Like Jim the zealot who wandered develop, but our fingers are crossed John can with people that I love and make this a great around praying for everybody, a surgeon with make it through the run.” thing for John and make it something that he zero people skills, and also how cancer deeply “Being on-stage singing these songs is an in- cherishes and it feels right and honours him affects you. You don’t go back to how you were credible experience. It’s the culmination of a ca- and his music. Not to get maudlin about it, but before. It alters you.” reer, my theatre work melding with my music,” that has made it much more meaningful than a “Cancer is a source of fear almost exclusively,” Mann writes. “Working on this show has been normal rehearsal. This is very special.” Panych says. “I know it sounds kind of flaky, but a love fest. We are all aware that this is a special the play is trying to open up the idea that cancer opportunity. We’re squeezing everything we The Arts Club’s The Waiting Room runs until October 31 at the Granville Island Stage. is part of who we are as human beings. Not just can from it and giving it all we’ve got.”
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Editor’s choice FATHER AND SON There are reasons why the Cultch has had to hold over Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Son before it even opens: Shigematsu has a following from CBC’s The Roundup and elsewhere; the story focuses on the fascinating opening-up of a relationship between a son and his remote father; and it conjures whole worlds using just a camera, miniatures, and a projector. Don’t miss this multimedia mashup with heart. Empire of the Son is at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab until October 24.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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HEAVEN, HELL AND SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN (At the UBC Museum of Anthropology until Monday [October 12]) Portuguese popular art.
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RED CHAMBER & GORD GRDINA (At the Fox Cabaret on Tuesday [October 13]) A mesmerizing mix of Chinese music, Arabic sounds, and jazz.
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THE GREAT SYMPHONY (At the Orpheum on Friday and Saturday [October 9 and 10]) The VSO plays Schubert, with Ingrid Fliter at the ivories.
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A SIMPLE SPACE (At the York Theatre from Tuesday [October 13] to October 24) Australian acrobats in an intimate theatre. (See page 33.)
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ARE WE COOL NOW? (At the Cultch until Saturday [October 10]) Indie fave Dan Mangan’s songs provide the score for a musical road trip.
Guest pick
MUSIC OF A THOUSAND AUTUMNS Our arts fan this week is double bassist and composer Mark Haney. His recommendation: “Turning Point Ensemble’s season opener is my pick. Vancouver’s best large new-music ensemble doing what they do best: premiering new works by exciting composers and giving us the gift of another listen to some of the most accomplished Canadian music out there (Alexina Louie, Dorothy Chang [shown above]).” (See page 35.) Music of a Thousand Autumns is at the Orpheum Annex on Wednesday and Thursday (October 7 and 8).
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ustralian circus company Gravity & Other Myths believes that play and improvisation are the best learning tools. They proved integral to its formation and development, and remain essential to its shows Freefall and A Simple Space, which break down walls between artist and audience. “We’ve all been doing circus since we were young whippersnappers,” says general manager and performer Triton Tunis-Mitchell, reached in Adelaide, GOM’s home base. “Australia has a strong reputation for youth and community circuses, and we were born out of the one here. In 2009—when most of the crew were 16 to 18—we decided to put on a show for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. We used the creation and touring of Freefall as a vehicle for learning about how the whole art and industry works. We didn’t have grand plans, it was very much a work to find our own identity—and won a bunch of awards.” Growing up together in circus, the performers developed an intuitive knowledge of each other, both physically and psychologically. It gave them the complete confidence that’s crucial for any ensemble taking big risks. “All of our training is about moving as one organism and understanding the patterns and the feel, and working the trust,” stresses Tunis-Mitchell. “We’re friends on-stage as well, so there’s no putting on the smiles. What we do is really an extension of our friendship. Our approach is very much a creative play, and we find the magic in the connection with the audience.” A Simple Space is very much an up-close-and-personal experience. The rectangular performing area has spectators seated on three sides—a U-shaped configuration that focuses attention and, like the traditional circus ring, enables the audience to
O C T O B E R 2 0 15 UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Australia’s Gravity & Other Myths adds intimacy and immediacy to the acrobatic circus arts with its show A Simple Space. Chris Hertzfeld photo.
see itself. “Even the people who are 10 rows back can feel the excitement of being the person in the front row,” Tunis-Mitchell says. A strong opening sequence very visibly brings home the value of trust and teamwork. With all the performers on-stage, each in turn—and seemingly haphazardly—calls out “Falling!” and then topples backwards like a felled tree. A colleague runs over and arrives just in time to make the catch before the toppler’s head hits the floor. “We put a lot of big skills at the start and try to play the game fresh each time, ” says Tunis-Mitchell. “Many circus shows begin soft and build up, whereas in A Simple Space we come out in a blaze of activity—then follow up with a skipping sequence to intentionally confuse the audience a bit as to our approach.” To add to the intimacy and immediacy, all the sound and music accompanying the acrobats is made live on-stage by team member Elliot Zoerner. “We started without a musician in Freefall,” explains TunisMitchell. “Elliot came in part of the way through that production. We had the choice either to press Play on
a recorded track or to have someone who can accent all the skills and can time things to us. Being able to work with a musician both in the creative process and then on-stage fills all the gaps, and makes it very present, playful, and improvised in feel.” As for equipment, there’s nothing in A Simple Space except a trapeze bar, and the only props are balloons, ropes, and plastic balls. “The focus is just on the bodies,” says Tunis-Mitchell. “It’s easy to put on a big persona and costume and razzle-dazzle, and kind of hide behind the skills. We put nothing in the space and push ourselves really, really hard to the point where you can’t put up a façade because you’re that tired, and you’ve focused that hard. Something interesting starts to appear. That’s what happened with A Simple Space—putting it in front of audiences, we’ve built it bit by bit. There’s a lot of sweat, a lot of breathlessness, and things that may not go right first time, but it’s all part of the fun.” Gravity & Other Myths performs A Simple Space at the York Theatre October 13 to 24.
Thu Oct 8, 8:00pm
Presented by the UBC School of Music UBC Symphony Orchestra performs Debussy, Ravel and Rachmaninoff, and a world premiere by Jared Miller entitled Fanfare for the UBC Centennial.
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Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Exciting young conductor Alexandre Bloch presides over a concert that also features pianist Ingrid Fliter performing Haydn’s most popular work.
JEREMY DENK, PIANO Sun Oct 18, 3:00pm
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Sat Oct 24, 8:00pm Presented by the Chan Centre Widely considered to be the greatest flamenco guitarist in the world, Paco Peña performs with a distinguished ensemble of musicians and dancers in “Flamencura,” a fiery tribute to flamenco.
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Fri Oct 30, 8:00pm Presented by the UBC School of Music UBC Choirs, led by Graeme Langager, perform a program entitled Musical Journeys and Dances.
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Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts a fascinating concert of wide-ranging repertoire. Brilliant American pianist Anne-Marie McDermott performs one of the most famous works in all of the repertoire for piano, Rachmaninoff’s beautiful Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Following the theme of piano variations, Ms. McDermott will also perform Dutch composer Poul Ruders’ take on Paganini’s 24th Caprice for Solo Violin.
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ance is not often thought of as a political art form, but in the hands, and lithe body, of Pichet Klunchun, it’s a one-man revolution in a country that’s no stranger to uprisings. As Thailand’s most internationally renowned dancer-choreographer, Klunchun has been strictly trained in khon, the revered, highly stylized, and ornate classical form. Using masks, it historically tells the Hindu Ramayana legend, known in his home country as the Ramakien. It is a sacred form, one that traditionally belonged to the royal court and one that had to be performed with masks in front of its regal audience. So by taking it out of that sphere, and by taking off that mask, Klunchun is already, as he puts it, making a political act—one that’s received its share of outrage from Thai conservatives. “When you say, ‘This is my body. I am taking the mask off and the costume and so this is the body of myself,’ the people start to get very, very angry,” the affable dancer says, sitting in Bangkok and speaking to the Straight via Skype on a sunny tropical morning that’s clearly visible out the apartment window behind him. “People start to ask me, ‘Who are you? Why you do this?’ ” But Klunchun goes even further. In the studio of his company, PK Lifework, he’s performed pieces on subjects including global warming and politics. And now, in a collaboration with Vancouver dance artist Alvin Erasga Tolentino, he is taking on the very commercialization and loss of culture in Thailand itself. “I feel in the last few years Bangkok is like a garbage city with too much on sale,” complains the dancer, turning momentarily bitter and blaming the new consumerism on a mix of globalism and newfound affluence in Thailand. “I feel derision walking on the shopping street and seeing the pop stars on television. All the girls are copying that and I think this is not the right way.” In the duet, called Unwrapping Culture, Tolentino and Klunchun in fact surround themselves, and the audience, with toys, metres of Rainbow Loom–style rubber bands, knickknacks, and other junk culled from Thai night markets—the noisy, kitschy, barter-happy shopping areas
In Unwrapping Culture, Alvin Erasga Tolentino and Pichet Klunchun surround themselves—and the audience—with trinkets from Thailand. Chris Randle photo.
that will be familiar to anyone who has visited the country. In fact, Tolentino reports lugging back several bags full of the stuff on each return from working with Klunchun in Bangkok. “It’s interesting as you do the work, you start to have the perspective of, ‘Why are we accumulating more?’ It’s the idea that accumulating is infectious,” the Philippine-Canadian dance icon relates to the Straight over the phone on a break here in Vancouver. “He’s trying to evoke all that materialism under Thailand’s reputation as a revered Buddhism country. There’s a huge amount of wealth there now, and what is the effect on the culture? “As tourists we see this façade. It’s wanting to go to a night market and buy all these materials and think, ‘This is great.’ But what’s underneath it? What happens between the buyer and the seller?” As a contemporary artist who has also incorporated classical cultural movement from his homeland into his work—including historicalpolitical pieces like 2012’s Colonial—Tolentino had been fascinated with Klunchun for years. When the khon master agreed to let him come to Bangkok to study with him in his studio, he was elated. “We got along really well,” he says. “I just adore him because of the discipline and fearlessness—being really true about decisions on what he wants to validate to the world.” But Tolentino admits the rigid
form was even more difficult than he imagined. “I was so sore,” he says with a laugh. “We would do sort of a giant, second-position plié for, like, 20 minutes, just up and down. But then you get used to it.” The resulting piece, he says, will incorporate Klunchun’s strict khon style, what Tolentino humbly calls his own “shadow” version of it, and then very contemporary movement. While it looks fun and playful with its multicoloured rubber bands, yellow garlands, and cheap stuffed animals, Unwrapping Culture, Klunchun says, is very much “a black comedy”. He adds with a sly smile about the piece that will travel back for a provocative performance in Bangkok: “Everything that you see is not everything that I say.” Both Klunchun and Tolentino stress the work is immersive, with the audience all around them—a far cry from the strict palace courts that once took in khon. “It’s likely that it [the performance] will change every night,” says Tolentino. “Some might be really willing to participate and some might think we’re quite nuts! But when you go through those night markets in Southeast Asia, they’re right in your face, and it’s that kind of exchange of energy—we wanted to get that energy in the work.” Co.ERASGA’s Unwrapping Culture runs next Thursday to Saturday (October 15 to 17) at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
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he path of my professional life is twisted and implausible,” says John Hodgman. “But real.” After graduating with a degree in literary theory (literature was too practical; he just liked the idea of books, he says), Hodgman got a job in publishing. An unlikely performer, he was a literary agent before quitting to become a magazine writer. Some humour pieces led to a book of made-up trivia. So far, so good. He fits the role of nerdy scribe to a T—so much so that an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart to plug said book led to the opportunity to audition for the very personification of outdated nerdiness, a PC in Apple’s famous ad campaign. “I was a pudgy, round, baby-faced man with a little bit of a lazy eye in his mid-30s,” he says from his home in Brooklyn, New York, on a brief layover from his Vacationland tour, which he’s bringing to the Rio Theatre on Tuesday (October 13). “It was not really a time for someone to take on a new career as on-camera entertainment for other humans, but it happened. Perhaps it was an unusual look for a television personality, but it was a great look for a bumbling PC.” He figured what the hell, it would make a great story that he was once asked to audition for a TV commercial. “But I got the job and I ruined the story, so sorry.” He also became a regular contributor to The Daily Show as its “resident expert” and a “deranged billionaire”, and his transformation from primary writer to primary performer was complete. Now he acts (he’s got a recurring role in the FX series Married) and has a popular podcast called Judge John Hodgman, where he weighs in on disagreements between friends about whether chili is a soup (it isn’t), and whether a machine gun could be categorized as a robot (nope). “I realized that a) I enjoy telling people who’s right and who’s wrong, and b) my opinion is almost always correct. And therefore it seemed a benefit both to me and humanity for me to settle some disputes,” he says.
Most famous as the nerdy PC guy in the Apple TV ad campaign, John Hodgman has moved easily into comedy.
Oh, and he performs standup, too. Or is it standup? “I don’t classify it as anything,” he says. “I mean, I’m standing on a stage and people are laughing. I’m telling stories. There are labels for these sorts of performances, but all I can say is that this is a John Hodgman show, so if you’re a listener to the Judge John Hodgman podcast, you’re going to know that there’s going to be a lot of my preoccupations in the show and it’ll be very much a mix of jokes, but also sincere interests in the world and an occasional song, because I’ve been indulging my singing on the podcast a lot. And if you’re a fan of John Hodgman from The Daily Show, and you want some esoteric, weird cultural references and completely bogus phony trivia and made-up authoritative facts, there are elements of that, as well. I’m the guy who’s doing all of these different things. They all live within me. A lot of the show is really about the fact that I can only give you who I am.” He is, if nothing else, the resident expert on his life. Vacationland: An Evening With John Hodgman plays the Rio Theatre on Tuesday (October 13).
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“..it will break your heart” -Colin Thomas The Georgia Straight Composer Alexina Louie’s A Curious Passerby at Fu’s Funeral, written for Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble, uses the piano for percussion.
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harged with writing a new piece for Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble, Alexina Louie opted to look back to her own roots in this polyglot city—and to her early days as a student composer in San Diego, California. This doesn’t mean that A Curious Passerby at Fu’s Funeral waxes nostalgic, however. As Louie notes in a telephone interview from her Toronto home, she’s investigating some new ideas, too. “There are things in this piece that I’ve never done before,” she stresses, citing the new work’s second movement, which initially strikes a meditative stance before moving into far more dramatic terrain. “The piano hammers on the lowest note of the piano, which is a low A, and that goes on for a time, just loud,” she says. “And there are shifting accents that happen down there, so it sort of sounds like drumming.” Louie’s long had an affinity for percussion, although this marks the first time the 66-year-old composer has asked a pianist to join the drum corps. Before Turning Point keyboardist Jane Hayes gets physical, percussionist Vern Griffiths will have already had quite a workout in A Curious Passerby at Fu’s Funeral’s opening movement. “I wanted the piece to start off with a fast-paced, exciting feel to it,” the composer says. “And so I wrote for marimba, and it goes really fast.” Louie’s clearly relishing this opportunity to collaborate with some of Canada’s finest chamber musicians. “If I get to write for good players, I tend to stretch myself—and sometimes that’s not a good thing, because it leaves you in a position where not every ensemble or performer can play your pieces,” she notes. “But I grow as a composer when I do that, when I write for the capability of the ensemble rather than writing for the possibility of multiple performances.”
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Just how Louie has grown over the past 30 years may become very apparent during Turning Point’s upcoming concerts. Also on the bill, along with works by Anthony Tan, Linda Catlin Smith, and Dorothy Chang, will be Louie’s Music for a Thousand Autumns, written in 1983. Both works are inspired in part by Asian music, although Louie says that’s more circumstantial than a direct nod to her own ChineseCanadian heritage. “Because I was writing for Vancouver, I consciously revisited the Asian aspects of my music more than I have been in my other recent pieces,” she explains. In the earlier work, the second movement draws explicitly from an ancient composition for the zitherlike guqin, which she was studying at the same time she was doing an MFA in composition at the University of California. With A Curious Passerby at Fu’s Funeral, the references are more cryptic, although they can also be traced back to the composer’s San Diego sojourn. “In that piece, the second movement is inspired by an instrument that has always captivated me, the shō,” she says, noting that she was introduced to the mouth-blown reed organ by an Italian-American friend. “It’s Japanese, but there’s a Chinese equivalent, the sheng. It’s always really touched me. The sounds are so haunting, and you can get so many chord clusters, and the timbres are so unusual. I mean, it’s very reedy, but it’s also very sweet at the same time. “I put a lot of myself in each piece,” Louie adds, but you don’t have to be familiar with her history to understand her sound. Just as the shō, in Fu’s Funeral, will be represented by woodwinds and strings, her memories have also been transfigured by time. The Turning Point Ensemble presents Music of a Thousand Autumns at the Orpheum Annex on Wednesday and Thursday (October 7 and 8).
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Are We Cool Now? finds musical alchemy TH E AT RE ARE WE COOL NOW? Featuring the songs of Dan Mangan. Written and directed by Amiel Gladstone. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Wednesday, September 30. Continues until October 10
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For the two lovers in Are We Cool Now?, it’s the music of local indie troubadour Dan Mangan. His folkrock songs—by turns wistful, cynical, weary, and achingly beautiful—have already earned many accolades in the music world; their stellar reinvention here is cause for celebration. Writer-director Amiel Gladstone’s young lovers are intentionally generic (her: restless explorer; him: stuck, passive man-boy) but fleshed out with idiosyncratic details—they can both roll their tongues, she has a tattoo of an ex-lover’s face on her back—and their experiences are rooted in contemporary hipster consciousness: they argue about Ren & Stimpy, and in Berlin they attend a party in honour of a taco truck. In the first act, this quirkiness fits neatly into a sense of the universal comedy of falling in love: “You’re using ‘I need to tell you something’ on a first date?” the guy asks incredulously. But the second act feels more like a series of standard plot points being ticked off, as the relationship carries on longer than is credible. That’s partly due to a lack of chemistry between the performers, who introduce themselves by their real names. (The fourth wall is fluid here.) Ben Elliott is charming as the young man who’s too fearful to change his life: when he confides in us about having “the most adult thought of my life so far”, we feel the vulnerability beneath the cool slacker pose. But Penelope Corrin’s emotionally flat acting doesn’t match his complexity. What their courtship lacks in spark, however, is more than made up for by their musical alchemy. Corrin is a terrific, soulful singer, and her harmonies with Elliott on many of the songs are pure ear candy. Elliott and musical consultant Veda Hille deserve huge credit for their inventive arrangements—using everything from kazoos to a glockenspiel—of Mangan’s songs, mostly from his breakthrough album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice, which Gladstone deftly weaves into the narrative. Elliott’s interpretations foreground the self-deprecating wit in Mangan’s lyrics, like “Wasting my time wishing the world would fuck off/At least then I could be bitter.”
In the quirky Are We Cool Now?, Penelope Corrin and Ben Elliott deliver the sonic goods. Murray Mitchell photo.
Anton Lipovetsky’s guitar and bass and Spencer Schoening’s percussion seamlessly drive the rhythm. Lauchlin Johnston’s set—touring cases pushed together to make a platform with risers, music stands covered in photos—is dynamic and flexible, suited to the many locations in Gladstone’s playfully minimalist staging. The story may not leave a lasting impression, but for the uninitiated, this is a great introduction to Mangan’s music. For those who are already fans, it’s a triumphantly fresh take.
> KATHLEEN OLIVER
ROMEO + JULIET By William Shakespeare. Directed by Anita Rochon. A Studio 58 production, presented in association with the Chop Theatre. At Studio 58 on Saturday, October 3. Continues until October 18
Seeing a new star hurtling toward you full of light is one of the thrills of going to the theatre. Camille Legg, who’s playing Romeo in this production, is that kind of star. Director Anita Rochon has had her way with Shakespeare’s script, the title of which she renders as Romeo + Juliet. Rochon sets the action in 1965, in Andy Warhol’s Factory, and it’s an odd fit: Romeo and Juliet is about the romantic idealism of youth, but the Factory was a hangout for speed users, drag queens, and hustlers. In this production, everybody looks innocently tidy in designer Jessica Bayntun’s black-and-white costumes, which would have been more at home on Carnaby Street. And, inexplicably,
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Andy Warhol steps into the role of the Prince of Verona, even though the Prince is all about civility and Warhol was famously perverse. To realize her vision, Rochon has hacked away great swaths of exquisite text, including the “palmers” exchange, in which Romeo and Juliet fall in love with one another. In this version, the characters seem to speak the lines, but we can’t hear them because they’re in the middle of such a raucous party. Still, the director’s approach mostly works. Rochon and choreographer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg have created beautiful stage pictures and movement sequences. When the body of the young nobleman Tybalt is lying on the stage, mourners wordlessly enter and crouch; when they rise again, Tybalt stands and walks off with them. It’s simple, but it’s also one of the alltime best disposals of a Shakespearean corpse. At the end, when Romeo and Juliet are busying themselves with knives and poison, the rest of the cast surrounds the playing area and sings Nancy Tam’s hauntingly spare original music: it’s so tender. Most importantly, at the heart of the show, there are a bunch of young performers who make sense of the text. Legg’s lesbian Romeo is so eager and openhearted that I defy you not to weep at her death. And Adelleh Furseth (Juliet) is impressive, especially as she negotiates the multilayered scene in which Juliet discovers that her lover has slaughtered her beloved cousin. Brandon Bagg’s portrayal of Laurence, the couple’s
confidant, stands out because of its authority, honesty, and restraint. Conor Stinson-O’Gorman, who’s playing Romeo’s unstable pal Mercutio, could use some of that restraint. The charismatic Stinson-O’Gorman has some keen instincts, which are in full evidence as he unsheathes the beauty of Mercutio’s speech about the fairy Queen Mab, but he overworks other sections. Similarly, Samantha Pawliuk, who plays Nance, this interpretation’s version of Juliet’s nurse, brings heart and sense, but also needs to pull back. Sometimes Rochon’s staging is sloppy—when Romeo and her pals start chucking balls of tinfoil at one another, for instance. Still, there’s a fresh interpretation here, and it will break your heart, which is what it’s supposed to do. > COLIN THOMAS
LOVE BOMB Book and lyrics by Meghan Gardiner. Music and additional lyrics by Steve Charles. Directed by Reneé Iaci. A Shameless Hussy production, presented by the Firehall Arts Centre. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Wednesday, September 30. Continues until October 10
Love Bomb gets so stuck in its
2 convention that it forgets to tell
a compelling story. In Meghan Gardiner’s book for this musical, a young rocker named Justine is setting up for a bar gig when Lillian, a middle-aged woman,
talks her way into the space. Lillian presents herself as a fan and Justine agrees to sing two songs for her. It’s a slow start: no dramatic tension, just a couple of unanchored tunes. Eventually, we find out that Lillian is searching for Nicola, her youngadult daughter, who disappeared seven months earlier. Lillian has tracked Justine down because she recognizes references to Nicola’s hometown of Fort St. John in the rocker’s lyrics. Although Justine finally confesses to using Nicola’s poetry, she refuses to tell Lillian anything else. Justine has built nine songs on Nicola’s words, however, so, desperate for more information about her child, Lillian threatens to expose Justine’s plagiarism unless Justine sings all nine of them for her. What follows has to be one of the most indirect and artificial exchanges ever imagined. Justine sings a song, then she debates its meaning with Lillian. Lillian tries to make a point—like “My daughter loves me,” for instance—and, in rebuttal, Justine picks up her guitar and launches into another number. Why is song analysis preferable to having a straightforward conversation? And why is the reluctant Justine engaging in any of this? Lillian threatens to tell the police about Justine’s supposed theft if she doesn’t comply, but what the hell are the police going to do about it? The drama continues to flatline partly because it takes forever for Justine’s investment in Nicola’s narrative to come to light. Let’s just say that Love Bomb is about a pimp’s emotional manipulation. To the bitter end, though, Love Bomb keeps the lived experience of prostitution at such a distance that the script never rings true: the play’s resolution serves an abstract dramatic function, but doesn’t carry the weight of emotional reality. Absolutely none of this is the fault of Sara Vickruck, who is charismatic as Justine. She plays her guitars with skill and sings with abandon, she brings a sly sense of humour, and, impressively, her cheeks flush with shame. Deb Pickman does her best with the underwritten role of Lillian, a stereotypically feisty mom. Steve Charles composed the music and shares the lyric-writing credit with Gardiner. Lots of the songs are good. With its spare, meditative arrangement, “Shoebox”, which is about alienation, is haunting and “Mothership Down” is a touchingly angry rock anthem. You need more than songs for a musical, though. You need a decent book to place them in, and Love Bomb doesn’t have one. > COLIN THOMAS
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ant novels, having been shortlisted for the 2015 Giller Prize, Anakana Scho field’s new Martin John is an unsettling book to read. It was also unpleasant to write. “It is not easy to spend 300 pages essentially in somebody’s groin, you know,” the Irish-Canadian writer tells the Straight in a telephone interview from her Vancouver home. “All books are hard, but some books are definitely harder. They just take more out of you, and I think this probably will be the hardest book I’ll ever write. “In fact,” she adds, “I’ll try not to write another book like this!” It’s not that Martin John is unique. The horror genre is rife with tomes written from the point of view of the socially incompetent and sexually twisted; moving into Schofield’s own arena, literary fiction, comparisons could be made to the self-involved nar rator of Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles, or to the monstrous, near-pedophilic antihero of Michel Tournier’s The Erl-King. Tellingly, those are also disturbing books re deemed by their authors’ extraordin ary skill, and what pleasures there are to be found in Martin John come through Schofield’s virtuosic use of a deliberately limited vocabulary. Tak ing as her starting place a character who makes a brief appearance in her debut novel, Malarky, she has crafted a wholly believable journey into the mind of a deeply warped young man, labouring under the double burden of paranoid schizophrenia and an erotic obsession with rubbing himself against women’s legs. In public. Illness and sex also feature in Malarky, and Schofield describes the two books as a diptych. “It [Martin John] is its own panel,” she says. “In Malarky, there’s one footnote that I push. It’s when I’m referring to the character Beirut, and his mother calls him Martin John at one point. And for absolute, as my mother would say, pure divilment, I put ‘See Martin John: A Footnote.’ “I had no idea as to whether I’d actually write Martin John: A Footnote at all,” she continues. “I had material, because Malarky was ori ginally a parallel narrative about two mothers and two sons, and with the second mother and son, the relation ship was predicated upon this idea of ‘Can you love your child to the point of destroying them?’ And so at a cer tain point in Malarky—well, actually, quite late in Malarky—I threw out the second narrative. Actually, on the advice of [Vancouver author] Helen Potrebenko, who was incredibly helpful to me.…She just said, ‘Martin
John, begone!’ and he was gone. But I did save some of this material.” Whereas Malarky was rich and varied, Martin John is grey and ser pentine. If the earlier book drew equally on hilarity and heartbreak, Schofield’s new effort examines the monotone world of the obsessive. Yet, on a technical level, it’s an astounding ly focused piece of writing. Unlikable as Martin John Gaffney might be, with his psychopathic lack of remorse and empathy, Schofield manages to draw us into his squalid, claustrophobic in ner life through the relentless incanta tions of his inner voice. “I’m always puzzling about form,” she says. “Where’s my entry point? How can I speak to this through form? How can I use language in a way that is more than just cheeky de scriptions and conventional middle brow novels—which would probably be more sensible to write. “It was very important that this was a loop, with loops, and it’s pretty loopy. It unrolls and it answers only to itself within itself, in essence.… I do think that the form of the book goes right into the syntax of the lan guage, the syntax of the sentences. And it’s true: there is a different kind of musicality in this book.” Beyond the thrill of mastering a technical challenge, however, there remains the question of why Scho field would opt to explore such troubling subject matter. “My interests tend to be more in the margins,” she says at first. But there’s a moment in Martin John where she briefly abandons the title character in order to illuminate how his sexual violence caused lasting harm. “Today, a 32-year-old mum with two kids, she was still living in it,” Schofield writes. “She was living in it as she put the washing on the line. As she picked up the phone at work.… Who was this guy anyway? Who was this guy to be putting his hand on her leg? What the fuck was his hand doing there? 21 years later, as she is sending a text, she is still asking questions that may not be answered.” Another question that may not be answered is this: was there a specific incident that sparked Schofield’s in terest in sexual pathology? “I just do not feel comfortable with the conflation of my personal biog raphy with anything I write. And cer tainly I’m not going to submit the bio graphical details of my life in order to sell a book,” Schofield says. “It’s a work of language: I started with language, I ended with language, and when I struggled, I went back to language.” This sounds harsher on the page than it did in conversation. And Schofield goes on to explain her fas cination with the phenomenon of the male sexual predator. “The one thing that comes out in all these reports is how people with
predatory instincts go after the vulner able,” she says. “There’s something very disturbing about it, and I just thought that I couldn’t write another book, ever, without addressing some aspect of that incursion into women’s bodies. And the same goes with flashers and frotteurs. “I would hazard that very few women haven’t experienced that. Throughout your life you’re looking at something and you’re thinking, ‘No. No! Is that… Is that? Oh, fuck, it is.’ And there’s the question of ‘Where do you put this stuff?’ Where do you store this stuff? So my job, as a novelist, is to respond to that. And I wanted to! I wanted to attempt to understand some of the complex ities. These things aren’t simple.” Neither is Martin John itself. It may prove an anomaly in Schofield’s bur geoning catalogue—her current novel in progress, she reveals, is proving “a really fun book to write”—but it’s no less powerful for that. > ALEXANDER VARTY
Anakana Schofield will be a guest at two Vancouver Writers Fest events this year, on October 22 and 23. See www.writersfest.bc.ca/ for details.
CAMILLA GIBB
Camilla Gibb has done an un
2 usual thing. She’s published four
novels: Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-So’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly, and The Beauty of Humanity Movement. The third of these was shortlisted for the star-making Sco tiabank Giller Prize and the others were either nominated for or won an assortment of municipal, provincial, and national awards. But now she’s given up fiction to write nonfiction. The first example is This Is Happy: A Memoir, a work whose title hides a gutwrenching tale of the most extreme forms of unhappiness. At the moment it’s probably the most widely reviewed new Canadian book and its author the most interviewed writer in the coun try. People are riveted by her story of unrelenting horror, fear, abandon ment, mental illness—and her par ticularly thoughtful brand of cour age. To all of which one must add the appealing incongruity of such a tale being told by a woman with so many high-status accomplishments in various fields. Gibb, who’s 47, came to Canada from the U.K. as a young child and did her undergraduate work at the University of Toronto, where she taught after getting a PhD at Ox ford. She was an anthropologist who learned Arabic and other languages, lived in Ethiopia for an extended period, and travelled much of the world—and who, having once given up her position at the U of T, has now see next page
returned there in a different post. Put that way, it all sounds lovely. But she was the victim of a secretive, uninterested mother and a violent and disturbed father who deserted his young family, only to reappear in her life but once—in Calgary, in 2002, when he approached her at a book signing and asked for her autograph. By then, she had been wrestling for years with bipolar disorder and suicidal impulses and was exhausting various therapies and pharmaceutical remedies that were failing to keep her on track. Gibb entered what she believed was a solid relationship with another woman, but the partner abruptly dumped her, leaving Gibb to raise a daughter. The daughter, Gibb told the Georgia Straight by telephone from Toronto, “is now in what we call SK in Ontario—senior kindergarten”. The “glow” she feels “in my daughter’s presence can help me momentarily overcome what ails me. It is a gift to be unexpectedly alerted in this way, late in life.” She is now with another mate. Her book makes liberal use of pseudonyms, but she says that “anybody who Googles can figure out who some of them represent.” The above gives only the merest hint of her remarkable book, which is etched in short, sharp declarative sentences, a kind of prose that “I previously always put down, but that’s the way it came out in this case. I was moving towards a new clarity. I thought this style was more authentic.” She has been working with the material for a long time. The first part of the book incorporates excerpts from various magazine pieces and essays she has written about her absent father. Other parts, although undated, draw heavily on journals she has kept intermittently—and which she alludes to teasingly in the book. But the point is that all the various constituent elements add up to something far greater than the sum of its parts. She was writing with a newborn in the room. “I had to look back at myself. I had to define the past. I had to
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look at the broader context and ask, ‘What inheritance do I have in the things that make up a family?’ ” This set of questions and answers is one to which large numbers of people appear to respond. “It’s as though there’s been a big backlog of people wanting to get their own stories of this kind out there. Their stories are coming back to me.” In the book, one sometimes forms a picture of the author as an unemployed depressive, a loner by choice as well as necessity, stretching her pennies and assembling IKEA furniture with those awful little chrome wrenches. When I bring this up, she laughs reassuringly (in a way I imagine she could not have done only a few years ago). “I had a good [academic] career and a marriage to someone who had a good career.” In addition to writing nonfiction, she now teaches a first-year seminar at Victoria College, University of Toronto, on social justice. “When I was asked to do this, I said, ‘Are you sure?’ Even though I had worked with PEN and other groups over the years. But the university was very open to my suggestions,” probably because her four novels have had human-rights issues running through them. So all’s now well in the Gibb clan? Not exactly. Her younger brother is distressed by what he reads about his sister’s new book. “He is unhappy all over,” she says. He is a recovering and re-recovering Vancouver drug addict. In This Is Happy, his sister puts it this way: “For all its gloss and glorious scenery Vancouver is the last stop for many and not just because it doesn’t have the punishing cold of the rest of Canada. When you have drifted from place to place, you suddenly find yourself at the edge of the continent. There is nowhere left to go.” Terminal City, indeed. > GEORGE FETHERLING
Camilla Gibb will make two appearances, on October 23 and 25, at this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest. See www.writersfest.bc.ca/ for details.
DEMERS LAUGHS THROUGH TEARS has always been dark comedy, gallows 2 There humour, the laughter that pierces a bleak moment.
But don’t mistake the latest book by Vancouver author and comedian Charles Demers for some abstract tribute to this strange trait. Even with its staccato structure, broken up into short, sharply witty essays, The Horrors: An A to Z of Funny Thoughts on Awful Things adds up to a detailed, unsparing, and ultimately hopeful self-portrait. While being tossed by the alphabet from one great fear or challenge to another (from “E for End of the World” and “F for Fat” to “N for Nazis” and “O for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”), Demers creates a moving account of his 35 years on Earth so far, building subtly but steadily around his greatest loss: the death of his mother from leukemia when he was just a kid of 10. The Straight spoke to Demers amid a flock of well-behaved pigeons on Granville Island. To read the complete version of this Q&A, go to Straight.com. And be sure to catch Demers at this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest, where he’ll be a guest at three events, on October 21, 22, and 23. See www.writersfest. bc.ca/ for details.
Georgia Straight: If someone unfamiliar with your work picked this book up, they might assume it’s a series of riffs on various topics. But it’s actually something much closer to memoir. Charles Demers: It did end up being a kind of fractured memoir, like a kaleidoscope memoir. I haven’t led an interesting enough life to sit down and write it all as one story or one narrative sweep. But by the time I finished writing this book, I realized there was very little that I left on the table. For instance, the essay “M for Motherlessness”—for me, it was really important early on. If this kind of experiment had anything to it, I would know from that essay, because I didn’t want to write something about the worst thing that ever happened to me, the kind of defining trauma of my life, and play that for cheap laughs. I didn’t want to be evasive with it. The question of the book is, “Can humour let you look at things that terrify you without pretending they’re smaller than they are?” So that essay in particular was a real test, for me, of that premise.
GS: Your mother shows up in many places, many very different essays. Was she part of the inspiration for the whole project?
CD: Yeah, she’s the fount of the whole sensibility of the book, which is the idea of this relationship between comedy and pain. My mom went through a lot in the course of a very short life. I mean, I’m four years younger than my mother was when she died, which is a sort of terrifying and sobering thought. She had a really rough go of things. And yet—or maybe “yet” is the wrong way of framing that—she was the funniest person that anyone who knew her had ever met.
GS: There’s something about the spirit of the book that’s quite different from the common idea that “If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry.” CD: Yeah. I’ve never really seen laughter and crying as so much an either-or. You can do both—I have. I think that for a lot of people, making jokes or making comedy is a way of making light of something, and that’s really never been how I view or feel about it. A lot of the time, a joke is just the sound that pain makes while it leaves my mind or leaves my body. It’s the shape that thinking about it takes.
GS: There’s a lot of politics-laced humour around now, especially in the American sport of RepublicanDemocrat baiting. But what’s striking about The Horrors is how tightly politics is integrated into who you are, all parts of your personality. CD: When I sat down and started writing the book, I thought, “Ah, there’ll be a few political essays and there’ll be some more personal ones.” And then I realized, when I looked back on the finished product, that all the political essays are personal, and half of the personal essays are totally political. It’s never really resonated with me, that idea that politics is this thing that’s somehow outside of us or distant from us. People tend to think of life that way—that there’s the real core of you as an individual, and then there’s family and friends, and you move out through these concentric circles to finally get at society and politics. Which is bullshit, right? I mean, we’re all absolutely shaped and conditioned by the society in which we live, the ethics of those societies, the way that imbalances of power and cruelties and kindnesses play out socially and politically. So, for me, my political identity—it is an identity, and there are certain kinds of tribal or partisan loyalties that I guess come out of that, but it really is about a core moral and philosophical commitment, I think. -
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS DRACULA The Royal Canadian Theatre presents director Ellie King’s version of the classic vampire story, set in a steampunk universe. Oct 8-10, Surrey Arts Centre (13750 88th Ave., Surrey). Tix $28/18, info www.rctheatreco.com/. WAIT UNTIL DARK The Sidekick Players Club presents director Carroll Lefebvre’s version of playwright Frederick Knott’s award-winning thriller. Oct 8-24, Tsawwassen Arts Centre (1172 56th St., Delta). Tix $18/15, info www.sidekick players.com/. FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN A portrait of the bond between mother and son by Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay. Oct 8-24, 8 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $20-45, info www.gatewaytheatre.com/.
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SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN Pacific Theatre presents the Midnight Theatre Collective’s play about a pastor who attempts to bring his backwater congregation into the modern age of 1938. Oct 9–Nov 1, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacifictheatre.org/ season/2015-2016-season-3/mainstage/ smoke-on-the-mountain/. THE OLD HAUNT Excavation Theatre presents playwright Avery Burrow’s psychological ghost story. Directed by Jessica Anne Nelson. Oct 13-17, 7:30-9 pm, The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). Tix $15-20, info www.facebook.com/ExcavationTheatre/. DEUX ANS DE VOTRE VIE (YOU ARE HAPPY) Théâtre la Seizième presents Quebecois playwright Rébecca Déraspe’s dark romantic comedy about finding great love at any price. Oct 13-24, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25-28, info www.seizieme.ca/. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Exit 22 Productions presents a stage version of Richard O’Brien’s cult-classic film about a young couple that seeks refuge with an eccentric doctor. Oct 14-15, 8 pm; Oct 16-17, 7:30 pm; Oct 16-17, 11 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $22/15/10, info www. capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/15Rocky-Horror-Show/. DRACULA The Royal Canadian Theatre presents Bram Stoker’s classic horror story with a Victorian-steampunk twist. Oct 14-24,
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2ONGOING DISGRACED The Arts Club Theatre Company presents playwright Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play about faith and politics. To Oct 18, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. LOVE BOMB Shameless Hussy Productions presents the world premiere of a rock concert/play that sees an uninvited guest cause a singer’s music to take on a life of its own. To Oct 10, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $28-33, info www.firehallarts centre.ca/onstage/love-bomb/. ANNAPURNA Christy Webb directs the Canadian premiere of Sharr White’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/. ROMEO + JULIET In association with Chop Theatre, Studio 58 presents William Shakespeare’s classic tale of tragedy and doomed young love. To Oct 18, Langara (100 W. 49th). Tix $12.25-24.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketstonight. ca/, info langara.ca/studio-58/currentseason/index.html/.
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ONE SICK OPERA Diabetes is often called “the silent killer”, but now the deadly disease has found its voice. Or at least its victims have, thanks to composer (and Type 1 diabetes sufferer) Michael Park. Park’s new interactive chamber opera, Diagnosis: Diabetes makes its debut at the Orpheum Annex this Saturday (October 10), courtesy of the Erato Ensemble and a 10-member cast of skilled singers and players. At the very least, it’s a chance to learn more about the consequences of diabetes, which include blindness, impotence, and nerve damage—or even death. How often can we say that an opera could save your life? 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/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK 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/. UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The UBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Debussy, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff, as well as a world premiere by Jared Miller. Oct 8, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/. UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The UBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Debussy, Ravel, and Rachmaninoff, as well as a world premiere by Jared Miller. Oct 9, 7:30 pm, Bell Performing Arts Centre (6250 144th St., Surrey). Free admission, info www.music.ubc.ca/. THE GREAT SYMPHONY Alexandre Bloch conducts pianist Ingrid Fliter and the VSO in a program of music by Messiaen, Haydn, and Schubert. Oct 9-10, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. SOPRANO CATHERINE LAUB AND PIANIST RITA ATTROT Soprano Catherine Laub and pianist Rita Attrot perform music by Viktor Ullman, Ilse Weber, and Bernd Graf von Schweinn. Oct 11, 3 pm, Roedde House Museum (1415 Barclay). Tix $12-15, info www.roedde house.org/en/activities/cultural-activities/ second-sunday-concert-xbq/. THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET Friends of Chamber Music presents the Czech musical group in a performance of work by Prokofiev, Beethoven, and Bartok. Oct 11, 3-5 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $48/15, info ow.ly/SDSTa/. NABUCCO Opera Pro Cantanti presents Giuseppe Verdi’s tale of the conquest of ancient Israel by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Oct 11, 3-6 pm, Cambrian Hall (215 E. 17). Tix $12-18, info www.procantanti.com/.
THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2K. TREVOR WILSON Oct 8-10 2MICHAEL KOSTA Oct 15-17 2ILIZA SCHLESINGER Jan 14-16 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 2CAMERON ESPOSITO Feb 11-13 2ARI SHAFFIR Feb 18-20 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. 2JOHN CULLEN Oct 8-10 2MIKE MACDONALD Oct 15-17 2NATASHA LEGGERO Oct 23-24 2BOBBY LEE Nov 13-14 2GODFREY Dec 4-5 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, 7:30 pm, 9:30 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Fri and Sat, 7:30 pm, 9:30 pm). Oct 7-14, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FESTIVAL The 16th celebration of improv comedy showcases local, national, and international improv groups. To Oct 10, Granville Island. Tix $12-50, info www.vancouverimprovfest.com/. K. TREVOR WILSON Canadian standup comedian known for being the only twotime winner of the Toronto Comedy Brawl. Oct 8-10, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. THE LADY SHOW Comedy by Erica Dawn Sigurdson, Fatima Dhowre, Katie-Ellen Humphries, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Morgan Brayton, and Robyn Daye Edwards. Oct 9, 8 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $10, info on.fb.me/1gKMhsT/. VANCOUVERITE: A COMEDY SHOW Amber Harper-Young and Brent Constantine host Vancouver-centric comedy by James Kennedy, Marlene Swidzinski, Jonny Paul, Jacob Samuel, and Jane Stanton. Oct 9, 8-10 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/6, info www. hotartwetcity.com/vancouverite-oct2015/. JOHN HODGMAN American author, actor, and humorist performs his one-man show VACATIONLAND. Oct 13, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. VANCOUVER IMPROV FIGHT CLUB Vancouver improvisers battle head-tohead for the VIFC title belt. Oct 13, 8-9:30 pm, Café Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial). Tix $7/5, info www.thefictionals.com/. LUX LAUGHS COMEDY COMPETITION Comedy by Ashlee Eff, Jamie Hrushowy, Marly Reed, Colin Lamb, Katie Burrell, Vishal Ramesh, and Heather Szilagyi. Hosted by Steve McGowan and Kyle Bottom. Oct 14, 7:30-10 pm, Lux Lounge (1180 Howe). Tix $8/5, info www.facebook. com/pages/Lux-Laughs/792180980878958/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK THE LITERARY STOREFRONT: THE GLORY YEARS, VANCOUVER’S LITERARY CENTRE 1978-1985 Book launch for Trevor Carolan’s book about Canada’s first non-profit literary centre. Oct 10, 7-9:30 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Free admission, info www.mother tonguepublishing.com/. PAUL YEE: A SUPERIOR MAN BOOK LAUNCH Paul Yee portrays the ChineseCanadian experience in the 19th century in his new novel for adults A Superior Man. Oct 14, 6:30-8:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS 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 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/.
DANCES FOR A SMALL STAGE 32 Eclectic mix of contemporary dance pieces by Heather Myers, Agnes Tong, Andrew Bartee, Kirsten Wicklund, Vanessa Goodman, Scheherazaad Cooper, and Caroline Liffman. Oct 20-23, 8-10 pm, ANZA Club (3 W. 8th Ave). Tix $20, info www.smallstage.ca/.
SERGEI BABAYAN Music in the Morning presents the classical pianist. Oct 14-16, 10:30-11:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $35/33/16, info www.musicinthemorning.org/.
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S SHYAMA IN BHARATA-NATYAM Dancer Arno Kamolika’s solo bharata-natyam production portrays Rabindranath Tagore’s epic dance drama. Oct 10, 7:30-9:30 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $18/15, info www. vancouvertagoresociety.org/.
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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS 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/.
JFL NORTHWEST Just for Laughs and NorthWest Comedy Fest combine to create a new comedy festival taking place at various locations throughout Vancouver. Feb 18-27, various Vancouver venues. Info www.JFLNorthWest.com/.
2ONGOING LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-525-2262, www.lafflines.com/. 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
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/. DIAGNOSIS: DIABETES—AN INTERACTIVE CHAMBER OPERA Interactive opera sees the audience answer questions about diabetes as part
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New York with dreams of being king of the hill or top of the heap—folks have been doing that since steamships started arriving at Ellis Island in the 1800s. To actually make it in the City That Never Sleeps, however, is an entirely different matter. Epic respect, then, to former Vancouverites Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie, who, after some early rough times in NYC, now seem poised for something great. The partners in the downtempo EDM duo Bob Moses are on their tour bus parked by the side of the road in Washington, D.C., when the Georgia Straight reaches them on a cell. Speaking via conference call, they’re excited enough about what they’ve accomplished in 2015 to compensate for the fact they’ve woken up exhausted. But being tired can be a good thing if you’ve earned it. “We played the first show of the tour last night in New York,” Howie relays. “It was at the Bowery Ballroom and it was sold-out, which was super awesome. Then we drove all night to D.C. and slept on the bus. This is our first bus tour, and the first time we’ve slept on a bus, so that’s pretty fun.”
Bob Moses keeps it live
Bob Moses members Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance often fight over who gets to use their one pair of virtual-reality goggles. Tim Saccenti photo.
still really aggressive. Nine Inch Nails had a bit of an electronic twinge to it as well. A lot of what we try to do is in the spirit of Nirvana The New York–based duo of former Vancouverites and Queens of the Stone makes EDM but plays with the energy of a rock band Age and all those bands. That’s right: Bob Moses is hitting the road by They all had attitude and their own distinct sound. bus instead of piling into a battered 1993 panel It was aggressive and abrasive but it had a real heavivan pulling a rented trailer. Consider that a great ness to it. What they had in common was that their sign that the group’s rise in the EDM ranks hasn’t sounds weren’t super accessible on the first listen.” Vallance would eventually gravitate to dance started and ended with packing one of New York’s iconic venues. And the accomplishments don’t stop music, perhaps because it had become far more there. A just-released debut full-length, Days Gone punk than punk rock. “It was the only way that I could rebel,” he reBy, hit record stores last month on indie heavyweight Domino Records, the songs earning ravish- members. “My dad would listen to what I was ing praise for their mix of subterranean house and doing and go, ‘Great drum part.’ And I’d go, mellow-gold pop. Major players have come calling, ‘Nooooo—you’re not supposed to like this. You’re leading to profiles in publications ranging from the supposed to think it’s garbage.’ ” That love of live music affected what Howie and undeniably mainstream (Billboard) to the historicVallance wanted to do with Bob Moses. As easy as ally forward-thinking (DJ Magazine). All the adulation has been doubly gratifying, it would be to hunch over a MacBook Pro, guitars considering how long it took for Howie and Val- and synth banks are very much part of the show lance to get Bob Moses off the ground. After at- when the band plays live. That Days Gone By translates to the stage isn’t tending the same West Side school while growing up in Vancouver, the two moved to New York a surprise. As much as Bob Moses sounds tailormade for modern chill-out rooms, there’s also a independently of each other. Howie, who did time in local rock bands during decidedly analogue undercurrent to its sound. his teen years, hoped to make inroads as a singer Thanks largely to Howie’s ’70s-vintage vocals, the and songwriter. Vallance—whose famous producer- only things missing from “Tearing Me Up” are songwriter father, Jim Vallance, copenned some flared jeans and more cowbell, while the delec of Bryan Adams’s biggest hits—was forging a ca- tably cool “Writing on the Wall” suggest the group might hold its own at finer jazz festivals. reer in the EDM underground. “We’ve made an effort to be a live band,” Howie “My dad had a studio,” Vallance says. “He taught me my first drumbeat, but he never really says. “One of the greatest things about a DJ set is taught me the ways of the studio. I think that he the way that creates energy by transitioning from figured out if I was going to be passionate about track to track. You can get a lot of energy from the music, and figure it out, then I was going to have moments, but we also wanted to make sure that things were very song-based, like a live band.” to do it on my own.” Vallance adds: “When Moby’s Play came out, Even though they never hung out in high school, the two would make a connection after I was completely fascinated—I didn’t understand running into each other by chance in NYC. Still, how one guy could do all that himself. I thought you set up a drummer, bass player, and guitar playBob Moses didn’t come together overnight. Step one was realizing that they shared com- er, and that’s the music. I was always interested in writing songs. But I was also totally into the idea mon musical ground. “We grew up in the whole postgrunge era in of production. Now things have come full circle.” Days Gone By isn’t necessarily geared to those Vancouver, so we were listening to Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, and all the stuff that came af- whose weekends are spent ripping up dance floors ter that,” Howie says. “Then the Chemical Brothers to Skrillex. Forget massive bass drops and fillingcame along, and it wasn’t too far of a jump. It was rattling percussion; Vallance and Howie are
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WE ♥ MILEY Did you catch Miley Cyrus on the season
premiere of Saturday Night Live? If that fearlessly raw and emotional soul-baring wasn’t enough to shut the haters up, then there’s no hope for the haters. Seriously, haters: what’s up?!
ANGEL OLSEN As more than one local wag on Twitter
observed late last year, the Georgia Straight has a collective thing for Angel Olsen. The North Carolina alt-country chanteuse’s latest album, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, made repeated appearances on the Straight’s 2014 top-10 lists. That’s why we’ll be camped out in front of centre stage when Olsen brings her haunting songs to town. Watch for a Straight music-section group selfie on Twitter. -
Angel Olsen plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Thursday (October 8).
Bob Moses plays the Imperial on Wednesday (October 14).
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Bob Moses sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On playing live: (Howie) “We started out playing parties where we’d DJ and I’d sing on the tracks. We could have gone to ‘Let’s just be a DJ group.’ But from the beginning, the reason we started this project is that we wanted to be able to do more than that musically.” On playing in rock bands: (Howie) “I think I was kind of bored, or stuck. I wanted to find my own sound, and that took a long time. Even when we got together in New York, it took a solid year of hard work with not much to show for it. We finally found a sound that’s chill when you listen to it on your speakers but, when you’re out in a club, can be really loud and heavy.” On realizing dreams: (Vallance) “A couple of years ago all we were trying to do was write the best possible stuff that we could. There wasn’t a day where we didn’t talk about playing venues like the Bowery Ballroom or being on a tour bus. So to be here a couple of years later kind of feels completely crazy.”
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working a strain of EDM that they suggest captures the vibe of modern New York. “Vancouver’s catching up, but New York is definitely on the cutting edge in North America,” Howie says. “As we’ve toured over the past couple of years, we’ve even noticed that L.A. is a little behind New York. I think New York has its own thing happening where there’s this really cool scene. It’s almost like things hopped over from Berlin, and then got its own New York vibe.” And as much as Bob Moses is down with that vibe, that doesn’t mean they don’t miss Vancouver. “I was just back, and I was like, ‘I really don’t want to leave,’ ” Vallance says. “It’s a beautiful place, and yeah, it feels like home. But right now we’re having fun.” -
LOLLAPALOOZA ’92 WATCH The Jesus and Mary Chain is working on its first album since 1998, and Lush will play its first gig in almost two decades next May. Millennials everywhere want to know: “Who?” WHAT’S IN A NAME? Australian punk band Cuntz
has cancelled a show in Seattle due to the objections of people who found the band’s name offensive, according to the promoter. The band’s booking agent, Nicole Erin Yalaz, responded on Facebook: “So sick of these rich young college kids who think that trolling a show into being cancelled is making a difference in the world. I hope you all die from your PTSD.”
Fresh and local THE ZOLAS, WINO ORACLE EP (LIGHT ORGAN) If this is a taste of what’s to come on the Zolas’ forthcoming full-length—which will drop sometime in 2016 and will reportedly bear the promising title Swooner —then consider us stoked. The Zolas’ core duo of Zachary Gray and Tom Dobrzanski have always had a way with hooks, but “Fell in Love With New York” and “Molotov Girls” might be their catchiest tunes yet, and they’re just begging to be played on commercial radio. (On the good stations. You know the ones.) The somewhat spikier “Island Life”, meanwhile, proves how well Gray and Dobrzanski can balance their pop skills with their experimental ambitions. -
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of their own diabetic experience. Oct 10, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15-25, info www.eratoensemble.com/.
A SIMPLE SPACE Seven acrobats expose the reality of failure and weakness. Oct 13-24, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS 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 an array of artists. Oct 28–Nov 8, Carnegie Theatre (401 Main). Info www.heartofthecityfestival.com/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouverbased artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 2THE GUND COLLECTION: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST (exhibition features a group of historical and contemporary First Nations artwork from the Northwest Coast, drawn from the Collection of George Gund III) to Jan 31 2THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (explore the conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery, created by Herzog & de Meuron) to Jan 24
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. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) 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
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NANA’S RETURN For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again received raves when it opened here in 2014: the Straight called the Michel Tremblay play starring theatre icon Margo Kane a “funny, affectionate, and triumphantly moving portrait of the abiding bond between mother and son. This buoyant production gets everything right.” Lucky us, then, that the solid production opens the Richmond Gateway season, with Kane still wielding the central role of the Narrator’s ranting, imaginative mother, Nana. Don’t miss it this time out: the by-turns-hilarious-andtender show runs from Thursday (October 8) to October 24. connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built) to Dec 30
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK THE 2015 SSNAP EXHIBITION Experience 52 works by some of Canada’s best emerging and established visual artists. To Oct 26, Mahon Hall (114 Rainbow Rd., Salt Spring Island). Tix $10, info www.saltspringartprize.ca/. GABRIOLA STUDIO TOUR Gabriola Island artists throw open their studio doors to tempt your senses with arrays of art. Oct 10-12, 10 am–5 pm, Gabriola Island. Info artsgabriola.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS WHISTLER READERS AND WRITERS FESTIVAL Event brings together Canadian and international authors for a weekend packed with readings, workshops, speaker panels, spoken word events, and music. Oct 16-18, Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard). Info www.whistlerwritersfest.com/.
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Ward and the Mama Bear live in harmony The mother-and-son duo has had some big career breaks recently, but they haven’t changed much, either on the stage or off Respect is a word that comes up more than
owes a bit of its sassy vibe to that famous lick from Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”. “It’s got a bit of that sort of swagger to it, doesn’t it,” Dan agrees. “I’ll take that. Joe Perry is an amazing guitarist. Yeah, I’ll have that, definitely.” All this talk of Les Pauls and riffs and Joe Perry might have you thinking that the Darkness is all about the guitars, and while that’s basically true, it does include a bassist and drummer, too. And the skin-basher in question is none other than Rufus Tiger Taylor, the 24-year-old son of legendary Queen drummer Roger. “Yeah, how about that?” says Dan proudly. “And he’s more of a rock star than we are! He’s one of those drummers you can’t take your eyes off of. He’s so intense when he plays, so dynamic; he plays every beat like it’s his last. People have already said that they’re just watching him the whole gig.”
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mother-and-son duo Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear at home in Kansas City. That’s not by accident. There’s a reason that both Madisen and his mom, Ruth Ward, prove as charming as they are unfailingly polite. What you hear on their retro-folksy debut album, Skeleton Crew—namely, two musicians in easygoing harmony—is also what you get off-stage. “I don’t know how tailored to music my answer will be, but respect is important, no matter who you’re working with,” Madisen says with Ruth by his side on a conference call. “None of us are bigger than life, but it’s easy to get wrapped up in your own world and head and own way of thinking. Respect can then go out the window, especially in this business, where people can be disrespectful really easily. I always hear people talk about artists that they meet, and going, ‘He was soooo nice.’ I think it’s crazy that being nice is a rare trait these days. What they probably mean was that he was just normal, and wasn’t mean. My dad always instilled in us that you be respectful. It just makes everything in life easier.” Skeleton Crew is a record built on strong familial bonds. No stranger to the stage, Ruth spent years playing coffeehouses, with her children often watching from the sidelines. “When the kids were younger, I’d take them with me and they’d sit in the audience,” she says. “That’s always been who I am and a big part of my life—it’s always been about the music. As far as something bigger, I never really pursued that. It was more like if it happened, great, and if it didn’t, then no problem.’ ” Things definitely happened for Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, even before the release of Skeleton Crew, which was tastefully produced by Jimmy Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys). During their first couple of years playing together, Ruth and Madisen did gigs that might best be described as intimate, with audiences sometimes limited to a couple dozen people. Then the two got the idea of sending out video clips to club owners instead of CDs, giving folks a better idea of what Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear were about. That led to some big breaks, including an appearance on Late Night With David Letterman and featured slots in publications like Rolling Stone. In some ways Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear haven’t changed much since their beginnings—Madisen still sings and plays guitar while his mom mostly keeps in the background, happy to provide six-string support. The formula works beautifully on Skeleton Crew, where songs swing lazily from the simple, old-timey folk of “Live by the Water” to the fiddle-laced back-porch country of “Whole Lotta Problems”. Madisen and Ruth sound like they’ve seen the inside of a whitewashed church or two on the gospel treasure “Fight On” and hint they’ve spent a day or two on the bleak side of the tracks with the ode to dying alone “Dead Daffodils”. Not much has changed from the early days of Madisen and Ruth playing together, except for the songs that they play. “When Madisen was first working with me, we were doing a lot of covers,” Ruth recalls. “He was also writing a lot of material, and finally he said, ‘Mom, let’s just stick with the things that I write.’ I thought we had to depend on the covers, but he’s taught me a lot since then. Originals are what make Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear so special. He’s made a believer out of me.”
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The Darkness plays the Commodore on Tuesday (October 13).
La Havas found inspiration even though she wasn’t looking for it Lianne La Havas’s new album is called
2 Blood, and in one sense the title refers to the
Madisen Ward is endlessly amused—albeit more than a little disturbed—by the Mama Bear’s oft-stated conviction that her guitar is alive and plays itself when it thinks no one is listening.
“Well, he wanted to be,” notes Dan, “but The cool thing about her praise for her son? he’s a builder. And the story goes that he You can hear the respect in her voice. > MIKE USINGER had all the guitars and stuff, but my mom wouldn’t let him play them because she was Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear pl ay trying to watch the TV.” the Cultch’s Historic Theatre next Thursday Judging by the fleet-fingered and heavily (October 15). melodic approach the Hawkinses have taken ever since their 2003 debut, Permission to Land, you’d think that Thin Lizzy would have been a major influence. But they were much too young to have fallen under the harmonic spell of Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham in their prime. Fans of rowdy, old-school, Les Paul– “I’ve evolved from punk-rock kind of influendriven guitar rock have a band worth ces like Swervedriver,” Dan relates, “and Teenage worshipping in British noisemakers the Dark- Fanclub—I used to copy their solos when I was ness. The Marshall-powered six-string team of learning to play guitar. And I try to channel a bit 40-year-old Justin Hawkins and his two-years- of Jimmy Page when I play, sort of hit like the younger brother, Dan, really do tear up the frets, wrong note sometimes, and see where it takes both on-stage and on record—as evidenced by me. At least, that’s what I tell people. their latest disc, Last of Our Kind. And you “But I’m not really an actual guitarist,” he won’t find a single Stratocaster in their dressing adds, talking crazy for a second. “Justin is a room, because they’re Les Paul all the way, and born lead guitarist, a real virtuoso, and I only you can thank their dear old dad for that. play lead solos when I’m really feeling it—or “He had a Les Paul copy, actually,” recalls when I’m forced to.” Dan on the line from his London home, “just Dan might consider his bro godlike on guia cheap one. Some people when they think of tar, but it is actually Justin who lavishes praise an electric guitar they think Fender Strat, but on his sibling in the tongue-in-cheek bio he when my brother and I decided to get our own penned for Last of Our Kind. For example, the guitars we just thought Les Paul, so it was my track “Roaring Waters”, in Justin’s words, “feadad’s influence, really.” tures a Dan Hawkins riff that’s so massive, time The elder Hawkins didn’t inspire his boys slows down when you stand next to it”. with his musical abilities, though. He wasn’t The riff in question is a sweet one, no much of a rocker, as it turns out. doubt, but it’s also pretty obvious that it
The Darkness’s old-school guitar rock is built on sibling revelry
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mess made by amour gone bad. But it also relates to her own search for family identity. The dulcettoned U.K. singer was born to a Jamaican mother and a Greek father, and a recent one-off vacation with Mom proved unexpectedly revelatory. “I wasn’t on any kind of quest,” insists La Havas, calling from Montreal, one stop on a tour wending westward. “It was really just a holiday. Half my family is Jamaican, and having grown up around the culture, it was important for me to see it in its natural context. That was the first time I was able to do that. It wasn’t until I came back to England that I fully realized the significance of the trip, and what it told me about myself. I wasn’t searching for anything, but I found it anyway.” On that trip, she happened to run into producer Stephen McGregor, son of reggae great Freddie McGregor, and the two clicked when it came to album ideas. “I liked him so much, I decided to arrange another trip, just to work with him,” she says. “I did have maybe three songs under way already, and I made some trips to L.A. to see Matt Hales [Aqualung], my long-time co writer. Then he came back to London, where we started writing and exploring more. After developing the material I went to Jamaica and my concept for the album was confirmed, really. It was the first time I’d ever recorded in a tropical country, and it was a very laidback experience. I had begun writing about my family but also exploring rhythms more. My style was changing, and Jamaica added a lot to my writing, and my outlook.” The singer’s previous Warner Brothers album, 2012’s Is Your Love Big Enough?, was an intimate, confessional affair, anchored by her up-front guitar-playing, clever wordplay, and jazzy melodic ideas. Blood features bigger dance beats and a broader, soul-based sound. The single “Unstoppable” is appropriately forceful, and “It’s What You Don’t Do” displays a playful R & B swagger. The Jamaican connection on “Green and Gold” is self-evident. Last year, La Havas also had several musical see page 47
Jesso’s show went fabulously off-course CONC E R TS TOBIAS JESSO JR. At the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday, October 3
This being the third time Tobias
2 Jesso Jr. has played B.C. since the March release of his damned impressive debut album, Goon, you’d think that Vancouver would be dangerously close to getting too much of a good thing. That might have been the case, had the North Van–bred piano man stuck by the playbook and delivered an album run-through as if on autopilot. But while he walked out onto the Rickshaw Theatre stage last Saturday wearing a leather aviator jacket, he went fabulously off-course with one of the most entertaining gong shows the venue has seen in recent times.
It all started off-stage, with five members of Los Angeles’ Duk, Jesso’s current backup band, marching out from the lobby and into the crowd to deliver an on-the-floor run-through of Balkan-cum-Dixieland instrumentals. Max Whipple’s rippling accordion work flexed the former influence, while both trumpeter JJ Kirkpatrick and alto saxophonist Colin Kupka’s wide-cheeked blasts of brass gave the East Van venue a French Quarter feel. After meeting up with Jesso onstage, the bandleader saluting his hometown crowd by hoisting up a tawny highball, they lunged into the self-loathing “Crocodile Tears”. But while he delivered some genuinely tear-jerking ballads (“Can We Still Be Friends” and “Without You” both being high points), Jesso was in a playful mood. While the
musicianship was impeccable, the vibe was about as loose as a pair of Dockers. A midset round of tequila shots for him and the band no doubt contributed to the relaxed atmosphere, but the show often consisted of extended breaks of banter. With his parents, an old boss, his “first girlfriend”, and others in the crowd, a back-and-forth pattern of chitter-chatter developed between songs. Some tried to relate with the guy by shouting out his old Lynn Valley stomping grounds. “I was chubby when I was in Lynn Valley, that’s a pretty insecure moment to just throw at me,” Jesso said self-deprecatingly. Elsewhere, the biographical approach helped explain pieces like “Hollywood”, a song inspired by Jesso’s first failed attempt at making it as a
California session player. He found his voice after coming back to Canada and hibernating in his parents’ basement behind a piano. But while he showed off his relatively newfound skills, the keyboardist wasn’t content to just sit and play standard versions of his material. As if running an improv night, he called on the crowd to request a song of his, and then suggest a new style of music to play it in. Jesso seemed almost instantly aghast at a too-smooth, bossa-nova-remodelled “Just a Dream”, noting “That’s lame, guys.” Duk took a breather at one point, but Jesso managed to rope his childhood friend and onetime boss at Crown Mountain Movers into the show. Their rapport was both ridiculous and earnest, with Jesso first beatboxing for his friend before
serenading him with a lovely runthrough of “True Love”. Eventually, he asked his friend for some backup on the drums. While calling it arrhythmic is an understatement, it was adorable. True love, indeed. Jesso brought the band back and, opting to go out as raucously as he began, decided to bookend the set with another round of “Crocodile Tears”. Though the repeat was questionable, you couldn’t complain once various members of Duk started popping off firecracker solos. While the pacing was spotty, Jesso kept his word and delivered a unique, nonalbum experience. Here’s hoping his next homecoming is just as much of a gloriously messy celebration. > GREGORY ADAMS
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hy is local singer and composer Russell Wallace spearheading an initiative to teach electronic-music production techniques to First Nations youth? “Well, I think it was time,” says the soft-spoken Coast Salish musician, on the phone from his office at Mount Pleasant’s Native Education College. “I mean, there’s been a lot of aboriginal electronic music out there: Buffy Sainte-Marie has been doing it for Kinnie Starr says her approach to ages, and then A Tribe Called Red is beat-making is simply to wing it. really huge all over the world. Knowing people in town, I thought it would approach would involve more time be really cool to bring all of us togeth- consciously looking at your surer, but primarily it was to do work- roundings, and letting your music be shops for youth. And while there are informed by how you feel and how other programs out there that focus on you interact with the world.” Moses’s own sonic landscape for beat-making and stuff like that, we’re trying to make it a little more diverse, “Facade” is deceptive: the tune sounds because electronic music is quite a like club jazz, but it’s not a live performance by a band. Instead, it was wide-open field.” That’s apparent from the lineup painstakingly assembled on the comWallace has enlisted for EMUSE 2015: puter, using MIDI instruments and Aboriginal Electronic Music Festival, electronically augmented samples to which encompasses a series of free emulate drums, upright bass, and trumdaytime workshops at the NEC on pet. The producer will share some of her Thursday and Friday (October 8 and secrets at a NEC beat-making workshop on Friday afternoon, 9) and a gala CDalong with singer release concert at and songwriter the Musqueam Kinnie Starr. Cultural EducaAlexander Varty “I’ve worked with tion and Resource Centre on Friday night. Diverse, too, Tiffany before, and we found out that are the sounds collected on Listen to we have different skills,” says Starr, Our Heartbeat, a compilation of in a call from her Vancouver home. Aboriginal electronica that ranges “In beat-making, my excellence lies from Enter-Tribal’s harrowing, hard- mostly in taking risks, and her excelcharging rap anthem “Sisterz” to Tif- lence lies mostly in audio fidelity. She’s fany Moses’s downtempo charmer very thorough, and I’m very ‘wing-it’! “Facade” to Wallace’s own warmly So that’s cool for the students who’ll come to our workshop, because they’ll nostalgic “Generations of Love”. Listen to Our Heartbeat is aimed at see two very different approaches to raising awareness around the troub- working with digital equipment.” Again, Starr stresses that there ling issue of violence against Native women, but it’s also a celebration of a are no rules when it comes to maknascent movement in Canadian cul- ing digital tracks with a First Nations ture. Picking up where the pioneering focus. Rhythm, however, is one facFirst Nations singer-guitarists of the tor that many aboriginal artists might ’60s and ’70s left off, a new generation have in common. “It blew my mind of indigenous performers is using elec- when I first heard other Mohawk tronic music to address concerns that people partying—like later at night, afare both sonic and societal—and often ter shows and stuff—and singing traditional stuff,” says Starr, who didn’t deeply personal, as Moses notes. “It’s more about what moves you in fully connect with her Native heritage the moment,” says the producer and until she was in her 20s. “It blew my occasional DJ, when asked if she can mind how much those songs sounded identify any dominant trends in like rap music to me. Maybe if I’d been Native electronica. On reflection, how- raised in my tradition I wouldn’t make ever, she says that one shared charac- that connection, but there’s something teristic might be an awareness of land- in them that I think just spills over into electronic music.” scapes both external and internal. “That’s what I heard back in the days “I mean, I’ve heard of approaches based on the observation of the land- when I was clubbing,” says Wallace scape,” the Dene musician explains with a laugh. “When you’re in the club, in a separate telephone interview. you feel the drum—and when you’re “I know from my mother that we can at a community event where there’s a be, say, down at a river, and there’ll be lot of drummers, you do too. So that a whole beach filled with stones, and four-on-the-floor beat is fairly comshe’ll notice the one that’s different, mon, and the repetition of the songs or the one that’s special or peculiar is there as well. Ever since the ’80s I’ve in some way. It’s an interesting abil- seen the connection, but I never really ity; it’s about looking at a whole and had access to the equipment to help also seeing individual specifics. So me realize it. Now everybody can do it, maybe an indigenous or aboriginal even with an iPhone.” -
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For this tour, she’ll still be playing her trusty, metal-bodied James Trussart Telecaster, “and several other guitars you haven’t seen”, she adds. But now her five-piece backing group also has another axe-wielder. “He knows all my parts, so I’m free to move around and go with it, in the moment. All the songs were built around how they made your body move, and that’s what makes music work for me.”
rendezvous with Prince and recorded a number of tracks with him, and with other A-list adventurers. “When it comes to both writing and recording,” La Havas insists, “I always go with my gut feeling, to see what feels right for my music at that moment. It’s not about having more beats or less guitar, or who I’m > KEN EISNER singing with, or anything like that. There were no demos for the record. The album is full of songs that are Lianne La Havas performs Sunday exactly what they were meant to be (October 11) at the Commodore Ballroom. on the day we made them.”
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED VANGIV’ER Benefit concert in response to the Syrian refugee crisis features performances by Roots Roundup, Joe Keithley, the Bad Beats, Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, 2 Days & Counting, the Getmines, Eddy D & the Sexbombs, Trailer Hawk, Cawama, and Pill Squad. All proceeds to the UN Refugee Agency. Oct 15, doors 6 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20, info 604-781-0775. STEVE HILL Juno-winning blues artist from Montreal performs a solo show. Oct 15, 9 pm, Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir). Tix $20 at the door. BEATLES NIGHT The Rogue Folk Club presents Beatles-tribute music by Jim Byrnes, Paul Pigat, Rod Davis, and Cousin Harley. Oct 16, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24, info www.roguefolk. bc.ca/concerts/ev15101620/. WEST COAST JAZZ INVITATIONAL Jazz music by Randers Big Band, Vancouver Groove Orchestra, the Other Big Band, Forward Motion Jazz Orchestra, Impressions Big Band, Urbana, South Van Big Band, Mighty Fraser Big Band, and Bruce James Orchestra. Oct 17, 8 pm, Unity of Vancouver (5840 Oak). Tix $20, info www.westcoastjazzinvitational.com/. BLACK MASTIFF Edmonton psychedelicrock band tours in support of upcoming release Music Machine. Oct 23, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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EAST VAN OPRY Country-roots music by Paul Pigat, Speeding West, the Gastown Revellers, Colleen Rennison, Anne-Louise Genest & Archie Pateman, the Neon Stars, John Reischman, Barbara Adler and Ten Thousand Wolves, Robt Sarazin Blake, the Real Ponchos, Twin Bandit, JJ Lavallee, and Madelaine McCallum. Oct 24, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $23/20, info www.facebook.com/ events/896835857099813/. WE HUNT BUFFALO Local rockers tour in support of upcoming release Living With Ghosts. Oct 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. RED MOON ROAD The Rogue Folk Club presents Winnipeg folk-roots trio, with guests the Wahs. Oct 30, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15103020/. DALANNAH & OWEN Vancouverbased blues duo Dalannah and Owen celebrate with new album Been Around a While.Part of the Railtown Cultural Eclective Trier Series. Nov 5, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $20/15, info www.railtownce.ca/. YOUSSOU N’DOUR Senegalese vocalist performs with his longtime band Le Super Étoile de Dakar. Nov 10, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $60-114, info www.chan centre.com/whats-on/youssou-ndour/. TIMMY’S ORGANISM American rock band tours in support of latest release Heartless Heathen, with guests Manic Attracts and the John Frum. Nov 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/. GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Toronto punk band coheadlines with Brampton stoner-rock outfit, with guests Needs. Nov 20, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. KASTLE Los Angeles dance DJ-producer tours in support of latest EP release Polytopia, with guests Ryan Wells and Dubconscious. Nov 28, doors 10 pm, show 10:30 pm, Open Studios (200-252 E. 1st). Tix $15-20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/.
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KEITHMAS VI Fundraising concert features the Dahle Brothers performing songs by the Rolling Stones and Keith Richards. Proceeds go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Dec 18, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
EARTHLESS Whoa. Just the name of the San Diego instrumental psych-rock trio Earthless has our minds totally fucking blown. Think about it: if Earth is the only planet in the universe that supports life, imagine that same universe without Earth in it. It would just be, like, a bunch of minerals and gases making up totally dead solar systems. Now, put Earth back in the picture, and you realize that in the grand scheme of things, we’re just one tiny little speck of life floating in dead space. Sort of like the Whos down in Whoville, but with no Horton to hear us shout, “We are here!” It really brings to mind the utter pointlessness of everything, man. But that’s cool. As long as we have brain-expanding tunes like Earthless’s epic “Sonic Prayer”, with its blistering wah-wah guitar workouts, we’re at peace with the idea that nothing really matters. Earthless plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Thursday (October 8). On a cosmic scale, it doesn’t really matter if you go or not, but it’ll be a good time, so you really should. CORB LUND Canadian country singersongwriter tours in support of new studio album Things That Can’t Be Undone. Jan 29-30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 8, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodore ballroom.com/. SELENA GOMEZ American actor, fashion designer, and singer-songwriter performs on her worldwide Revival Tour. May 14, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Oct 17, 10 am, at www.livenation.com/.
2THIS WEEK EL TEN ELEVEN Los Angeles post-rock duo comprised of bassist and composer Kristian Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty. Oct 7, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. THE STANFIELDS Folk-punk band from Halifax, featuring singer-guitarist Jon Landry. Oct 7, 7 pm, The Roxy (932 Granville). Tix $12, info www.facebook. com/events/1456129314695425/. SPELLER Vancouver five-piece dreampop band. Oct 7, 9 pm, Skinny Fat Jack’s (3475 Main). Info www.skinnyfatjack.com/. ANGEL OLSEN American indie-folk rocker. Oct 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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HIATUS KAIYOTE Australian neo-soul quartet tours in support of latest release Choose Your Weapon. Oct 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. EARTHLESS San Diego instrumental rock trio. Oct 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. COODER, WHITE & SCAGGS Blues, gospel, and bluegrass featuring multi-instrumentalists Ry Cooder and Ricky Scaggs, with vocalist Sharon White. Oct 8, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix from $45 to $95 (plus service charge) at www.ticketfly.com/. JAMES DANDERFER Roedde House Jazz Concert Series presents jazz musician James Danderfer. Oct 8, 7 pm, Roedde House Museum (1415 Barclay). Tix $12-15, info www.roeddehouse.org/en/activities/ cultural-activities/jazz-nights-xbq/. THE LATE NIGHTS Soul-rock trio, with guest Chris Sand. Oct 8, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Info www.facebook.com/ events/918501458244341/. THE LONE BELLOW Country-soul trio from Brooklyn performs songs from latest album Then Came the Morning. Oct 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. DAVE STRINGER KIRTAN New age singer-songwriter specializing in the new Kirtan movement. Oct 9, 7:30 pm, Bridge & Enrich Lives Society. Tix $25/20, info www.davestringer.com/. JOYCE ISLAND Local singer-songwriter, with guests Elliot C. Way, Rodney DeCroo, Ben Arsenault, and Mac Pontiac. Oct 9, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $8, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. BATTLE OF THE BIG BANDS South Van Big Band teams up with the Randers Big Band. Oct 9, 8 pm, Pat’s Pub & Brewhouse (403 E. Hastings). Tix $10 at the door, info www.facebook.com/ events/1661307497432376/.
RINGO STARR & HIS ALL STARR BAND The Georgia Straight presents the English rocker and former Beatle and his band, composed of Steve Lukather, Todd Rundgren, Gregg Rolie, Richard Page, Warren Ham, and Gregg Bissonette. Oct 9, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $75 to $165 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. 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.facebook.com/TheEnigmasBand/. BLACK LIPS AND ARIEL PINK American rock band coheadlines with American indie-pop performer. Oct 10, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. VACATIONER American electropop band tours in support of latest release Relief. Oct 10, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. 54-40 Vancouver guitar-rockers (“One Gun”, “Ocean Pearl”) tour in support of latest release Lost in the City. Oct 10, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. SCARLETT JANE Toronto folk-noir duo tour in support of recently released selftitled sophomore album. Oct 10, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TRIPLE TRIBUTE AT THE COLUMBIA Music by tribute bands Gunz N’ FN’ Rosez, OC/DC, and Sister Sabbath. Oct 10, 7 pm, Columbia Theatre (530 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $25, info www. thecolumbia.ca/. GREG BROWN American folk singersongwriter. Oct 10, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $33/30, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. LE YOUTH Los Angeles-based electronic musician, DJ, and producer. Oct 10, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown. Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info www.alexandergastown.com. LIANNE LA HAVAS English folk-soul singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming studio release Blood. Oct 11, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $31 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. KRISTIAN BRAATHEN QUARTET Vancouver jazz musicians Laura Crema, Miles Black, Jodi Proznick, and Kristian Braathen. Oct 11, 4-5 pm, Northwood United Church (8855 156th St., Surrey). Admission by donation, info www.northwood-united.org/. SLASH Legendary rock guitarist from Guns N’ Roses performs with his current band, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy + the Conspirators. Oct 12, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $55/35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE WIND + THE WAVE American indiefolk duo tours in support of debut album From the Wreckage. Oct 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $14 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE DARKNESS Seventies-style melodic guitar-rock band from England plays tunes from new album Last Of Our Kind, with guests These Raven Skies. Oct 13, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $36.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/, info www.commodoreballroom.com/. GANG OF FOUR The Georgia Straight presents English post-punk group touring in support of latest studio release What Happens Next, with guests the New
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Regime. Oct 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.live nation.com/.
PAPER KITES Nov 18 2BORN RUFFIANS Nov 21 2FAMILY OF THE YEAR Dec 6 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 8 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun. from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. 2HARPDOG BROWN Oct 10 2SONS OF THE HOE Oct 11 2STARK RAVEN Oct 16
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Michigan death-metal band tours in support of upcoming release Abysmal, with guests Iron Reagan, Harm’s Way, and Maruta. Oct 13, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $24.50, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. NEW POLITICS AND ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS Danish rock band and American indiepop act coheadline, with guests the Griswolds and LOLO. Oct 14, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BOB MOSES Brooklyn-based DJ-producer duo tours in support of upcoming debut full-length release. Oct 14, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. CIVIL TWILIGHT South Africa alt-rock quartet tours in support of latest release Story of an Immigrant. Oct 14, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. MADONNA American pop legend performs on her Rebel Heart Tour. Oct 14, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $40-355 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. VIET CONG Calgary rock band tours in support of debut full-length self-titled release. Oct 14-15, 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/. DEL BARBER AND FORTUNATE ONES The Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents Prairie alt-country artist and Newfoundland folk-pop duo. Oct 14, 7:30 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $24, info www.thefestival.bc.ca/. TED POOR QUARTET Jazz drummer performs with bassist Eric Revis, tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry, and trombonist Josh Roseman. Oct 14, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $28/25, info www. capilanou.ca/centre/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE The Georgia Straight presents English indie-rock band touring in support of latest release How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, with guests the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. Oct 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $36-70.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR The Rocky and Tyler tour comes to Vancouver, with guests Danny Brown and Vince Staples. Nov 10, doors 6:30 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $29.50-65 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. THE WEEKND Canadian indie-R&B singer-songwriter performs on his the Madness Fall Tour. Dec 2, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $39.50-99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL Indoor electronica festival features music by Above & Beyond, Hardwell, Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Andrew Rayel, Oliver Heldens, Klingande, Tchami, 3LAU, Bakermat, Jauz, Mercer, Jai Wolf, Vanic, Wiwek, Snails, Slander, and Nghtmre. Dec 26-27, 5 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $250/175/150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.contact-festival.com/. BLACK SABBATH British heavy-metal legends, featuring vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, and bassist Geezer Butler, perform on their final tour, with guests Rival Sons. Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $49.50 to $150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE WHO British rock legends (“My Generation”, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”), featuring original vocalist Roger Daltrey and original guitarist Pete Townshend, with guest Joan Jett. May 13, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Note: postponed from Sep 29, 2015; tix for original date will be honoured. Tix $161.70/99/51.70 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES ACADEMIC PUBLIC HOUSE 1619 W. Broadway, 604-733-4141. Pub fare, cheap beer, and cocktails from 11 am till late. Pub trivia Tue; Bourbon & Bingo Thu; chart, rock, hip-hop, and dance classics Fri-Sat. 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. 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. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2ANGEL OLSEN Oct 8 2VACATIONER Oct 10 2OCTOBURLESQUE! Oct 11 2CIVIL TWILIGHT Oct 14 2VANGIV’ER Oct 15 2RIPPLE ILLUSION Oct 16 2SCHLOCK THE VOTE! A DELIGHTFULY IRREVERENT
LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame.
POLITICAL CABARET Oct 18 2THE BROS. LANDRETH Oct 22 2DELTA RAE Oct 24 2WICKED WAYS - A SUPER VILLAINOUS COSPLAY BASH Oct 25 2BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS Oct 26 2SMALL BLACK Oct 27 2NATALIE PRASS Oct 31 2HALLOWEEN BONE-US BASH! Nov 1 2ANDRA DAY Nov 2 2IN THE VALLEY BELOW Nov 3 2LUNA Nov 4 2KATE BOY Nov 17 2BLITZEN TRAPPER Nov 20 2HEALTH Dec 7 2KIASMOS Dec 12
Oct 9 2AGGRESSION, WITHOUT MERCY, OGROEM Oct 10 2CHRIST AIR, COPSICKLE, GLORYWHORE, OBSCENE BEING Oct 16 2TYRANTS BLOOD, KOPERLOSE STIMME, ASSIMILATION Oct 17
HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523-6888. 2STEEL PANTHER Oct 23 2JUDAS PRIEST Oct 27 2RUSSELL PETERS Nov 4 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 27
THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2THE LONE BELLOW Oct 9 2BUCKMAN COE Oct 10 2BOB MOSES Oct 14 2DJANGO DJANGO Oct 19 2LIDO Oct 20 2STRIKE A CHORD: A BENEFIT FOR MUSIC HEALS Oct 22 2MARK FARINA Oct 23 2PROJECT SOMOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGE GRAND FIESTA FUNDRAISER 2015 Oct 29 2THE ZOLAS Nov 5 2CHERUB Nov 7 2GOOD FOR GRAPES Nov 12 2THE
MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2THE WIND + THE WAVE Oct 12 2WILD CHILD Oct 18 2TYLER WARD Oct 20 2RUBBLEBUCKET Oct 25 2JOCELYN ALICE Nov 12 2GIRL BAND Nov 20 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN
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BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. 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. 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, 604-5688040. 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. 2VIET CONG Oct 14 2NOBUNNY Oct 19 2BLACK MASTIFF Oct 23 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. 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 Oct 24 2GRIMES Oct 26 2HAWKSLEY WORKMAN Oct 29 2MAC DEMARCO Oct 30 2THE BACARDI BOOHAHA Oct 31 2PATTY GRIFFIN Nov 2 2LEON BRIDGES Nov 3 2BUCKCHERRY Nov 5 2BIG SUGAR Nov 6 23 INCHES OF BLOOD Nov 7 2EMANCIPATOR ENSEMBLE Nov 12 2TIM HICKS Nov 13 2BLIND GUARDIAN Nov 16 2RIDE Nov 17 2DEAR ROUGE Nov 20 2GOGOL BORDELLO Nov 21 2HALESTORM Nov 25 2RAC Nov 26 2HEADSTONES Nov 27 2ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA Nov 29 2ODESZA Dec 1 2K-OS Dec 9 2FUNK THE HALLS Dec 22 2CHASE RICE Jan 24 2 CORB LUND Jan 29 2ARKELLS Feb 1 2THE MUSICAL BOX: SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND Feb 17 2DISTURBED Mar 11 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS Mar 20 2GARY CLARK JR. Apr 12 DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2EL TEN ELEVEN Oct 7 2SKYLAR SPENCE (FKA SAINT PEPSI) Oct 14 2PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH Oct 17 2DIIV Oct 20 2MARIAN HILL Oct 25 2HERE WE GO MAGIC Nov 7 2TROYBOI Nov 7 2ODDISEE Nov 8 2THE GOOD LIFE Nov 14 2CITIZENS Nov 15 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2SCARLETT JANE Oct 10 2RED CHAMBER/GORD GRDINA Oct 13 2DEL BARBER AND FORTUNATE ONES Oct 14 2NERD NITE V.14: WITCHES, SEX, AND MICROSCOPIC SCULPTURES Oct 15 2NATIONAL INQUEERIES: TIRESIAS Oct 20 2DANIEL ROMANO Oct 21 2GREG DRUMMOND Oct 23 2MARK FEWER, JOHN NOVACEK, AND JODI PROSNICK Oct 27 2THE ORCHID CLUB - OCTOBER MASQUERADE Oct 27 2JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO Oct 28 2TIMMY’S ORGANISM Nov 11 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Oct 8 2LUNG FLOWER, MOUNTAIN MAN, PERCEPTION OF PAIN, SLAUGHTERHAUSER
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RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2LOST ‘80S LIVE Oct 15 2KENNY G Nov 16 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 28 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2MADONNA Oct 14 2KELLY CLARKSON: CANCELLED Oct 17 2FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Oct 25 2A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR Nov 10 2THE WEEKND Dec 2 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. New house band Tattoo Alibi Sat. & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed.-Thu. 2THE STANFIELDS Oct 7 2WIL Oct 8 2THE ROXY LAUNCH PROJECT FINALE Oct 15 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 250-seat venue at St. James Community Square features concerts presented by the Rogue Folk Club. 2BEATLES NIGHT Oct 16 2DAR WILLIAMS Oct 24 2RED MOON ROAD Oct 30 2KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Nov 1 2ALLISON CROWE BAND Nov 13
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TAVERN AT THE NEW OXFORD 1141 Hamilton, 604-669-4848. Yaletown comedy Tue; Skee-ball and rock, paper, scissors tournament Wed, the SHOW Thu with live hip-hop, rap, and R&B; ‘90s weekends with DJ Tower Fri and DJ Kenya Sat.
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“THIS IS LILY TOMLIN’S MOVIE. A SPIKY, REFRESHINGLY UNVARNISHED PERFORMANCE.”
THE THREE BRITS 1780 Davie (at Denman), 604-801-6681. The West End’s only craft-beer house, steps away from English Bay. Pub trivia with the Nice Guys Wed at 7 pm; brunch daily till 4 pm.
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VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2HIATUS KAIYOTE Oct 8 2GANG OF FOUR Oct 13 2DEATH Oct 17 2THE GLORIOUS SONS Oct 23 2ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Oct 26 2HEARTLESS BASTARDS Oct 27 2GAME OF THRONES TRIVIA NIGHT Oct 28 2RYN WEAVER Nov 1 2RUFUS DU SOL Nov 5 2THE STRUTS Nov 8 2THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Nov 14 2ROBERT DELONG Nov 21 2PRONG Dec 3 2THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 11 2GRAVEYARD Dec 12
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“LILY TOMLIN HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER.” -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
“MAGNIFICENTLY EMOTIONAL. SAM ELLIOTT HITS ONE OUT OF THE PARK.” -Clayton Davis, AWARDS CIRCUIT
“TOMLIN’S GREATEST ROLE SINCE ‘NASHVILLE.’ GENUINELY FUNNY, TOTALLY SMART, AND GENEROUS.”
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. 2COODER, WHITE & SCAGGS Oct 8 2NEW POLITICS AND ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS Oct 14 2FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE Oct 15 2TECH N9NE Oct 17 2HEY ROSETTA! Nov 6 2AN EVENING WITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Nov 7 2MAC MILLER Nov 8 2RODRIGUEZ Nov 10 2MATTHEW GOOD Nov 13 2PROTEST THE HERO Nov 15 2X AMBASSADORS Nov 18 2JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Nov 20 2YO LA TENGO Nov 21 2SNARKY PUPPY Nov 23 2KING CRIMSON Nov 26 2BARNEY BENTALL & THE CARIBOO EXPRESS Nov 28 2KAMELOT Dec 2 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Dec 9 2FRAZEY FORD Dec 10 2NICK LOWE’S QUALITY HOLIDAY REVUE Dec 19 2THE WOOD BROTHERS Jan 31
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WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2THE LATE NIGHTS Oct 8 2ABRACADAVER CABARET: RITUALS Oct 9 2THE ENIGMAS Oct 10 2TOM HOLLISTON AND BYRON SLACK Oct 13 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR - EAST VAN! Oct 13 2MIGHTY MIKE MCGEE AND FRIENDS: FALL SHOW Oct 15 2ARTSCAN CIRCLE FUNDRAISER FEATURING UNCEDED, NDIDI CASCADE, ANDY MASON Oct 16 2SCREAMING CHICKENS: TABOO REVUE Oct 17 2JOEY ONLY AND THE OUTLAW BAND Oct 23 2SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE AND NICHOLAS KRGOVICH Oct 24 2RED HAVEN Oct 29 2GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Nov 20
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK SCORPIONS German hard-rockers from the ’70s (“Rock You Like a Hurricane”, “No One Like You”), with guests Queensryche. Oct 9, 8 pm, ShoWare Center (625 W. James Street, Kent, Wash.). Tix from US$34.50 to US$515 (meet ‘n’ greet package) at tickets.showarecenter.com/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS 99 HOMES Starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 56
Enter Hollywood’s new villain: the real-
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non’s Rick Carver feeds off the victims of the subprime mortgage fiasco, evicting them on behalf of the bank and kicking them to the curb with two minutes to gather their belongings. In the opening scene, he’s already negotiating his next deal by cellphone while medics wheel out a poor ex-homeowner who’s just blown his brains out. His face is like a clenched fist, and there’s something supernaturally sinister about his blue-glowing e-cigarette. And when Andrew Garfield’s Dennis Nash strikes a deal with him to try to win back his home, the scene is nothing less than Faustian. Director Ramin Bahrani does some serious shit-disturbing with his latest socio-thriller, and Shannon’s complex portrayal of the bad guy is a huge part of his success. It helps that the story is set in 2010 Orlando, Florida, a land of lost dreams where pink plaster mansions with outdoor pools sit eerily vacated. Garfield, too, does a quietly tormented job as a single dad/trades-
An actor in his subprime Michael Shannon kills as a real-estate broker in 99 Homes; The Walk rebuilds the Twin Towers into a modern-day myth man who’s on the losing end of the recession. When he has to hand over his humble bungalow to Carver, he moves into a seedy motel with his hairdresser mom (a wonderfully world-weary Laura Dern) and kid. “Two weeks,” he says, and another downtrodden family informs him that’s what they said two years ago. So when Carver offers to hire Nash to evict others in foreclosure—not to mention recruiting him into various other scams along the way—he makes that deal with the devil without telling his family. Bahrani, who with writers Amir Naderi and Bahareh Azimi researched the script in painstaking detail, shoots the scenes of families being evicted with unbearably realistic tension. Think neighbours watching from across the street, sheriffs guarding the doors, and children sobbing. It’s a scene literally millions of Americans lived through after the recession. Bahrani shows the human pain and moral dilemmas behind the stats in riveting ways. Still, he can’t quite drive the promise of the story to an ending as complex as the film’s first half. It’s not like he can look around to research a resolution: rest assured, there are still mansions sitting empty in Florida, families still calling double motel rooms home, and people who sold their souls whom the courts have yet to track down. > JANET SMITH
THE WALK Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 56
In 1974, in a wholly unauthorized stunt, Philippe Petit crossed between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, walking without a safety line over 100 storeys in the air. His feat has already been lauded in the movies; Man on Wire was one of the best documentaries of 2008. For the inevitable biopic, Robert Zemeckis has made a stunningly vertiginous event picture, a 3-D IMAX spectacle. The Walk delivers in boggling scope and detail. Joseph GordonLevitt adds wire walking to his impressive record of movie athleticism, from the rotating hallway fight of Inception to the real bike tricks in Premium Rush. It’s certainly CGI at some points, but convincing overall. People with a fear of heights are trolled hard. Some obligatory flashbacks aside, Zemeckis steadily recounts the years-long preparation for this stunt. Man on Wire also showed the commandeering of the WTC rooftops as a heist adventure, and why not? It was an ingenious stunt that required meticulous planning. In its attention to minute details of the towers, The Walk also serves as a tribute to something lost, a new fairy tale: how these buildings got their soul. The Walk’s most controversial element will undoubtably be the framing device in which Gordon-Levitt, as Petit, addresses the fourth wall to add exposition and to look wistful. The degree to which these whimsical, luminous, elegiac elements of the movie are undermined by Gordon-Levitt’s fulsome, ooh-la-la French accent may be related to your knowledge of Monty Python films.
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In 99 Homes, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is the kind of man who’s busy making his next deal while your corpse is being carted away on a gurney.
HYENA ROAD Starring Paul Gross and Rossif Sutherland. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 56
Writer-director-star Paul Gross spent a lot
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This would not be so bad if the movie weren’t trying so desperately to be hip and tech-savvy. Jokes about selfies, texting, and Facebook, not to mention Google-map directions with a voice like Peter Lorre: they’re everywhere in this movie. What there isn’t so much of? An actual story. The first half is a throwaway rush through five years of overprotective hotel owner Dracula fussing over his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez), who has a child with her slacker-dude human husband, Jonathan (Andy Samberg). The big concern? Her red-haired rug rat may not be a vampire—or else he’s a “late fanger”. Desperate to show the boy the bloodsucking ways, Dracula tries to get him to fly like a bat and scare people. If he doesn’t succeed, his daughter is threatening to move to California, where the people are “normal”. It all builds to the movie’s best sequence, the finale’s masquerade party, where the human inlaws look like monsters, including Jonathan as a blond Bram Stoker’s Dracula–style vampire who’s mocked by the other bloodsuckers for his ridiculous hairdo. Dracula tries to keep the child’s lack of fangs a secret from his hilariously human-hating father, played with welcome bite by Mel Brooks. But it’s a long, long wait for that payoff, leaving kids restless and parents plenty of time to ponder selfies, FaceTime, and how much you’d love to see a vampire movie—animated or otherwise—without the suck.
to make Hyena Road, and the verisimilitude of its combat sequences, both on the ground and back at command centre, is one of the payoffs. When an IED discharges to tooth-rattling effect on a remote road in one early sequence, leaving behind a monster-sized and very real crater, Hyena Road swiftly addresses whatever compromised expectations we have going in about a Canadian war film with international aspirations. In contrast to 2008’s Passchendaele, Gross now has the chops to match his ambition, and the impressively realized Hyena Road is both richer and poorer for it. The human drama here swirls around intelligence officer Pete (Gross), who taps primo sniper Ryan (Rossif Sutherland) for a tricky op designed to bring legendary mujahedeen fighter “the Ghost” into conflict with a CIA–protected gangster. Ryan’s affair with a fellow officer played by Christine Horne is one subplot too many, and the dialogue zings in a way that only happens in the movies, but something momentous occurs when the Ghost shows up on-screen. Played almost silently by magnetic Afghan nonactor Niamatullah Arghandabi—a former > JANET SMITH warrior working these days as a government policy adviser—the Ghost sends Hyena Road soaring into another dimension entirely, espe- PAN cially when he uses something like dark magic Starring Levi Miller and Hugh Jackman. Rated PG. to save Ryan’s ass from a horde of insurgents. It’s For showtimes, please see page 56 a spell that lingers for the rest of the two-hour For all the digital 3-D wonder created picture, and after. in Pan, it veers a surprising amount into While some of the performances suffer in the shadow of Arghandabi’s insane charisma—Suth- Dickensian darkness. Apparently, director Joe erland’s goombah accent, for one thing, is more Wright missed J. M. Barrie’s memo on “lovely, wonderful thoughts”. suggestive of the Bronx than, say, Guelph— The Peter Pan origin story follows the Hyena Road overcomes this and other title character as he’s raised in an ordeficits to close in on a genuinely Check out… phanage that would give Oliver Twist gripping third act. STRAIGHT.COM nightmares. When pirates steal him As for the film’s politics, the botVisit our website and some other boys away to Nevertom line is that nobody turns confor the latest land, they’re forced to join an army f lict into entertainment because reviews and local of child slaves mining pixie dust. they want to lose money, while an movie news Scenes of Hugh Jackman’s evil Blackunwanted coda is too gooey in its efbeard lording over their gaping mine will fort to explain why we’re there. (Some instantly make you think of Mad Max: Fury might say no why is good enough.) On the other hand, Gross bases the film’s biggest vil- Road. And what’s the pixie dust for? Forget fairlain on Wali Karzai, a man who used U.S. cover ies and flying: an addicted Blackbeard inhales it, to become an Afghan version of Scarface. This opiumlike, through a frightening, steampunksuggests that Hyena Road is a little more frosty style gas mask to reverse the ravages of aging. At least that obsessive quest for eternal youth is about a “war” clouded in obfuscation than you getting somewhere close to Barrie’s original themes. might think. > ADRIAN MACK But much of the author’s fun is lost here in a bleak, albeit richly wrought, universe. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 That’s not to say there aren’t some jaw-dropping action sequences, including swooping midair batFeaturing the voices of Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. Rated G. For showtimes, please see page 56 tles on flying pirate ships that hover over the mine. And the land of the “savages”, a Rooney Mara–led Few animated movies have the sheer num- rainbow nation that lives in the forest, is a lush ber of creatively warped characters that the spectacle of circus tents, pompom headdresses, and Hotel Transylvania franchise does—from Steve trampoline martial-arts battles. The strong-willed but sprightly Levi Miller is a Buscemi’s slouched werewolf to a wisecracking shrunken head to a pile of goo known simply as discovery as Pan, and Jackman tears into the role of Blobby. But again, in this slapdash sequel, writ- the dark-haired dandy with dark eye circles and bad ers Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel squander teeth. Less successful is Garrett Hedlund’s pre-pirate the potential of an inn full of monsters and in- Hook character, both hands intact throughout the stead go for the lowest cornball jokes. Sample? movie. As an Indiana Jones type, he affects grating A hotel visitor asks for Bluetooth and, well, said ’40s Hollywood mannerisms. see next page dental character toddles in.
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The story, though full of thrillride-worthy adventures, never stops long enough to develop characters or relationships—something Barrie knew how to do so well, especially in his heartbreaking bond between Peter and Wendy. But Wendy’s not here to help, and neither is Tinker Bell. Too bad, because the latter might have sprinkled a little much-needed pixie dust on this overloaded production.
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LABYRINTH OF LIES Starring Alexander Fehling. In German, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 56
The Lobster 8:15PM
In this enchanting Icelandic export, two estranged, unmarried brothers are reunited after 40 years when an infectious disease
animals is endearingly evident), Grímur Hákonarson fashions a richly detailed tragicomedy concerning idiosyncratic vocations and immediately relatable sibling dynamics. “Wonderfully wry, charmingly understated...”—Variety
I am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced 1:45PM A Ballerina’s Tale Umrika
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The pressures of courtship are pushed to absurdist extremes in this outrageous comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth Colin Farrell) must take a mate within 45 days or be transformed into animals. As Farrell falls in with a band of rebel loners (who count Rachel Weisz among their members), Lanthimos wrings much pathos from his outlandish premise. “A wickedly funny, unexpectedly moving satire... Perversely romantic...”—Variety
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MONDAY, OCT. 12 Winner, BC Emerging Filmmaker, VIFF 15
The Devout 6:15PM Winner, Best Canadian Film, VIFF 15
Sleeping Giant 6:15PM Andrew Cividino’s remarkable debut is a story of friendship, confusion, betrayal and peer pressure. Fourteen-year-old Adam is enduring a dull summer in a small Lake Superior beach community when he nate not just the wit and charm of young men, but also the callow cruelty of youth, driven by a killer combination of naïve idealism, solipsism, poor self-esteem and raging hormones.”—Hollywood Reporter
After his terminally ill daughter (Olivia Martin) claims to have had a past life as an astronaut, a Christian teacher (Charlie Carrick) experiences a profound crisis of faith. Obsessively seeking answers, he risks his marriage and his remaining days with his child to determine whether she’s lived before... and debut is one of the year’s most unique Canadian features. 1:30PM
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Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven 12:00PM Rainbow Island
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many, Labyrinth of Lies is set in 1958 Frankfurt. By then, the receding American occupiers are more concerned with containing Soviet influence than with real de-Nazification. So the public prosecutor’s office doesn’t have much incentive for pursuing crimes committed during the Hitler era. This tense and oddly uneven drama’s protagonist is one Johann Radmann (Homeland’s Alexander Fehling), a handsome, wet-behindthe-ears prosecutor who stumbles into a case involving Auschwitz guards who have infiltrated public life. His older colleagues mock him for poking that particular hornet’s nest, and the younger ones have never even heard of the place. Fortunately, he’s encouraged by the current attorney general (movie-stealing Gert Voss, who died after the film was completed), despite tacit orders to let sleeping Nazis lie. With the aid of an American officer (Trivago pitchman Tim Williams, who lives in Germany and presumably knows where all the best digs are), Radmann explores already mouldering archives for incriminating data. The procedural aspects of all this are generally the most interesting; at one point, every variation of phone book in Germany is delivered to his tiny office.
Nazis, watch out: Johann Radmann (Alexander Fehling) is on your case.
Unfortunately, writer-director Giulio Ricciarelli (an Italian-born filmmaker who also acted in the ’90s German hit Rossini) felt it necessary to load up the handsomely mounted story with unnecessary subplots. Although his boss and the dogged journalist (André Szymanski) who makes the not-so-hidden connections are based on real people, Radmann himself is a composite of several prosecutors who pursued this turning-point trial. And he’s saddled with an annoying girlfriend (Friederike Becht), daddy issues, and some nightmarish dreams no one needs in a Holocaust movie. That said, you can still get lost in this Labyrinth, strikingly constructed and shot in many of the real midcentury-modern locations. These days, there are plenty of Dick Cheneys walking around as if nothing happened. And it’s always better if an occupying army doesn’t have to force you to try your own worst criminals.
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Marshland 6:30PM In an absorbing mystery that recalls True Detective, disparate homicide investigators must solve a series of grisly murders in a remote, rotten-to-the-core community. Employing southern Spain’s harsh landscapes to sublime atmospheric effect, Alberto Rodríguez plunges us into a world in which menace takes myriad forms. Winner of 10 Goyas, including Best Film, Best Screenplay & Best Actor. “A brilliant, compelling edge-of-your-seat detective thriller infused with a spirit of uncanny gothic redolent of David Lynch and David Fincher.”—Sight & Sound
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HOCKNEY (U.K./USA) One of the art
world’s true originals, David Hockney provides enough eye candy to fill several films. The home movies here are as colourful as his sly paintings, with the gaudiness of 1960s California playing out in ruby-red carpets, turquoise kidney-shaped swimming pools, and iconic green palm trees. The painter escaped to L.A. from the dingy tenements of Yorkshire, finding sexual and artistic freedom in America—and those are just the beginning of the insights you’ll glean from the interviews and old footage on hand. Expect to leave with a huge new appreciation both for his art and for the lively rebel with the platinum mop. (P.S.: There’s a funny story behind his hair, too.) SFU, October 8 (8:45 p.m.) > JANET SMITH
INTO THE FOREST (Canada) This apocalypse drama from Canadian vet Patricia Rozema has been getting dreary word of mouth from some critics, but I’ll stick my neck out. Some tonal issues aside (most of them related to the score), Into the Forest is carried by Rozema’s confident approach to the material and spectacular performances by Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as sisters living out the collapse of civilization in their deep-woods B.C. luxury home. This is how worlds die, with a long, drawn-out whimper, lots of rain, no fucking zombies, and a desperate longing to hear some music again. International Village, October 8 (11 a.m.) > ADRIAN MACK MY SKINNY SISTER (Sweden/Germany) Eating disorders wreak havoc not just on the bodies of their victims but on entire families. Rarely has a
film shown the destructive effects more clearly than My Skinny Sister. It is told sensitively through the eyes of a younger, chubbier sibling whose loss of innocence entails realizing that the high-achieving, figure-skating sister she so looks up to has serious selfdestructive tendencies. The film’s success is in its tight point of view and the naturalistic performance of the charming tween, Stella (Rebecka Josephson). Only someone who had firsthand knowledge of the volatile bond between sisters and the way anorexia gets its claw hold (the director herself suffered anorexia) could portray the issue this insightfully and affectingly. SFU, October 8 (1:15 p.m.) > JS REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM (USA) The pounding audio
and overly familiar archival footage—from the Great Depression to King’s March on Washington—don’t actually add that much to Noam Chomsky’s unblinking and clearly articulated rundown, filmed over a period of four years. But this brief Requiem is a concentrated, if queasymaking, primer on what the hell happened to the USA. Chomsky makes the case that concentration of wealth was embedded in the constitution by principal framer James Madison, and that democracy would have to be pushed aside to “protect the minority of the opulent”, in whose hands ultimate power must always reside. Well, it sure worked out that way. Vancity, October 9 (2:45 p.m.) > KEN EISNER THE ROYAL TAILOR (South Korea)
This lush cinematic confection depicts a rivalry, set in the Joseon (Chosun) Dynasty, between the king’s longterm official tailor and a wildly talented maverick designer. Heavily emphasizing melodrama and overacting as it seeks to entertain, the film revels in its visual indulgence of royal fashions—and aptly so—and
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becomes increasingly compelling when the sartorial efforts become embroiled in political manoeuvring. International Village, October 8 (6:45 p.m.) > CRAIG TAKEUCHI SAM KLEMKE’S TIME MACHINE
(Australia) Sam Klemke himself isn’t the most substantial person to document the past half-century, but that’s kind of the point of this stroll down memory lane. The Denver-raised Klemke snagged various video cameras as the technology emerged and recorded his life concerns—chiefly about his weight and his inability to keep girlfriends around. These don’t change much through the years, but the country around him keeps shifting. Intriguingly, he trusted his video trove to Australian Matthew Bate, who intercuts the footage with a faux documentary on the golden records that Carl Sagan assembled for the 1977 Voyager spacecraft. The effect is slightly overused, but the fact that these bits are narrated in French adds to the beauty of the writing. Vancity, October 9 (7 p.m.) > KE
THINA SOBABILI: THE TWO OF US
(South Africa) Although this South African Oscar entry struggles to completely sell its operatic story line, it’s not for lack of ambition. Young filmmaker Ernest Nkosi is striving for something elemental in a tale of teenage siblings fending for themselves in a Johannesburg township. Thulas is the explosively violent guardian, a smalltime hood who witnessed an unspeakable crime against his younger sister, Zanele, now on a real tear since a prosperous older man has started to show interest in her. Nkosi’s restless camera seems to be animated by the rage always simmering beneath the surface of his story, but it’s the confused and innocent sadness embodied by his remarkable leads that hits hardest. Cinematheque, October 8 (8:30 p.m.) > AM
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Rossif Sutherland (left) and writer-director-star Paul Gross (right) hammer out strategy in the intense Afghanistan-set war picture Hyena Road.
shoot the strip at Kandahar airfield in relation to any structure that the enemy could then use and triangulate to try and fire a rocket. But apart from that, nobody ever asked for creative control or approvals. In fact, no one asked to even read the script. And I think it’s because the Canadian Forces seem to believe that if you just come in and see what we do, you’ll be impressed with how we go about doing it, and, indeed, I was. “It’s not that I ever set out to be a war filmmaker, ’cause my interest in the First World War was really just a personal interest in my grandfather’s life,” he continues, referring to his 2008 effort, Passchendaele. “But in this one it really had to do with meeting soldiers. What are we asking them to do? They’re our fellow citizens and we’re like, ‘Go over there and fight for us, would ya?’ We have no sense of it.” Inevitably, Gross has been criticized for the project. Hyena Road is cracking entertainment and genuinely moving, but it enters a moral quagmire for precisely those same reasons. He counters that art and war have orbited each other for centuries. “Look, the first poetic document in western civilization is the Iliad, and it’s 24 long chapters of detailed handto-hand combat,” he reasons. “We start with that, and it’s never really left us, and there’s almost no period in history when we haven’t been fighting wars. I think to not look at warfare is as bizarre as you can get.” Indeed, it’s to his credit that Gross looked hard enough in this case to see some of the deeper and less honourable politics behind the coalition
effort in Afghanistan. Hyena Road hinges on the activities of a character based on Ahmed Wali Karzai, the real-life half-brother of former U.S.installed president Hamid Karzai. “Drug runner, child stealer, he was as filthy as they come,” in Gross’s words. “But nobody was allowed to do anything to him because he had the White House as a roof—and, ironically, it was only two days or something after we handed Kandahar to the Americans that he was blown up. So I guess they, too, had had enough of him.” Still, Canada’s basic role in the conflict has been the source of considerable disagreement among Canadians. Hyena Road takes no position on the debate either way, and Gross defers entirely. “I don’t even have an opinion about the engagement in general,” he offers, “ ’cause I don’t know at which point you decide whether it was good or bad.” Which leaves an impassioned Sutherland to address the domestic rift that Hyena Road needs to somehow bridge. “Seeing those soldiers when we were doing the screenings,” he begins, “we took no satisfaction in seeing how emotional they’d get, because you don’t want to make somebody cry. But they were extraordinarily proud to just have this story told, because they’re criticized by people who just don’t take the time to understand. Everything’s political, and rightfully so—you can judge whether or not it was right to go to war—but, ultimately, we’re sending these people, and they are people. And we can never forget that.” -
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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The 34th annual celebration of cinema features over 350 films from 70 countries. To Oct 9, various Vancouver venues. 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/. MOVIES IN THE MORGUE HALLOWEEN SPECIALS Screening of classic horror flick Friday the 13th. Oct 8, 7 pm, Vancouver Police Museum (240 E. Cordova). Tix $10, info www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/movies-in-the-morgue/. 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/.
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL-VIFF REPEATS Screenings of 100 Yen Love, A Ballerina’s Tale, I Am Majoom, Age 10 and Divorced, Rams, Umrika, The Lobster, Requiem for the American Dream, Sabali, Sleeping Giant, HYENA ROAD Rossif Sutherland, Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Paul Gross, and Clark Johnson star in Seven, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Passchendaele writer-director Gross’s Rainbow Island, The Royal Tailor, The drama about the murky world of modern Devout, Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold warfare. Rated 14A. 120 mins. Cineplex Journey, Landfill Harmonic, Jumbo Wild, Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Palio, No Men Beyond This Point, Racing Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Extinction, Magallanes, and Marshland. Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Oct 10-15, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Info www.viff.org/festival/. Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 NEW YORK PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM Guildford Surrey, Landmark Cinemas 6 FESTIVAL Screenings of short films that Esplanade North Vancouver, Scotiabank show a unique Portuguese perspective. Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam Includes “Beasts”, “Emma’s Fine”, “Gu”, & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis “Exit Road”, “OOBE”, “Emilia”, “Complete Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Remission”, “The River”, “The Giant”, and Riverport Cinemas “Amphi”. Oct 10-11, 11 am-3 pm, Museum of Anthropology (6393 NW Marine Dr., KNOCK KNOCK Keanu Reeves, Lorenza UBC). Info moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/ Izzo, and Ana de Armas star in The Green ny-portuguese-film-fest/. Inferno writer-director Eli Roth’s thriller about a family man who encounters two DEATHGASM Screening of Jason Lei stranded young women. Rated 18A. 99 Howden’s horror comedy about two mins. Hollywood 3 Surrey boys who accidentally summon an ancient evil. Oct 9, 11:30 pm, Rio Theatre LABYRINTH OF LIES André Szymanski, (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www. Alexander Fehling, and Friederike Becht riotheatre.ca/. star in writer-director Giulio Ricciarelli’s THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING drama that exposes the conspiracy of Screening of Avi Lewis’s documentary prominent German institutions and govthat brings Naomi Klein’s radical, inspiring ernment branches to cover up the crimes thesis to life through a connective thread of Nazis. Rated PG. 122 mins. Cineplex of stories from people living and working Odeon International Village Cinemas on the front lines of change. Oct 10, 2 pm, PAN Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, and Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, Garrett Hedlund star in Anna Karenina info www.riotheatre.ca/. director Joe Wright’s fantasy flick about a JUMBO WILD Documentary by 12-year-old orphan who is spirited away Sweetgrass Productions tells the true to the magical world of Neverland. Rated story of the decades-long battle over the PG. 111 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, future of British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Valley. Oct 10, 7 pm, Patagonia Vancouver Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, (1994 W. 4th). Free admission, info www. patagonia.com/us/the-new-localism/ Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Jumbo-Wild/. Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 MOVIES IN THE MORGUE Guildford Surrey, Landmark Cinemas 6 HALLOWEEN SPECIALS Screening of Esplanade North Vancouver, SilverCity classic Stanley Kubrick thriller The Shining. Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Oct 10, 7 pm, Vancouver Police Museum Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission (240 E. Cordova). Tix $10, info www.vanand SilverCity Riverport Cinemas couverpolicemuseum.ca/movies-in-themorgue/.
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PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES John Hughes’s 1987 comedy sees a man struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving. Oct 11, 6 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
THE EDITOR Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy’s 2014 film sees an injured film editor framed for a series of murders. Oct 11, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/. THE LAST WALTZ Film chronicles the final concert of Canadian rockers the Band. Oct 12, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre. ca/. THE FINAL GIRLS Todd StraussSchulson’s homage to ‘80s slasher flicks stars Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Nina Dobrev, and Alia Shawkat. Oct 12, 9:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre.ca/. THE PRICE WE PAY Reel Causes and PIPSC present a screening of the documentary that blows the lid off of big business tax avoidance and tax havens. Includes a post-film Q&A session with director Harold Crooks. Oct 14, 7 pm, SFU Woodward’s (149 W. Hastings). Admission by donation, info www.reelcauses.org/. 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/.
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ALARM SONGS AND ANOMALIES A screening of works by two Montrealbased artists who embed video in multimedia environments and situations. Oct 14, 7:30 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.dimcinema.ca/. REEL ROCK 10 - VIMFF Five outdoor adventure films featuring world-class climbers Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson, Alex Honnold, and a special tribute to the late Dean Potter. Oct 14-16, 7:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). The event also runs at the Centennial Theatre. Tix $17/15, info www.vimff.org/.
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> BY DAN SAVAGE that gnaws at my conscience is this: our friend is a young guy, bi-curious, and impulsive. Once I got over the giggles of glimpsing a dick pic that was not intended for my eyes, I began to worry about our friend’s risky behaviour. Do I say something? I care about this guy, but I don’t want to come off as “mommy” or “creepy”. > DUDE’S EXTREMELY RISKY PLAN ELEVATES STRESS
My fi rst impulse was to tell you to mind your own business—or MYOB, as the late, great Ann Landers used to say (Google her, kids)—because you don’t actually know if your friend is taking foolish risks. He could be using condoms, taking Truvada, and carefully vetting his play partners. But if I spotted a friend’s dick on Craigslist in an ad that left me the least bit concerned for his safety, I would say something. I don’t mind coming off as “mommy” (meddling mommy impulses are a requirement for this gig), and if looking out for your friends is “creepy”, then I’m a creep. I’d go with something like this: “I spotted your ad—and your cock—on CL. What you’re looking for sounds hot. But I hope you’re being safe: using condoms, being choosy, taking Truvada. And speaking from experience, getting fucked right after you come sounds sexy in theory, but it’s not much fun in reality. So I hope you’re taking a refractory-period-length break—maybe for ice cream?—before the loser gets fucked.”
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“Anxiety and fear can definitely make those muscles tighten up. And unfortunately, worrying about pain during sex makes it worse,” said Charlie Glickman, sexuality educator and author of The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure (www.make sexeasy.com/). “His hemorrhoids are probably caused by the anus squeezing really hard and trapping blood in the arteries inside the anus.” So what can you do to alleviate your anxiety, fear, and squeezing? “The first thing for him to do is use a salve on the skin around and inside the anus,” said Glickman. “Apply
it after washing, and it doesn’t take much. It’s like putting lip balm on dry lips. Cocoa butter or coconut oil work well. I also like the goldenseal-and-myrrh formula by Country Comfort. Apply it twice a day.” Give those balms some time to work before you start exploring again. And once you start: breathe deeply, take it slow, and play with your cock, too. “Arousal helps,” said Glickman, “so he should be sure to include cock pleasure before going near his anus. It’ll also help if he explores external anal massage without going inside. That can help his body unwind the tension and let go of the flinch response. There are lots of great external massage moves that can feel amazing on their own or as part of foreplay. Look for the anal massage how-to videos on eroticmassage.com/.” Enjoy a few dozen—or a few hundred—orgasms with your ass in play but not the focus, i.e., your ass is being stimulated but not penetrated, DEFEAT, and you’ll begin to associate anal stimulation with pleasure and victory, not pain and hemorrhoids. Then you can give penetration another go: taking time to warm up, using lots of lube, pivoting to something else if it’s too painful. Follow Charlie Glickman on Twitter @charlieglickman. On the Lovecast: Fox News on transgender issues. Fair and unbiased? Find the Savage Lovecast (Dan’s weekly podcast) every Tuesday at www.straight.com/ . Email: mail@ savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.
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> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < HASTINGS DONALD’S CEREAL AISLE JULY 2012
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 3, 2015 WHERE: PNE, Around Vancouver
Your name is Missy and you worked at Red Wagon. I gave you my number so nervous in the cereal aisle at Donald’s. You wrote back: you were in a relationship but I had made your day. I moved to the desert and thought about you more than now and again. If you are still in that relationship, I wish you nothing but the best. If not, can we grab that coffee three years later?
You are a street team member for a radio station. Brown hair, energetic, often wearing a hat. You’ve caught my eye in the past and then imagine my surprise when I find out you’re actually a friend's brother. I’ve been unbelievably shy and have refrained from really talking to you even though I want to. You have a really infectious energy and smile, and you seem very kind. (You’re cute too). So at least know you make a super positive impression, even if I’m way too shy to strike up the first conversation.
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Saturday afternoon, I was the brunette buying the goodies for my terrarium. You mentioned a baby shower and pulled out the “looking for love in Alderaan places” line - which I informed you was a t-shirt. I saw you didn’t charge me for my orchid feed when I got home. Thank you! You look fairly young, but hard to tell if you’re age appropriate or not. If you’re 27 plus and interested, come find me! I’ll show you my super cool terrarium.
MOON PARTY MAN
You were selling a ticket outside the film, we chatted briefly. Saw you after, wanted to ask if you were able to sell your ticket, and if you would like to get a coffee?
ASIAN GIRL ON SEAWALL NEAR SCIENCE WORLD ON SUNDAY
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YOU LEFT ME PUNCH DRUNK....
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 1, 2015 WHERE: Lucy’s Eastside Diner
Or was it the movie we saw? I suspect you are no dollar store girl. In any case, how lucky I was you sat next to me, Denise. What fun to experience the film with such an expressive person. You may well be shy, but your sensitivity is palpable. I know we’ll cross paths again. And like Itsuko, I’m up for the challenge.
I called in sick and decided I needed some comfort food. Naturally I went to Lucy’s Eastside Diner and ordered up a classic eggs Benny. You gave me hot water and a lemon slice while I waited. Clearly you’re kind and goddamn you’re beautiful. How about coffee sometime when I am feeling a little better?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Marine Drive/UBC/Wreck Beach
You greeted me at gathering to hear a speaker from Florida. I wanted to say thank you for your strength and courage in speaking your thoughts and sharing your experience. Also for welcoming a stranger to this event, I definitely stood out as a newbie to this event. You left early before I could thank you in person. You were like a bright flash that disappeared too quickly leaving me to wonder who you are. I can only hope that you would somehow find this posting so we can connect.
I was running northbound wearing orange dryfit shirt on Marine Drive in the general vicinity of Wreck Beach and you were wearing blue running in opposite direction. Your warm smile and hello was so magnetic, I would like to see you again.
DENMAN ST. IN THE RAIN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Insurance Brokerage, St John’s St., Port Moody You sit in the third cubicle from the front of the office. You’re a stunning brunette. I’ve been in twice - once a month ago, and once just yesterday. Both times, we can’t keep our eyes or our smiles off of each other. Why not progress to not keeping our hands and lips off each other? Because of my job, I couldn’t make a move at your workplace.
SOUTH GRANVILLE CNX I GOT YOU A TAXI HOME... AND YOU KISSED ME
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 WHERE: South Granville I saw you yesterday walking North on South Granville. Just caught your eye as we passed. I was with a girlfriend walking In the opposite direction. We both took second & third glances and I regret letting you walk away... Here’s to the chance that read the Georgia Straight... tell me where you stopped to cross?
BABE AT MAIN AND 4TH AFTER HOURS
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HANDSOME GUY ON THE 7
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CANADA LINE ANGEL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 WHERE: Canada Line You were already on the Canada Line train when I boarded at City Centre at 6:30 p.m., and you disembarked at Broadway. You were about 5’7”, long brown hair, wearing a blue and white striped shirt, with a tattoo of a lizard on your left foot. I was the dude in the suit standing next to you. I have many great personal qualities, but bravery isn’t one of them. You’re amazingly beautiful and you have great style. If you see this, show it to the boyfriend you undoubtedly have and advise him never to take you for granted.
LEONE L2 CAFE BABE HAVING A LUNCH DATE WITH THE WRONG GUY
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Putting you in the right frame of mind and heart, Venus into Virgo matches need with desire. Sunday’s Jupiter and Pluto pump up your drive, determination, and success ratio. Uranus and Monday’s strike-flint new moon make a great discovery/find, a stroke of genius, a fresh twist, or a strong impulse. Through Thursday, you’re partnered with optimal timing.
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