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ley Little noticed a tension underlying what she saw. “The natural majestic beauty of the falls,” she says to the Straight, from her home in Kelowna, “is smushed right up against the gaudiness and tackiness of the strip. There is something about that meeting of two opposing forces that was an inspiration. I wanted to write something set in Niagara Falls because of that juxtaposition.” This spark, which came during her trip in 2010 for New Year’s Eve, yielded several short stories that eventually developed into her MFA thesis and new novel, Niagara Motel. Focused on 11-year-old Tucker Malone, who leaves Niagara Falls for Los Angeles in search of the father he believes is Sam Malone, the bartender played by Ted Danson on the sitcom Cheers, the novel shares the midnight mood introduced in Prick: Confession of a Tattoo Artist, her ReLit Award–nominated 2011 debut. Little, citing Willy Vlautin’s novels The Motel Life and Lean on Pete as other motivators, was also “interested in exploring the cultural landscape of the early ’90s, and how mass media seemed to really blow up during that time, and was showing us lots of images of violence”. A survival sex worker who appeared in her 2013 novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang, which received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize the following year, led to the creation of Gina, Tucker’s mother, a narcoleptic exotic dancer and escort, who was initially intended as the current novel’s protagonist. In 2012, while cleaning house, “I heard this voice in my head that said, ‘I was born in a laundromat in Paris, Ontario,’ ” Little says. “And I knew that that was the first line of my next novel. But it wasn’t Gina’s voice, it was her son, Tucker—and so Tucker took over this novel.” (Their surname was established prior to using the TV character as a plot device. Kismet proved “that according to polls, Sam Malone was considered to be the epitome of masculinity at that time,” she says. “He was the ideal. And that is the hole in Tucker’s life, a masculine presence. I knew that Cheers was a really popular show during that time, and he would’ve probably watched it and been allowed to watch it.”)

Ashley Little’s latest, Niagara Motel, looks to the violent margins of early-’90s society for a story about seeking family in a hostile world. Chris Bowerman photo.

After sneaking out of their group home, Tucker and his friend Meredith, a pregnant 16-year-old sex worker, hitchhike across America and catch rides with criminal celebrities of the era, including Timothy McVeigh and Lorena Bobbitt. In writing about these nefarious figures, Little was trying to comprehend the effects that their constant coverage was having on not only “the psyches of all people who were seeing that media, but especially young people who were just beginning to form their ideas about the world at that time”. Just as headline news influenced Niagara Motel, music was a vital component. Between writing sessions, Little listened repeatedly to Nirvana and “watched the Michael Jackson video ‘Black or White’ a lot,” she says, laughing, “because Macaulay Culkin is in it at the beginning. I just felt like that was helping me to visualize Tucker.” The violence that distinguishes her material requires additional effort. “I think maybe I need to gear up for that. For Anatomy of a Girl Gang, I stayed away from it [the manuscript] for about a week—which is a long time when you’re writing every day for months. It was the same with Niagara Motel. I took a break right before I wrote the L.A. riot scene.” To build the segment where the adolescents arrive in Los Angeles amid the riots, Little went to California and toured Compton and Watts with a man who was present at the melee, and obtained raw footage

from amateur videographer Timothy Goldman, whose recordings were widely broadcast. The research was “really sad, especially the interviews with business owners who had lost everything,” she says. “And just the brutality… That was really excruciating to watch.” Of the chaos, Tucker observes, “In the distance, I saw a red fire engine and fire fighters spraying water at a huge building that must have been a shopping mall. It was hard to believe my eyes, but people were actually attacking the fire fighters while they worked. Launching rocks and bottles at them and jumping onto their backs as they hosed down the blaze.” Like Tucker, the narrators of Little’s fiction are outsiders who seek family and home in a hostile world. Rather than depict the social spheres of “the white-collar, upper-class one-percenters”, Little is drawn to “subcultures that I don’t know very much about. “These are the kinds of people that I find interesting,” she says. “The way they speak, the way they dress, their thoughts, what their fears and desires are—I just find this subsect more interesting, with more conflict, and maybe closer to my heart.” > DAVID CHAU

Ashley Little will make two Vancouver Writers Fest appearances this year, both on October 18. See writersfest. bc.ca/ for times and venues. see next page

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entrepreneur prepares Urban Native Girl for its official print-magazine launch—a journey she’s chronicled in a television series of the same name on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. She continues work on her third anthology and upcoming debut book and maintains her blog with special attention allotted to First Nations fashion designers. (Her favourite names currently include Vancouver’s Sho Sho Esquiro and L.A.’s Bethany Yellowtail.) Despite her packed schedule, however, the opportunity to speak with an audience—especially a young one—is not something Charleyboy will soon turn down. “There’s always one person…who comes up and says, ‘Hey, this really resonated with me and this really made me feel differently about myself as an indigenous person, and I really hope to explore this further. And I feel excited and I feel proud,’ ” she says. “And to me, that’s worth it— 100 percent.”

> LUCY LAU

Lisa Charleyboy will appear in two events at this year’s Vancouver Writers Fest: a solo talk at the Waterfront Theatre on October 18 (now sold-out) and a five-author panel discussion at the Revue Stage on October 19. See writersfest.bc.ca/ for details.

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her native Ghana, novelist Yaa Gyasi decided to tour the infamous Cape Coast Castle, a colonial-era fortress along the Ghanian coast where British soldiers housed captured African slaves before loading them onto ships bound for the plantations of the Caribbean and the American South. “As a writer, I had never really had a moment where I was struck by inspiration before,” Gyasi says of that fateful visit, during a call to the Straight from her home in Oakland, California. “But stepping into that castle, you instantly feel—even if you don’t believe in ghosts, you instantly feel the weight of the fact that so many people died in that place.” On her tour of the castle, Gyasi, then a student at Stanford University, learned that British soldiers stationed there had married local African women and lived with them in relative luxury while other Africans languished in horrific conditions in the dungeons below. “I immediately had this picture of these two juxtaposed women, the woman who has been the wife of a British officer and the woman who would have been kept in the castle dungeon,” Gyasi recalls. Over the next six years that image grew into Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing, which was bought by an American publishing house for about $1 million and earned Gyasi rapturous reviews from critics when it was published in June. In the novel’s fablelike opening chapters, two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, end up at the Cape Coast Castle, Effia as the child bride of a British officer, Esi as a slave imprisoned in the dungeon awaiting transport through the notorious “Door of No Return” to a slave ship bound for the Americas.

From there, Homegoing traces an epic journey across more than 250 years of often bloody history as it follows Effia’s and Esi’s descendants in Africa and the United States from the mid18th century up to the present day. Like her novel, Gyasi (her last name is pronounced “jessie”) is herself at once deeply Ghanian and thoroughly American. Though she was born in Ghana, her family left Africa when she was two so her father could pursue graduate studies at Ohio State University. After that, Gyasi and her family bounced around college towns in the U.S. until her father landed a teaching job at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when Gyasi was 10. Gyasi, now 27, describes a girlhood divided between her traditional Ghanian family, who instilled in her a rich sense of her African heritage, and a daily life in Alabama where the long shadow of American slavery and segregation coloured her every interaction with friends and schoolmates. “Alabama has a reputation for a reason,” she says. “If you come from a place like Ghana where you’re not used to having to think about yourself in terms of your race and then end up in a place where you’re daily confronted by your race, it starts to inform the way you identify, and so for me Alabama was the first place I started to think about blackness, about what it meant to be black.” Gyasi credits her status as perpetual outsider for her ear for dialect, black and white, American and African. But the fact that, as she puts it, she has “never felt Ghanian enough for Ghana or American enough for America” may also account for Homegoing’s singular blend of emotional intimacy and dispassionate historical analysis. The novel pulls no punches in its depiction of the horrors of slavery and its aftermath, showing not just a brutal whipping and lynching of an enslaved mother and father on an Alabama plantation, but also the fierce battles between the African tribal nations, the Fante and the Asante, who competed to supply European traders with a steady stream of slaves. But one never feels the author’s thumb on the scales of history. James Collins, the Englishman who marries Effia early in the novel, is a decent man, while a number of the African and African-American characters are deeply flawed. Few of Gyasi’s characters are irredeemably good or bad, though they are all in one way or another complicit in one of history’s greatest crimes. “There’s a castle on the coast in Fanteland called the Cape Coast Castle,” Gyasi has a character explain in the later pages of Homegoing. “That is where they used to keep the slaves before they sent them away to Aburokyire [abroad]: America, Jamaica. Asante traders would bring in their captives. Fante, Ewe, or Ga middlemen would hold them, then sell them to the British or the Dutch or whoever was paying them the most at the time. Everyone was responsible. We all were…we all are.” > MICHAEL BOURNE

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THE SPAWNING GROUNDS By Gail Anderson-Dargatz. Knopf Canada, 320 pp, hardcover

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writer and teacher Gail AndersonDargatz returns to her beloved Shuswap. It’s a region that the author has, over her body of work, brought to vivid, magical life, similar to Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Michael Crummey’s Newfoundland outports in Galore and Sweetland. Those might seem like outsize comparisons, but Anderson-Dargatz has earned the praise, with novels like The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees receiving critical acclaim, prize recognition, and international attention. Anderson-Dargatz has set the bar dauntingly high for every new work; it’s a measure that The Spawning Grounds more than meets. The titular spawning grounds are a section of Lightning River, settled for over 150 years on one bank by ranching family the Robertsons, and on the other, for much longer, by a small Shuswap community. As the novel opens, a schism has arisen with the river at its centre: a Shuswap grave has been disturbed, and the residents establish a blockade against the developers, who are supported by Stew

Robertson, the family patriarch. When Stew and his grandson Brandon nearly drown in the river— where swimming has been explicitly warned against by the Shuswap—the novel enters a magical realm, with a “water mystery” taking form against the changing of the world, with potentially cataclysmic effect. Thrown into the middle are Brandon’s older sister Hannah, the novel’s focal character, a university student in an environmental studies program, and Alex, great-grandson of a Shuswap elder, whose knowledge of the ancient stories and traditional lore may prove the key for understanding the mythic forces arrayed against them. The Spawning Grounds is a powerful, complex mélange of story forms and approaches, including magic realism, domestic drama, historical fiction, and stories about coming of age and coming to the end of life, leavened with elements of romance and considerable humour and understanding. Anderson-Dargatz writes with a direct, often subversive appeal to narrative, powerful storytelling, and skilfully drawn characters carrying complex social, political, cultural, and spiritual conflicts with an unobtrusive ease. > ROBERT WIERSEMA

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VANCOUVER IN THE SEVENTIES By Kate Bird. Greystone, 168 pp, hardcover

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Vancouver of 40 years ago now seems almost mystical. A small town—in feel, if not physical size—it was a community on the cusp, soon to be awash in money, development, immigration, and that most bittersweet of modern curses, constant change. In Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos From a Decade That Changed the City, author Kate Bird reminds us of all that once was, offering up nearly 150 period photos by veteran Vancouver Sun photographers Glenn Baglo, Ralph Bower, Deni Eagland, George Diack, and many others. Most of the photos are taken with a newsman’s eye, but there’s also some great art—as in the case of the high-rise sunbather who evokes Saul Bass’s North by Northwest title sequence, or the excesses of a B.C. Pen riot that suggest the brutal imagery of Hieronymus Bosch. Although it’s easy to think of the pre-Internet, preglobalization 1970s as a simpler, more innocent time, this collection documents a complicated port community at a crossroads, both literally and figuratively. While civic, business, and societal control was still staunchly male, traditional, and Anglo-Saxon, fracture lines are clearly visible. Change was on its way, and it’s nearly palpable in images documenting protest movements by women, gay and aboriginal activists, environmentalists, and the counterculture. That being said, there’s also a lot of good-natured fun to be had. Vancouver wasn’t so preoccupied with its own image back then, and there’s a bounty of lively photos of bathtub races, Dickie Dee vendors, demolition derbies, Robsonstrasse, and that briefest of political stars, Mr. Peanut. Also, bell-bottoms—a lot of bell-bottoms. If newspapers are, as the saying goes, the first draft of history, then photojournalism must surely be its rough notes. Whether or not one was present for the Vancouver of the 1970s, this collection serves as an important primary document and a fascinating—not to mention entertaining—window on the city’s rapidly disappearing past. > DOUG SARTI

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ancouver’s calendar of fall and winter markets kicks off early this year with a brand-new addition, though we wouldn’t be so quick to label the biannual Fall For Local your typical browse-and-buy. “I like to think that we’re like the ‘uncraft’ fair,” Kelly Turner, Fall For Local’s founder, tells the Straight by phone. “Rather than just rows and rows of crafts, we bring together small businesses in Vancouver and its surrounding areas to set up shop. They could be sharing service or they could just have a product they’d like to get out to the public. Either way, it’s an opportunity for them to kind of get together and showcase what they’re doing.” Created in 2012, Fall For Local places explicit emphasis on a concept that locally produced markets and fairs have been fostering for years: community. It’s an unsurprising focus, given the origins of the event. Sensing a disconnect in the smallbusiness sphere while heading her own graphic design and communication firm in her hometown of Ottawa, Turner organized a celebratory soiree that saw local entrepreneurs getting to know one another while sharing their products and services with the public. The event went so well that Turner decided to bring it to Vancouver when she felt a similar rift in the small-biz scene upon moving here in 2013. Three years later, the one-night affair has evolved into a biannual marketplace—plus a series of monthly talks at the Aviary, a Fraserhood coworking space—that offers a platform for emerging and established entrepreneurs to connect in person with others. “Our genre is ‘If you’re a small business doing something awesome, then come participate in Fall For Local,’ ”

Kelly Turner founded Fall For Local to foster social networks among entrepreneurs as they sell their goods and services. (She was photographed in the Aviary, a coworking space for creative types, at 637 East 15th Avenue.) Amanda Siebert photo.

explains Turner. “You don’t typically have to be a maker or artisan. If you founded a small business but you’re getting products from somewhere else, that’s totally fine—as long as your brand was founded in Vancouver.” Fall For Local’s openness to people doing cool stuff in the city may be somewhat responsible for the fair’s popularity with creative types and consumers. (This month’s debut autumn iteration includes handmade natural hair-care line Coast Beauty Co., textile and surface designer Kaiko, and dress rental service Flaunt Fashion Library.) But Turner stresses that the environmental and economic benefits of shopping close to home are driving more and more Vancouverites to produce and buy local, too.

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For Joe Sones, cofounder of Blindsheep Productions, it was the flexibility in hours that ultimately convinced him and his partner, Justine, to ditch their respective day jobs and commit to their leatherworking operation full-time. The duo now handcraft a range of repurposed leather totes, belts, and wallets in a studio space in Maple Ridge, where they split their time between Blindsheep, freelance projects, and caring for their one-year-old son. Although Sones notes that popup shops and local craft fairs can be hitor-miss for vendors, he says that they serve as a viable “middle ground” in which up-and-coming artisans may build their brands. He also values the connections he’s made with other ardent makers through the events.

“There are a lot of creative people who are just lovely individuals to interact with,” he says. “There’s not a whole lot of ego that comes along with them.” Anne Fleet, jewellery maker and owner of the Squamish-based Birch Street Studio, echoes this sentiment when describing her experiences at local markets. “I really like the saying ‘Community over competition’, and that’s big with a lot of people in the maker community,” she says. “People will just message me and say, ‘Hey, I think your stuff would look great in this store’ and they’ll share opportunities.” Not unlike the Soneses, Fleet turned her passion project into a fulltime gig when she left her position as a dental-office receptionist in 2014. She’s known for her laser-cut wood

stud earrings, pendants, and rings, many of them decorated with etchings of mountaintops, bears, and other emblems native to the Pacific Northwest. The woodworker showcases her pieces primarily online, so she’s appreciative of any event that gets her into the community and outside her comfort zone. “It’s kind of a weird lifestyle to have an online shop and only knowing people through social media,” reflects Gillian Fryer, owner of the Littlest Fry, an e-retailer that offers a curated selection of “Californian meets European” goods. “So to have the chance to actually get to know them face to face—I really like that aspect.” In fact, Fryer—a jewellery maker herself—meets many of the local artisans she stocks, including ceramist dahlhaus and stationery producer Think & Ink Studio, by attending popup markets and craft fairs around the city. “I try to carry as much local work as I can because I just really like to promote creative people in Vancouver,” she says. Fryer, Fleet, and the Soneses are among the 75 local vendors appearing at the Fall For Local market, where they’ll undoubtedly become acquainted with one another—if they haven’t done so already—as well as the many shoppers expected to walk through the doors. They’ll be joined by an eclectic group of independent designers and small-business owners, including those specializing in hip concrete planters, goat’s-milk soaps, glittering party supplies, and more. “I love seeing local entrepreneurs thriving within the city and just growing,” Turner says. Fall For Local takes place on October 22 at the Pipe Shop Building in North Vancouver. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit fallforlocal.com.

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rinted in Helvetica and preceded by a forward slash, the numbers 017 glow enigmatically at the corner of Cambie Street and West Cordova. Is it an ode to a year that’s yet to happen? An entry code required to access the racks of crisp garments visible through the shop’s windows? Or perhaps it’s the scene of a minimalist birthday party for a 17-year-old with exceptionally well-tailored taste? The actual answer may surprise you. “I was just playing around with Photoshop and I really liked the way it looked,” 017’s cofounder and creative director, Clayton Chan, tells the Straight during an interview at the Gastown space. “And then I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to build this into a brand.’ There wasn’t really a meaning behind it—there’s still no meaning behind it.” But while the boutique’s name (pronounced “zero-one-seven”) may lack definition, there’s clear intention behind the way Chan works. The style-savvy business grad—and cofounder of local backpack company VELT Designs—prefers taking the runway less travelled when it comes to buying. Combing through the market for hard-to-find labels and “advanced contemporary” designers, he stocks 017 with Ts, pants, and coats so fluid that they blur the line between traditional mens- and womenswear. “We take a very androgynous approach to the men’s side of things,” explains Chan, who opened the shop with his friend Tommy On earlier this year. “We want women to be able to pull things from brands like CMMN SWDN and Helmut Lang, because girls are wearing looser garments nowadays too, right?” Ladies, the young entrepreneur relays, have been especially fond of New York designer Siki

Owner Clayton Chan takes an androgynous approach to the fashions he selects at Gastown’s 017, so that customers can draw from both mens- and womenswear.

Im’s laid-back pieces, including a reverse-terry oxblood sweater with zipper detailing. The high-quality construction and slim sleeves cater to both sexes, offering a relaxed fit that still feels polished. Patchwork pullovers and cropped bombers by menswear line CMMN SWDN— the progressive brainchild of two designers who once helmed Kanye West’s Paris-based label—have also been a hit. That’s not to say that guys can’t dip their toes into womenswear. Streetwise fashionistas will be drawn to Harmony Paris’s sporty sweatshirts— reminiscent of ’90s Fila jackets and complete with ring zipper pulls—as well as Maison Kitsuné’s playful knitwear, much of which is adorned with silver-foil graphics or all-over prints of critters. It’s the fit and thoughtful details in these garments that lend themselves so well to unisex dressing. Even the jewellery—a selection of handcrafted skull and animal rings

by British brand Dog State—crosses boundaries. “When you buy something, the number one thing should be ‘Does it fit well on you?’ ” Chan stresses. “So all the clothing that we have in here, we’re very careful in considering how they’ll fit on a person.” Chan hopes to introduce a handful of new names to 017 come spring, including “darkwear” designer Rick Owens. Next Thursday (October 20), the boutique will also have drinks and live music on hand, plus a special promotion for visitors, as part of the biannual Gastown Shop Hop. With unmarked tags for Ts and sweaters starting at $200 and coats at $800, this will be a rare opportunity for Vancouverites to nab an investment piece at a discounted price. “If it fits you well, it’s gonna be your go-to,” says Chan. “It’s not some loud graphic that’s really hot for one season and then you don’t wear it anymore. That’s not what we’re trying to do.” -

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or as long as Maria McLeod can remember, she has wanted to have a baby. Her journey to becoming a mom, however, was hardly straightforward. She and her same-sex partner faced difficulties that heterosexual couples don’t. McLeod explains that the couple began trying to get pregnant in the spring of 2012. The plan was that she would carry the baby, while her partner’s brother, who is also queer, was willing to donate sperm. He felt strongly about doing things formally through a clinic in Toronto, where he lives. “When he went to his first reproductive-health appointment, he was given a physical, and a [sperm] sample was taken, along with a pile of paperwork filled out,” McLeod tells the Straight. “We had agreed to split this cost between us, which, I think, was about $3,000 each. This is when we learned that because he is not my partner, his sperm would need to be quarantined for six months—it’s federal law—so that it could be tested and confirmed free of STIs. “This was the first in a long list of barriers,” she says. “If he had been my husband—or we had pretended he was, which some people do—he could have donated that day and we could have tried right away. As it was, the sperm was frozen at the ReproMed sperm bank in Toronto, the only place you can bank sperm for known-

Same-sex couples and trans people can face unique challenges when seeking pregnancy. Michael Pettigrew photo.

donor conception with a chosen donor that is not your husband.” When the ReproMed endocrinologist called to review the results, the couple got disappointing news: they were told the sperm had low motility and would be best for in vitro fertilization (IVF), a costly and lengthy process. Over the ensuing months, McLeod and her partner purchased sperm from an unknown donor and tried intrauterine insemination (IUI) eight times. None worked. Finally, in the summer of 2015, the two turned

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to IVF, and earlier this year they became parents to a healthy baby boy. “Sometimes I call him my miracle baby,” McLeod says. “But although my own journey was a long and winding road, some of my queer friends got pregnant easily, at home, with little to no intervention from a clinic. Just because we are queer doesn’t mean we aren’t fertile. It’s just a bit more complicated and conscious for us, involving a variety of more steps than just sex. So when people say ‘Just relax; it will happen when

you’re least thinking about it,’ it’s not very helpful, because I had to access the sperm and be very conscientious with each attempt to conceive.” McLeod and her partner turned to Olive Fertility Centre for the IVF, as well as Acubalance Wellness Centre, which specializes in an integrated approach to supporting pregnancy and treating infertility, including acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, and naturopathy. The two clinics work in collaboration to help people conceive.

Reproductive endocrinologist Al Yuzpe, cofounder and codirector of Olive Fertility Centre, says that accessing sperm can indeed be a challenge for female same-sex couples. LGBT community members face other circumstances that could delay conception; that’s why it’s important for them to plan ahead as much as possible. “For example, if someone is going to have a gender reassignment, they’re going to need to be able to preserve their eggs or their sperm in advance,” Yuzpe explains in a phone interview. “There are situations where both people in a female same-sex couple would like to participate in the pregnancy. One provides the eggs, then, using donor sperm, an embryo is formed, and that can be carried by the other partner. Many patients do that, but once you start manipulating eggs and using IVF, the costs become an issue.…You need to consider the financial implications.” Costs can run from approximately $1,000 for IUI per cycle to up to $14,000 for IVF. Men in same-sex relationships need to find a source of eggs and a woman to carry the pregnancy, both of which can also be time-consuming and expensive processes, while they need to decide who will provide the sperm. “These are not impediments but things they must consider before making a final decision as to how they want to produce a family,” Yuzpe stresses. see next page

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Ward off the flu PREPARE FOR FLU SEASON Flu, or influenza, strikes in late fall through winter. Symptoms include runny nose, sore throat, cough, fever, headache, muscle pain, and extreme tiredness. It’s not to be mistaken for the common cold—it’s a serious disease and one of the top 10 causes of death in Canada according to the National Advisory Committee on Immunization. Flu shots start to be offered in October. Everyone six months of age and older is advised to get vaccinated. Vancouver Coastal Health has scheduled clinics in various locations, including one from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on October 27 at the Creekside Community Centre (1 Athletes Way). You can also book appointments with your family doctor, walk-in clinic, or pharmacy. You can also stop the flu from spreading by washing your hands and coughing or sneezing into your shirtsleeves rather than on your palm. -

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AERYON ASHLIE Find out how a mother and personal trainer triumphed after a 20-year battle with bulimia. The Vancouver Health Show is at the Vancouver Convention Centre on November 5 and 6.

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he first hint that Gabriella Coleman might be an unusual interview came a couple days before she connected with the Straight, when we were arranging a time to talk. “Will likely call from Skype as I don’t own a cell anymore,” she wrote in an email. When we eventually did connect— on a friend’s borrowed mobile phone because of a poor Internet connection—the author and holder of the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University said that it’s been three years since she had a telephone number. “It’s a post-Snowden thing,” Coleman explained, in reference to the American NSA contractor turned whistle blower. “I used to have a cellphone, but after those revelations, I decided to try not to.” Coleman said her preferred modes of communication are Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Jabber off-the-record (OTR) messaging. It’s one more indication how complicated the world has become and the steps some people are taking to achieve peace of mind. Digital security and how it is circumvented are topics at the centre of a lecture Coleman is scheduled to give at the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies on October 20. She will present a history of the hacktivist collective Anonymous and discuss how its operations inspired other entities—from lone basement hackers to the world’s most powerful nationstates—to adopt and respond to techniques that Anonymous pioneered. “Prior to Anonymous, there were not many people hacking into governments and corporations and leaking sensitive information,” Coleman said. “I’m going to give a kind of genealogy of their own operations that led to this tactic…and then I’ll talk about some of the moral quandaries that are associated with this style of leaking.” Anonymous is perhaps best known for its adoption of the Guy Fawkes mask popularized by the 2005 movie V for Vendetta. From there, Coleman suggested, people have very different views of the organization—a highly decentralized association of individuals that spans the globe—depending on the event through which they first heard of it. In B.C., Coleman continued, that means the public’s opinions of Anonymous might be more favourable than in other areas of the world. In July 2015, a 48-year-old resident of Dawson Creek was shot and killed by RCMP officers outside a public meeting about the Site C dam. He was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask at the time of the incident, and although it remains unclear how involved he was with

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“We have seen many, many couples— same-sex couples, females and male; transgender couples—that have all been able to achieve a pregnancy. I think what is most important is that we recognize the entire LGBT community and recognize their rights to have a family. We do everything we possibly can to help them achieve it.” Olive has counselling services available, as does Acubalance, which provides natural treatments to help women reach peak fertility and men achieve optimal sperm production. Acubalance founder Lorne Brown says acupuncture in men helps improve testicular function by regulating hormone and stress levels; in women, it improves uterine blood flow, balances hormones, and regulates menstrual cycles. The wellness centre also helps people achieve a healthy diet and lifestyle and manage stress to optimize their chances of conceiving—all aimed at “nourish-

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Anonymous, the group responded to his death and threatened revenge. “My sense is, because it was an instance of a police shooting, people were probably sympathetic with Anonymous,” Coleman said. But she noted that the group was active in Canada prior to the Dawson Creek incident. One month earlier, in June 2015, Anonymous appeared on the national stage when it carried out a successful action against the federal government. In what the group described as an act of protest against the former Conservative administration’s antiterrorism legislation, Anonymous members used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to take federal websites offline and disrupt government email services. “They were able to shut down a big portion of Canadian government websites, including mail servers as well,” Coleman said. “That was pretty impressive, in some ways.” Turning to more recent events, Coleman said she’ll also discuss the role that hacks are playing in the U.S. presidential election. She said that attacks targeting the Democratic National Committee and former secretary of state Colin Powell raise obvious ethical questions. At the same time, Coleman noted that many people view the information released as of legitimate public interest. She suggested that because there will always be hackers, and because the media will always report on hacked information, questions of ethics are somewhat supplemented by inevitability. Coleman argued that as a matter of pragmatism, the debate should then turn to security that can truly protect privacy. “There are dynamics that no one institution is in control of,” she said. “That mirrors the hacker world, in some weird way. A lot of people will be against these hacks, but they are very hard to police.” Gabriella Coleman will speak at a free event hosted by the UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies on October 20 at the Vogue Theatre. Registration is required.

ing the soil before planting the seed”. “We help people destress, because often when they’re in a fertility clinic where other people have subfertility, they often end up thinking something is wrong with them,” Brown says. “We do a lot of coaching and destressing. Health in the preconception period is important. A healthy baby comes from healthy egg and healthy sperm and healthy uterine environment.” As a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine at Acubalance, Emilie Salomons says it’s vital that members of the LGBT community feel part of the broader discussion of fertility, something that is still all too often focused on male-female unions. “When you go online, everything that has to do with fertility is all heterosexual-centric,” Salomons says on the line from the clinic. “Everyone assumes it’s going to be a man and a woman, and that adds another weight to the whole process and can bring up a lot of emotions. I know here our forms are gender-neutral and welcoming and inclusive. We want people to feel included.” -

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A Skier’s Journey hits hills in Iran and China > BY C HA RL IE SM I TH

orth Vancouver filmmaker Jordan Manley knows what it’s like to come back from a serious injury. In 2012, he had already completed filming the third season of his highly regarded online series of short movies, A Skier’s Journey, which follows his friends Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots skiing in faraway locales. Manley was back home editing footage from Iceland when he decided to take a break by going mountain biking on Mount Seymour. That’s when his career as a filmmaker took an unexpected turn. “I had a fall,” Manley told the Georgia Straight by phone from his home. “I hit my head. Unfortunately, it resulted in a pretty debilitating injury.” He was 28 years old at the time, and the concussion threatened to put an end to the series, which by then had included episodes in Kashmir, Argentina, and Dubai. He said that his biggest worry was reinjuring himself by falling. “These trips may look like a lot of fun, but they’re pretty challenging physically and mentally,” Manley said. “We’re trying to get a lot done in the short amount of time under difficult travel circumstances.” But he persevered, and this autumn, he launched the fourth and final season of A Skier’s Journey showcasing resorts in Iran and China. In Iran, the trio visited two popular ski hills, Dizin and Shemshak, in the Alborz Mountains near Tehran, as well as the Dena resort in the Zagros Mountains farther south. According to Manley, there wasn’t nearly as much segregation of men from women on the ski hills as he observed in Iranian cities. “It’s kind of a private space in a way where people have a different

idea of freedom,” he said. “Those resorts are not dissimilar to some of the higher-altitude resorts in the Alps. They’re just less expensive and harder to get to.” In China, Manley filmed Sayers and Coots at the Beijing Nanshan Ski Village, as well as at Mount Changbaishan in Jilin province near the border with North Korea. Manley said that because ski culture is so new in these areas, officials are still learning about things B.C. skiers take for granted, such as ski patrols, avalanche-safety information, and adequate markers for out-ofbounds areas. The final leg was in western China, in the Altay region in Xinjiang province near the borders with Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Mongolia. Manley noted that the seminomadic residents of this region were some of the first skiers in the world. “These are people who’ve inherited skiing as a way of life through the generations, primarily as a means of transportation for getting around in the winter, but also for hunting,” Manley said. “What I found was that this tradition is really not surviving so well. It’s partly due to a hunting ban by the Chinese government.” This season’s third episode of A Skier’s Journey chronicles a trip the trio took by water taxi over Chilko Lake, and then skiing and walking 13 kilometres over the Homathko Icefield. Then they paddled 40 kilometres down the Southgate River into Bute Inlet before returning home by floatplane. Manley said he was able to complete a trip of this magnitude because he spent three-and-a-half years recovering from his mountain-biking accident, setting and achieving smaller goals along the way. “There were a lot of setbacks and a lot of training, especially physically, to get to a place where I could pull that off.” -

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ex workers want to have their say regarding a gamechanging drug for HIV prevention. They are holding a national consultation to discuss among themselves and their supporters how the prescription pill Truvada may affect their well-being. There are worries that with its availability they could face pressure to engage in unprotected sex, resulting in other infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea. Truvada was approved in February this year by Health Canada as a medication to reduce the risk of a person without HIV being infected with the AIDS-causing virus. It is recommended to be used in combination with safe-sex practices such as condom use. As the first drug accepted for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, Truvada heralds a new chapter in the fight against HIV in this country. A group of doctors and other health professionals is currently drafting national standards on PrEP. The guidelines will also include medical procedures (known as nPEP) for people who have been exposed to HIV in nonoccupational settings, such as needle-sharing. Andrew Sorfleet, president of the Triple-X Workers’ Solidarity Association of B.C., noted that among the concerns about PrEP is how it will affect the use of condoms. “In other words, pressure from the marketplace or from clients for sex workers to provide services without condoms because they could be on PrEP instead,” Sorfleet told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview. Sorfleet’s Triple-X group is helping to organize the national consultation to be held on October 19 and 20. The event is funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Assistant professor Dan Allman of the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, venue of the consultation, received the grant. Using the birth-control pill as an analogy, Allman indicated that PrEP holds both promise and peril. “It had the promise of liberating women, on one hand,” Allman told the Straight about the contraceptive. “On the other hand, it had the perils of potentially increasing STIs [sexually transmitted infections] and STDs [sexually transmitted diseases], and potentially changing the moral fibre of society. Well, all of that came to pass.” In the case of PrEP, the publichealth researcher said that it may give people a false sense of protection. “Sex is about joy and pleasure, and health as well, and one of the promises of pre-exposure prophylaxis for many

sexually active individuals is that it does hold the promise of giving a rebirth of sorts to a kind of sexual health that we in the West haven’t seen for a really long time,” Allman explained. “Since the advent of HIV, sexual health has been, in some instances, less about sexual expression and more about prevention of harms from STDs and STIs, from infections like…HIV.” He noted: “Condoms are a lot of things, but, you know, an enhancer of intimacy they’re not.” Kevin Pendergraft works as the manager of communications and knowledge translation with the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN), a partnership funded by the federal government through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. According to Pendergraft, the CTN is providing support in the ongoing preparation of national PrEP and nPEP guidelines. The work is led by Dr. Darrell Tan of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and Dr. Mark Hull of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Pendergraft said the guidelines will be finished by either the end of this year or early 2017. “People right now are taking it,” Pendergraft told the Straight about Truvada, a product of Gilead Sciences Canada Inc. “Doctors are prescribing it. But because there are no guidelines, some doctors don’t know how to prescribe.” A draft of the PrEP and nPEP guidelines was presented at last May’s annual Canadian Conference on HIV/ AIDS Research in Winnipeg. The document identified men who have sex with men, injection-drug users, people in “survival sex trade”, certain aboriginal populations, and individuals living with a partner with HIV to be vulnerable to HIV. It also mentioned “sex trade workers” as one of the groups with a “significant risk of having transmissible HIV”. However, the preliminary guidelines do not include sex workers among those eligible for either PrEP or nPEP. Under the proposed standards, people who buy sex, which is a crime under current prostitution laws, can ask their doctor for nPEP. Anna Smith is on the board of Triple-X. The former sex worker is of two minds about PrEP. According to Smith, taking the medication could be helpful in protecting sex workers from HIV risk arising out of “unusual situations” like condom breakage. However, she also noted that Truvada can cause side effects, like liver problems and some kidney-function and bone-density declines. Smith, who said that PrEP may be irrelevant for most sex workers who practise safe sex anyway, told the Straight by phone: “There’s more reasons to wear a condom than just HIV.” -

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or some, a facial is all about achieving that sought-after natural glow. For skin therapist Kathryn Sawers, however, the real beauty lies in the process of making people feel good while they’re on her table. As the owner and operator of Yaletown boutique spa Collective Skin Care (1268 Pacific Boulevard), she spends her days beautifying clients with methods that do more than just cleanse the surface of the skin. It was a facial gifted to Sawers by her father that first sparked her interest in skin care. “I remember feeling very in awe of the experience, of being cared for in that way, and all the different feelings and senses I got to experience,” Sawers tells the Straight during an interview in her treatment room. “I had this experience as a teenager where I had chronic fatigue syndrome, and after that [facial], it really got me focused on wellness. “I started looking at my diet and paying attention to my health, so when I was looking at a career, I was really drawn to the balance of working as a skin therapist,” she says. “I love being in a quiet, calm space, and I love the idea of making people feel good.” Since obtaining her Cidesco diploma at a local esthetics school, Sawers has spent nearly 15 years in the industry, cutting her teeth at longstanding Beverly’s the Spa on 4th and then helping to build Spruce Body Lab in Yaletown. Sawers says the move to Collective Skin Care came at the perfect time. Housed in the same space as cosmetics boutique BeautyMark, Varnish Nail Lounge, and the headquarters of eyebrow queen Alisha Noon, she works independently, but alongside a handful of Vancouver’s best beauty professionals.

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“It was a match made in heaven. We’ve built this synergistic partnership between everyone, and it works really well,” she says. “I get a lot of feedback about my space here, and people are really hungry for that connection

with an expert—something that they feel they’re not necessarily getting when they go to a big spa.” Working with clients of all ages and skin types, Sawers helps treat everything from acne, redness, and

rosacea to sensitivity and early signs of aging. With her palpable sense of understanding and innately calm demeanour, Sawers is all about creating a relationship of trust with her clients. “When people have acne or they’re dealing with sensitivity, they’re a bit wary—oftentimes, they’ve tried a lot of products and they’ve had terrible reactions,” she says. “I’d say the biggest challenge is handing your skin over to a professional and doing what they say. It can be hard, but I’ve seen it work. When people really trust the process and follow the instructions, they see improvements.” Sawers says the biggest mistake people make when it comes to their skin-care routines is following the never-ending flow of trends. “Sometimes people will just use a product that their friends swear by, so they jump on this bandwagon— especially with specific brands—instead of really focusing on what your unique skin is, and what suits your lifestyle,” she says. “I don’t blame them, because there are so many messages out there. It’s a cacophony of options, and every day, there’s a new ‘best thing’ for your skin. It can get pretty confusing.” Instead of fussing over “hot” products, Sawers says it’s important to keep it simple and develop an easyto-follow routine. “The three things that I would recommend to people is to cleanse your skin morning and night, introduce some sort of exfoliation into your routine, and always protect your skin using a moisturizer and sunscreen,” she says. “That should be the base line for everyone.” In her years as a skin therapist, Sawers has been won over by brands like Dermalogica and Tata Harper: Dermalogica for its rigid production standards, and Tata Harper for its dedication to using 100-percent-natural ingredients.

Sawers makes sure to take care of the body’s inner workings, too, with a nutricosmetic that provides nutrients for the surface of the skin as well as internal antioxidant support. She’s even created a facial treatment for her clients that works on the inside of the body as well. Sawers says the skin—the body’s largest organ—has a very symbiotic relationship with the lymphatic system, which is responsible for guiding waste products out of the body’s interstitial f luid. “When the circulatory system isn’t functioning well, or it’s stagnant, the skin appears dull, which leads to a very tired look in the complexion,” she explains. “Over time, those muscle tissues and fascia become rigid, which means your skin isn’t getting the blood supply and movement from the lymph system.” Sawers’s refining lymphatic treatment focuses on subtle manipulation of the facial muscles, starting with a deep cleansing of the skin with a lactic-acid peel, followed by a purifying clay mask. She integrates lymphatic-drainage-massage techniques with rosehip-seed oil and ends the treatment with a raw honey mask that is said to purify the pores while hydrating and soothing the skin. “I really wanted to elicit a nice harmony and balance in the skin,” Sawers says of the 75-minute treatment. “Overall, it just gives this really beautiful glow.” Sawers has worked facial-massage techniques into some of her shorter treatments as well. She says that over time, repeated facial massage can affect the tone and elasticity of the skin by relaxing muscles that have a tendency to become rigid. “Usually, you start to see the longterm benefits after about eight or 10 weeks. After that, it’s just about maintenance.” -

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he photo of my face accompanying this article generated riotous laughter from some of my Georgia Straight colleagues. One recommended that it go on the cover for a Halloween issue. Another wondered if I need a Botox treatment. The image was taken with a new BS-3500 facial skin scanner and analyzer system at Finlandia Pharmacy & Natural Health Centre (1111 West Broadway). All I had to do was put my head on a chin rest and close my eyes. A Canon camera inside the machine took images under standard white light, polarized light, and ultraviolet light. Finlandia’s operations and purchasing manager, Markus Guggenberger, explained that the BS-3500 enables consumers to learn how their skin can improve over time. That’s because the system offers precise measurements of moisture levels, pore sizes, wrinkles, skin roughness, spots, sensitivity, and acne. “We save your scores,” Guggenberger said. “You can come back next time and everything will be graphed. We’ll see exactly where you were and where you are after.” Within a few minutes of the images being taken, a software program attached to the system provides data in the form of percentages. Based on this, Finlandia’s health and beauty specialist, Tanja Salewski, will recommend products designed to address problematic areas identified by this system. Guggenberger said that this service is being offered free of charge until the end of October. Salewski plots the results on a chart coloured in green, yellow,

and red, similar to the colours on a traffic light. When I had my skin tested, the results weren’t nearly as dreadful as my colleagues suspected. Green ratings are “absolutely normal”, according to Salewski, and I achieved these results for my pores, roughness, skin sensitivity, and acne levels. The skin sensitivity had the lowest rating at 13.24 percent, with pores coming second at 20 percent. My skin registered in the yellow zone for wrinkles, moisture, and ultraviolet and other spots. The worst rating was for UV spots, at 65 percent. Finlandia’s written material states that UV spots “occur when melanin coagulates below the skin surface as a result of skin damage”. “It’s in the normal range,” Salewski advised. “You have nothing in the red here.” After completing the analysis, she suggested I use sunscreen to prevent the spots from getting worse and perhaps a serum to enhance skin renewal. Salewksi has been involved in skin care for 25 years, including 15 years working for a large cosmetics company in Germany. During her career, she has learned a great deal about the harmful effects of chemicals—knowledge that she’s happy to pass along to visitors to the store. “Most customers are not even aware of what they’ve put on their skin,” she said. “For myself, I want healthy choices. I want to keep my family healthy by not putting ingredients on the skin that could potentially be harmful.” Salewski emphasized that she’s not a dermatologist, so if she sees any inflammation of the skin or other medical issues, the person will be referred to a doctor. -

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n the days preceding Spencer Walden’s death, he was in and out of hospitals, experiencing increasingly severe symptoms of schizophrenia. On February 13, he was admitted to Peace Arch Hospital in White Rock, Walden’s sister Tara recounted in a telephone interview. She said her family told the hospital he was very sick and asked them to keep him there, against his will if necessary. But the same day, the hospital granted Walden, 32, a pass for a short walk outside, which he used as an opportunity to flee. Eventually, Walden’s mother connected with him on the phone and convinced him to return to Peace Arch, Tara continued. But the next morning, Walden was granted another pass and went missing a second time. Again, he returned later that day of his own volition. “By this time, we’d already told the staff, ‘Please don’t let him out, because he’s really sick,’ ” Tara said. A few hours later, Walden’s sisterin-law and her son visited the hospital with a Valentine’s Day present. For the third time in two days, they found the hospital had issued him a pass and that he had used it to vanish. This time, Walden didn’t return to Peace Arch. He found his way to Vancouver somehow, and was apprehended by police and admitted to St. Paul’s Hospital. On February 18, he broke a seventh-storey window and fell to his death. A coroner’s investigation is ongoing. “He ended up AWOLing and being out in the community and then ended up downtown and, subsequently, didn’t get proper care,” Tara said. “If he had been treated properly at Peace Arch Hospital, he probably never would have died.”

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executive director, Deborah Conner, told the Straight she isn’t surprised by the increase in Form 21s because she knows hospitals have seen significant increases in emergency mentalhealth visits across the board. As previously reported by the Straight, the number of emergency mental-health visits recorded annually by Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital was projected to surpass 10,000 before the end of 2015. That’s up from 6,520 in 2009. (In 2016, monitoring changed from a calendar year to a fiscal year, making comparisons difficult.) Conner said she met with representatives of the B.C. Ministry of Health and local authorities such as Vancouver Coastal Health as recently as last month. She’s recommended that in granting leave, care providers adhere to guidelines developed by Accreditation Canada, a nonprofit that monitors standards in healthcare facilities across the country. “The guidelines specifically for mental health clearly state that family or a caregiver with capacity must be identified as a personal advocate for the person who is in care, and that family should be attending all discharge planning,” Conner said. Form 21 statistics obtained from the VPD don’t even reveal the whole picture. They only count instances of a Form 21 issued where police are involved. And, often, a Form 21 can resolve itself without police, for example if a patient is returned to hospital by a family member. Vancouver Coastal Health and the Ministry of Health both claimed that they do not keep statistics for Form 21s. Both organizations also declined to grant an interview on the subject, as did the Fraser Health Authority, the operator of Peace Arch Hospital, where Walden was granted passes. Blaine Bray is director of inpatient mental-health programs at St. Paul’s Hospital. He acknowledged the rise in Form 21s but maintained that care in the community remains the best environment for the vast majority of patients he sees. “You’re trying to build a therapeutic relationship,” he said. “There is a lot of payoff to doing that.” Bray placed the increase in Form 21s in the context of what Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson has described as a “mental-health crisis”. “The numbers of mental-health and addictions presentations in emergency have gone up a tremendous amount in the last five years,” Bray said. In a telephone interview, VPD spokesperson Sgt. Randy Fincham said it was difficult for him to guess why the numbers are going up, given they are initiated by hospitals as opposed to by police. “But it’s a good thing,” he added. “These are not people in crisis, they are people who are on some sort of a treatment plan.” -

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There was itself as a neighbourhood restauBourgeois was one literally a bounce, rant, has creative cocktails and fare of the first restaua distinct bounce, that ranges from snacks like potato rants to set up in and you could skins (with or without caviar) and what is now known Gail Johnson see it, a different fried pickles to foie-gras torchon and as Fraserhood. Before that there was the Lion’s Den crowd. We get quite a diverse crowd smoked sturgeon. Pigeon says he’s Cafe and several long-established pho anyway, but there’s a lot of faces we been pleasantly surprised by how reshops; soon after came Los Cuervos haven’t seen before. ceptive the community has been. “I’ve always loved this little pockand Sal y Limón. Then Osteria Savio “I thought it would be a little bit Volpe, widely considered one of the et and thought it was one of the of a slower start, to be honest, but best restaurants in the entire city, more unique pockets in the city,” he right off the bat it’s been busy since moved in; so too, more recently, did adds. “I remember thinking, ‘Man, day one,” Pigeon says. “It’s the new Crowbar (which refers on its website this is just magic here.’ There were fork in the road in Vancouver. Savio’s to the area bordered by Kingsway, moments when the street was a little dong great things across the street; Fraser, and East 15th Avenue as the rough-and-tumble. But we just felt Faux Bourgeois laid the groundwork “golden triangle”) and the Twin really good about the ’hood and this for the corner and took the gamble. little pocket, this sweet little tri- You’ve got Sal y Limón and Black Peaks–themed Black Lodge. Meanwhile, coffee lovers have angle. It almost has a bit of a Euro- Lodge; everything’s so different. Bows & Arrows, Matchstick, Bean pean roundabout feel.” “I live 10 blocks from here and With Les Faux Bourgeois, the I love the neighbourhood,” he adds. Around the World, and Prado to choose from. A little farther afield owners wanted to offer something “It’s a little bit edgy. Ten years ago, are Earnest Ice Cream, Greek res- that didn’t exist in the area previously. it was pretty dark over here; there “When you go to this part of the wasn’t a lot going on. The area still taurant Nammos Estiatorio, and Mensch Jewish Delicatessen, which East Side, other than the wonder- looks a little bit rugged, but that is fast becoming famous for its pas- ful plethora of Asian spots, you’ve gives it character. I like what’s gobasically got pubs,” Seppelt says. “We ing on down Fraser, with all the little trami, lox, and egg salad. 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Fight Night’s provocative interactive experiment, it will immediately seem like a metaphor for the duke-’em-up being waged between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. After all, characters vie for your votes all evening, audience members elect and eliminate them in live keyboard elections, and the action takes place in a boxing-ring-like setting. But Angelo Tijssens, of the innovative Belgian troupe Ontroerend Goed, reveals that the show has its roots in his country’s own colossal electoral shit show. He’s referring to 2010-11, when the election went south, 11 fragmented minority parties were elected to power, and the nation found itself spending 546 days without a government while those parties tried to work out a coalition. That’s a world record, outdoing Iraq and Cambodia in the same decade. “But everything went on, like our schools and hospitals and jobs,” recalls Tijssens, speaking to the Straight over the phone from his home in Antwerp, where he says people are as glued to the American TV debates as we are in Canada. “We had a complete political impasse, but things were quite all right.” That got the company’s artistic director, Alexander Devriendt, questioning the responsibilities of candidates and voters. (In Belgium you’re required by law to fi ll out a ballot.) “If you have a small responsibility to cast your vote as part of the electorate, does that finish when you walk out of the voting booth?” Tijssens asks. What Devriendt built was a kind of theatrical experiment to explore the way voting works and make us look at our biases. In Fight Night, an MC guides the audience through rounds of voting, asking them which character traits they prefer (the show is stripped of political platforms), and letting the actors state their case. Audience members’ votes eliminate them one by one, until a single person is left in power. The beauty of the show, of course, is that it will feel timely and familiar to almost any country the troupe takes it to, Tijssens reports. “What makes you vote for someone? Is it the way they dress? Do they talk to you because

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He adds that the bat- the democratic process may actually destroy tle of words still feels choice. It poses uncomfortable questions, esComplete with live election rounds and actors who vie for your very much like a box- pecially with what is at stake just south of our votes, Fight Night theatrically dissects the democratic system ing match—as does the border right now. political realm, with But Tijssens, who thoroughly enjoys peryou’re male or female or rich or poor?” he asks. its fight-night semantics: attacking, defending, forming the kind of show that changes every “All the rules that exist in the real world, we try winning, losing, and beating. night (“We never know who’s going to be left to evoke in those four walls. We really make, “It’s basically where we come from: people standing on the stage”), remains optimistic like, a miniature state within the hour and a half fight to gain power, only the tribes about the system that Fight Night dissects of this show. We create the system, and within have become bigger and the warfare with such gusto. that the audience has a big role.” has become more civilized,” says “Being cynical about it—that’s Check out… The title and boxing-ring setup came natur- the performer. STRAIGHT.COM stupid and dangerous,” he says. “In ally, of course, given the kind of combat that To create the show, Tijssens says several countries around the world Visit our website goes on in elections around the world—and the company first spent months people are actually dying right now for morning-after that was fully on view in one of the nastiest TV studying the electoral process, for democracy. But we also should reviews and local arts news debates in U.S. history. Performers arrive in then four or five months building not be blind. There are also a lot of hooded robes, take part in rounds, and use a a structure. An audience and interflaws in this system and we’ve been pull-down, ring-style microphone to gain your active voting technology were brought working a long time to make it better. It’s attention and sympathy. in early on, to see how different effects would still the best of the worst systems, to misquote At first, the theatre company thought it work on real people. “The whole voting pro- Winston Churchill. It’s something you still need would stage each round with actual boxing cess became the seventh actor in the show,” to have fights over every day.” gloves. “As someone who’s performed the show Tijssens explains. more than 150 times, I’m glad they got that The resulting experience, despite the appear- Fight Night is at the Cultch’s Historic Theatre from wrong,” Tijssens says with a laugh. ance of a free vote, forces us to examine the way Tuesday (October 18) to October 29.

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Editor’s choice PUPPETMASTERS We love how the first Vancouver International Puppet Festival is dividing its offerings when it launches on Granville Island. Before Dark shows will be geared to families, while After Dark ones are adults-only—and as anyone who has seen hits like Avenue Q, Puppet Death Scenes, and Daisy Theatre knows, puppets aren’t just for kids. Highlights at the fest include Mind of a Snail’s Inside Outlet, Theatre Bagger’s The Little Old Man, and UpCYCLEd Stories’ bike marionettes. The Vancouver International Puppet Festival takes place on Granville Island from Friday to Sunday (October 14 to 16).

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ASYMMETRICAL RESPONSE (To October 22 at the Western Front) Cory Arcangel and Olia Lialina respond wittily to our wired world.

DANISH STRING QUARTET (October 19 at the Vancouver Playhouse) Cool, expressive young chamber stars hit the VRS.

THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME: DEAD IN THE WATER (To October 31 on Granville Island) New boat chases and zombie vampires bring the scares.

SEAN KENT (October 14 and 15 at the Comedy MIX) Funny social commentary by a guy slightly baffled by our wired world.

MECHANICAL MUSIC (October 13 to 15 at the Annex) Turn your ears to the cutting edge at the new-music fest.

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ONEGIN ON CD Now you can relive the hits from the musical Onegin, a hit at the Arts Club last season. Written by Vancouver’s Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille, the twice-held-over modern reimagining of Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin featured an original score, sung by the cast and played live on-stage by the Ungrateful Dead: Hille behind a grand piano, Marina Hasselberg on cello, and Barry Mirochnick on drums. Now the artists are releasing a CD of the show’s tunes, with a one-night-only concert on November 6 at the Goldcorp Stage at the Arts Club’s BMO Theatre Centre, where the production debuted. CDs will be available for purchase after the performance, and all proceeds from the licensed launch party will support Arts Club new-play development initiatives. OCTOBER 13 – 20 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 25

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n a city where so many residents are from somewhere else, it’s a common experience: it can take years to make connections, to feel a part of Vancouver, and just to handle the long months of grey drizzle. For Esther Duquette, it was no different, after she arrived here from Quebec with her partner, Gilles PoulinDenis, a decade ago for an exciting new theatre job at Théâtre la Seizième. “After three years, we were happy with our lifestyle and jobs and opportunities here, but we were struggling to have friends and a real social network,” says the artistic director of the francophone theatre company, sitting in her bright, white-walled South Granville office. “The more we talked about it, the more we realized it really changed us. For me, it was also challenging on a cultural level, because I’m not that good at speaking English. But I’ve never had problems making friends before this.” Duquette’s experience, of course, is not unique. In 2012 the Vancouver Foundation released an explosive survey of city residents that found social isolation was a major problem, despite the city’s so-called livability. A third of respondents found it difficult to make friends here. Then, in 2014, the City of Vancouver created the Engaged City Task Force to try to improve civic involvement and fight loneliness. While it remains to be seen whether official policy can actually make things better, Duquette and PoulinDenis have written a play that will ensure other newcomers know they’re not alone. In Straight Jacket Winter, a couple who’ve travelled across the country from Montreal to live in Vancouver are holed up and increasingly isolated in their apartment, shielding themselves from the nonstop rain. The script pries into the relationship, examining the emotional toll that kind of seclusion can take on a couple. “I said to Gilles, ‘We have this confinement and disconnection to what is going on,’ ” Duquette says. “How do you say it?” she asks, miming choking her own neck, then remembers: “A suffocating relationship. That was some of the material we used from the start.”

Somewhat ironically, the journey of creating Straight Jacket Winter was a far from insular one. Building it over three years, often directly with actors, the team travelled across the country, holding workshops in Quebec City, Banff, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Creating it, Duquette admits with a laugh, “has kind of fixed the problem.” It’s important to note that although the work tackles a common situation, there is nothing common about the way this story is staged. The script is spare, and there is ample use of live projection and absurd humour. In the unique setup, Duquette and PoulinDenis are spectators who stand on either side of the stage, commenting on the actions of the actors who are playing them. And further personalizing the material, they make creative use of props that are actual objects they brought with them when they moved here from Montreal. “We brought a cheese grater and we thought, ‘Why did we bring that all the way here?’ It doesn’t make sense,” says Duquette, who explains how, through back-lighting and projection, the kitchen utensil becomes an apartment building or cityscape—just one example of the show’s low-tech magic. After travelling the country and performing Straight Jacket Winter in Quebec, Duquette and Poulin-Denis are now bringing the work here and preparing it for a national tour in November. And Duquette says she has gained a whole new perspective on what she and Poulin-Denis experienced. “I think if I’ve learned something from all that we went through, it’s that you have to be the one to change your own world,” says Duquette, who welcomes the opportunity to talk to theatregoers after the show. “Neither Gilles nor I had been challenged socially before, and I think we were a little bit helpless. I believe people are open to meet each other, but sometimes you need someone to make the move.” Straight Jacket Winter is at Studio 16 from Tuesday (October 18) to October 29, in French with English surtitles on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

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what was really happening to her during the blur of being a new mother. Without giving away too much of her story, she now realizes she suffered the aftershocks of a traumatic birth that was completely out of her careful control. “What I remember my doula saying is that everything I had outlined in my birth plan went the opposite way,” Nattrass says. “She said, ‘Literally everything you wrote went wrong.’ ” And it wasn’t till recently she even knew there was such a thing as postpartum PTSD. (She learned about the condition working with the Pacific Post Partum Support Society, whose counsellors will take part in two postshow talkbacks.) As far as the “baby blues” go, she says: “You can be in such a sleepdeprived state that you don’t even realize you’re depressed. When you’re in a state of sleep deprivation you’re not dealing with things normally. So you have a boy who never slept through the night three times in two years—and all people say is, ‘But you have such a cute baby!’ ” Working with her to create the comedy- and pathos-filled trip to Planet Mamahood, as it’s called in the script, is TJ Dawe—a performer who’s explored similar strange, one-person journeys on-stage, albeit not of the parenting kind. (His best-known show, Medicine, candidly chronicled his experiment with the Amazonian psychotropic plant medicine ayahuasca.) “TJ understands vulnerability, even though he’s not a parent,” Nattrass says. “In this situation he responds to the material in a real, vulnerable way.” Like the best of Dawe’s work, the trip to Planet Mamahood will also take audiences on a ride. But most of all, Nattrass wants women, and the partners who support them, to know they aren’t alone. “Most of the time when we go through something like this we feel isolated and we think, ‘Oh, I’m the only one that felt that around birth,’ ” she says. “I feel, as an artist, we have to offer solutions.” -

e are weakened as well as strengthened by motherhood,” says Naomi Wolf in Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, a book Nicolle Nattrass is now voraciously reading—but only in the five-page chunks she can handle emotionally. Nattrass would agree with that. But she would add that we are also, as shown in the world of her new one-woman show Mamahood: turn and face the strange, taken to another planet—metaphorically speaking, of course. Still, anyone who has stared down a screaming baby at 3 a.m. truly knows what it means to confront the alien. “I read all the books. I took all the courses. I’m an overachiever. And yet I wasn’t prepared for what happened,” Nattrass admits over the line from her home in Lantzville, before bringing her deeply personal solo production about her pregnancy, son’s birth, and postpartum trials to the Firehall Arts Centre. These days, she’s happily raising the elementary-school son whom, viewers will learn in her show, she conceived on the night of her 40th birthday. Age and experience, it seems, helped little in the face of a difficult labour, sleep deprivation, and what she realized in retrospect were PTSD and postpartum depression. “That’s why I called it a ‘turn toward the strange’: we are fed Hollywood versions of motherhood and feel more vulnerable about saying, ‘Yeah, I had postpartum depression,’” she says. “There is a huge amount of pressure to be a perfect mom and to have it all together and to lose the weight.” Fortunately, amid feedings and diapers, Nattrass was able to keep notes on recipe cards over that first year after the birth. They’ve been the basis for, first, a monologue in 2013 called Mama’s Day Out, and now the full-evening Mamahood. Processing those “scribblings” into her humour-laden play (there is a Mamahood: turn and face the strange lot of swearing involved) has also is at the Firehall Arts Centre from Tueshelped Nattrass better understand day (October 18) to October 29.

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his Crazy Show is a wild exploration of shifting identitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a subject Noam Gagnon has faced a lot in his career. Known widely as the intense male force and angst-ridden urbanite in the body-smashing work of the Holy Body Tattoo, he had to reinvent himself after almost two decades, when he became a solo artist with his own company, Vision Impure. On his own, he ventured into vulnerable, autobiographical new terrain in pieces like 10 Things Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Hate About Me. But the work was still full of torment; one early Straight review described him as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a mad Minotaur stalking some painful psychic labyrinthâ&#x20AC;?. More recently, though, stepping into the studio alone led to an identity crisis. It was a stressful situation that opened up a world of exploration for his latest pieceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an off-kilter universe of changing personas amid swinging disco balls, haunting live accordion music, and perspectiveskewing walls and floors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you are solo, you have a good opportunity to develop something personal. But after a while you say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How can I say something new? How do I do it this time?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? the artist says candidly, sitting in an empty studio at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I usually go deeper and brutally crack it open. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so hard for me on-stage: thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this beast that gets revealed; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we are afraid to show. But this time I wanted those cracks to start from brightness and then expose the shadowsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I started from the opposite place of what I usually do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tried to push out of my normal field and ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What could madness be at its fullest? How could I be raucous and malleable?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Gagnon began looking back on the various transformations in his own life, beginning with the time when he

In This Crazy Show, dance artist Noam Gagnon takes on many personas on a stylized set that suggests lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state of constant flux. Michel Dozois photo.

was a child pretending to be a Bionic Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style superhero. And that brought him to explore, in his signature physically cathartic way, how all of us feel like we have to change to suit different situations, to gain acceptance, or to surviveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how we go a bit crazy, as Gagnon puts it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;just to maintain a sense of equilibriumâ&#x20AC;?. Working with theatre artist James Fagan Tait, he started to look at the challenge of holding on to the self through all of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changes. Gagnon takes all those ideas into a dreamlike fantasy world, donning everything from a suit to heels and a long, platinum-blond wig. He wants the highly designed set to reflect that state of flux with disco balls hung at different heights, and a chair stuck surreally near the top of the stage wall. (Gagnon looked to the works of M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, and RenĂŠ Magritte for inspiration.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a sense of something being disturbed,â&#x20AC;? he says. The music alternates between James Coomberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cinematic score and the same artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s live accordionplayingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the latter symbolizing a kind of breathing through lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changes, Gagnon reveals.

Staging This Crazy Show, and reaching into himself, has been a painful process with playful results. The difficulties in the studio paid off, it would seem, but this may be the last time we get to see Gagnon reveal the workings of his soul. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in it I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enjoy it at all,â&#x20AC;? he reveals, adding that he longs to create work on other artists, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done recently with a world-touring remount of the Holy Body Tattooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monumental and a piece for Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joshua Beamish during the summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dancing on the Edge festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I love is creating workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a group I can create faster,â&#x20AC;? he says, pointing out that solo work, until now, has been more financially feasible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I love is to create. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a choreographer. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m lucky I am still able to dance, but I want support, I want funding, I want to be able to be supported to choreograph. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God, I find it hard,â&#x20AC;? he says with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I need humour to get through.â&#x20AC;? This Crazy Show is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre from next Thursday to Saturday (October 20 to 22).

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String star Karen Gomyo has deeply analyzed Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, a complex work she’s set to play with the VSO. Gabrielle Revere photo.

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lban Berg died in 1935, after contracting blood poisoning from an infected insect bite or sting. But the Austrian composer was very much present when Karen Gomyo was learning his Violin Concerto, and not only in the music on the page. “What’s interesting is that I live in an apartment in New York that basically used to be the place where the Beaux Arts Trio used to rehearse,” Gomyo tells the Straight from California, where she’s playing Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto with the Sacramento Philharmonic. “The violinist Isidore Cohen used to live there, and his son has kept the apartment.…It’s a huge place, so there are always musicians coming in and out, and while I was learning the Berg concerto there was a group that came and rehearsed in the music room. They were rehearsing Berg’s Lyric Suite, and so the house was full of Berg for a few weeks.” The Lyric Suite was written for string quartet, while the Violin Concerto, of course, calls for an ensemble like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, which will join Gomyo for her upcoming local performances. But the title of the smaller work contains a clue to the nature of the larger: it is not entirely the kind of austere, mathematically inspired music commonly associated with Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern, the principal members of the highly intellectual and formally inventive Second Viennese School. “You’re not going to walk out of a performance of the Berg concerto and be humming a melody from the piece,” Gomyo concedes. “It’s not that kind of writing.” Yet a case can be made that the work owes as much to the late Romantic period in

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music as it does to echt modernism. Although created using serial techniques—based around the notion that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale must be deployed in a predetermined sequence or “tone row”, thus loosening the hold of conventional harmony on the music—the Violin Concerto also includes passages that are reminiscent of Gustav Mahler’s symphonic writing. And, significantly, its final movement explicitly quotes a Johann Sebastian Bach chorale, Es ist genug (It Is Enough). “It’s an extremely complex work,” Gomyo observes. Embedded in the score, she explains, are all kinds of cryptic notes and asides, from an allusion to a Carinthian folk tune to structures that reflect Berg’s interest in numerology. It’s certainly music that repays deep analysis, but what really strikes the violinist is that it is also an extremely emotional piece— which is natural enough, given that it was dedicated to the memory of Manon Gropius, daughter of Mahler’s widow Alma and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, who was struck down by polio at the age of 18. “For me, it started to make a lot of sense when I realized how much there was behind this music,” says Gomyo. “This is really expressionist music, in the sense that it’s about acting out the human emotional and psychological journey. “I think it’s extremely passionate and emotional—and very sensual as well. Even seductive, I would say,” the violinist continues. “Its depth is enormous, so I think it’s one of those works where, over the years, I’m just going to keep discovering new things.” -

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Angels in America soars with fresh new urgency TH E AT RE ANGELS IN AMERICA— PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES By Tony Kushner. Directed by Rachel Peake. At Studio 58 on Thursday, October 6. Continues until October 16

Somebody give this show an Director Rachel Peake and the students at Studio 58 have breathed fresh life into Angels in America—and that’s no small achievement. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize– winning “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” is set in New York City in 1985, at the height of the AIDS crisis. Prior Walter, a young gay man, breaks the news that he’s dying to his perpetually guilt-ridden Jewish boyfriend, Louis, who freaks out. Also afflicted is lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn, thoroughly closeted about the sex he has with men. Cohn is mentoring Joe Pitt, an earnest young Mormon lawyer who’s struggling with his sexuality in the context of marriage to his pillpopping, agoraphobic wife, Harper. As Prior gets sicker, the multiple strands of the plot are woven together in continually surprising ways. Exposure to earlier, less-than-successful productions had given me the impression that Angels had passed its best-before date, but I don’t feel that way now. Yes, the emergence of antiretroviral drugs may have drastically altered the landscape around HIV/ AIDS, at least in North America, but Kushner’s anxieties about the fate of democracy in the United States seem particularly relevant during the current presidential campaign. Peake even points out in her program notes that the real Roy Cohn was a mentor to Donald Trump. And the playwright’s mixture of realism and fantasy—particularly when characters intrude on each other’s imaginary worlds—is still theatrically delicious.

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Julien Galipeau plays Prior Walter, a young gay man faced with death in Angels in America. David Cooper photo.

Pacing is critical to this play, and Peake nails it with a lot of help from Drew Facey. His excellent set features two large curved walls on wheels that are spun around by otherworldly stagehands in arrestingly choreographed scene changes. Original music from composer/sound designer Malcolm Dow adds to the magic during these moments; elsewhere, he dips into the treasure chest that is early-’80s pop. Peake gets tremendous work from her student cast, too. Julien Galipeau’s Prior, Elizabeth Barrett’s unhinged Harper, and Mason Temple’s conflicted Joe are all emotionally authentic. Conor Stinson O’Gorman leans a little heavily into physical mannerisms in his portrayal of Cohn, but his scenes—in which Cohn is always starring in the Roy Cohn show, facts be damned—are consistently compelling. Brandon Bagg, as Louis, and Josh Chambers, playing Prior’s former lover, Belize, are also strong, and Scott McGowan has a hilarious turn as the ghostly visitation of one of Prior’s ancestors.

It’s a good month for local productions of contemporary American classics. (Another Pulitzer winner, The Flick, just opened at the Arts Club.) Make time for this one.

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THE FLICK By Annie Baker. Directed by Dean Paul Gibson. At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage on Wednesday, October 5. Continues until October 29

The Flick mirrors our world at us. It’s not always pretty or kind, but it sure feels real— which makes it both funny and heartbreaking. Playwright Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2014 script, in which we watch three employees working at a movie theatre, one of the few still operating with a 35mm projector. Avery is an anxious young college student and movie buff learning the ropes from Sam, a 30-something who has given up on dreaming about a better future for himself.

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Sam is unrequitedly in love with the projectionist, Rose, a charismatic narcissist who flirts inappropriately with, like, everyone. And we really do watch the characters working: a substantial chunk of the play’s three-hour running time is taken up by Sam and Avery sweeping up popcorn from between the theatre’s seats. (Props to the stagehands who have to keep messing up the set between scenes.) Baker drops little thematic crumbs along the path of these quotidian rituals, returning later to gather them into a meditation on race, class, power, and authenticity. Baker’s dialogue is a festival of inarticulateness: thoughts evaporate before they make their way into words, sentences trail off, and almost every line of dialogue contains at least one like—“That’s, like, almost like a disability,” Sam marvels at Avery’s aptitude for connecting the dots in a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. There’s plenty of comedy in this; it also makes the characters deeply human.

Director Dean Paul Gibson shows exquisite sensitivity to Baker’s rhythms: he gives the script’s many pauses full play, allowing us to sit with the tension. And his casting is spot-on. Jesse Reid’s Avery is a buttoned-down bundle of awkwardness, practically hyperventilating when things get too intense. Shannon Chan-Kent digs below Rose’s outrageousness and reveals her fears: every expression of genuine emotion—hers or anyone else’s—is greeted by an eye-roll or scoff. And if this production were a dictionary, Rose’s wild dance in the aisles after work one night would be the entry for showstopper. As Sam, Haig Sutherland is openhearted and vulnerable, his defeated postures and endlessly inventive grimaces showing the many flavours of Sam’s physical and emotional discomfort. The audience is positioned where the movie theatre’s screen would be, so we are literally mirrored in the tiered seating of Lauchlin Johnston’s terrifically detailed set. In some scenes, the upstage projection booth itself becomes a screen of sorts; it’s fitting that it’s the domain of Rose, an object of fantasy. Alan Brodie’s richly textured lighting design ranges from the subtle wash of the f lickering images on a movie screen to the harsh f luorescence when the movie’s over and the workers have to come in and clean up. Sound designer Murray Price fills the blackouts between scenes with lively interludes of rhythm-heavy music. Before the digital era, watching movies was a communal experience—like watching theatre. The Flick asks us to slow down and be present together, even if it’s uncomfortable, and like the best movies, it gives us plenty to think about after the houselights come up. > KATHLEEN OLIVER

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EDWARD II UBC Theatre and Film presents Christopher Marlowe's play about a newly crowned king who alienates his queen and court when he recalls his lover from exile. To Oct 15, 7:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $11.50-24.50, info www.ubctheatretickets.com/.

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ANGELS IN AMERICA Rachel Peake directs the Pulitzer Prize-winning play set during the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York City. To Oct 16, 8 pm, Studio 58 (Langara College, 100 W. 49th). Tix $15-25, info www.langara.ca/studio-58/currentseason/index.html.

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THEATRE 2OPENINGS RAP GUIDE TO CLIMATE CHAOS Rapper Baba Brinkman breaks down the politics, economics, and science of global warming in a brand-new one-man show. Oct 12-13, Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street). Tix $25, info www.bababrinkman.com/. WALT WHITMAN'S SECRET Sean O'Leary's play mines the life of American poet Walt Whitman for insights about creativity, sexuality, relations between the sexes, and the often irreconcilable tensions between idealized love and how love actually manifests. Oct 13-23, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $15-28, info www.thefranktheatre.com/. MULAN THE MUSICAL Pangburn Philosophy presents an exclusive performance that uses Chinese drum music, traditional kung fu, and dance to tell the story of one girl's determination to save her family. Oct 15, 2 pm, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $30-50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketstonight.com/.

2ONGOING A GOOD WAY OUT Pacific Theatre presents the world premiere of a look into the precarious world of crime and compromise. To Oct 15, 8 am, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $23.95-34.95, info www.pacific theatre.org/season/2016-2017-season/ mainstage/a-good-way-out/.

COMFORT COTTAGES Western Gold Theatre presents the story of four single female friends of retirement age who are unsettled financially and emotionally. To Oct 23, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $30, info www.western goldtheatre.org/. BAD GIRLS THE MUSICAL Play tells the story of a group of prison inmates and their battle against the entrenched old guard system. To Oct 15, 8-10:30 pm, Renegade Arts Studio (125 E. 2nd). Tix $27, info www.dramanatrixproductions.com/. MOTHERLOAD Emelia Symington Fedy, Jody-Kay Marklew, Gillian Bennett, and Una Memisevic star in a dark comedy about the reality of modern parenting. To Oct 15, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/. FLARE PATH The Slamming Door Artist Collective presents Terence Rattigan's drama that paints an evocative portrait of life in wartime Britain for the RAF bomber crews. To Oct 22, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $15-25, info www.jerichoartscentre.com/. DEAD IN THE WATER The Virtual Stage presents an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombievampires. To Oct 31, Granville Island. Info www.zombiesyndrome.com/. JAMES & JAMESY IN THE DARK Vancouver-based Aaron Malkin and Alastair Knowles present an adventure about discovery and creation, performed in darkness. To Oct 16, 8 pm, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $1527, info www.jamesandjamesy.com/. THE FLICK The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson’s version of Annie Baker’s play about three underpaid ushers who’ll do anything to keep their beloved and endangered movie theatre running. To Oct 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.

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MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Out Innerspace Dance Theatre presents a performance that explores surveillance, otherness, propaganda, and belief through eccentric and lawless characters. Oct 12-15, 8-9:05 pm, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $12-33, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.

HEAR YEE Young San Francisco playwright Lauren Yee has described her new work, King of the Yees, as an “epic joyride through Chinatown”. So fasten your seatbelt, because she takes huge, fun, fantastical risks in staging her story of a daughter’s quest to find her missing father. Along the way, she tackles 21st-century issues like how a new generation feels about confronting its cultural history. But it’s also just a universal story of father-daughter relationships. Expect surreal touches, the bashing down of the fourth wall, and even a lion dance when Richmond’s Gateway Theatre mounts it from Thursday (October 13) to October 22, with Andrea Yu playing Lauren Yee and Jovanni Sy as her father, Larry. THE CONCIERGE OF VANCOUVER Matchmaker Productions presents the world premiere of the play that satirizes the Vancouver housing crisis and looks at the consequences of skyrocketing real-estate prices and living costs. To Oct 16, 8 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $17-31, info www. matchmakerproductions.com/. PIYA BEHRUPIYA (TWELFTH NIGHT) Diwali Fest presents the Canadian premiere of the Company Theatre's Bollywood-influenced adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night. To Oct 22, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Info www.diwalifest.ca/. LOVE, THE SEA Play weaves together collected letters from Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries to explore the moment after the end. Directed by Tim Carlson and Daniel Doheny with the

SMALL STAGE: 34 Dances for a Small Stage 34 kicks off the season with a performance that features a range of popular dance styles. Oct 13-16, 7 pm, ANZA Club (3 W. 8th Ave). Info www.smallstage.ca/. THE MAGIC FLUTE In collaboration with the Vancouver Diwali Festival 2016, Karen Flamenco presents a performance of Mozart's classic opera that melds Spain and India. Oct 15-16, 7-9 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $25.50-42.50, info www.karenflamenco.com/. I CARE WHAT YOU THINK Performance invites the audience to be part of an experience, exploring how the perfect dance has nothing to do with an unattainable ideal but exists in the spaces between, around, and within us all. Oct 19-22, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.

MUSIC 2THIS WEEK COLIN CARR Chamber musician Carr joins pianist Thomas Sauer in the Canadian premiere of Lieux Retrouvés by British composer Thomas Adès. Oct 12-14, 10:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $38/35/17, info www.musicinthemorning.org/. MECHANICAL MUSIC: VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC 2016 FESTIVAL Sonic universe in which mechanical and electromechanical movements and sounds are vital components of the artworks. Oct 13-15, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15-35, info www.newmusic.org/.

EWA POBLOCKA The Vancouver Chopin Society presents a concert by the Polish classical pianist. Oct 14, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall (601 Cambie). Tix $40/30/20, info www.chopin society.org/. KAREN GOMYO PLAYS BERG Karina Canellakis conducts violinist Karen Gomyo and the VSO in a program of Mozart’s The Magic Flute: Overture, K620, Berg's Violin Concerto, and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E Minor. Oct 15, 17, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre. Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. CONCERTO EXTRAVAGANZA The Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra presents music by Beethoven, Haydn, Copland, Bartok, and Liszt. Oct 16, 2 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $15, info www.vamso.ca/. ANDRÉA TYNIEC Music on Main presents the Toronto-based violinist in a program of works by Sokolovic, Bach, Ysaÿe, and Hron. Oct 18, 8 pm, CBC Studio 700. Tix $25/15, info www.musiconmain.ca/. THE DANISH STRING QUARTET The Vancouver Recital Society presents the Danish classical ensemble in a program of work by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. Oct 19, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital.com/.

COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2SEAN KENT Oct 13-15 2IAN BAGG Nov 3-5 2BETH STELLING Dec 1-3

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MOVIES REVIEWS VIOLENT Starring Dagny Backer Johnsen. In Norwegian, with English subtitles. Rated PG

Working alongside members of his Van-

2 couver-based band We Are the City, writer-

director Andrew Huculiak hit Norway to create this unexpectedly mature work of art. The blunt title is misleading, though, because the main disruptions here are of a metaphysical nature. A vaguely explained “catastrophic event” is enough to trigger deeper thoughts from a young Norwegian woman called Dagny, played by pale, roundfaced Dagny Backer Johnsen, whose ability to command the screen belies her years. That matters, because the film—one of the best B.C. feature debuts ever, and one that won festival awards two years ago—sticks with her and is divided into five chapters detailing her experiences with people who’ve mattered in her short life. “We’re here, but we’re still alone,” she tells a travelling Englishman she meets by chance. That existential stance—grave but still playful—colours the whole enterprise, from warmly human encounters (especially with her loving grandfather in the final segment) to abstract depictions of sound waves, landscapes, details of everyday life, and more surrealistic special effects. These are perfectly supported by the band’s droning music, and by Dagny’s diaristic, voice-over incantations of what she has observed so far.

A most violent awakening We Are a blank

Dagny Backer Johnsen gets the blues big time as a young Norwegian woman facing an unknown catastrophic event in the spectacularly confident Violent.

feral children wandering down streets paved with empty Oxycontin bottles. Our guide is an 18-yearold Oklahoman (still-untested newcomer Sasha Lane) the City’s Andrew Huculiak dazzles with his debut; dubbed Star by Jake, the seemgeneration hits the road hard in American Honey ing leader of a ragtag group The cast is mostly first-timers, and not all per- that travels by van, selling magazine subscriptions formances are on a level with those of the lead door-to-door. Seriously? Jake’s played by Shia Laand newcomer Tor Halvor Halvorsen, unforget- Beouf at his most manic, with a braided ponytail, table as the girl’s helplessly creepy new boss, after so you get some idea how gullible Star is. But who she moves from the country to midsize Bergen. A knows what the dreadlocked girl is actually thinkfew scenes may linger too long for some viewers, ing, because she rarely conveys any thoughts—let but the blue-toned cinematography from Joseph alone talents, dreams, or basic history. Not that you Schweers, who also edited and cowrote Violent, is can make out what anyone’s saying, in any case, so varied and adventurous, you have to submit to given all the ambient noise. Her fellow travellers are differentiated only the film’s spectacularly confident storytelling. In fact, on my own second viewing, I stopped by, say, their surfer haircuts, funky hats, or tracking narrative explanations and went back to willingness to wave cocks at each other. They my original impressions. This is about a sensitive also sing and dance along with whatever pop or but untutored young woman, on the cusp of adult- hip-hop songs come on the van’s muff led sound hood, who simply comes to recognize the atomiz- system—great, if you thought Almost Famous ing effect of time—with all people, places, things, should have consisted of nothing but “Tiny and memories hurtling through space, on an in- Dancer” scenes. The only other personality to emerge is the eluctable journey through us and out into the void. > KEN EISNER group’s actual chief, a bikini-sporting beeyatch played by Riley Keough. A daughter of Lisa Marie AMERICAN HONEY Presley and effective in the recent Mad Max movie, she spits out her angry lines in a monotone that Starring Sasha Lane. Rating unavailable doesn’t exactly enliven the flat improvisations of British writer-director Andrea Arnold’s the mostly nonprofessional cast. The director has impressively stylized, no-budget U.K. work never shown much interest in language, and here in Fish Tank and Red Road centred on inscrut- she just lets things happen in front of the camera, able young women vaguely responding to larger entrusting the narrative to amateurs few would forces. Here, Arnold pulls a Wim Wenders by want to spend two hours and 45 minutes (!) with taking a very long road trip across the flatter in real life. The result is a kind of existential, occawastelands of empty suburbs and forlorn strip sionally atmospheric diary kept by someone with malls of Trump’s America. Shot in the old- little to say. The one cool thing about American school 4:3 ratio, the film captures a mostly white Honey is the better movies it could inspire. > KEN EISNER Midwest, peopled by suspicious Christians and

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2 Ménage à trois THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE Aside from the small handful of French critics who poured scorn on The Mother and the Whore when it was released in 1973, nobody has ever regretted spending three-and-a-half hours in the company of Jean Eustache’s masterpiece. Jean-Pierre Léaud is the man at the centre of the film’s love triangle, considered scandalous even by Parisian standards. The Cinematheque brings a 35mm print to Vancouver for a three-day run starting Saturday (October 15).

Featuring the voice of Chloe Dunn. Rated G

I can’t remember the last time I said “Wow!”

2 out loud so many times during a movie—es-

pecially not a cartoon aimed mostly at kids. Actually, it takes some time to adjust to the seemingly unostentatious 2-D drawing style that flattens out character features in favour of wide compositions. But what compositions, and what a palette! The directing debut for France’s Rémi Chayé, who helped animate The Secret of Kells, offsets large fields of dusty rose and daphne blue with small slashes of brighter hues to convey constantly shifting light sources. Most illuminate a 15-year-old Russian girl called Sasha (Chloe Dunn, in the English-language version), who bravely makes her way from high society in 1880s St. Petersburg to the Arctic Circle, where her famous-explorer grandfather went missing with his supposedly unsinkable ship. This unbelievably resourceful kid has pored over Grandpa’s papers and thinks she knows where he could still be found, almost two years later. But when she gets zero support from her own family and others in their czarist circle, she heads out on her own, through Scandinavia (the film is a French-Danish coproduction), landing a job at a hardscrabble pub while waiting for a ship to take her the long way north. (The original title is Tout en Haut du Monde.) The beautifully paced, 80-minute film is heavier on you-go-girl empowerment than it is on narrative subtlety. But once Sasha hooks up with a crew of ornery seamen—including a cabin boy (Tom Perkins) about her age—the story takes off into Jack London realms that have rarely been depicted with such stirring grandeur. With scenes of Arctic blizzard and glacial collapse this exciting, especially when accompanied by an unexpected electronica score, don’t be surprised when you get shushed by your own children. > KEN EISNER see next page

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Korea, where they really know how to make a scary movie, not to mention a scary movie set on a train, the best zombie flick in roughly forever gets a sure-to-be-packed screening at the Rio Theatre on Monday (October 17). Miss it at your peril, gore hounds!

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connects with New West with this screening of Werner Herzog’s predictably offbeat look at our wired world. See it at the Mediated Visions: Film, Art and Technology event at the Anvil Centre Theatre on Tuesday (October 18).

FRANKENSTEIN It’s impossible to overpraise James Whale’s 1931 film, screening at the Cinematheque on Sunday (October 16), but we’ll try. Boris Karloff stars as the monster, in a role that would haunt the actor forever while establishing a pinnacle for the genre, if not early Hollywood itself.

HOME MOVIE DAY 2016 With Kodak about to launch its first Super 8mm camera since 1982, the timing of this year’s Home Movie Day couldn’t be much sweeter. Bring your old family films, your experimental works, and those “art” movies you made back in the day for inspection, preservation advice, and public screening at the Western Front’s Grand Luxe Hall (303 East 8th Avenue) on Saturday (October 15). More information is at www.avbcheritage. wordpress.com/. OCTOBER 13 – 20 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 37

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THE VESSEL Starring Martin Sheen. Rating unavailable

Set in a seaside village where inhabitants’ faces are as ravaged as the peeling-plaster houses, The Vessel is a gorgeously lensed parable. It’s just that its messages and symbolism are so heavy-handed, so laden with biblical meaning, they’re never left to work their own miracles. Cuban-American director Julio Quintana draws stylistically from mentor Terrence Malick (who executive-produces here), telling his story

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since a tsunami (simply referred to as “the Wave”) took 46 of its children when it crashed into a schoolhouse. Father Douglas (Martin Sheen, bringing needed acting gravitas to the film) labours fruitlessly to bring spiritual hope to a community that refuses to go to church, stop wearing black, and have more children. The big question posed by the film is: can we ever find God again in the face of mass tragedy? Someone actually says “If we only had a sign,” and then they get one, Hannah Gross (right) keeps a bead when quiet young Leo (Lucas Quinon the middle distance in Unless. tana) somehow comes back to life after through imagery and swelling music an apparent drowning. He gets stigmore than through his sparse script. mata, resurrects an animal, and even The film’s unnamed Puerto Rican builds a ramshackle ark from salvaged village has sat frozen in aching grief wood, with the townsfolk first celebrating, then turning against, their apparent saviour. (Sound familiar?) Just what it all means is frustratingly enigmatic. The town comes off as a sort of mythical place passed over by modern technology, its denizens not really acting as fully developed characters but as, well, vessels for higher meaning. If there’s divine intervention here, it’s in the way the film is shot. Windows yield beautifully waving lace curtains, dresses billow in sea water, and the church and destroyed school open to constantly crashing waves. The sky is either blotted with ominous clouds or pink with dusk. The film is at its best when no one talks—when a young widow, say, goes to clip a perfect red rose and then moves the shears to her own ring finger. For many, the strange, dreamlike images will be enough. But they allude to something more powerful than the film can ultimately deliver.

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Virtually everything in this coproduction falls flat, from the muddle-headed script by writer-director Alan Gilsenan, to his decision to shoot most scenes in excruciating close-ups of characters we never get around to caring about. It’s hard to know what the filmmaker, best known for Irish-TV documentaries, was attracted to in the Carol Shields novel he decided to adapt. In the Ameri-Canadian writer’s final book, a middle-aged writer and translator named Reta Winters finds her authorial voice when her eldest daughter goes missing. She has previously been in thrall to her mentor, an elderly Holocaust survivor, and this mysterious turn of events can be seen as Reta’s moment to step out of the shadows—or into them, with a writerly torch. Almost none of that survives here; the filmmakers understandably dispense with much internal dialogue about the challenges of scribbling for a living. What we’re left with is Catherine Keener’s initially engaging, if hoarse-voiced, performance as a Reta who spends more time apologizing than working. The suburban Torontonian is baffled by the sudden discovery that daughter Norah (not much is asked of Hannah Gross) is spending her winter days wrapped in a blanket and sitting in front of Honest Ed’s Bloor Street emporium with a sign that reads “Goodness”. Instead of this mystery pushing Reta into deeper exploration of her own purpose as an artist and mother, the movie consists mostly of treks, with husband Tom (Matt Craven) or without him, to Honest Ed’s. Accompanied by Hallmark-style piano-plunking, many scenes show them attempting to bring Norah home. But the girl is over 18, and busy staring beatifically into the middle distance, so their options are few. Reta’s mentor shows up only in one sadly dispensable visit, with German great Hanna Schygulla as the aged writer, who hands her useless advice and then disappears into a fog of noncontext. Everything then leads to a “gotcha” ending that feels exploitative rather than illuminating. Elsewhere, two nearly identical scenes have a reporter and then an editor mansplaining right over Reta’s thoughts. Pretty much the way Gilsenan treats Shields.

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Doc explores how to create A New Economy > BY A DR IA N MA CK

ohn Fullerton lived inside the belly of the beast. The founder of the Capital Institute think tank, Fullerton was a managing director at J. P. Morgan and a key facilitator when that company merged with Chase Bank in 2000. And then he saw the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a spiritual awakening or the clichĂŠd story,â&#x20AC;? says Vancouver filmmaker Trevor Meier, during a call to the Georgia Straight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For him, it was looking at the numbers and seeing that if you project these numbers all the way to their end, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to work. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to grow yourselves out of a system thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainable.â&#x20AC;? That system is global capitalism, which has brought humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; through its twin poles of extreme wealth concentration and catastrophic

resource depletionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the edge of its greatest-ever crisis. Fullerton brings a no-nonsense edge to Meierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crisp and inspiring doc, A New Economy, which presents seven â&#x20AC;&#x153;human-centredâ&#x20AC;? organizations that are pioneering new and unconventional ways to do business, including an Asian-style night market begun by a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s committee in a low-income Toronto neighbourhood, a craft-brewing cooperative in London, Ontario, and Vancouverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Downtown Eastsideâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Sole Food urban-agriculture projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which was recently praised by Savio Volpe chef Mark Perrier, among others, for providing the best produce in the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give you one-quarter of my cow without killing the cow,â&#x20AC;? Meier says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So money is useful for sort of splitting up these things that we value, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so coarse in other ways. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so unable to measure the things that

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we truly value. So how do we create systems that produce real value, real wealth, and then also regenerate it, give back to the soil, give back to the people around us? You look at a tree, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just sucking up all the resources from everything around it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also dropping leaves and providing shade and creating shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of a whole system, and all of the systems and businesses we create need to operate in that same way.â&#x20AC;? A New Economy compels partly because it circumvents the conventional left-right political binary. As another of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking heads, London School of Economics sociologist Richard Sennett, remarks: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touchy-feely stuff; this is about getting the world to actually work.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My perspective is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re never going to win these ideological battles,â&#x20AC;? Meier says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no point. We need to step beyond these big battles and create something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much better that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just attractive to people. You can see it in the philosophy of the film. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dive deep into the crisis. People know what the crisis is. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in it. What we spend our time on is people rolling their

Filmmaker Trevor Meierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A New Economy highlights new and innovative ways to do business, including the Downtown Eastsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sole Food Street Farms.

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Sweden’s Ghost spooks heavy-metal purists He may be just a Nameless

2 Ghoul, but he’s got opinions. For

example, the anonymous guitarist for the Swedish band Ghost figures the album as an art form went into decline when the compact disc became the dominant format. Faced with up to 74 minutes to fill (as opposed to the roughly 44 minutes that a vinyl LP can hold), artists felt compelled to pad their albums with filler. Now, in the digital music era, the long-player is further in decline. Why download a bunch of tracks you don’t want when you can go on iTunes and buy the one song you actually care about for 99 cents? “So we’re back in the ’50s, in a way, where it’s just singles,” the Nameless Ghoul says when the Straight reaches him at a tour stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “But when you make a really good album, people like it. That’s why Adele’s record sells. That’s why Daft Punk’s record sells. But you need to put way, way, way more love into them, and you need to make them really good. If you want to have a really good-quality-sounding record, don’t believe that you can record it in your basement, unless you want to make a lo-fi record. And put a lot of time into every song. You have to treat them way differently. It’s been so callously done for the last 25 years, but I definitely think that there’s a future for bands who put love and devotion into their songwriting.” Which, naturally, brings us to Ghost. The group has made some fine albums in its own right. The most recent of these, last year’s Meliora, won the award for best hard rock/metal album at the 2015 Grammis Awards, and the band picked up the best-metal-performance Grammy for its lead single, “Cirice”. More recently, the five-song release Popestar debuted in the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s rock-albums chart, making it the first EP to ever top that list. This is all the more impressive when you consider that Ghost is a heavy-metal band from the small city of Linköping whose members’ identities are concealed behind masks, makeup, and silly names. Oh, and they also write songs about Satan. Ghost can thrash with the best, banging the head that does not bang with killers like “Mummy Dust” and “Elizabeth”, but it’s the vocal theatrics of frontman Papa Emeritus (now on his third incarnation) and the band’s eagerness to experiment with its sound that truly set it apart from the black-T-shirted hordes. For evidence, check out the carnival-creepshow organ on “Secular Haze” or consider that Ghost has recorded its own versions of songs by a wildly eclectic assortment of artists including Daniel Johnston and the Eurythmics. The sextet’s ascendance hasn’t pleased all metal fans, however. In fact, some wag started a Change.org petition to get Ghost to cease operations, arguing that the band’s success has harmed the reputation of “real metal”. “Those are usually the puritans,”

Papa Emeritus III and the Nameless Ghouls of Ghost have started a GoFundMe campaign to finish their Satanic temple.

the Nameless Ghoul says of Ghost’s detractors. “This is the devil’s music. You shouldn’t be a puritan. But they are. I don’t really give a damn about what people want to call us. We are a rock band, hard rock, whatever. It doesn’t matter.” In any case, having haters—especially ones so willing to foist their views on everyone else—has its upside, as the Ghoul explains. “It’s publicity. Anything that gets people talking is good. There are a lot of bands that don’t get spoken of at all, so you have to be happy that people are talking about you.” > JOHN LUCAS

Ghost plays the Vogue Theatre on Thursday (October 13).

Chicago house icon Farina keeps Mushroom Jazz alive Being inquisitive is, according

2 to house-music legend Mark Fa-

rina, the key to being a successful DJ. As a pioneer of Chicago house, the performer began his career in the late 1980s and quickly secured a residency at one of the city’s premier dance clubs. But while other DJs chose to play Chicago’s burgeoning genre almost exclusively, Farina was constantly experimenting. Demoted from the venue’s main room to its B-space for spinning Martin Luther King Jr. speeches over electronic music, the young performer was not discouraged. Using his relegation as a chance to explore new musical avenues, Farina developed a unique style of music. He called it Mushroom Jazz. Within months, the genre had created a buzz across the States. Taking old-school hip-hop and blending it with English and French variants of acid jazz, the DJ’s first 1992 Mush-

room Jazz mix tape rapidly sold out, inspiring Farina to grow the concept from a cassette to a club night. The DJ spent the next 25 years transporting his Mushroom Jazz sets around the globe, promoting the music by playing hundreds of shows in a year. Now dropping the eighth compilation in the mix-tape series, the performer is surprised at his sound’s longevity. “When I started the latest mix and realized that it was the quarter-century anniversary of Mushroom Jazz, I had to catch myself,” Farina tells the Straight on the line from his home in Austin, Texas. “I was thinking, ‘Whoa. It’s been that long?’ When I first started mixing this kind of music, I never imagined that people would still be interested in it in 2016. Honestly, it’s making me feel a little bit old—but in a good way. I think of Mushroom Jazz like a good whisky or brandy. Something that’s aged a bit, and has gotten better over time.” With six years passing between Mushroom Jazz 7 and the series’ eighth installment, Farina has taken his time to curate a list of bold and unusual tracks. Famous for unifying his mixes through related vocal samples, the DJ has adopted a new approach on the eighth compilation that aims to offer the listener more independence. “I’ve always been a huge fan of connecting records in a mix through spoken word,” Farina says. “Adding one of those tracks to a mix is just like adding spices to your food. It lets you sprinkle in a little flavour, and it can bring out a totally different feel. It allows you to direct the vibe and give the music a different spin, even if you’ve just sampled a couple of words. That’s a technique I’ve really liked in the past, but I wanted to do something else for the new mix. “Mushroom Jazz 8 is deliberately much more instrumental,” he continues. “Previously, there have

been various songs on the volumes that could be considered to be standout hits, where I’ve picked a hip-hop track or vocal loop that is really prominent. 8 takes the listener on a more sound-based journey. I’ve recently been thinking more about silence and gaps in music, especially now that producers can keep adding new channels endlessly when recording. This mix is about sparesness. I wanted to leave room for people to have their own thoughts, instead of having a strong vocal message in each song that tries to articulate a theme. Because of that, I think it’s a very rewarding compilation.”

> KATE WILSON

Mark Farina plays the Imperial on Friday (October 14).

Shauf found out that he’s better off alone sometimes To immerse yourself in Andy

2 Shauf’s triumphant third full-

length, The Party, is to conclude that the Regina-raised singer isn’t anyone’s idea of a social butterfly. As beautiful as the album’s blend of sombre folk and DIY chamber pop is, the songs revolve around keenly drawn characters who often reek of quiet desperation. “Early to the Party” zooms in on a girl who’s clearly never figured out that when the invitation says 8 p.m., you don’t show up until at least 9:15; over regal keys and layered strings Shauf sings “You’re the first one there, overdressed and underprepared/Standing in the kitchen, stressing out the host.” Anyone who’s ever shrunk into the background while some blowhard holds court, meanwhile, will have no problem relating to “Begin Again”. (“Listen to this half-wit spilling his guts after a bottle of

wine.”) One gets the impression that Shauf has been there. “I’m definitely not a very outgoing person,” the singer admits with a quiet laugh. “When you’re a kid and you’re in school and you have your little group of friends everything always feels comfortable, so I don’t think that I was a particularly quiet kid unless I got into a situation where I was a little out of my element. Things like talking to adults was hard. And now that I am an adult, it’s still hard to talk to adults.” It might make sense, then, that Shauf is happiest going it alone. The singer’s first stab at the album that would become The Party started with a working trip to Germany with a backing band in tow. “I got a grant to record at a studio near Dresden, so I decided that, to make the most of the 10 days of the time we had for recording, I would take a drummer and a bass player and a keyboard player. We went into the studio all together, and that was a really weird thing for me. I’d never done that before, and it really didn’t work out. Because of how I work, it’s not super easy to integrate other people into my process. It’s a lot of tinkering, and a lot of following ideas, which makes other people pretty impatient—when they give me input, it kind of derails my ideas. So it was kind of a frustrating time. By the end of Day 7 we were listening to what we’d done and realizing that it wasn’t working. The last few days were more sitting around and drinking beer— and wallowing—than recording.” So Shauf retreated to Canada and scrapped the songs he’d made before heading to Germany. He’d eventually craft a ruminative record drawing on themes of isolation, loneliness, and crushing social awkwardness, playing most of the instruments, with Colin Nealis adding strings. Released on heavy-hitting U.S. label Anti- (home to the likes of Tom Waits and Neko Case), the result is one of the great triumphs—Canadian or otherwise—of the year. The amazing thing about The Party is that it’s anything but a downer, with the record’s pastoral guitars, angelic keys, and winningly vulnerable vocals perfect for Sunday afternoons at imaginary cottages. As for those days when avoiding human interaction isn’t possible, Shauf understands your pain. Devastating doesn’t begin to describe “Everybody’s laughing at me/I wish I’d just stayed home,” from the majestically mellow “Twist My Ankle”. Maximizing the impact of such lines is that they come right from the heart of the person who wrote them. “The songs aren’t based on my life,” Shauf says. “But I think that sometimes fiction can be really autobiographical even if situations aren’t ones that you’ve specifically been in. You end up putting a lot more of yourself in a story than if the story see next page

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had been just about you. So when I make a character, I guess it’s just really a thinly veiled version of myself.” > MIKE USINGER

Andy Shauf plays the Fox Cabaret on Friday (October 14).

Marley makes sure there’s a message in his music Smoke is probably the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about reggae musicians: thick, resinous, skunk-scented smoke escaping from a mouth that’s just taken a long pull on a trout-sized spliff. And Ziggy Marley doesn’t do much to dispel that stereotype with “Marijuanaman”, from his new self-titled release. “If politicians smokin’ herb/There would be peace around the world,” he sings, before adding “The earth does give us seeds/To suffer is no need.”

“Marijuanaman” is an explicit paean to the joys of pot, but it’s not only about the physical and psychological benefits of herb consumption: it’s also about the fast-growing weed’s potential as a source of energy, in the form of biodiesel, and food—like the hemp-seed snacks sold by the singer’s Ziggy Marley Organics business. As well, it’s the theme song for Marley’s Marijuanaman graphic novel and animation series, which isn’t his only venture into nonmusical media. In 2013 he released his first children’s book, I Love You Too; by the time you read this his Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook should be in stores; and he hosts the monthly Legends of Reggae radio show on Sirius XM. Given that many of us wouldn’t be able to tie our own shoes after indulging in a single puff on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s pipe, just how does Marley maintain his focus while staying so busy? Well, it just might have something to do with not being perpetually high. “You know, every individual is different. Not everything is for everyone,

Stop the presses! Ziggy Marley says smoking weed isn’t for everyone.

and that goes for marijuana, that goes for peanuts, that goes for sugar—that goes for everything in life,” Marley explains, on the phone from a Winnipeg tour stop. “Marijuana, it can be detrimental to some people, and it can be beneficial to other people. We have to be careful. That’s how I see it: if it’s not beneficial to you, don’t use it.” For the 47-year-old singer, marijuana makes him want to either hit the gym or curl up in bed with a good book, depending on how he’s feeling. And, perhaps surprisingly, smoking up is not

a daily habit. “A little goes a long way, for me,” he says. “You know, I’m not a big smoker. A little bit is enough—especially nowadays, with the potency they’re putting in it now. I can’t do that.” This unexpected moderation just goes to show that stereotypes can’t be trusted: a theme explored in “We Are More”, one of Ziggy Marley’s many anthemic message songs. Superficially, it’s a love ditty—“We are more, mi amore,” goes the chorus—but its underlying message is that we are all complex and surprising entities. “Yeah, man! All of the songs, them have another message,” says Marley, who’s retained a thick Jamaican accent despite now residing in California. “Everything I do is multilayered, you know—different levels of it, depending on the individual and how they want to interpret it. There are always multiple messages and ideas in my songs.” Opening track “Start It Up” seems relatively straightforward, however. It’s a call to social and political action, and a worthy

follow-up to Bob Marley’s classic “Get Up, Stand Up”. “Right now, I just feel very purpose-driven,” Marley says. “I feel like music has to put across a message, and that the world needs a voice like this voice. I don’t think there’s enough voices out there that are putting forth music and ideas that are uplifting—and at this point of my life and career, at this moment, that’s very significant. “I’m not sure what the future holds, but there’s a change coming,” he adds. And when it comes, he’ll be there.

> ALEXANDER VARTY

Ziggy Marley plays the Vogue Theatre on Sunday (October 16).

Tal Wilkenfeld has shared the stage with legends Tal Wilkenfeld has accomplished

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teen. She’s performed with jazz greats Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter, and at the age of 20 recorded her 2007 debut album, the allinstrumental Transformation, which she composed, produced, arranged, and played bass on. In 2009 she was voted most exciting new player by Bass Player magazine, and now she’s on her first headlining tour, showcasing tracks from a song-oriented album set for release next year. But the thing that really bolstered Wilkenfeld’s career was performing with Jeff Beck on various tours and high-profile gigs—including Eric Clapton’s 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, where she played stunning bass on Beck classics like “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” and “Big Block” in front of 40,000 fans. Wilkenfeld hooked up with Beck after bassist Pino Palladino couldn’t make a show on the guitar hero’s summer 2007 European tour. She sent Beck’s management a copy of Transformation—as well as a live recording of her jamming with the Allman

Brothers on “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”—and before you knew it she was on her way to England for an audition. When Wilkenfeld calls from a tour bus en route to a gig in San Diego, she’s asked whether she was nervous trying out for a spot with the musician some rank as the world’s greatest living rock guitarist. “I don’t remember what I was feeling,” she replies, “besides very bad food poisoning. I went on the plane and ate some sort of pizza, and I was sick the entire 10-hour flight, to the point where I had to get rushed to hospital when I landed, and was on, like, an IV drip all night. “Then I woke up the next day and Jeff’s manager picked me up from the hospital and drove me straight to Jeff’s house, and we just played. I was so sick, it was hilarious. So I passed the audition in a very altered state.” Wilkenfeld’s tenure with Beck has included such memorable moments as joining him and Jimmy Page at the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony—where they

ripped it up on “Beck’s Bolero” and Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”— and playing London’s Royal Albert Hall with David Gilmour sitting in. Though only 29, Wilkenfeld has already amassed enough career highlights that picking the main one is tricky. “There’s just so many unique and amazing experiences that I’ve had,” she relates. “Like being food-poisoned going to audition for Jeff, or flying into England with absolutely no sleep and never having played with Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter before, then getting up and playing and having to sight-read these charts for [the A&E series] Live at Abbey Road. “Those kind of experiences only happen once,” she adds, “and they stick in my mind for that reason, just because you get challenged to grow in those moments. Those are all the defining points in my life, because they essentially made me the musician I am today.”

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2016 WHERE: HotArt Gallery Picture this: I’m attending an art show and meet this stunning girl with the most amazing laugh. She was wearing a stunning red dress with all the right places accented and high boots like a superhero warrior. Her friends proceed to try and drag her away to a nearby watering hole so she invites me to join them. I, of course, decline because I am a moron. The next morning I’m still kicking myself for not going or at least asking for your number. If you’re willing to give an idiot a second chance I’d love to see you again.

54-40 CONCERT, COMMODORE BALLROOM

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 8, 2016 WHERE: Commodore Ballroom Floor in Front of Stage You and your friend were in front of my friend and me last night (Saturday October 8th) on the floor, maybe 8-10 rows back from the center of the stage. You started talking to me between the opening act and main act. Your friend had to take her shoes off but you said that floor wasn’t the safest to do so. We had a really nice talk about music. I said my favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. You said you’d seen 54-40 before, they’re a great live band, and I’d enjoy them; also, you have a 20 year old daughter and you’re a dental assistant. I said I have a 19 year old son and I’m a teacher. You remembered my name, which is quite unusual, but I don’t remember your's because it takes me a while to remember one and it was loud in there. You kept appearing and reappearing unexpectedly and I didn’t get the chance to give you my number. I don’t know if you’re single but you seemed really cool, so I hope you find this post...

AT THE RADIO CANADA VISIT

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 2, 2016 WHERE: Radio Canada, Montreal I went to the Radio Canada visit, Sunday October 2. You worked there, maybe as security or something like that. We looked at each other 2 or 3 times and when I came back in I looked for you but you weren’t there anymore. I would like to see you again.

WEEDS - RICHARDS AND HELMCKEN

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 WHERE: Weeds - Richards and Helmcken We locked eyes when I entered Weeds at Richards and Helmcken. You are a tall-ish blonde with beautiful hair and teeth, think you were wearing maroon tight leathery pants. I was on my bike and still had my helmet on. You were getting a pre-roll and as you were leaving I heard you remark to your friend that I was “lovely” or something to that effect. I followed you out and asked if you’d like to join me for a smoke in the park across the street. You were in a rush to catch your cab but took my number. This was a few weeks back. Haven’t heard from you, not sure if you took my number down wrong or perhaps got shy? Would love to get together sometime!

AT BIMINI’S

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2016 WHERE: Bimini’s/W. 4th/Kits We danced for a hot second on Friday night at Bim’s. You: tall, tattooed arms, black Nike hat that you were wearing backwards. I was the girl in the grey skirt, black top, black boots & curled hair. You told me your name but I couldn’t hear over the music. You’re probably taken... but on the off chance you’re not, hit me up? Drinks? :)

CHAMPLAIN MALL DOUBLE TAKE X2

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2016 WHERE: Champlain Mall Independent Grocery I saw you with your load of groceries and TP, when you turned and our eyes met, we both smiled as we passed each other, I was very intrigued and turned to look back at you, you had also turned to look at me. We both had the same happy to have gotten caught. I should have done something, but... I ended up wandering aimlessly thinking about you and how I could see you again.

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 6, 2016 WHERE: 135 to Burrard We rode the bus together, sitting opposite sides facing each other. Eye contact was made frequently. Smiles were also exchanged frequently. You were the adorable Asian girl with a green jacket. I was the tall caucasian dressed in my work clothes. I work in construction so it really didn’t look impressive. Nevertheless, I guess I made enough of an impression for you to wave at me as I got off at Granville Street. I doubt you’ll read this, but in case you do, I think you’re breathtakingly beautiful. Coffee?

ALI & JON AT HARVESTHAUS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 WHERE: HarvestHaus New friends! I opened my phone the next day to realize it hadn’t saved Jon’s number! Trying this in case it works. Had a great time at the Capitol after... but maybe we didn’t need another round ;)

OFFICER COLLEEN ON THE SCENE

212 BUS, 6:47

BEAUTY APPLYING LIPSTICK ON THE BUS

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 6, 2016 WHERE: 210, 212 bus

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 5, 2016 WHERE: GNW

We started on the 210 downtown. I moved so you could sit, cause there were no seats left, you sat beside me. I was wearing black hoodie, black leggings and black and white shoes. I was listening to music. We both got off at Phibbs and got on the 212. I sat right behind you. When you got off the bus (one stop before me) we locked eyes as the bus pulled away. You were wearing work clothes, had a green backpack with a hard hat strapped to it. Must have been coming off the night shift.

I took down a suspect and you were first on the scene. First you arrested the perp and then you took my statement. You were very kind hearted and considerate of not inconveniencing me anymore than I already was. I got your name and maybe a badge number, (PL# 1821?), I left you a means to call me but this is likely an open/shut case and doubt I’ll hear from you again.... but, I can still hope, right?

YOU GAVE ME THUMBS UP TO SINGING AND DRUMMING IN MY CAR

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 5, 2016 WHERE: Nanaimo and 1st Ave On Tuesday stopped at the light at Nanaimo at 1st I was singing and drumming in my car and I saw you give me a thumbs up. We had a laugh and brief chat about it until the light changed. It was a cool moment, thanks for catching my eye. Maybe we can connect again?

WE BOTH LOOKED BACK AT ONE ANOTHER AS I RODE OFF ON MY RED BIKE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 5, 2016 WHERE: Shared Path by the Water by Granville Island Hello, I was the bearded guy riding my red bike along the water by Granville Island and you were walking in the opposite direction. I noticed your blue eyes only at first. When I turned back for a second glance, I saw a very beautiful blond girl looking back at me as I rode away. I’ve never done one of these before so I would kinda be awestruck if I heard from you.

KOFTA KUTIE

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 WHERE: Kofta on Cambie St I was with my mum eating meatballs on Cambie, you had red shoes on.

TRUCKERS @ THE RICKSHAW

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 2, 2016 WHERE: The Rickshaw You’re the woman with the beautiful eyes at the DBT show Sunday. We were the back of the floor, you with your boyfriend. We danced a little, but you wanted more. You have my attention.

WOODY’S. HAPPY B DAY

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 3, 2016 WHERE: Woody’s Pub Coquitlam Amazing you are, 55?. Un-real. Great conversation, Really nice talk. Sorry I might have come on strong, you are just amazing. 55 huh?

TWO PARROTS PERCHED IN A COFFEE SHOP

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 1, 2016 WHERE: Granville & Davie You were sketching designs. I was scanning the festival guide. We were looking out those big windows. It's a great place to people watch. The pedestrians passing by noticed your classic beauty. Giving you a second or third glance the occasional jaw did drop. Oh so stunning, oh so alluring. I'm sure many give praise and tell you are beautiful. Beyond the surface colour of your painted lips, can they see a deeper you? Sitting next to you, I was feeling a tad shy and not wanting to bother. Genuine connections can interrupt our lives in delightful ways. I'm new to the city; I should have said hello. I want to learn about your world. Clothing has a language all of it's own. There is a transformative quality of dressing up. When did you discover your passion for fashion? From where do you draw your influences? If nothing else, I do hope you stumble upon this and realize how your feminine radiance shines. I felt you; I saw you.

POINT ROBERTS YELLOW VW

I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 2, 2016 WHERE: Shell Station in Point Roberts You stood behind me in line for our packages. Then we passed each other several times on the highway back to Richmond. I admired your determination.

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October 13 to 19, 2016

with the Mars/Pluto transit, which unexpected. Someone or something officially completes a two-year growth could surprise you/jump out at you. ong-range, we are living for and exploration cycle and begins a new Impulse can get the better of you, too. the future. Short-term, we are two-year build-it-better project. CANCER living for the weekend. ThursARIES June 21–July 22 day’s Mercury/Mars stays March 20–April 20 Looking for a fresh start or focused on getting there. Don’t skip An exceptional weekend infusion? Saturday’s super full moon over Friday, though: the Aries moon and Mercury/Saturn stoke a good fire. lies ahead. The super full moon is and Wednesday’s Mars/Pluto set the The day is prime for getting a better an especially dynamic, perhaps even play into major motion. You’ll feel the handle on it, gaining results, or reach- life-altering, influence for those born full moon as a sudden jolt, an awakApril 1 to 4 and 10 to 14. From one ening, a big kick or carpet pull. It can ing your destination. Do you have a special weekend extreme to another, anything goes, be particularly catapulting if you are planned? Even if you don’t, Saturday’s and likely suddenly so. Someone or born July 6, 7, or 14 to 16. Wednesday/ super full moon in Aries is absolutely something could absolutely blow Thursday, your new reality subtracts, hot-wired for action, thanks to Ura- you away. Wednesday is a wrap, but, adds, or hits the fast track. nus/Eris in crack-it-open mode and more importantly, it signals a moLEO Mercury/Pluto cashing in on the hot mentous new era/chapter. July 22–August 23 ticket. It won’t take any effort to get TAURUS Saturday’s super full moon a party started. By all means, strike April 20–May 21 can bring the exceptional to pass. For while the iron’s hot. Express yourself; Thursday/Friday get the sure, there’s no end to excitement. It’s reinvent the wheel; go all the way. A well-timed impulse or risk could strike ball rolling. Saturday puts it into full a great weekend to travel, enjoy sports, it just right. Freedom, fresh, new, and/ swing. The super-full-moon weekend the great outdoors, or a special event. or complete outside of the usual hits is ideal for an escape or get-away- A major purchase, news, a surprise anare the best bets. Also watch for some- from-it-all weekend. Something fresh, nouncement, win, great find, first date, thing or someone unexpected, or even new, exciting, or out of the blue jetti- or something completely out of the a once-in-a-lifetime moment to steal sons you and keeps you going strong. blue is also high on the list of possibilthe show. On the other hand, with Don’t take risks with drugs, alcohol, ities. Wednesday’s finish is well timed. shock-wave planet Uranus in action, or safety. Sunday through WednesVIRGO you could be hit with the sudden and day, you’ll make solid gains and/or August 23–September 23 jarring. The potential for accidents is reach a destination or finish line. Friday/Saturday gets you greatly increased. Don’t take unnecesGEMINI going on something new, perhaps unsary risks with your health, wealth, or May 21–June 21 expectedly so. Thanks to the rapid-fire life. Stay alert for distracted drivers, Whether you have some- energy of the super full moon, you’ll hit and for folks who are triggered. The days following the super full thing special planned or you take it the ground running much faster than moon hold fairly productive, oppor- as it comes, the weekend is likely to you might otherwise. Don’t hesitate to be memory-making. A first date, an take a risk and/or to jump right into tune, and smooth-running stars. The Mars space shuttle/probe is instant hit, a social or public event it; it could prove lucrative or fulfilling. scheduled to land on the planet on Wed- can deliver the goods and then some. Sunday through next Wednesday, the nesday. This event coincides beautifully With Uranus in the mix, expect the stars keep it rolling smoothly and well.

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Birthday weekend or not, a surprise is written in your stars. Some like it hot; Friday/Saturday, the super full moon keeps the excitement going strong. A party, special event, impulse purchase, or meet-up gives you plenty to talk about. Someone or something unexpected can blow you away. A hello or goodbye could be said. A lucrative, solidifying week follows. October 23–November 22

The super full moon can produce a great work opportunity or it could let you off the hook unexpectedly. The weekend could also trigger a new solution, a health remedy, an icebreaker conversation, or something that gets you thinking along new lines. Someone could switch tracks, surprise you, and/ or act as a catalyst. Sunday onward, you’re on the move-along. Wednesday, it’s accomplished or completed.

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Family, home, and realestate matters take the cake this weekend. One thing quickly leads to another. Expect to hit a surprise fast track. Entertain, host an open house, open up about feelings, but leave nothing to chance regarding safety and security. Building to Wednesday, Mars/Pluto marks a noturning-back, time-is-ripe moment. January 20–February 18

Try something new this weekend. It could be great on you or it could be an eye opener. You never know where a hello, a simple question, or an introduction can lead. A first could be momentous. The super full moon could produce an instant attraction or an instant hit. Be careful on the road, but otherwise have fun! February 18–March 20

You aren’t likely to hold back much this weekend. When you’re hot, why not? Excitement, passion, spending, or speed could get the better of you. Uranus can also fire up anger or impulsive emotions. Be ready for anything goes. Sunday through Tuesday gives you a better handle on it. Wednesday marks an important goal post, completion, or achievement. -

Your stars are hot-wired Friday/Saturday. The action is on the playing field, stage, or dance f loor, in the wallet or bedroom. Your kids can thrust it over the top too. Aligned with Uranus in Aries, watch for the fresh, new, unexpected, exceptional, extreme, or radical. Aim for passion, not reaction. Venus into Sagittarius, starting Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s Tuesday, and Wednesday’s Mars/ free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. Pluto set big wheels in motion.

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Scaan to conffess The Georgia Straightt Confessions Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.

Surfacing Trump’s comments about forcing himself on women bring up past, buried memories of sexual aggression and assault: - when I was 11 or 12, a VPD cop gave me his business card with his phone number on it - when I was 14, the restaurant manager slipping his arms around my waist - when I was 17, a man molested me on the Skytrain right before I left the car Trump is a disgusting, vile man, who thinks he’s entitled to touch/assault any female, just like the above scum. He will never win the election. The Republicans will dump him. No one wants to be seen associated with this complete loser.

Saboteur It’s really odd how someone I trusted so blindly could cause so much destruction in my life. Was it too much to ask to be treated with the most basic of human decency?

I just had the best idea. Breakfast Club Halloween group costume (which, is infinitely better than dressing up as a creepy clown and scaring people). I’d be Brian - I’m definitely a Brian. Then I realized I don’t have 4 other people to make this happen or anywhere Haloweeny to go where this might be cool. Anyways, it was a fun little fantasy. I’ll probably do nothing. “When you grow up your heart dies”

Straight but Gay My parents are seriously homophobic and force me to not have anything to do with anyone LGBT. Everyone thinks I’m straight, but I’m actually gay.

Good Morning?! What a way to wake up. I went to bed late last night at 3 am and was woken up at 10:15 am by someone screaming “Oh my god what a fucking nightmare!” right outside my apt. door. A few mins. later the police and ambulance showed up. I found out that someone who lived down the hall had over dosed and possibly died. Oh man! I am in shock and sad. What a day. I hope this day gets better.

Give up all hope Almost thirty years old, seven years of post-secondary education, and the only job I can find that I’m qualified to apply for is making pizza late at night to sell to drunk people by the slice. Call me an entitled millennial if you must, but we were lied to. And what would all my former classmates who once saw me getting medals and scholarships think of where I am now? Of course, maybe they’re no better off.

Earners Dear friend Please don’t say “no offence but” when you know it’ll offend me and especially don’t following it up with “just sayin” . It drives me nuts!

I see my old boss in the neighbourhood and I think that he respects me for quitting that shitty corporation - he did too.

Low wage earner Stupid! (I am) For obsessing over one ex finance for longest time and not rebooting love life. In mean time, I have accumulated sizable wealth. But realized I really don’t want to share what I have with this person who made my life living hell. I guess i am hard wired enough to have my survival instinct trump concept of love.

Time To Get Serious I am going to graduate from university next year and I have spent my university years drinking too much and partying too much. I haven’t been able to keep a girl for more than two months. I am going to make some serious changes in my life. From now on I am only drinking and partying on Friday and Saturday nights. No drinking any other day of the week and no more one night stands. No more stupid frat parties or pulling pranks. I am going to study at least 2 hours a day Monday to Thursday and Sunday. I am also going to try to keep my girlfriend at least till the end of the summer because she’s awesome. I am going to finish my business degree and then work and then get my MBA. I am going to take my life seriously from now on because I don’t like the person I see in the mirror.

i decided to take a walk through Coal Harbour to Stanley Park for some photos. The Coal Harbour neighbourhood reeked of money and greed. Kind of depressing since after I cover my expenses there’s just enough for food and transit. Thankfully Stanley Park is for everybody.

Sorry to Police Now I got to say sorry to all of the police officers I have unfairly given a hard time in my younger days. I was a bit in the right at times, but I was also in the wrong at other times and needlessly gave you guys a hard time. Thanks for being patient with most young teenagers and adults!

Older man Always been looking for and older bigger (Ron Jeremy looking) to have fun with for the first time! I dont know why but want to try the other side. Male!

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