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enise Williams says much attention is being paid to how First Nations people can get ready to work in British Columbia’s emerging liquefied-natural-gas industry. But the new executive director of the First Nations Technology Council (www.technologycouncil.ca/) told the Georgia Straight that a key goal of the West Vancouver–based organization is to see more aboriginal people gain the computer skills required to land jobs in the province’s booming tech sector. “What we’re trying to focus on is this bigger long-term opportunity, because British Columba’s technology sector is the only one that sees growth every single year,” Williams said during an interview at the HiVE coworking space in Vancouver. “There is a gap—a knowledge gap—that needs to be filled, and with so many First Nations people in British Columbia being on the young side of the demographic, there is a real opportunity there.” Williams, a 33-year-old member of the Cowichan Tribes community on Vancouver Island, assumed the top job at the FNTC three months ago after serving as its acting execuStephen tive director for 10 months and its director of operations and business development for two years. The Vancouver resident previously worked for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and the independent First Nations Education Steering Committee. Established by the First Nations Summit in 2002, the FNTC has a mandate to ensure that First Nations communities in the province have access to broadband Internet service, technical support, and assistance with choosing and implementing information-management systems. On September 28, it relaunched its First Nations in B.C. Knowledge Network portal (fnbc.info/), which facilitates the sharing of news, events, and resources among communities. Back in 2008, only 85 of the 203 First Nations in B.C. had broadband Internet access. The current count is 190. According to the service plan released in February by the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services, all First Nations are expected to have high-speed connectivity by 2017.
Denise Williams says computers can be transformative. Stephen Hui photo.
“Rural communities in B.C. are underserved in general, but First Nations communities are even more so underserved,” Williams said. “So the digital divide—I’ve heard it defined in a number of different ways, but I think right now there’s still a difference in access. There’s still a difference in priority.” Tech companies such as Facebook, Hootsuite, Microsoft, and Slack have offices in Vancouver, which Hui lies on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and TsleilWaututh First Nations. However, Williams pointed out that aboriginal people remain underrepresented in the tech sector. Accordingly, she noted the “cornerstone” of the FNTC’s work is “capacity-building” with regard to the digital skills of First Nations people. “I do strongly believe in technology’s ability to be transformative for an individual and for a community, and I’ve experienced it myself,” said Williams, who spent her early years on Haida Gwaii. “It’s a knowledge-based economy, so the more you know, the better. I think that technology provides us with a really incredible, really fast way to acquire knowledge.” The FNTC has seven mobile computer labs that allow it to offer technical training in First Nations communities. Project Raven, a program that wrapped up in March, saw 2,269 unemployed and underemployed aboriginal adults in 62 communities complete digital-skills
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courses. After receiving training, 633 participants gained employment, according to the FNTC’s 2014-15 annual report. In January, the council brought 20 First Nations students to a free HTML500 boot camp put on by Lighthouse Labs in Vancouver. According to Williams, federal funding for the FNTC’s operations dried up a few years back. Since then, the council has downsized and adopted a “social enterprise” business model, which sees it offer training to organizations on a feefor-service basis and selling advertisements on its web portal. Williams said the FNTC is looking for funding to establish a Bridging to Technology program in partnership with the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. The introductory program would offer industry-standard certification as well as postsecondary credits. A June report prepared by B.C. Stats says the province’s tech sector employed 86,800 people and accounted for 4.4 percent of its workforce in 2013. According to Profile of the British Columbia High Technology Sector: 2014 Edition, the industry boasted more employees than the mining, oil and gas, and forestry sectors combined. “B.C.’s high tech sector continues to face challenges, such as a smaller domestic marketplace and an often tight labour market, which may give B.C. companies a competitive disadvantage, particularly with many of their American counterparts, but also with high tech firms in central Canada,” the report states. Next week, Williams will graduate from Simon Fraser University with a master’s degree in business administration. She asserted that increasing the representation of aboriginal people in the tech sector would benefit both First Nations communities and companies in the industry. “I think that there are opportunities for First Nations people to be better connected and participating in this really lucrative, interesting, innovative field,” Williams said. “But there’s also an opportunity for the technology sector to have the insight of aboriginal people. This could, I think, really influence the trajectory of the technology sector, even, because aboriginal people have a unique way of seeing and a unique way of thinking about, especially, opportunities on their traditional territories in British Columbia.” -
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but whatever was happening aboard a bus cruising down Kingsway last Saturday (October 10) was a very fun way to participate in democracy. Zach Gray of Vancouver indie-rock band the Zolas played guitar and belted out their hit song “You’re Too Cool” while enthusiastic backup vocals were provided by the Boom Booms’ Aaron Ross, Geordie Hart, and Tom Van Deursen. “Every morning chipping away,” Gray crooned with everybody singing along. “’Til the walls fall down!” That bus was the third like it to snake around Vancouver that rainy afternoon. The vehicles met crowds of young music fans at Broadway and Cambie Street, people piled in, then the groups toured from one advanced polling station to the next to help the passengers vote and get a jump on the October 19 federal election. Just before embarking on the last ride of the day, Gray said he’s optimistic that 2015 will see young people break from their reputation for apathy. The reason he’s so sure is Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. Gray explained that although people can feel overwhelmed by the amount of information usually required to make an educated voting decision, that isn’t the case this year. “This is the first election in my lifetime where it’s this obvious who to vote against,” he said. The campaign Gray joined on the bus, Turn Up YVR, is a nonpartisan initiative that’s encouraging everyone to vote regardless of the party they support. But there was one refrain the Straight heard repeated on those buses again and again: anyone but Harper.
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The Zolas’ Zach Gray has lent his voice to Turn Up YVR, which aims to improve the woeful voter-turnout rate among 18- to 34-year-olds . Travis Lupick photo.
tried and failed to get young people to vote. “What makes us think this will work?” Mangan asked with Vancouver musicians, student unions, and Elections Canada a laugh. “We’ve seen are going to extreme lengths to get young voters to the polls four years of majority government with On that note, here’s an interesting pair of sta- Harper and it’s pretty scary,” he said. tistics: in the 2011 federal election, Conservative This election cycle, Mangan is also leading candidates received a total of 5.8 million votes, a campaign of his own, Imagine October 20th. and in 2015, there are 5.8 million eligible voters Similar to the anyone-but-Harper sentiment exwho are between 18 and 29 years of age. pressed by Gray, the stated objective there is not If it’s true that young people are more likely to to elect the Liberals or NDP but instead to remove vote against Harper, they could see him removed the Conservatives from power. from office quite easily. If they voted. “It’s also about painting the whole process Of course, we know that many do not. Accord- with a more optimistic tone,” Mangan said. “I ing to Elections Canada, in 2011 only 39 percent think there is so much mudslinging and attack of 18- to 24-year-olds left the couch for the polls, ads in the political sphere that what we want to and for 25- to 34-year-olds, that number was only do is think about what a breath of fresh air eat45 percent. For comparison’s sake, 75 percent of ing breakfast on October 20th would be with the 55- to 64-year-old crowd voted in 2011. Elec- Harper gone forever.” tions Canada data shows roughly the same results Music is just one of a number of tools that young for the 2008, 2006, and 2004 general elections. In people have deployed this year in the hope of getthose years, not once did even 50 percent of Can- ting their peers to the polls. South of the border, adians aged 18 to 34 make it to the polls. pundits have dubbed America’s 2016 presidential Despite the depressing math, a plethora contest the “Snapchat election” because candiof individuals and organizations are work- dates such as Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul have ing around Vancouver this week to get young reached out to millennials using that mobile app. people involved in politics. But here in Canada, 2015 youth-voter drives are A few hours before that bus ride with the Zolas consciously going old-school. and the Boom Booms, the Straight caught up with In a telephone interview, Aaron Bailey, presiVancouver singer-songwriter Dan Mangan, who dent of UBC’s student union, the Alma Mater was also at Broadway and Cambie to help with Society, said that perhaps the biggest impact Turn Up YVR. He conceded many before him have on youth engagement this election is coming
from a partnership between universities and Elections Canada. For the first time, Elections Canada facilitated student voting with advanced polling that opened on 39 campuses across Canada from October 5 to 8. The pilot program let people vote where they attend school regardless of the riding in which they were registered, removing what many visiting students view as a significant barrier to participating in national elections. “All they needed was…[approved ID] and then they could vote anywhere,” Bailey said. “Which was huge, just making it so convenient for students so that they didn’t really have an excuse not to vote.” According to Elections Canada, more than 70,000 people voted that way, though that preliminary figure also includes ballots cast at a number of community centres that ran a similar program. On the phone from SFU, Simon Fraser Student Society president Enoch Weng and VP external relations Kathleen Yang said the same Elections Canada program was a big hit at SFU. “All of our social-media channels have been used to promote that,” Weng said. Yang, however, emphasized that “social media alone is never enough.” She said the student society decided to focus on face-to-face events; for example, SFU’s main campus hosted an allcandidates debate for Burnaby North–Seymour. “We had four candidates participate,” she said. “Of course, the Conservative candidate declined.” (Conservative candidates across Canada have largely boycotted riding debates and refused media
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to devote massive amounts of his time to voter engagement. But he and fellow young climate-change activists realized that something had to be done after the 2008 federal election when Stephen Harper’s Conservatives retained control of the federal government with just 38 percent of the votes. “We watched as 62 percent of voters cast ballots for parties that were advocating strong climate action,” Biggar recalled during an interview with the Georgia Straight in a Library Square coffee shop. “But because of our broken first-past-the-post electoral system, their votes split and we had a minority government led by the other folks.” That prompted him and his friends to create a website called Canadians for a Progressive Coalition. It advocated for the non-Conservative parties to work together on climate action and other issues. Biggar, 32, said that it morphed into Leadnow after it became
clear to the organizers that Harper was intent on trying to “monkeywrench” the 2009 UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Leadnow’s website shows that its staff is almost entirely composed of younger people, though there are also older volunteers. In the period leading up to this 2015 election, Leadnow has launched an ambitious campaign, called votetogether.ca, that is targeting Conservative candidates in 72 ridings. Earlier this year, former Vancouver park commissioner Lyndsay Poaps, 36, became Leadnow’s executive director. Sitting beside Biggar in the coffee shop, she explained that the goal of votetogether.ca is to focus on those areas where the Conservatives elected MPs in 2011 or would have elected MPs under redistribution with less than 50 percent of the vote. “We have 11 ridings where we have actual teams on the ground,” Poaps added. So how big is this operation? Leadnow says on its website that
more than 87,000 Canadians have already pledged their vote to support the candidate with the best chance of defeating Harper. Almost 500,000 supporters have taken part in its decision-making processes, which take place through face-to-face meetings and via online surveys. According to Poaps, there are more than 2,000 monthly donors. “Leadnow is made up of a lot of people with very strong values but who are not politically aligned and felt they didn’t have a political home,” she said. “I think we provide that for them.” As part of the plan to defeat the Conservatives, Leadnow has financed three sets of Environics riding polls—12, then 31, and another 12—to reveal who are the best bets to beat the Conservatives in swing ridings. The group recently released its third poll in the new riding of Vancouver Granville. The Conservative candidate, Erinn Broshko, is competing against Michael Barkusky of the Greens, New Democrat
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Mira Oreck, and Liberal Jody Wilson-Raybould. The first two polls put Oreck ahead by six percentage points, but the final poll had Wilson-Raybould at 35 percent, compared to 33 percent for Oreck and 28 percent for Broshko. Leadnow calls its results a “statistical tie”. Oreck subsequently issued a statement saying that it did not surprise her that “the Conservative candidate is in trouble in this riding.” In Vancouver South, Leadnow has reposted the results of a Dogwood Initiative poll that shows Liberal Harjit Sajjan with a 13-percentage-point lead over Conservative incumbent Wai Young. The New Democrat, Amandeep Nijjar, and Green candidate Elain Ng are ranked third and fourth, respectively. The votetogether.ca website also includes data on scores of other ridings, as well as the parties’ positions on various issues. Biggar conceded that this campaign is merely a means to an end. Supporters of Leadnow have
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requests, which the Toronto Star and other papers have reported is part of a partywide policy. The Conservative party did not respond to repeated Straight requests for an interview on the subject of the youth vote.) Alex McGowan, VP external for the Kwantlen Student Association, framed the issue of low voter turnout as a matter of chickens and eggs. Do candidates ignore young people because they don’t vote in large numbers, he asked, or are youths apathetic because politicians don’t speak to their issues? Regardless of the answer, McGowan continued, Kwantlen hoped to address the problem by facilitating meetings where students and candidates could get to know one another. He explained that although voter drives often rely on digital tools such as Instagram and email blasts, Kwantlen’s goal this year was to use real-world encounters to convince students and politicians of one another’s relevance. “There’s been a demographic shift where now the millennial generation, 18 to 35, is the largest potential voting bloc, larger than the baby boomers,” McGowan said. “That means young people have a lot of potential, a big weight, and if they come out and vote, policies will start to be aimed at them.” Meanwhile, a number of organizations are reaching out to youth with strategic-voting initiatives that aim to prevent left-leaning (often younger) people from splitting their votes among the Liberals, NDP, and Greens. Those groups suggest people vote for whichever candidate it is in their riding who stands the best chance of defeating their Conservative counterpart. The largest and best organized is Leadnow (see page 9), which bases its national recommendations on polling data collected for specific contests. There are also a number of less conventional voter drives targeting young people. For example,
Vancouver resident Karilynn Ming Ho launched a Change.org petition that’s calling on Canadian hip-hop superstar Drake to encourage his fans to vote. At the time of writing, it had more than 8,000 signatures. There is also a chain of Vancouver marijuana dispensaries that is using an upcoming Snoop Dogg concert to attract attention to the October 19 election. But perhaps the biggest stir has come from Shit Harper Did (SHD), a troupe of Vancouver comedians that has attracted national headlines with its entertaining and well-researched lampooning of the prime minister. In a telephone interview, SHD writer and coordinator Emma Cooper agreed that the group has successfully tapped into the youth vote like few other organizations in Canada. She said that was no accident. “We’re very research-based,” Cooper said. “The whole point is that it looks fun. But you work really hard to make jokes and to target and make humour that engages young people. It’s about looking and seeing that people are not voting, seeing the research that proves that, and asking what they are going to respond to.” Despite a Facebook page with more than 50,000 likes and YouTube videos with six-figure views, Cooper conceded that SHD faces the same million-dollar question as most modern-day campaigns: how to turn online clicks into real-world votes. “We’re not going to tell you how to vote,” she said, acknowledging the contradiction there with a laugh. “We’re just doing whatever we can to inform people with our reach and our competitive advantage, where we have a huge online community that is kind of in this positive place because we’ve made a bunch of jokes.” On the phone from UBC, Bailey answered the same question with a more pointed response. “There is no excuse and no opportunity to complain among young people unless they actually take the time to educate themselves and vote,” he said. -
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The response overwhelmed him: people offered support, with some getting in touch privately to tell him that they, too, suffered from mental illness. “A lot of times with depression and anxiety, especially if you haven’t gotten help, you think you’re the only one who’s feeling that way; you feel alone,” Evans says. “After I published the photo-series project online, the overall response was positive. I got people PMing me, saying: ‘I know what you’re talking about; I go through similar After Bryce Evans discovered that taking pictures helped him deal with anxiety things.’ I got the immediate sense that and depression, he founded a global photography community to assist others. I’m not alone in this after all. “After I put it out to the world, I connect with something the pho- licensed clinical professional counselstarted to talk about it more and con- tographer may or may not have been lor Joni Gilbertson from Illinois, nect with people more over it,” he says. trying to communicate. With all of and, locally, Judy Weiser, whom “People started telling their stories.” the junk around the words relating Evans considers a mentor. Weiser, Evans, 23, wanted to open up to to mental illness that people can get a registered psychologist, is the others about his experience with caught up in, with photos you can founder of Vancouver’s PhotoTherphotography as a means to overcome have an immediate connection, a very apy Centre and the author of Photomental illness, so he founded the One powerful experience. Therapy Techniques: Exploring the Project (www.the “On the other Secrets of Personal Snapshots and oneproject.ca/ ), side of it, when Family Albums. the first global you’re someone Therapeutic photography (where photography with depression no formal therapy takes place and no Gail Johnson community specifand anxiety who’s therapist or counsellor is involved) ically for people with depression and taking photos, you’re literally look- combines “photographic practices anxiety. The safe and nonjudgmental ing through a different lens, and that where the intended goal is to proonline space, where members have gives you a different perspective on duce positive change in individuals, their own personal dashboard, al- the world,” he adds. “It helps you couples, or families” with techniques lows people to use photos to explore, to focus externally versus getting of “social action photography…where process, and express how they’re feel- caught up in your head. Photography the goal is to improve well-being, ing; start a conversation about their is about focusing outward, but it’s reduce social exclusion, and create experiences with the conditions; and also introspective. If you take a ser- positive change at community, soconnect with others who can relate. ies of photos, you might start to see cietal, national, or international levIt also teaches and promotes patterns in your photos.” els”, according to Weiser’s website. “therapeutic photography” as a tool Using the hashtag #storymeet, “A lot of people are using these to learn, heal, and grow. Therapeutic members of the One Project can par- techniques and they’re aware of it; photography involves taking, analyz- ticipate in “Instameet” gatherings, others are using them without knowing, and using photos for the pur- where they get together with their ing it, just naturally,” Evans says. pose of personal healing, growth, or cameras and tag posts from the event “And there are a lot of people who understanding, whether consciously on Instagram. Meet-ups have taken could really benefit from them. or unconsciously. By actively con- place in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Cal“Most of us have a camera, even structing, analyzing, and reflecting gary, and other cities around the globe; if it’s just our phone, and we know on photographs, people are able to so have One Project exhibitions. through personal experience there’s learn more about themselves and Aside from helping people find an emotional connection to photoghow they see the world around them. their way through depression and raphy,” he notes. “With the One Pro“A lot of times I’ve found that people anxiety with the click of a shutter, ject, we want to work on collaborative can have these ‘aha’ moments where the One Project also aims to build ideas, where members of our comsomething hits them and either helps a better understanding of mental munity can contribute to improving to shift their perspective a little bit or illness. 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office, the government announced its new rate of $10.45, stating that this latest increase would place B.C. at about the middle of the pack. Which it did, but only for 15 days from the time it was enacted. The documents include specific comparisons to other jurisdictions’ plans to raise their minimum wages, but not to increases scheduled for later than mid-2015. On October 1, Alberta went to $11.20, Manitoba to $11, Saskatchewan to $10.50, Ontario to $11.25, and Newfoundland and Labrador to $10.50. Those changes dropped B.C. back to second-to-last place in the country. Repeated interview requests sent to the premier’s office and the B.C. Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training in September and October were refused or ignored. When the Straight asked in writing if the government was aware that $10.45 ranked near the bottom of the country, Ministry of Jobs spokesperson Gabrielle Price supplied statements that ignored the question. She also refused to say whether or not the government would be willing to reexamine the issue. After reviewing the Straight’s FOI documents, B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger said her staff came to the same conclusion: that the provincial government compared B.C.’s new minimum wage to those of other provinces and also looked at how those jurisdictions planned to increase rates—but B.C. didn’t look far enough ahead. “She [Clark] specifically said we weren’t going to be at the bottom, that we were going to put things in place to make sure that we didn’t end up at the bottom,” she said. “And here we are at the bottom.” -
wage as among the country’s lowest, express concern for that fact, and offer solutions to improve the state of B.C.’s lowest earners. Although some of the released documents are heavily redacted, those files show there was a great deal of time and thought put into the 20cent increase to $10.45 and the decision to tie the new wage to the CPI. There were meetings and emails on the matter. Civil servants looked at different minimum rates across the country, gathered information on other provinces’ plans, and projected how B.C.’s minimum wage would compare to those. “In 2014, every province other than B.C. raised its minimum wage at least once,” reads a February 2015 “confidential” cabinet submission. “Several provinces have scheduled increases for 2015. Since May 1, 2012, B.C. has slid from 3rd (behind only Yukon and Nunavut) to 9th among all Canadian jurisdictions as of January 1, 2015. Based on current commitments in other jurisdictions, B.C. will likely be last among Canadian jurisdictions if there is no increase by October 2015.” The month after that cabinet sub- For more on the government’s handmission was received by the premier’s ling of this issue, visit Straight.com.
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2THIS WEEK ARTSCAN CIRCLE FUNDRAISER Film screening raises money for ArtsCan Circle, which links creative artists with at-risk First Nations youth. Oct 16, 7 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15, info www.facebook.com/ events/902179046525156/. SPLASH At the Arts Umbrella's annual fundraising gala, bid on close to 100 pieces of artwork by local and international artists. Includes cuisine by John Bishop and Culinary Capers. Oct 17, 7 pm, Granville Island. Tix $5,000/3,000/500/300, info www.artsumbrella.com/events/ splash-2015/. EAST VAN GOGOS MUSICAL BRUNCH The East Van Gogos present a fundraiser for the Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, supporting African AIDS orphans. Oct 18, 11 am, Trout Lake Community Centre (3350 Victoria). Tix $25, info www.thesodacrackers.com/.
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2THIS WEEK GASTOWN SHOP HOP Evening of shopping, food, and music. Participating restaurants include Bambudda, Irish Heather, Pourhouse, and Water Street Cafe. Participating shops include Angel Vancouver, Bruce Eyewear, Frock Shop, Ego Closet, John Fluevog, Lumas Gallery, and Wardrobe Apparel. Oct 15, 5–9 pm, Gastown. Info www.gastown.org/.
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FOOD AND DRINK 2THIS WEEK DRINK.DINE.DANCE. SERIES The Belmont Bar presents a craft-versus-cask battle (Oct 15) and a four-course harvest dinner (Oct 29). Belmont Bar (1006 Granville). Info www.belmontbar.com/. 11TH ANNUAL TASTE OF YALETOWN Local restaurants showcase their creativity and talent with menus at set price tiers of $25, $35, and $45. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Oct 15-29, various Yaletown restaurants. Info www.yaletowninfo.com/ event/taste-yaletown-2015/. UBC BOTANICAL GARDEN APPLE FESTIVAL Highlights include over 70 varieties of apples, entertainment, kids' activities, and a food fair. Oct 17-18, 11 am–4 pm, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research (6804 SW Marine). Info www.botanicalgarden.ubc. ca/apple-festival/.
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GHOST TRAIN IN STANLEY PARK The classic night train ride includes a 14-minute experience with lights, sounds, and live performers playing classic horror characters. To Nov 1, 5:30–9:30 pm, Stanley Park Miniature Train (Stanley Park). Tix $11/8/6 (plus service charge) at www.ticketleader. ca/, info www.ghosttrain.ca/.
FRIGHT NIGHTS AT PLAYLAND Annual Halloween-themed event features seven haunted houses, 15 fear-inducing rides, and the Radiant Heat Fire Troupe. To Nov 1, 7 pm, Playland (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $20-40, info www.frightnights.ca/. HAUNTED VANCOUVER TROLLEY TOUR The Vancouver Trolley Company and Vancouver Police Museum present an evening of murderous tales and infamous Vancouver ghost stories. Oct 14-31, Canada Place (504-999 Canada Place). Tix $40, info www.vancouvertrolley.com/.
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SPORTS 2THIS WEEK CANUCKS VS. BLUES The Vancouver Canucks take on the St. Louis Blues. Oct 16, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $61.25-231.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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Shop Hop, the store will be offering a host of hot deals on more than just its signature bridal wear. “There will be discounts on everything in store. All of our Maker Collaborations with local artists will be available for purchase, which includes jewellery, bridal accessories, and our soon-to-be-launched lingerie collaboration,” says Schafer. “Truvelle gowns from all three collections will be available at reduced prices.” Another significant addition to this year’s hop is women’s eco-friendly fashion boutique Nicole Bridger (14 Water Street). The shop’s namesake moved the store from Kitsilano to Gastown earlier this year. Neighbour (12 Water Street), Saager Dilawri’s men’s shop in Gaoler’s Mews, saw a new expansion in March with the opening of a women’s boutique at 45 Powell Street. Neighbour/ Women carries lines by Christopher Raeburn, Stephan Schneider, and Christophe Lemaire, with jewelry and accessories by CDG, Saskia Diez, and Kara Bags. It’s another fresh pick for this year’s hop. Not all boutiques in the fall bargain hunt are clothing-based. Hip optical shop Durant Sessions (315 West Cordova Street) will also be a part of the fun, offering customers deals on select pairs of limited-edition and luxury glasses and
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fter earning their business degrees, out. Worldwide, approximately 795 million cousins and best buddies Andrew people do not have enough food to lead a Hall and Jeremy Bryant landed what healthy, active life, according to the United many would consider to be dream Nations World Food Programme. jobs. Hall took on a consulting role at De“We want to live in a world where someday loitte, while Bryant was working as an auditor we’ll be in our rocking chairs explaining to our at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Within a year, grandkids how hunger used to be a problem,” the Calgary natives both found themselves Hall says. “Hunger has been cut in half in the wanting more—and it wasn’t to climb higher last 25 years.…We’re on the right track, but there up the corporate ladder. are huge goals for it: ending it Rather, the two want[hunger] by 2030. We can’t ed to do something that do it alone, but Mealshare would help make the world is part of that equation. So Gail Johnson a better place. Having both that’s what’s driving us now.” been raised by families that instilled in them Here’s how it works. With operations in the importance of gratitude and giving back, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, they ultimately zeroed in on the fact that so Halifax, and Toronto, as well as smaller commany people at home and abroad go hungry. munities, Mealshare partners with restauIn 2013 the two cofounded Mealshare, a so- rants and local and international charities cial enterprise that provides a meal to some- for its “buy one, give one” model. Just as some one in need for every meal purchased at a restaurants carry an Ocean Wise logo on participating restaurant. their menu to indicate sustainable-seafood “We were raised with every opportunity choices, those participating in Mealshare and also with great values of being thank- stamp its logo on certain menu items. For ful for what we have and not taking things every one of those dishes that a diner orders, for granted,” the Vancouver-based Hall tells the resto donates money to Mealshare, which the Georgia Straight by phone. “We got the then distributes the funds to groups like Save quote-unquote dream business jobs out of the Children (which is currently providing business school…but it wasn’t fulfilling for meals on the organization’s behalf to kids us. I liked what I was doing, but at the end in Mali) and Vancouver’s Mission Possible, of each day, was I making a difference? We which helps people struggling with poverty wanted to do something together because we and homelessness here. both had this feeling that we were so fortunHall says the organization strives to work ate, we have the best lives, and how is it fair with charities that do more than just give out that we get to eat because of where we were food—ones that also provide shelter, educaborn and who we were born to and that sort tion, aid getting jobs, and other services that of thing…when so many other people aren’t help people make lasting changes in their lives. that lucky? We hate the fact that there’s more The program works, he says, because it’s than enough food in the world for every- easy for people to participate and it provides one, but it’s not spread around properly and them with a tangible way to give back. there’s a bunch of wasted food.” “It’s more engaging than having two dolThey didn’t have a business model to fol- lars taken off your grocery bill,” Hall says. low but were inspired by Toms, the company “We’ve found that this is something that that provides a pair of shoes to a child in need restaurant owners have been wanting for a for every pair purchased. And they were mo- while. They want to give back and often give tivated by stats like these: in Canada alone, away gift cards or cash, but they’ve never almost a million people are “food insecure”, had this kind of integrative program in their while more than eight million regularly dine restaurants yet. It involves their customers
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I remember him drinking a beer called Toby that, naturally, came in stubby bottles. Likely it was something fairly bland with a bit of caramel colour and marketed to expats like him. I also remember him taking me to Spinnakers when I was of drinking age and introducing me to the flavour of hops.
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Besides travelling around the Middle East, which is not a beer experience, I’d like to visit northern Italy. The craft-beer scene there is apparently exploding right now. I’ve had visFIRST GO-TO BRAND I didn’t really its from several Italian brewers and have a single go-to brand when I was am super interested to check it out. young. I suppose in university I drank Might do so next summer. quite a bit of Foster’s Lager, which was popular with my peers at the time. FIRST BEER BREWED The first beer I did visit the two brewpubs in Victoria I brewed would have been something quite a bit. Swans, which was fairly new with my dad when I was just a kid. at the time, and Spinnakers were great I can’t remember what it was, but I do know it would have been from a places to drink English-style ales. book called Brewing Beers Like Those LIFE-CHANGING BEER In 1995, You Buy by David Line. That’s the I went to Belgium with my girlfriend book he got some of his early recipes to look at Flemish Renaissance art from. The first beer I home-brewed and to taste really awesome Bel- on my own was, I think, a brown ale gian beer. Naturally, the beer part with cherries, and the first I brewed of the pilgrimage included visits to professionally would certainly have many abbey breweries and some of been Shaftebury Cream Ale. I also the famous lambic producers in the brewed the last batch of London PorPajottenland. Sitting in cafés drink- ter at Shaftebury before they disconing Gueuze, Kriek, and Faro from tinued it back in 1993. some of the most unique breweries in the world changed my life and start- CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Seved me on a path of discovery that led eral things come to mind: finally to making sour styles of beer long opening my own brewery has to be before many people in North Amer- pretty high on the list. Learning ica could even imagine they existed. the art of distilling, setting up, and
developing the spirits for Yaletown Distilling Company would be another. Having and raising my kids. Pioneering sour styles of beer here, like my Oud Bruin. I’D LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH
So I do like Madonna’s first album, or maybe it’s the second. The one with “Borderline” and “Lucky Star” on the first side and “Holiday” on the B-side. I’ve heard that she likes cask ale, so if she wasn’t such a tough businesswoman type, I’d say it would be good to have a beer with her. The trouble is, I’m afraid I wouldn’t want to hear the music after that. As far as brewers go, I would really like to sit down with Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium Brewing or Frank Boon of Boon or any other multigenerational lambic producer. Any time I can share a beer with one of Vancouver’s awesome brewers is great, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had a beer with Frank Appleton and John Mitchell, two of my early mentors. This is a condensed version of Straight to the Pint. Go to Straight. com for the full article and a bonus video feature.
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e’re now into autumn, which brings heartier fare to our dinner tables and a slew of new releases from B.C. wineries. The following are a mere handful of recommended reds for the season, most of them presented with winery-direct prices; expect them to be a couple bucks more when they hit local shelves. All are available in private liquor stores, with a couple of exceptions in government stores where noted. As the days get shorter and the nights longer, all of these will fit the chill, the rain, and our evenings quite well.
were handpicked by virgins. Okay, I may have made up that last part. The production was so limited that it’s only available winery-direct, yet it’s not even on their website. I do have Haywire’s word that if you email or call the winery, there are indeed a few bottles you can get your hands on. A fascinating wine: equal parts truffle, cherry, bourbon, graphite, and sage with wonderfully polished tannins and bright acidity. Cool stuff.
SUMAC RIDGE 2014 PRIVATE RESERVE PINOT NOIR ($13.79, B.C.
Liquor Stores) I don’t hold much hope when I see local Pinot Noir around this price point, but I’m definitely encouraged by this offering from B.C.’s The Okanagan is producing grapes that make for rich red wines, the kind first operating estate winery. Not that can stave off the chill on a rainy fall evening. WineBC.org photo. overly complex but entirely quaffable and balanced—soft red-berry fruit is gloves, and the restraint is admirable. Gamay vines, planted in 1984, comes the main player here, supported by Bright and juicy, with floral notes on this charismatic Naramata Gamay. a pinch of nutmeg the nose; expect Aromatics of wet earth and smashed fresh cherries, raspberries are alive with freshness, and fine, dusty tanb l a c k b e r r i e s , followed by strawberries, black pepper, nins. A dollop each and blueberries cedar, and a red-apple-skin note on of Gamay and MerKurtis Kolt lot in the mix proon the palate, plus the palate. Multilayered but still fairly vides just enough character to lift it the tiniest kiss of lingonberry sweet- lightweight; think poultry, wild game, to considerable quality. Arguably the ness on the finish. Full disclosure: I’ve and mushroom-driven dishes. best local Pinot under $20. never had an actual lingonberry, but you know that drink you get at IKEA? HAYWIRE 2014 FREE FORM RED JOIEFARM 2013 PINOT NOIR ($24, It’s totally like that! ($55, haywirewinery.com/) This one’s joiefarm.com/) A delicate wonder for the natural-wine geeks: 100 perwith a delightful rose-petal hue, this HILLSIDE 2012 OLD VINES GAMAY cent Pinot Noir, naturally ferment($21.73, hillsidewinery.ca/) ed, aged in amphorae, unfiltered, Pinot composed of Summerland and NOIR Naramata fruit is handled with kid From some of the Okanagan’s oldest no added sulphites, and the grapes
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somewhat quirky blend of Merlot and Syrah, with generous splashes of Viognier and Malbec in there too. There’s some rather showy toastedoak character on both the nose and the palate, but once you give your glass a swirl and, ideally, tuck into some grilled meat or a juicy burger, a good dose of peppery red fruits such as cherries, raspberries, and plums rises to the surface, culminating in a CORCELETTES 2013 MENHIR wave of easygoing deliciousness. ($32, corceletteswine.ca/) A hearty and proper Similkameen Valley LAUGHING STOCK VINEYARDS Cabernet Sauvignon–Syrah blend 2013 PORTFOLIO ($45, laughing exuding the region’s gravelly, stock.ca/) There are more expenlimestone-rich soils from start to sive Bordeaux-style blends coming finish. Spicy black fruit with dark out of B.C., a handful of which are chocolate and espresso notes makes tagged over the $100 mark. Vinit rather decadent, but its natural tage after vintage (and yes—even acidity ensures it drinks awfully in the tough ones), with the Portfolio label, Laughing Stock Vinebright and juicy at the same time. yards delivers incredible value CLOS DU SOLEIL 2012 SIGNA- and quality at a fraction of what TURE RED ($44.99, closdusoleil. others are asking. All five classic ca/) Another heavy hitter from the Bordeaux varieties are in here— mighty Similkameen, composed of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, CabCabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cab- ernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit ernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, all of Verdot—and they’re all handled which are well woven together af- with much care via double sorting ter a comfortable 18-month stay in (first cluster, then berry), a fancyFrench oak. There’s dark chocolate, pants French-oak program, and roasted hazelnuts, vanilla bean, a little bit of age-in-bottle. It’s got black fruit, licorice, dried fig, and currants, mulberries, blackberries, a touch of mint. The fruit and tan- autumnal forest-floor notes, sage, nins are ripe and polished; between spearmint, and a dusting of white the f lavour profile and the lush pepper. Tannins on point and just character, I’m thinking this bottle a touch of heat; everything’s in its will easily be a holiday hit. right place. -
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Heather Myers (left) started choreographing pieces as a dancer at the Boston Ballet, while Kirsten Wicklund has had her creative fires stoked by her work at Ballet B.C. Derek Stevens photos.
Stepping into choreography
where there’s constantly new creation happening,” she recounts. “And then, the level of both the dancers and choreographers was very high.” The result of her unusually varied experience is that Myers has danced in pieces by everyone from classical icon Marius Petipa to IsAt Dances for a Small Stage, Heather Myers and Kirsten Wicklund raeli groundbreaker Ohad show their ability to create work matches their talent at performing it Naharin. “That’s what’s been interesting to me: dance is Dances for a Small Stage may have a tiny always evolving and changing,” enthuses the dannew venue, but it’s featuring some big names— cer, who won the Clifford E. Lee award for choreography at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2009. BY JANET SM IT H with some big ideas—this time out. When the program debuts at the intimate Anza She’s taking another leap in Dances for a Small Club, two major dance talents will be showing their Stage, paired by artistic producer Julie-anne Saroychoreographic side: Heather Myers, an alumna of an with actor Agnes Tong to create a collaborative both the cutting-edge Nederlands Dans Theatre work that incorporates theatrical elements. and the renowned Boston Ballet, and Kirsten “There is text involved; both of us do a little Wicklund, one of Ballet B.C.’s new stars. bit of speaking, both of us do a little bit of mov“Choreography is quite a different practice than ing,” explains Myers. “It is a little bit out of my dance, in a way, even though the two are really re- comfort zone, and that does challenge you to lated,” Myers tells the Straight over the phone. “As a create in different ways.” dancer you have to be very creative but you’re often For her part, Wicklund is also up for a chalinterpreting more than creating from scratch. But I lenge: Saroyan has her collaborating on a piece also really love the idea of the stage and the possibil- with harpist and composer Elisa Thorne for the ities you can create in a theatrical setting. I like to show. Wicklund’s also working with fellow Ballet explore concepts and my own ideas.” B.C. dancer Andrew Bartee on the piece. Calgary-born Myers, who trained at the Nation“It’s a new experience for me to work with live al and Royal Winnipeg ballet companies before music and someone who composes their own music, spending seven years in Boston and more than four and then working with a coworker and putting my in the Netherlands, is re-establishing herself here ideas on him is also new,” she tells the Straight over in Vancouver, where she moved last September. the phone, during a break from rehearsing Crystal She’s been choreographing ever since her time at Pite’s piece for the next Ballet B.C. program. Of the Boston Ballet, where she set pieces on both the the Small Stage work, she adds: “It’s a two-part main troupe and its junior second company. piece. Andrew will perform and Elisa will be playHer education continued at NDT, an experience ing. I’ll be dancing in one part and I’ll be playing she calls, not surprisingly, “amazing”. “It’s a place with audio as well, with some vocalizing and text.
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It’s playing with a lot of things I want to explore.” Such experimentation is a long way from where Wicklund started, as a classical ballerina with the Goh Ballet Academy. From there, she followed scholarships at companies from American Ballet Theatre to Washington Ballet, but it wasn’t until she entered the world of contemporary ballet, she says, that the choreography bug bit her. “I immediately became interested in crafting movement; there was so much room for artistic input as a dancer,” says Wicklund, who went on to take a choreographic workshop with the American visionary Alonzo King. “In classical work we have no say. I found at Ballet B.C. there was so much room for my personal input. I realized I had a lot of strong opinions and points of view that I wanted to explore in terms of movement. I felt I really had things I wanted to say and I knew how I wanted to say them. “It was, ‘Wow, this world of contemporary ballet has so many open doors,’ and I found them all at the same time. I enjoy it as much as I do dancing the ideas of other people.” Like Myers, Wicklund is drawing inspiration from the choreographers who come to work with Ballet B.C. from around the globe. But Wicklund, who’s choreographed twice before for the Small Stage program, admits it’s a challenge finding time to create new work while she’s rehearsing all day for Ballet B.C.’s November season-opener. “Andrew and I started working through our lunches and doing later evening work after rehearsals,” she relates. “Yeah, it’s a little nuts. We have to really focus our time.” We’re pretty sure Myers would tell her it’s worth it—and certain that we’ll be seeing many more creations from these two in the coming years. Movent presents Dances for a Small Stage 32 at the Anza Club from Tuesday to next Friday (October 20 to 23).
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Editor’s choice ALIENS MEET ZOMBIES Sure, The Walking Dead gives you your zombie fix every week. But we dare you to take on the real thing in the site-specific theatrical work Alien Contagion: Rise of the Zombie Syndrome. A UFO has just landed on Earth, people are turning into zombies, and about 17 audience members help resolve the crisis. See why Virtual Stage’s Andy Thompson’s immersive—and terrifying— series has become a Halloween staple for many adoring fans. Alien Contagion: Rise of the Zombie Syndrome runs at a secret location in downtown Vancouver until November 1.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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EMPIRE OF THE SON (At the Cultch until October 24) An intensely moving father-son tale told with brilliant use of tiny props projected on-screen.
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THE WAITING ROOM (At the Arts Club’s Granville Island stage until October 31) John Mann’s songs meet playwright Morris Panych’s creative storytelling.
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ANGELI ARCHANGELI (At Ryerson United Church on Saturday [October 17]) Vancouver Cantata Singers span Tavener to Piazzolla. (See story on page 24.)
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ROBOTS & MONSTERS (At Ayden Gallery until November 1) A lowbrow lover’s delight, with creatures cutely cartoonish, retro, and scary.
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A SIMPLE SPACE (At the York Theatre until October 24) Cheeky laughs come with serious acrobatic wows in a nonstadium circus atmosphere.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE Our arts fan this week is actor Christine Quintana, who’s starring in Heathers: The Musical at the York this January. Here’s her must-see choice: “I saw A Doll’s House at the Jericho Arts Centre. It’s a classic that feels unnervingly contemporary. We’re in a time when we’re—apparently—still struggling with recognizing women’s autonomy, and this beautifully acted production cuts to the core of that issue.” Slamming Door Artist Collective presents Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Jericho Arts Centre until October 24.
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Voices soar with angels The Vancouver Cantata Singers explore both the friendly and frightening in concert > B Y A LE X A ND ER VA R TY
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aula Kremer has proof that angels are real—she’s seen one sitting behind a desk at a local credit union. “I was in Vancity getting my first mortgage approval years back, and just the idea of getting an approval was amazing,” the Vancouver Cantata Singers’ artistic director explains, on the line from her South Surrey home. “So I looked across at the fellow and said, ‘Oh my goodness, you are an angel!’ And you know what he did? He got up, took off his shirt and tie, and turned around—this was in Vancity, remember—and he had a gigantic tattoo of two wings on his back. “True story!” she adds, laughing. Even if Kremer’s angel was simply a banker with a yen for body modification, angelic forces have long interested the singer and conductor. “There are angels in many different religions and many different cultures,” she explains. “If we use the Christian religion as an example, there are guardian angels, different levels of angels, and mainly they’re there to look after us and transport us through the gates of heaven. But there are just so many different ways to interpret angels. If a child lies in the snow and f lails their arms and legs about, you go ‘Oh, they’ve made a snow angel,’ and you don’t have to believe in angels to say that!” You also won’t have to be a believer to enjoy the angel-themed program that Kremer and the Cantata Singers have assembled for a Ryerson United Church concert this weekend. Although spiritual themes predominate, typified by the early-16th-century plainchant that will open the show, Angeli
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In Angeli Archangeli/Songs of Angels, the Vancouver Cantata Singers explore all the ways music has interpreted the winged creatures. Belle Ancell photo.
Archangeli/Songs of Angels will also feature two politically inspired works by tango master Astor Piazzolla and a dark and decidedly existential setting of a Rainer Maria Rilke elegy from Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. “It’s 10 minutes long, and it’s just a monster of a piece,” Kremer says of Rautavaara’s Die Erste Elegie. “It’s dodecaphonic: he used a 12tone row, but it sounds very tonal. I almost feel like the whole concert could just be the Rautavaara. It’s such an amazing poem that questions everything. His angels are erschreckend; they’re terrifying. It speaks to the idea that inner beauty is the beginning of terror, and it’s all about the suffering on Earth. It mentions the dark nights of sleep, ‘where everything comes and gnaws at your face’, and what happens when we die, and it questions what’s external and what’s internal.…It just questions everything.”
Die Erste Elegie, which comes late in the program, is certainly in contrast to the more meditative works that will precede it. “After hearing all the scripture that’s saying ‘Angels, please do this.…Give us peace. You will guard over us and look after us,’ the opening line of the Rautavaara is ‘When I cry, who’s going to hear me among the angels?’ He’s almost asking ‘Who’s going to help me in time of need?’ And then the answer is ‘Not angels. Not men.’ So it’s completely deep and existential.” After long contemplation, Kremer has decided that Rautavaara and Rilke’s underlying message is that music is the best of angels, our only true salvation—and in this concert we’ll all be borne aloft on its wings. The Vancouver Cantata Singers present Angeli Archangeli/Songs of Angels at Ryerson United Church on Saturday (October 17).
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Acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk says his erudite-yet-crowd-pleasing program at the Vancouver Recital Society is “just a collection of things that I particularly love”.
Ragtime to pavans, pianist hits right mix > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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ith a running order that ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach to ragtime pioneer Scott Joplin to early modernists Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, Jeremy Denk’s upcoming Vancouver Recital Society appearance looks to have something for everyone—or at least anyone who would turn out to hear a piano recital on an autumnal Sunday afternoon. When it comes to the kind of eruditeyet-crowd-pleasing programming that won him a 2013 MacArthur fellowship, however, Denk says that he starts by pleasing himself. “In a weird way,” he notes in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C., “this is just a collection of things that I particularly love. “The core of the program is obviously this sort of iPod shuffle about syncopation, using ragtime as a sort of point of departure for… Sorry, I’m still waking up!” he continues, reached the morning after a genre-bending Kennedy Center collaboration with jazz pianist Jason Moran. “But it’s about rhythm as an entity in music, and rhythm as a source of wit and surprise and joy. Ragtime is a genre that is pretty humble, but it has this element of charm and disruption and change-up in it, and I began looking around for other pieces that reflected it, or dealt with that issue, or have that same quality.” William Byrd’s “Ninth Pavan” from Passing Measures finds Denk foraging furthest afield, and for those with only a sketchy knowledge of the Elizabethan composer’s work, it probably seems one of the stranger
items on the bill. When asked why he’s opening with such a relatively simple piece, though, Denk explains that Byrd’s score is not quite as straightforward as it might seem. “It’s not the ‘Paganini Variations’, by any stretch,” he says, referring to Johannes Brahms’s notoriously taxing Variations on a Theme of Paganini. “But it’s incredibly intricate, and a little bit far from the grammar of music that we’re used to listening to in classical concerts. I think it takes some translating to the modern era in order to put across the incredible joys of that music. It’s just coursing with rhythmic life all the time, this Byrd pavan. “Obviously, people like to complain when you play Bach on the modern piano, and Byrd is yet another century of distance and anachronism, right?” he adds. “And there is a way that Byrd can sound very much like a Renaissance-fair artifact, but I don’t really see it that way.” So how, exactly, can a performer shake off those velvet cobwebs? “You just play it with vitality, I guess,” Denk contends. “For me, the end of the Byrd has an astounding climax of rhythmic complexity that sounds almost exactly like ragtime, for some brief instances. There’s also the way the music lifts off, beginning with simple premises and then complicating them.…By paying attention to that, I hope I can make this music accessible to the modern listener and not feel like a lecturer from a musichistory class.” -
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Empire’s exquisite father-son tale resonates TH E AT RE EMPIRE OF THE SON By Tetsuro Shigematsu. Directed by Richard Wolfe. A Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre production, presented by the Cultch. At the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab on Thursday, October 8. Continues until October 24
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Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Son is exquisite. It’s also painstakingly honest. In his script, which Shigematsu performs solo, he explores his relationship with his father, Akira. In a talkback after the performance I attended, Shigematsu summoned the idea that artists are caught in the tension between wanting to hide and wanting to communicate. That may be the same tension that makes so many stories about fathers and sons so moving. The Japanese-Canadian household of the writer’s youth magnified the emotional restraint that many cultures put on males. Akira never stated his love for Tetsuro, but in unfolding the story of his father’s childhood and its wartime traumas, Shigematsu discovers the transformative power of compassion. And in the process of exploring his dad’s career humiliation—he went from being a broadcaster at the BBC and CBC to delivering mail in the CBC corridors—he redefines male success. Shigematsu’s script includes a central conceit: he has never cried as an adult, but his dad died on September 18, and he wants to weep without selfconsciousness at the funeral—so these performances are an opportunity to rehearse. Within that container, the storytelling is poetic, associative— and often funny. One charming anecdote involves the author’s young son, who is decidedly less self-conscious than his forebears: “Daddy, will you
In Empire of the Son, Tetsuro Shigematsu uses miniatures to tell his story through mini movies. Raymond Shum photo.
wipe my buttinsky?” When Shigematsu obliges, he observes his child: “For him, it’s like a day at the spa.” The associations can also be searing. Akira witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima; his granddaughter writes a story for elementary school in which she skates with her family on Grouse Mountain for one last time before the Earth is destroyed by a solar flare. Physically, the show, which was directed by Richard Wolfe and produced by Donna Yamamoto, is stellar. Shigematsu often uses a camera turned on toys and other miniatures to tell his story. Those mini movies are projected live onto a screen behind him. In the Grouse Mountain sequence, his two fingers skate in the open space between mini snowdrifts. With its vertical narrow strips of wood, Pam Johnson’s set conjures Japanese elegance, then explodes into a freeform arrangement of straight lines at the top. And Gerald King’s lighting is downright musical
in its multiplicity of textures and its combination of subtlety and drama. I can’t say enough good things about Empire of the Son. It’s bound to be one of the best shows of the year. You should see it. > COLIN THOMAS
THE WAITING ROOM Book by Morris Panych. Music and lyrics by John Mann. Directed by Morris Panych. An Arts Club production. At the Granville Island Stage on Wednesday, October 7. Continues until October 31
Parts of it are brilliant and
2 other bits are blank.
The design is an unqualified success. When The Waiting Room, which is a musical, starts, about all we see is the sky-blue back wall of the stage. Then tiers of white chairs descend from the fly gallery. The moment is so surreal and simply beautiful that you’re immediately grateful
for being in the hands of designer Ken MacDonald. The story is homegrown. Morris Panych based his script on the experience of local musician John Mann, and his solo album—also called The Waiting Room—which explores Mann’s diagnosis and treatment for colorectal cancer. The main problem with the script is that it stays simple and superficial for too long. In the central conceit, J has conversations with C, a nineyear-old girl who died of leukemia. C has arrived, she announces, to escort J to the other side. In the meantime, he goes through the medical system, where he finds some good jokes. Addressing the audience, a medical assistant says, “Excuse me, but while you’re enjoying the show, I have to go lube up another anus.” All of the characters are broad, however, and the scenes are a predictable checklist—first doctor’s visit, tests, diagnosis—that lacks
emotional resonance: J is freaked out, but we don’t get a lot of details, so his state remains generic. And J’s relationship with his wife, L, repeats itself: she keeps telling us, for instance, that she wants to quit her job. Then, right around the point at which J is getting prepped for surgery, The Waiting Room finds its feet. Hopped up on pre-anesthetic drugs, J and two other guys hallucinate. The eccentricity is fun, but the show clicks into gear here because the stakes get real. Surgery is a big deal and Mann, who had the surgery in real life, is onstage as the lead singer in the band. The script spells out its message about the importance of embracing life and it wastes time resolving the story of the dead girl. But the message is still worth hearing, and, largely because Mann is in the theatre with us, it’s moving. Besides, Jonathon Young, who plays J, is a phenomenon. It’s not hyperbolic to say that he’s one of the best actors in the world. Just watch his movement here: the guy is a frickin’ dancer. And he’s so radiantly present that every word he utters feels like the absolute truth. Overall, you couldn’t ask for a stronger cast. Peter Anderson, Chris Cochrane, Jillian Fargey, Bonnie Panych, and Matreya Scarrwener are all at the top of their game. The movement—Wendy Gorling acted as movement collaborator—is as fanciful as a French cartoon. And, under Morris Panych’s directorial hand, the staging is as precise as a surgical instrument. Mann’s folk-rock songs, especially the heartfelt and exuberant “Thank You”, are beautiful, and they’re performed here by an all-star band that includes Shari Ulrich on violin. Ultimately, The Waiting Room is a celebration of Mann and his resilience. Amen to that. > COLIN THOMAS
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Urgent Imagination probes development push VISUAL AR TS URGENT IMAGINATION At and around the Western Front until October 31
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On the Western Front’s façade, Nils Norman’s Vancouver Vernacular draws on the language of condo marketing, while Other Sights for Artists’ Projects’ Slow Dirt features a dangling, inflatable earthworm. Ben Wilson photo.
the Front’s executive director, Caitlin Jones, it has been conceived in two parts, the first being the art on view in, on, and around the Front. The second part, a two-day conference which took place on October 2 and 3, posed a number of probing questions across a range of social, economic, and “spatial justice” issues. Both parts of Urgent Imagination consider how artists might exercise greater agency in shaping the ways our cities are planned and built, and both explore creative ways around entrenched power structures. (The truly remarkable proceedings of the
conference will be posted at urgent imagination.front.bc.ca/.) Too often, it seems, visual artists are commissioned to make “public” artworks that are mere decorations for ugly, unimaginative, and overpriced condominium towers (developments that likely have displaced low-end renters). Just as with our city’s community-consultation process (dubbed during the conference as “nonsultation”), artists’ participation in such projects occurs at a distant remove from the decision-making nexus of power—developers, high-end investors, and globalized hypercapitalism.
In London, U.K., however, two architectural cooperatives, Architects for Social Housing (ASH) and Assemble, have devised successful ways of inserting a social conscience and DIY strategies into the urbandevelopment process. Members of each collective spoke at the conference, and Assemble also produced a two-panel artwork, The Good, the Bad and the Allegory, for the exhibition. Riffing on The Allegory of Good and Bad Government, a suite of 14th-century frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, Assemble’s painted panels present us with
simplified pictures of two quite different Vancouvers. The bad-governance model is a monotonous scene of identical glass towers interspersed with construction cranes, golden arches, and motorways crowded with cars and trucks (i.e., pretty much what Vancouver looks like these days). The good-governance model is lively and heterogeneous, a messy yet utopian imagining filled with variously sized, shaped, and coloured buildings and complemented by parks, gardens, green energy, public transit—and farms. Also at the conference, members of the Vancouver artists’ collective Other Sights for Artists’ Projects spoke about Slow Dirt, their inflatable sculpture and photo-billboards based on the image of the earthworm. Here, the lowly creature that transforms organic garbage into nutrient-rich soil is a metaphor for what urban development could be, a process both enriching and incremental. It also functions as an example to artists who seek to slow the development process down by “creating friction”. The cultural research collective Urban Subjects presented a scholarly and stimulating paper that ranged across a number of spatialjustice issues, including the “megaevents”, such as Expo 86, that have driven Vancouver’s growth and development. Their scholarly paper and their poster project use historical, European examples of socially responsible “minimum” housing to critique the exploitative local concept of “microlofts” and to draw our attention to the truly villainous shift of housing—a basic human need—from use value to exchange value. Kudos to Urban Subjects, and to the other participants in Urgent Imagination, for reminding us “how truly fucked up this is”. > ROBIN LAURENCE
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DeWitt dreams up the past in black comedy PROF I LE PATRICK DEWITT
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rick deWitt, the Sidney, B.C.–born author of the massively popular novel The Sisters Brothers. Nominated for multiple awards (including the Booker and Giller), optioned for a movie by John C. Reilly with Jacques Audiard tapped to direct, and topping just about everyone’s list of the best reads of 2011, it was a monumental book to follow up. And deWitt’s first attempt at doing so just wasn’t cutting it. It was the story of a corrupt investment banker who f lees to Paris to avoid prison, and deWitt threw in the towel on the project 100 pages in. “I had a residency in Paris,” he gamely relates over the phone from his home in Portland, Oregon, “and I was actually doing research for the book I would eventually abandon. We were staying in a very old building that had been built in the 1600s, and I was reading central European and Jewish fables to my son. There’s something extremely inviting about them. They’re very dark and strange, and it just seemed that whoever had written these stories was having quite a lot more fun than I was having.” The solution? DeWitt decided it was necessary to fi nd a project he’d actually enjoy writing—and the result is Undermajordomo Minor. Much like The Sisters Brothers, a quirkily historical western whose main character’s spiritual malaise and wry sensibility were totally relatable for contemporary readers, Undermajordomo Minor takes a classical setting and story structure and makes them seem utterly modern. It’s the story of Lucien Minor, a weak, romantic, deceptive
very dark places (shades of Eyes Wide novel, which, when prodded, he Shut). And deWitt acknowledges that can’t help but spill the beans about, some of that probably came from his excitement obvious. “I always what he was going through while tell myself to keep it quiet but then I writing the book. “I can’t do it, because I’m a felt generally disnatural blabbermouth,” tracted,” he recalls. he admits. “Whether it’s “I was travelling a lot, wise or not wise, I’ve doing Sisters Brothbeen telling people that ers–related events and the story I have in my going to festivals, and mind is the diary of things in my personal an explorer—somelife weren’t going very body who has been well.…there’s all these sent to map the world, unpleasant elements or circumnavigate the which added up to a globe, or perform some fairly foggy state of sort of inhuman task, mind for me. I definitely in a boat.” think that the unhappiBut will deWitt be nesses that I was going able to relate to this through that had nothone? Given the ining to do with the book certainly human task of writing a book—only wound up colouring the book.” slightly less daunting than circumAfter those struggles, deWitt navigating the globe—it seems plans to keep things a little simpler pretty likely. > JENNIFER CROLL during the promotion of UnderB.C.–born novelist Patrick deWitt set Undermajordomo Minor in a nonspecific majordomo Minor. “I’m going to try time period to avoid being bound by historical accuracy. Danny Palmerlee photo. to stay home more and focus on the Patrick deWitt will make two appearslip of a young man who manages to of an anonymous eastern European work rather than on the running ances, on October 23 and 24, at this secure a job at the very odd Castle country in an era that sometimes around,” he says. And that’s so he year’s Vancouver Writers Fest. See Von Aux in service to the castle’s seems medieval, sometimes Vic- can devote his energies to his next www.writersfest.bc.ca/ for details. tatty, existentially inclined major- torian. The lack of specificity is endomo, Mr. Olderglough. While it’s tirely intentional; with this book, an ambivalent fable (it’s not really deWitt wanted to free himself from > BY STAFF CHOICE OF THE WEEK clear what the morals are, here), it’s the sort of fact-checking he faced unapologetically romantic. As in with the Gold Rush setting for The Too many flimsy paperbacks—not to mention too many tablet and phone one of those movies where the nerd Sisters Brothers. “I’m not interested screens—can make you forget the simple yet infinite powers of the gets the hot chick, Lucy pursues in historical accuracy or anything physical book. So if you need a reminder, there’s an excellent one availand woos the girl of his dreams— like that,” he articulates. “And I able this weekend (October 17 and 18) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where a trope that seems equally at home didn’t want the cast to speak to a the fourth annual Vancouver Art/Book Fair is taking place. Organized as in a Judd Apatow movie and a culture. If I placed it in France or always by local art-publishing force Project Space, it wraps up a week of medieval fable. “If I can’t relate in Germany or Hungary I would have associated events at galleries around town, all featuring books, printed some sort of a concrete way to the to do right by those respective works, and zines by artists from across Canada and around the world. protagonist or the auxiliary char- cultures. And I prefer to keep it (Digital publishing gets a place here too—they’re not Luddites, you know.) acters, I do have a hard time main- more universal.” And there’s no need for library-quiet, either: DJs, dancing, and karaoke taining focus,” deWitt agrees. “So One of the most notable things will light up the opening party at Fortune Sound Club on Friday (October I tend to address contemporary con- about Undermajordomo Minor is its 16) and the after-party at the Fox Cabaret on Saturday (October 17). See cerns, ideas in these stories even if pitch-black sense of humour. De2015.vancouverartbookfair.com/ for the huge lineup of artists, exhibitors, they do take place in the past.” Witt’s wordplay (even in the title) performers, and presentations at this unique celebration. That past is a murky one: the book’s will be familiar to fans of The Sisters dreamlike setting uses the hills Brothers, but this book goes to some
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD Get in the mood for Halloween with the Royal Canadian Theatre Company’s steampunk rendition of Dracula. It’s a stylized version of the classic 1924 stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, in which the young Lucy Seward falls victim to a vampire, and Prof. Van Helsing (here played by a woman in another new twist) sets out to find who the bloodsucker is. Elyse Maloway and Kurtis Maguire star. The show runs until Sunday (October 17) and then again from next Wednesday (October 21) to October 24 at Metro Theatre. Remember to pack along your garlic. about faith and politics. To Oct 18, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
2OPENINGS THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Exit 22 Productions presents a stage version of Richard O'Brien's cult-classic film about a young couple that seeks refuge with an eccentric doctor. Oct 14-17, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $22/15/10, info www. capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/15Rocky-Horror-Show/. DRACULA The Royal Canadian Theatre presents Bram Stoker's classic horror story with a Victorian-steampunk twist. Oct 14-24, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 S.W. Marine). Tix $25/18, info www.rctheatreco.com/. I WISH ... Presentation House Theatre and Teatro Elsinor present a play about a man who travels the world capturing people's wishes. Oct 15-25, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield). Info www.phtheatre.org/show/i-wish/. THE DAMAGE IS DONE From invading Nazis to a failed revolution, the impact of historical and family trauma is transformed with humour and compassion. Oct 20-24, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/thedamage-is-done-a-true-story/.
ROMEO + JULIET In association with Chop Theatre, Studio 58 presents William Shakespeare's classic tale of tragedy and doomed young love. To Oct 18, Langara (100 W. 49th). Tix $12.25-24.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketstonight. ca/, info langara.ca/studio-58/currentseason/index.html.
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THE IT GIRL MUSICAL Full-length musical based on the Paramount picture It, set in 1920s New York City. To Oct 17, 8-10 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $20-25, info www.dramanatrix productions.com/. EMPIRE OF THE SON Writer-performer Tetsuro Shigematsu's play tells the story of his personal relationship with his father, who is dying. To Oct 17, Vancity Culture Lab (the Cultch, 1895 Venables). Tix from $25, info www.thecultch.com/. ALIEN CONTAGION: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents an interactive-theatre adventure that sees participants battle ghouls, aliens, and zombies. To Nov 1, The Virtual Stage Arts Society (P.O. Box 21524 1424 Commercial Drive). Tix $12.50-50, info www.zombiesyndrome.com/. A DOLL'S HOUSE The Slamming Door Artist Collective presents Henrik Ibsen's drama about a housewife who becomes disillusioned with her condescending husband. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix from $18, info www. brownpapertickets.com/event/2148918/. WAIT UNTIL DARK The Sidekick Players Club presents director Carroll Lefebvre's version of playwright Frederick Knott's award-winning thriller.
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To Oct 24, Tsawwassen Arts Centre (1172 56th St., Delta). Tix $18/15, info www. sidekickplayers.com/.
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FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN A portrait of the bond between mother and son by Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $20-45, info www.gatewaytheatre.com/.
C M Rad Comedy R to the Max October 15 – November 21
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN Pacific Theatre presents the Midnight Theatre Collective's play about a pastor who attempts to bring his backwater congregation into the modern age of 1938. To Nov 1, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacifictheatre.org/ season/2015-2016-season-3/mainstage/ smoke-on-the-mountain/. THE OLD HAUNT Excavation Theatre presents playwright Avery Burrow's psychological ghost story. Directed by Jessica Anne Nelson. To Oct 17, 7:30-9 pm, The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). Tix $15-20, info www.facebook.com/ExcavationTheatre/.
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DEUX ANS DE VOTRE VIE (YOU ARE HAPPY) Théâtre la Seizième presents Quebecois playwright Rébecca Déraspe's dark romantic comedy about finding great love at any price. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25-28, info www.seizieme.ca/.
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UNWRAPPING CULTURE Co.ERASGA + Pichet Klunchun Dance Company present a collaboration by male dance artists Alvin Erasga Tolentino and Pichet Klunchun. Presented as part of the Dance Centre's Global Connections series. Oct 15-17, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/22, info www.thedancecentre.ca/events/ global_dance_connections/. CONFIDANCE Shiamak Vancouver students perform various Indocontemporary and Bollywood-jazz dances. Oct 16, 7:30-9 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby). Tix $30, info www.shiamak.ca/vancouver/. TWILIGHT AT OASIS The Middle Eastern Dance Association presents a show featuring Dahlia Moon and other Middle Eastern dance artists from the Pacific Northwest. Oct 17, 7:45 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $25/20, info www.medabellydance.com/.
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ATTRAPE-MOI Flip FabriQue combines athleticism and circus acts in a show that includes aerial hoops and straps, banquina, and juggling. Oct 18, 2 pm, The ACT Arts Centre (11944 Haney Pl., Maple Ridge). Info www.theactmapleridge.org/.
straight choices EXPLOSIVE EXPERIMENTS There are few places where artists truly get to play. So, if you want to see what happens when emerging and established talents from a wide array of media meld minds and let their creative juices loose, check out the Interplay Project this Friday and Saturday (October 16 and 17) at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre. Presented by that facility and the Contingency Plan, it’s an interdisciplinary performance lab with some of the most experimental, cutting-edge stuff you’re going to see on local stages. Some of the names on the roster this year are contemporary dancer Julianne Chapple, writer Naben Ruthnum, violist and laptop musician Stefan Smulovitz, and dance artist Ileanna Cheladyn. Join them in their playroom. ANGELI ARCHANGELI : SONGS OF ANGELS The Vancouver Cantata Singers perform music by John Tavener, E. Rautavaara, and Astor Piazzolla. Oct 17, 7:30 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $30/20/10, info www.vancouvercantatasingers.com/. THE VPO PRESENTS A CONCERT OF POPULAR OVERTURES AND SHORT WORKS The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra performs music by Sibelius, Liszt, Weber, Strauss, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Offenbach. Oct 17, 8 pm, Shaughnessy Heights United Church (1550 W. 33rd). Tix $15/10, info www.vanphil.ca/ vpo-concerts/oct-17-2015-program/. IMPRESSIONIST MASTERWORKS Darrell Ang conducts pianist Angela Cheng and the VSO in a program of works by Zhou Long, Beethoven, and Debussy. Oct 17, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). The concert also runs Oct 19, 8 pm, at Centennial Theatre., info www. vancouversymphony.ca/. JEREMY DENK American pianist performs music by Bach, Byrd, Bolcom, Hayden/Joplin, Tatum, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Ives, Nancarrow, Lambert, Haydn, and Beethoven. Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society. Oct 18, 3 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital.com/. STANDING WAVE - INK ON SILK Standing Wave performs music by Canadian composers Vincent Ho and Jared Miller, as well as works by Lei Liang, WeiChieh Lin, Stephen Hartke, and Bright Sheng. Oct 20, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $25/20, info www.standingwave.ca/. THE DOVER QUARTET Friends of Chamber Music presents the classical ensemble in a performance of music by Dvorak, Berg, and Beethoven. Oct 20, 8-10 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $48/15, info ow.ly/SDTl5.
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DANCES FOR A SMALL STAGE 32 Eclectic mix of contemporary dance pieces by Heather Myers, Agnes Tong, Andrew Bartee, Kirsten Wicklund, Vanessa Goodman, Scheherazaad Cooper, and Caroline Liffman. Oct 20-23, 8-10 pm, ANZA Club (3 W. 8th Ave). Tix $20, info www.smallstage.ca/.
HALLOWEEN MONSTER MATCH The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an evening of Halloween-themed comedy by two costumed improvisers. Also includes dancing, DJs, drinks, and a costume parade. Oct 31, 8:15-11:55 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $25-33, info www.vtsl.com/ show/halloween/.
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2THIS WEEK SERGEI BABAYAN Music in the Morning presents the classical pianist. Oct 14-16, 10:30-11:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $35/33/16, info www.musicinthemorning.org/. OUT FOR LUNCH CONCERTS Duo Cordei performs music by Toldras, Cras, and Piazolla. Oct 16, 12:10-1:10 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Concert included in gallery admission/membership, info www. vanartgallery.bc.ca/. UBC BANDS: PLAYING FAVOURITES UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble and UBC Concert Winds perform music by Vaughan Williams, Custer, Grainger, Shostakovich, and Fucík. Oct 16, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $8 , info www.music.ubc.ca/.
LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604525-2262, www.lafflines.com/. 2MIKE MACDONALD: A CRAZY NIGHT OF COMEDY Oct 14 2GABRIEL RUTLEDGE Oct 16-17 2GERALD GERALD GERALDSON Oct 30-31. EAST VAN COMEDY Improv and standup comedy with Instant Theatre Company (every Sun at 8 pm) and Graham Clark's Laugh Gallery (every Mon at 9 pm). Every Sun and Mon, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $5-10, info www.east vancomedy.com/. THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www.thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15
Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2MICHAEL KOSTA Oct 15-17 2DAN SODER Oct 22-24 2ILIZA SCHLESINGER Jan 14-16 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 2CAMERON ESPOSITO Feb 11-13 2ARI SHAFFIR Feb 18-20
YUK YUK'S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2MIKE MACDONALD Oct 15-17 2NATASHA LEGGERO Oct 23-24 2BOBBY LEE Nov 13-14 2GODFREY Dec 4-5 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throwback TheatreSports (every Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Oct 14-21, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK MICHAEL KOSTA Comedian known for appearing on sports-entertainment show Crowd Goes Wild. Oct 15-17, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa). Tix $20/18/15, info www. thecomedymix.com/. THROWBACK THEATRESPORTS The Vancouver TheatreSports League celebrates all things 1980s with a comedic trip down memory lane. Oct 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30; Nov 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 7:30-9 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl.com/show/throwbacktheatresports/. MIKE MACDONALD Canadian standup comedian known for appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman and The Arsenio Hall Show. Oct 15, 8 pm; Oct 16, 8 pm; Oct 17, 7 pm; Oct 17, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $20, info www.yukyuks.com/. EDDIE PEPITONE NorthWest Comedy presents comedian Eddie Pepitone. Oct 16, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $19, info northwestcomedyfest.com/eddie-pepitone. BILL MAHER American political satirist, writer, TV host, actor, and standup comedian known for hosting Politically Incorrect and Real Time. Oct 18, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $49.50-99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TOP TALENT SHOWCASE AT YUK YUK'S Check out Vancouver’s next top comics as they develop their craft. Oct 13, 8 pm; Oct 20, 8 pm; Oct 27, 7:55 pm, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $10, info www.yukyuks.com/. R/IMPROV AND ASK ME ANYTHING COMEDY The Fictionals present an evening of laughs inspired by personal stories and the strangest questions asked on the Internet. Oct 20, 8-9:30 pm, Café Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial). Tix $7/5, info www.thefictionals.com/. IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY: LIVE AND UNSANCTIONED The Fictionals present an evening of comedy inspired by cult-hit card game Cards Against Humanity. Oct 21, 8-10 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www. thefictionals.com/.
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LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK MEET THE AUTHOR: MARIA TIPPETT Governor General's Award–winner Maria Tippett discusses her book Made in British Columbia. Oct 15, 7 pm, Christianne's Lyceum of Literature and Art (3696 W. 8th). Tix $22, info www.christiannehayward.com/.
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Oct 16 STARK RAVEN Oct 17 STARK RAVEN Oct 18 SONS OF THE HOE
VANCOUVER ART/BOOK FAIR Project Space presents a festival of books, magazines, zines, print ephemera, talks, performances, and artist projects. Oct 17-18, 12-6 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Info 2015.vancouverartbookfair.com/.
DAILY HAPPY HOUR 1038 Main St • (604) 608-1444 1 block North Main St SkyTrain
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VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST Annual celebration of the written word includes authors Anakana Schofield, Bill Richardson, Carellin Brooks, Daniel Galera, Elaine Lui, Farzana Doctor, George Bowering, Hannah Kent, Ian McAllister, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Solie, Laura van den Berg, Marlon James, Nicole Brossard, Paul Yee, Robert J. Wiersema, Sarah Dunant, TJ Dawe, and Wab Kinew. Oct 20-25, Granville Island. Info www.writersfest.bc.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK HIDDEN PASTS, DIGITAL FUTURES: A FESTIVAL OF IMMERSIVE ARTS Experience the digital creations of Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine, Robert Lepage, and Stan Douglas and the NFB Digital Studio. Step into three-dimensional universes and be transported to heritage sites a world away. To Oct 18, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free, info www.sfu.ca/
A SIMPLE SPACE Seven acrobats expose the reality of failure and weakness. To Oct 24, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/. THE INTERPLAY PROJECT The Contingency Plan and Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre present an interdisciplinary performance lab. Oct 16-17, 8 pm, Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre (7646 Prince Albert). Tix $20 , info www.contingencyplan.ca/. COLLEEN HESLIN IN CONVERSATION WITH NEIL CAMPBELL Informal discussion between artists Colleen Heslin and Neil Campbell on Treading Buoylines, a new series of work by Heslin. Oct 17, 2 pm, Charles H. Scott Gallery (Emily Carr University, Granville Island). Info www. facebook.com/events/988377514554095/. NUDE MODEL DRAWING Explore your inner erotic artist and come paint a nude model. Oct 19, 7:30-9:30 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Free admission, info www.theartofloving.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouverbased artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 2THE GUND COLLECTION: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST (exhibition features a group of historical and contemporary First Nations artwork from the Northwest Coast, drawn from the Collection of George Gund III) to Jan 31 2THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (explore the conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery) to Jan 24
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MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-822-5087, www. moa.ubc.ca/. 2CESNA?EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2CESNA?EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK WHISTLER READERS AND WRITERS FESTIVAL Event brings together Canadian and international authors for a weekend packed with readings, workshops, speaker panels, spoken word events, and music. Oct 16-18, Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard). Info www.whistler writersfest.com/.
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Coming up with a fallback plan is never
BY MIKE US IN G ER
a bad idea when rolling the dice on a career in music. Figuring out something to do that didn’t involve working at Starbucks wasn’t a problem for Lizzy Plapinger or Max Hershenow, known to their fans as the two principals in New York City electro-pop duo MS MR. Both studied at Vassar College in New York state, but not with the intention of making records like the recently released How Does It Feel or touring the world. Hershenow planned on becoming a modern-dance choreographer, perhaps establishing himself as the next Hofesh Shechter or Jiří Kylián. Plapinger, meanwhile, not only ended up cofounding her own record label but quickly built a reputation as someone with an eye for talent. Her Neon Gold imprint has helped launch the careers of Ellie Goulding, Haim, and Gotye. “I started Neon Gold in my sophomore year, so really I was just hoping that would eventually lead to a job outside of school,” the singer says, speaking on a conference call with Hershenow from an Idaho tour stop. “And it basically did, because we signed a major-label deal the day after we graduated. But I think I had originally planned to remain
Taking care of business
We can’t figure out what exactly made the photographer decide to have MS MR’s Lizzy Plapinger pose in front of Max Hershenow, rather than vice versa.
suggests. “It was almost like we imagined what it would From the sound to the visuals, MS MR’s savvy Lizzy Plapinger sound like played for a huge crowd at a festival. We were and Max Hershenow have got everything mapped out writing in this tiny, windowon the industry side of things.” less little studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But the That would change when she got a random good thing was that there was something escapist email from Hershenow, who wanted to know if and hyper-imaginative about where we were doing she could recommend a singer for a project he was the writing, and I think that really translates.” hoping to get off the ground. Plapinger began to How Does It Feel is a record of contrasts, with wonder if she might be ready to make the move standouts like “Criminals” mixing pastel-hued from running Neon Gold to performing. synths with warm, unmistakably organic drums. “I love music so much, so I was curious about ex- MS MR does icy detachment as well as anyone perimenting on my own, but I didn’t feel safe about from a John Hughes playlist on “No Guilt in sharing stuff with anyone,” Plapinger says. “There Pleasure” but isn’t shy about revving things up for was something nice about the fact that I didn’t know R&B jams such as “Leave Me Alone”. Max very well—he was anonymous to me. There was MS MR’s attention to detail doesn’t stop with also something pleasant about being able to send stuff a sonic approach that’s led more than one critinto the void and getting honest feedback. That really ic to invoke many of the heavyweights of ’80s taught me to trust my instincts, which led to me and synth-pop. Not only does the band sound like it Max writing two records together and spending the belongs on a mix tape with the likes of Eurythpast five years of our lives working together.” mics and Yazz, the group also pays attention to MS MR would start as Plapinger and Hershenow how it’s packaging itself outside of the recordrecording at home and in tiny practice spaces. That ing studio. Check out the hyper-stylish video would eventually yield Secondhand Rapture, a re- for “Criminals”, which showcases Hershenow’s cord that turned MS MR from a bedroom project modern-dance skills, or “Fantasy”, which starts into a legitimate live act. Massive touring has fol- out in a retro-cool diner and ends with cheerlowed, with the duo building a fan base with micro- leaders vomiting glitter all over a schoolyard. All chip-powered pop songs built around dramatically this helps explain why the band has gone from textured synths, sawing symphonic strings, and opening for the likes of Jessie Ware and Marina Plapinger’s gorgeous velvet-morning vocals. & the Diamonds to headlining 1,000-seat venues When it came time to begin thinking about a like the Commodore. follow-up record to Secondhand Rapture, both “We started writing music first—that was the musicians were in a very different place from initial impulse,” Hershenow says. “But pretty when they were at Vassar. soon after we began writing, we started our Tum“For us, it was definitely about bringing our blr and began talking about aesthetics and how experiences playing live back into the studio,” we wanted things to be presented. Pretty early on, Hershenow says. “When we were writing songs, we decided that we needed to create a sort of onwe really had to think about how we were going line world for the music to live in. People listen to to perform them.” music in front of a computer screen, and we had For proof of that, look no further than the the opportunity to control almost every element album’s swooping, bass-bombed title track, on of that environment. When we started to make which you can practically hear the audience official videos, we had this incredible backlog of screaming along every time Plapinger shouts, visual references for people to pull from.” “How does it feel?” The challenge now is translating the online side “ ‘How Does It Feel’ is definitely the best example of MS MR to the real world. At first, Plapinger of a song that we really worked on,” Hershenow and Hershenow were simply happy to be on-stage.
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Revolving around the duo of guitarist Kerry McCoy and neatly coiffed singer George Clarke, Deafheaven has been slapped with the label blackglaze, which basically means equal parts black metal and blinding shoegaze. As great as records like Sunbather and the just-released New Bermuda are, it’s live where the San Fran act annihilates. Yes, believe it or not, it’s possible to connect the dots between Cradle of Filth and My Bloody Valentine.Deafheaven plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Tuesday (October 20).
in + out
MS MR sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On growing: (Hershenow) “When we first started writing this record, we were much better musicians and really had an idea of what we wanted to achieve. We’d spent two years talking about other music, and the techniques that other musicians tend to use to achieve the things they want to achieve. So we had a really focused idea of what we wanted to do.” On recording: (Hershenow) “We are definitely maximalists, who believe that more is always best when you’re trying to get that perfect sound. We like drama and lots of layers. It’s rarely just one organ. It’s always four of them that I’ve stacked on top of each other.” On playing live: (Plapinger) “We’ve got this sort of psychedelic, candy-coloured-landscape side to us online. But then the early shows were us really stripping things back, allowing things to be an intimate and raw exchange between us and the audience. It’s been so awesome on this tour finally having the resources to build up a stage production and offering people something a little bit more.”
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WHEN YOU GOTTA GO Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa
The legendary Jack White once told the Straight that the best way to judge a song’s worth is to play it for a small kid. If it gets him up singing, dancing, or going Pete Townshend on the living-room furniture, you know you’re onto something. Good on Geoff Berner for “Swing a Chicken 3 Times Over Your Head”, the rollicking first single off his new full-length, We Are Going to Bremen to Be Musicians. Don’t be deterred by the fact that he drops an F-bomb 17 seconds in—your kids have heard that a half-dozen times by second-week kindergarten. As for the rest of the record, ask yourself what Billy Bragg would sound like doing vodka shots in the Pogues’ dressing room with Di Naye Kapelye and you’ve got a good starting point. And if you don’t get it at first, your kids will. -
Condé Nast, which owns Vogue and GQ. Watch for the writers of the tastemaking indie site to suddenly be 100 percent better dressed. Their reviews, sadly, will stay hopelessly overwritten, needlessly navel-gazing, and completely humourless.
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MS MR plays the Commodore Ballroom on Monday (October 19).
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Gradually, they’ve shot for something more. “Our favourite kind of shows,” Plapinger says, “are ones by artists like Arcade Fire or Flaming Lips or Miley Cyrus—ones where a band’s online existence merges with the real world. We’re slowly starting to chip away at doing that. I hope we’re already well on our way to achieving that.” And even though failure isn’t an option for Plapinger and Hershenow, who’ve mastered everything they’ve tried to date, at least they’ve got something to fall back on. -
was arrested for taking a postshow leak behind the Flats bar in his hometown. The attending officer was happy that Wiz was the perpetrator rather than Brooklyn MC Shorty Shitstain.
EARNING THE EMO TAG Singer Jesse Lacey of Long
Island emo heavyweights Brand New broke into tears during a Nashville show, noting the band was going on hiatus because he’s having a kid. Clearly, he’s well aware what happened to Fall Out Boy after Pete Wentz procreated.
SWINGING BOTH WAYS Yoko Ono says John Lennon
was open to the idea of sleeping with men, but he never found a dude up to his standards, making one wonder if he had horse blinders on every time he was around ’60s-vintage Mick Jagger.
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t has been a good week in Iceland, sunny and crisp, and my friend Elizabeth Fischer has seen the Geysir, been bathed in the spray of the Gullfoss waterfall, admired the uncanny azure of the Blue Lagoon, and scritched the neck of an adorable Icelandic pony. Now she’s getting ready for Zurich, where on October 15 she plans to exit this world the same way she traversed it for the past 68 years: on her own terms. She’s dying of terminal lung cancer, and her last act will be to cheat the reaper. And then from beyond the grave she wants you to change Canada’s barbaric prohibition of assisted suicide, preferably by way of the ballot box. “What you can do is actually agitate,” she says, interviewed in her comfortable Mount Pleasant co-op apartment shortly before leaving for Reykjavík. “Number one: vote the bastards out. Vote the fucking bastards out. Enough of this religious agenda. People, get it into your heads: there are no miracles. There are no gods. Live every day like it was your last and just enjoy it.” The irony here, of course, is that our country’s “pro-life” prime minister is forcing Fischer—and others who share her predicament—to choose death months or even years before they might otherwise have to. “I can stick around for another few months, but that means I’m taking the risk of the kind of tumour that I have attacking my ribs—at which point, according to my doctor, it would be a question of agony,” she explains. “I would be in the hospital, stuck into morphine IVs, and I’d be in absolute agony. Is that what they want from me? I’m, like, ‘Fuck you! I want to exit under my own agency, while I’m having a good time.’ ” Paradoxically, Fischer does indeed appear to be having a good time. She’s gaunt, but this, she says, allows her to wear her favourite blue corduroy pants, which were uncomfortably snug when she bought them. She’s delighted, almost to the point of being overwhelmed, by the support her friends have shown for her decision. And although she’s occasionally racked by spasms of coughing, they usually follow spasms of laughter. Fischer’s laugh, a recognizable alto chortle, is almost as notorious locally as her dark Hungarian scowl. The only child of Holocaust survivors, she first ventured into the Vancouver arts scene by running light shows for rock bands during the psychedelic era and then progressed into leading
her own bands via punk. The Animal Slaves were an anomaly during the days of D.O.A. and the Subhumans, featuring as they did actual musicians playing morbidly intricate tunes behind Fischer’s complex and poetic lyrics; more recently, DarkBlueWorld fused rock energy with improv jazz, again by way of a rotating cast of Alist players, including Tony Wilson, Cole Schmidt, Skye Brooks, and Pete Schmitt. Fischer also painted marvellous if not always flattering portraits of her friends, often in acidic greens and yellows; made several memorable LPs and CDs; fought against persecution of the Roma in her native Hungary; and, more secretly, was a quietly spectacular knitter, whose crocheted “baldguy caps” are fetish objects for those lucky enough to own them. In another dark irony, she was just beginning to be fully recognized for her polymorphous excellence when she received her fatal diagnosis. “I was having, I would say, the best time ever,” she says, laughing again. “I was having a really great show at the UNIT/PITT gallery; those guys worked so hard, and it was absolutely beautiful—a 30-year retrospective, and I even sold stuff! It was just an amazing show. And then my very first book [Orphans and Dogs] was published by Publication Studio; I designed it, and I worked really hard on it, and it was my best writing. I was proud of it, and it came out at the same time. And the band! DarkBlueWorld was sounding great. I mean, it had finally absolutely jelled, it was all the right people, and we’d been having
these ecstatic experiences playing. So about two weeks into the show I had a backache. And I said, ‘Okay, well, I jumped around too much when we played. I’m too old, or something. I should calm down a little.’ So I went to my doctor. and she sent me for a Xray, and it came back as Stage 4 lung cancer, absolutely terminal. “So there I was, at the pinnacle of my so-called career.…and the fecal finger of fate went ‘Fuck you!’ ” Fischer’s final act will be to return the finger, albeit in a calm and collected way. She’s decided to enlist the Swiss assisted-suicide organization Dignitas to smooth her passing, and she’s glad for the help. “I’m just so happy that Dignitas exists,” she says. “If there hadn’t been Dignitas, what were my choices? My choices were, like, collect every pill and take them and stick a plastic bag on my head and let my friends find my corpse? To me, that’s not very tasteful. “I’m lucky,” she continues, “in that I’m still well enough that I can do it the way that I want to do it. People say ‘Oh, Elizabeth, you’re so brave!’ Well, fuck that! It’s nothing to do with bravery; it’s common sense.” Here’s one last irony. A year before Fischer discovered that she had cancer, her giant, shaggy Bouvier came down with the same disease. Fischer doesn’t drive, so I was enlisted to convey them to the vet’s, where her beloved pup received his own gentle quietus. “When my dogs got sick, I made sure they didn’t suffer,” she says. “So why can’t the same thing happen for me?” -
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Slow Start is beat-centred EDM; Wallace-MacLean gets bone-chilling; Wavves verges on self-parody RECORDIN GS DEERHUNTER Fading Frontier (4AD)
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If you happened to be at the Bilt- is teased as possessing plenty of deathdefying skiing stunts and a decidedly of 2009, chances are that you will never demented-looking costume party. forget the epic tantrum that Bradford While part of the film is full of snowCox threw while making a disastrous white Whistler powder, local soundsolo appearance with his side project scaper Jeremy Wallace-MacLean’s Atlas Sound, when he spent nearly his soundtrack is mostly coal-black. A mist of moody synths filters entire set cussing out the chatty audience. This was fairly characteristic be- slowly through the speakers on openhaviour for the Deerhunter frontman, ing piece “Somewhere”, a nearly eightwho has long been known as a volatile, minute-long suite of bone-chilling button-pushing provocateur. aural textures. “The Muscle” likewise On his band’s latest full-length, how- offers ambient drones, but eventually ever, Cox and his bandmates sound ripples into a John Carpenter–grade practically serene. Fading Frontier is a fog of apocalyptic keyboards and departure from the angry garage squall shivering mechano-beats. Despite of 2013’s Monomania and from the this rhythmic reprieve, “A Thief in sprawling postpunk haze of the outfit’s the Clouds” and “Alone” showcase earlier work, as these nine songs mag- how Wallace-MacLean is more than nify the pop leanings that were previ- comfortable with offering up beatless, ously an undercurrent in Deerhunter. dread-stirring works. The soothing “Living My Life” is a Not all of The Masquerade is particularly placid slice of beat-driven harrowing, though. Both “Sexualsynth-pop, while “Breaker” boasts jan- ity” and “The Retrieval” are steamy gling arpeggios, acoustic guitar, and pieces that bring to mind the electrosighing harmonies. Even when the mel- romanticism of M83, or composer low vibes are momentarily disturbed— Cliff Martinez’s melancholy work consider the spiky, lip-curling swagger from the Drive soundtrack. “In White of “Snakeskin”—Cox’s yowled delivery Trees” weaves organic, weeping strings is more cheeky than angry, and the into the digitized mix. The low-key, synth-slathered danceable funk grooves are cathartic rather than tense. These are the most soundtrack to The Masquerade straightforward, instantly satisfying might not be as f lashy as an aerial songs in the group’s catalogue to date. spin on a double-black-diamond So why are the Deerhunter dudes so ski run, but Wallace-MacLean has levelheaded these days? Cox offers a unmasked something arguably just philosophical explanation of sorts dur- as breathtaking. > GREGORY ADAMS ing the hypnotically chiming opener, “All My Life”. As the song crescendos, the singer triumphantly declares, “You WAVVES should take your handicaps/Channel V (Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros.) them and feed them back/Till they beV is Wavves’ fifth full-length come your strengths.” album, and judging by the Judging by the peaceful mood of Fading Frontier, we’d all be wise to 11 songs found here, frontman Nathan Williams is dangerously heed this advice. > ALEX HUDSON close to turning into a parody of himself. This much becomes clear SLOW START within the first few lines of opener “Heavy Metal Detox”, which begins You, Sword (Independent) with a blast of chugging pop-punk Over the last few years, Van- and Williams sneering, “I’m not couver producer Jonny Dylan doing anything today/I don’t care Hughes has been quietly building up what you say/I’m not going out/I’m an impressive discography, working staying home.” either under his full given name or That’s exactly the kind of sentiwith a variety of pseudonyms like ment the singer-guitarist specialJDH, Branches, and Cool Man. This ized in back when he was getting EP as Slow Start is the debut release the project off the ground in 2008 under yet another moniker, and it and 2009, at which point he was just once again finds him delving into another directionless brat living at beat-centred electronic music. his parents’ house and watching The soundscape on You, Sword is Seinfeld reruns. These days, howdominated by burbling rhythms and ever, he’s a 29-year-old with a majorsweetly melodic, twinkling synths. label deal, so it would be fair to exEvery track is geared toward the pect to hear some signs of maturity dance floor: “Courteous, OK” surges on V. Given his prolific output and forward with thudding house beats plethora of side projects (including and urgent arpeggiator figures, while the beat-focused Sweet Valley and the echo-laced “You, Sword” builds the psych-inspired Spirit Club), isn’t from clattering conga samples to a it about time that Williams abanbuzzing robo-pulse. doned the slacker image? Most of these songs have vocals, Instead, V is a back-to-basics afbut they’re typically doused in ef- fair that focuses entirely on upbeat fects and buried low in the mix, pop melodies, scorchingly distortrarely accomplishing much in terms ed punk, romantic loss, and angry of lyrics or melody. Instead, they self-loathing. On “Tarantula”, the serve a primarily textural function, frontman snarls, “Every morning/ adding a sense of fragile humanity Toxic waste/Everything sucks/ to songs that are otherwise rooted If you don’t get your way,” while in glossy, computer-based sounds. “Way Too Much” is a hangover anThis is particularly effective on them that hits the nail on the head “You Could Do Better”, on which with its chorus admission, “This Auto-Tune croons complement the conversation’s getting boring.” blippy sweetness of the star-shower It’s not that these are bad songs: synths, which resemble a vintage Williams still has a knack for video-game score. catchy melodies, and none of the With just seven tracks, all of songs from V disappoint on that which are fairly concise, You, Sword count. But there’s none of the stylisis rather short-lived as far as dance tic adventurousness that Williams parties go. Still, there are enough has displayed in his other projects, sonic treats to be found here that and the constantly downcast lyrics you might want to leave it on Repeat make this sound like the work of a and let it play all night. talented songwriter treading water.
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Hadfield makes space rock Dan McBurnie tells us
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nder normal circumstances, laying down vocal tracks and guitar melodies has its own set of challenges. A significant force plays a part in how easily one’s fingers move from fret to fret and how many octaves one’s vocal range might cover—a force that we earthly beings take for granted. Playing music without that force— gravity—is hard. Just ask Chris Hadfield, whose latest musical endeavour quite literally turned the process of recording on its head. “Imagine if someone hung you by your ankles for eight hours and then asked you to sing,” Hadfield says, sitAstronaut Chris Hadfield recorded ting across from me in a downtown vocals and guitar while in orbit. Vancouver hotel conference room. “Some days I wouldn’t play at all, He describes the feeling as being similar to that of having a sinus in- but three or four nights a week, I’d fection. Playing guitar without grav- play a little just before bed to relax, just like I do on Earth,” Hadfield says. ity comes with similar problems. Over the course of the mission, “You have no weight in your arms, and the guitar won’t sit still. You Hadfield recorded a total of 16 songs, can’t get your fingers in the right with 12 making the album’s final cut, place—you basically have to relearn including his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”. His original video how to sing and play,” he says. The Canadian astronaut, who re- recording of the Bowie classic— which was recordcorded the vocals ed in 2013 at the and acoustic guitar request of Hadfor the songs on his field’s son and album Space SesAmanda Siebert sions: Songs From has been viewed ala Tin Can while orbiting Earth, has al- most 27 million times on YouTube— ways been a musician. Having played served as a catalyst to continue creatin his high-school marching and jazz ing music in space. bands and fronted rock ’n’ roll, Celtic, “What convinced me to record an and folk groups, he says music is a vital album was the reaction to that video. part of his life. It gave people an honest feeling for Using little more than his iPad, a space flight that they couldn’t get any click track to help keep tempo, and other way,” he says. a guitar brought to the International For Hadfield, the album is simply Space Station by NASA psychiatrists a “natural extension” of his earthly back in 2001, Hadfield recorded undertakings, such as writing books, songs from inside his tiny sleeping lecturing, and recording videos. pod. Wedging the guitar in first and Hadfield isn’t in it for the money; 100 then sliding into the narrow space percent of proceeds from sales of his that remained, he’d often hang a album will benefit childhood music piece of paper on the pod hatch that education in Canada. said “Recording in progress”. Each song on the album touches
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on an experience Hadfield had while living on the space station. “Feet Up”, the first single, came from a conversation he had with his brother while in orbit. “He asked, ‘What’s different about being up there?’ and I said, ‘Well, you can’t put your feet up. You can’t raise a finger. You can’t hold your head up.’ And then we just started laughing and coming up with lyrics,” Hadfield recounts. The simple folksong layers steel guitar and drums on top of Hadfield’s otherworldly vocal and guitar recordings as he sings, “Can’t put my feet up/Can’t hold my lunch down.” The album’s next single, “Ride That Lightning”, starts off with Hadfield singing over light percussion and leads into a gospel-influenced, feel-good track that incorporates piano, guitars, drums, and a choir. He says the lyrics were inspired by the feelings that come with waiting to launch: “That idea in your head that says, ‘I’m about to do the most dangerous thing in my life.’ ” The decision to become an astronaut is surely one Hadfield won’t soon regret. When asked what sort of feelings looking down at the Earth from space might inspire in a person, his eyes light up. “It should slacken your jaw. It should override your thoughts. You realize, ‘Wow, everything else I’ve been thinking about is just trivial noise.’ There’s a sense of reverence, a hush… You get this feeling of privilege and wonder, and when I sang ‘Space Oddity’, you can sort of hear it,” he says. For Hadfield, the unspoken language of music, as he calls it, is the only way to successfully communicate these feelings. “People use the word awesome to describe a sandwich, but [looking down at the Earth] is awesome. It’s a pretty wonderful human emotion to be truly awestruck.” -
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HO ARE YOU My name is Dan McBurnie, and I’m the tall, lanky, and utterly tortured songwriter behind the band Good for Grapes. It’s nice to meet you. Most recently, I finished up an album called The Ropes, which hopefully has enough rock ’n’ roll/country vibes to weasel its way into your life. Currently working on a blues/electronic duo project whose music should see the light of day fairly soon. FIRST CONCERT My first real con-
cert was probably 10 years ago, when I was 12 years old. It was at the Commodore Ballroom for a band called Switchfoot. I guess it was some kind of early, all-ages show. I tagged along with a friend and his dad, and of course wandered directly into the steamy sardine-like confines of the front of the crowd for the opening band. I pretty much immediately blacked out. I woke up in the back in time for my favourite band at the time, and since I was now sufficiently seasoned in the art of concertgoing, I got right back up there. I’m hazy on the details of the actual show, but whether it was good or not, my mind was blown. I remember feeling that I had to get onto the stage somehow.
LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT Before
their latest extended hiatus, I was absolutely obsessed with Fleet Foxes. And in 2011 when they came around to the Vogue, I was probably the first one there. I remember not even expecting them to outdo their record in a live setting; it almost seemed like too much to ask. But they did it. It sort of
Dan McBurnie clearly has no use for earbuds. Steven Shepherd photo.
changed the way I saw live music, in a way I can’t put into words. I suppose seeing them there in the flesh made that kind of musical experience seem actually “possible”, and it mentally opened a lot of doors for me. TOP THREE RECORDS Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited When I first heard the guitar tone on “Tombstone Blues” and those wacky surrealist lyrics, I was a goner. Everything was all “Paul Revere’s horse” and “The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken” from then on. And moving in from his earlier folk albums to that was like having the air kicked out of my lungs. When I discovered that album, I couldn’t look back. Colin Hay Going Somewhere This is the album that just stuck with me. Just a wise old voice and an acoustic guitar, and somehow it has stayed relevant to my life since I was a kid. I’m going to go listen to that now. Royal Canoe Today We’re Believers More recently, this album has been taking up a whole lot of my listening time. The band is from Winnipeg and not super well-known yet, but they’re making some absolutely incredible music. It was one of the times I picked up an album and out of it came sounds and rhythms that I hadn’t known I was starved of. They combine incredibly interesting time signatures, sonic voices, and lyrics in a way that makes me question everything I thought I knew about making music. I love it.
This was an interesting question for me. I moved into a house in East Van about a week ago, so there’s not a lot in my fridge at all. But the most interesting part has to be some homemade alfredo sauce I’ve been working on perfecting. It may have gotten a little out of hand, but it’s the coolest thing in my life right now. Please come over and try it—I could use the positive reinforcement. Like, a shit-ton of onions Lack of coordination on the subject of grocery shopping has left my house with three giant bags of onions taking up most of our space. A really strange greenish stain I honestly don’t know why or how it got there. I mean, I don’t remember noticing it when I checked out the place a few weeks ago. Did I even open the fridge? Who would do that? I guess I just trusted that the fridge was stainfree and had no food in it, and I was giving the whole fridge situation the benefit of the doubt. But here I am, coexisting with this greenish stain in my fridge. Luckily, it’s not sticky or smelly, but if you have any advice, email me at daniel@goodforgrapes.com. -
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DIIV Zachary Cole Smith might have originally named his project after the Nirvana song “Dive”, but there’s no way you’d mistake DIIV for a grunge tribute. It is true, though, that the band draws much of its inspiration from the decade that gave us Friends, Lollapalooza, and phat pants. DIIV’s reverbdrenched guitars, reverb-drenched vocals, and, well, reverb-drenched everything else hark back to the Scene That Celebrates Itself, also known as shoegaze, and latterly known as nu-gaze until everyone realized how utterly icky that sounded. Dream the night away at Fortune Sound Club on Tuesday (October 20), and note that No Joy and Sunflower Bean are also on the bill, because apparently one can never have enough reverb.
DAVID BRAID Jazz pianist-composer David Braid performs with "A" Band and NiteCap. Oct 30, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $30/27, info www. capilanou.ca/centre/.
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NEW POLITICS AND ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS Danish rock band and American indiepop act coheadline, with guests the Griswolds and LOLO. Oct 14, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BOB MOSES Brooklyn-based DJ-producer duo tours in support of upcoming debut full-length release. Oct 14, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. VIET CONG Calgary rock band tours in support of debut full-length self-titled release. Oct 14-15, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. DEL BARBER AND FORTUNATE ONES The Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents Prairie alt-country artist and Newfoundland folk-pop duo. Oct 14, 7:30 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $24, info www.thefestival.bc.ca/. TED POOR QUARTET Jazz drummer performs with bassist Eric Revis, tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry, and trombonist Josh Roseman. Oct 14, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $28/25, info www. capilanou.ca/centre/. VANGIV'ER Benefit concert in response to the Syrian refugee crisis features performances by Roots Roundup, Joe Keithley, the Bad Beats, Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, 2 Days & Counting, the Getmines, Eddy D & the Sexbombs, Trailer Hawk, Cawama, and Pill Squad. All proceeds to the UN Refugee Agency. Oct 15, doors 6 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20, info 604-781-0775. LOST '80S LIVE Featuring new-wave bands Wang Chung, Naked Eyes, Animotion, and When in Rome. Oct 15, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix $49.50/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. PPP SHOWCASE #4 The Peak Performance Project presents performances by Windmills, Van Damsel, and JP Maurice. Oct 15, doors 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix and info www.thepeak.fm/, info www.thepeak.fm/. THE ROXY LAUNCH PROJECT FINALE Music by the Ruffled Feathers, Toy Zebra, Best Night Ever, and Sadie Campbell. Oct 15, 7 pm, The Roxy (932 Granville). Tix $7, info www.facebook.com/ events/1621846451415426/. MADISEN WARD AND THE MAMA BEAR The Georgia Straight presents American soul-funk band led by motherson vocalist-guitarists Ruth and Madisen Ward. Oct 15, 7:30 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $33 (plus service charges and fees) at www.thecultch.com/. STEVE HILL Juno-winning blues artist from Montreal performs a solo show. Oct 15, 9 pm, Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir). Tix $20 at the door. GWAR Costumed American gore-metal band tours in support of latest release Battle Maximus, with guests Cryptopsy and Battlecross. Oct 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $34 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.
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BEATLES NIGHT The Rogue Folk Club presents Beatles songs played by Jim Byrnes, Paul Pigat, Rod Davis, and Cousin Harley. Oct 16, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24, info www.roguefolk. bc.ca/concerts/ev15101620/. RIPPLE ILLUSION Canadian funk-rock outfit performs with guests Soatoa. Oct 16, 8-11 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10, info www.facebook. com/events/1004508032914074/. ANTONIO CIACCA QUINTET: THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN SONGBOOK As part of Italian Jazz Days, pianist-composer Antonio Ciacca and his band explore the music of Harry Warren (Salvatore Guaragna), Henry Mancini, and Frankie Laine. Oct 16-17, 8 pm, Italian Cultural Centre (3075 Slocan). Tix $63/42, info www.coastaljazz.ca/. DESTROYER The Georgia Straight presents Vancouver indie-rock band touring in support of upcoming album Poison Season, with guests Frog Eyes and Dada Plan. Oct 17, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $23.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodore ballroom.com/.
LE YOUTH Los Angeles-based electronica musician, DJ, and producer. Oct 17, doors and show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). NOTE: moved from original date of Oct 10. Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TECH N9NE American rapper tours in support of latest release Special Effects, with guest Doug Crawford. Oct 17, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. GOOD RIDDANCE Punk band from Santa Cruz, California, tours in support of latest release Peace in Our Time, with guests Off With Their Heads and Fire Next Time. Oct 17, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. UNCLE SID Local hard-rock/metal band performs two shows as part of the Vancouver Halloween Parade. Oct 17, 8-9 pm; Oct. 18, 7-8 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Info www.VanHalloween.com/. DEATH Detroit punk band performs with guests Guantanamo Baywatch. Oct 17, 7-10:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/, info www.bplive.ca/events/death/.
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VANGIV’ER Ever feel like life has the suck knob turned up to 10? You know what to do—make it better. Turn up the good, turn down the suck. Get out there and just giv’er. A good place to start is by getting out of the house. Go see some music, like Roots Roundup, Joe Keithley, the Bad Beats, Doug Andrew and the Circus in Flames, Two Days and Counting, the Getmines, Cawama, Trailer Hawk, Pill Squad, Ford Pier Vengeance Trio, and Eddy D and the Sex Bombs. They’re all playing at the Biltmore Cabaret on Thursday (October 15). Here’s hoping they serve Old Style Pilsner there. Oh, and it’s a benefit for Syrian refugees (via the UN Refugee Agency), so you can giv’er in more ways than one. And then just keep on givin’er. Yeah, that’s a plan right there. PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH Pete Rock and CL Smooth perform on the 20th anniversary of the Main Ingredient tour. Oct 17, 7-10:30 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. WEST COAST GUITAR NIGHT Seventh annual event features music by guitarists Kent Hillman, Itamar Erez, Les Finnigan, Edgar Avelino, Simon Fox, John Gilliat, and Rossi Tzonkov. Oct 17, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $29/24, info www.lesfinnigan.com/wcgn.html. WILD CHILD Indie-pop band from Austin, Texas, tours in support of latest release Fools. Oct 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix on sale Jul
10, 10 am, $17 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
TZIMMES Vancouver klezmer band performs songs from around the world. Oct 18, 2-4 pm, Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture (6184 Ash). Tix $5 at the door, info www.peretz-centre.org/. KRIS DAVIS TRIO Coastal Jazz, in association with the Western Front, presents pianist-composer Kris Davis, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Oct 18, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $38, info www.coastaljazz.ca/. DJANGO DJANGO British rock band tours in support of latest release Born Under Saturn. Oct 19, doors 8 pm, show 9
NOBUNNY American one-man pop-punk band. Oct 19, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MS MR New York City-based electropop duo, with guests TigerTown and Jack Garratt. Oct 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $26.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. LIDO Norwegian electronica DJ. Oct 20, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. DEAFHEAVEN San Francisco blackmetal band tours in support of upcoming release New Bermuda, with guests Tribulation. Oct 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TYLER WARD American acoustic-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Honestly. Oct 20, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE Starring Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 46
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coms, ticking off friends-with-benefits boxes with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler subverting, or at least mocking, the genre knowingly at every When Harry Met Sally turn. For a while, Sleeping With Other People seems to be following a similar arc, but the new film’s attempt to get serious actually pays increasing emotional dividends as it moves along. That’s mostly due to the concentrated chemistry of Mad Men’s big-eyed Alison Brie in a star-making turn as Lainey and SNL veteran Jason Sudeikis as Jake. They’re fast-talking New Yorkers who happen to lose their virginities to each other in college and don’t meet again until both attend (what else?) a sex-addiction meeting. He’s a compulsive cheater who’s developed a killer app, which has no bearing here except that
When Jason met Alison
The The
As we learn in Sleeping With Other People, New York is one big, dirty candy store to a couple of compulsive fornicators like Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis.
films of the silent era. That’s a great idea, and it pays off best in the esoteric typefaces and fleeting images—many treated to multiple layers of digital rom-com gets sexed up in Sleeping With Other People; degradation—that beautifully recall a vanished land of picForbidden Room dumps narrative for sweet delirium. torial storytelling. To the extent that there’s anything like an acit allows him the free time to be in this story, and the opportunity to hit on his new boss, played by tual narrative, it starts with four men trapped in a Amanda Peet. Lainey keeps her unhealthy obses- primitive submarine and lurches randomly from sion pretty much focused on one guy, an about- there, with the sudden appearance of a (very) lost to-be-married gynecologist (Adam Scott) who woodsman played by Quebec star Roy Dupuis. Then it veers through various terrains, including occasionally fits her into his stirrups. These two sad sexters spark again but agree to erotic cave dwellers, filthy hospital workers, mad avoid actual ugly-bumping, knowing that each motorcyclists, and angsty bath takers. But Maddin will lose his or her most sympathetic ear. Yeah, we privileges visual aesthetics over all other values, know how that’s gonna go. Still, writer-director and that comes at a major cost, especially in the Leslye Headland keeps things at a foul-mouthed context of a two-hour sit. (The movie has been cut boil, restraining the harsher impulses that made by more than 10 minutes since its Sundance debut.) Sound is often too clean and too unevenly apher 2012 Bridesmaids rip-off, Bachelorette, even less popular than They Came Together. When Jake plied, emphasizing the extremely varied (often bad) gives Lainey an illustrated disquisition on female acting styles and slapdash dialogue. Story itself is masturbation, it should be a disaster but instead replaced by an elaborate game of spot-the-cultthespian, with veterans like Udo Kier, Geraldine becomes a performance-art high point. Unfortunately, the Will Ferrell–produced Chaplin, Charlotte Rampling, and Maria de Memovie soon reaches its own natural climax, and deiros appearing in fleeting, sometimes incomprethen goes seriously bonkers in the last 10 minutes, hensible, always gorgeously manipulated images. Any five minutes of this is utterly convincing, glomming on to all the mistakes it had avoided up until then. Well, there must be a meeting for that. but taken together, this exhausted, intellectually > KEN EISNER flattered viewer can’t help but wish that the rest of the overstuffed-yet-somehow-empty Room were THE FORBIDDEN ROOM even half as amazing as its surfaces. Starring Roy Dupuis and Udo Kier. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 46
Guy Maddin’s films are perfectly aimed at people like me: movie lovers with a prolonged exposure to world cinema and a respectful, if sketchy, knowledge of the stuff made in the very early days of talking pictures. The Winnipeg auteur, who started his own offbeat movement three decades ago, re-creates those faraway moments in swirling incantations made possible through today’s technology. He had a career high with 2003’s The Saddest Music in the World, but he’s essentially been living in the late 1920s the whole time. The Forbidden Room was drawn from a project launched by collaborator (and now codirector) Evan Johnson to reclaim titles and themes from lost
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Kyle Rideout had some reassuring words for his actors when it came to going nude for the camera. “I went across Canada naked, every single night, in front of five to six hundred people,” the writerdirector told them, referring to his time in the cast of the 2009 theatre production Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge. Inspired by the play, Eadweard tells the story of the pioneering photographer whose in-the-buff subjects scandalized his 19th-century patrons. “After a while it just feels like a costume. You don’t have too much time to think about it,” Rideout told the Straight. “Unless you find out your aunt is in the audience.” Read more at www.straight.com/. -
GOODNIGHT MOMMY Starring Susanne Wuest. In German, with English subtitles. Rated R. For showtimes, please see page 46
2 by—Brahms’s “Cradle Song”, to be exact—but
that’s it for sweetness and light in this unnerving portrait of familial distrust and paranoia. Oh dear—Julianne Moore is busy dying We first meet twin brothers Lukas and Elias again, as if one Oscar for extreme on-screen (identical twins Lukas and Elias Schwarz) as suffering isn’t enough. Not to be frivolous about they’re playing hide-and-seek in a cornfield, the subject of Freeheld—Moore is routinely excel- seemingly regular nine-year-olds. But Lukas lent, for the record—but the true story of Laurel keeps disappearing—either in a pitch-black cave Hester deserves better than this unprepossessing or under the dark surface of a lake—leaving Elias group hug for masochistic liberals. worried and calling out for him. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, When Mom (Susanne Wuest) returns to the the decorated Ocean View, New Jersey, cop asked family’s ultramodern house in the Austrian woods to have her pension transferred to domestic part- her head and face are wrapped in bandages, and ner Stacie (Ellen Page). She was firmly shut down see page 45
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CITIZENFOUR Last year’s Oscar winner about Edward Snowden headlines the 20th (and last) Amnesty International Film Festival, running at the Vancouver Public Library from Thursday to Saturday (October 15 to 17). Unlike Snowden, all screenings are absolutely free.
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EADWEARD’S NUDE REVUE Eadweard writer-director
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Goodnight Mommy opens with a gentle lulla-
Starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 46
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by the straight white men of Ocean View’s county government, known as Freeholders, after a colonial system that still weirdly persists in that state. (Not that it justifies the lame title.) Moore works hard to flesh out Hester, underwritten just enough to let us know that the tightly wound detective has been anxious to keep her sexuality under wraps back at the office, made that much tougher when she settles down with Page’s notably younger car mechanic. Elsewhere, screenwriter Ron Nyswaner reduces everybody to the kind of cutout that would have seemed laughable back when he scripted Philadelphia, from Tom McGowan’s obtuse councilman (he’ll defy New Jersey’s domestic-partnership laws, but at least he’s praying for everyone) to Laurel’s conflicted workmate Dane (Michael Shannon, infinitely better than the flatfooted simpleton he’s saddled with). When Steve Carell and his rainbow yarmulke arrive to whoop it up as “loud gay Jew” Steven Goldstein, who brought the Garden State Equality organization to Hester’s battle, it’s like we’re watching one more overabundant performance donated as an act of charity to a creatively threadbare PR effort, minus the tax breaks. Hester’s stand contributed to 2015’s marriageequality decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Too bad that worthy middlebrow cinema hasn’t advanced to the same degree.
Festival forever
Klein and Avi Lewis’s buzzy environmental doc gets three more screenings at the Rio Theatre from Saturday to Monday (October 17 to 19). Catch it with a beer. (You’ll need one.)
hub for VFX and animation, and Spark means to keep it that way with its annual film festival, conference, and job fair, taking place at the Vancity Theatre and Dance Centre (October 21 to 25). More information is at www.sparkfx.ca/.
DISCO POLO Toplining the two-day Vancouver Polish Film
Festival at SFU Woodward’s Friday to Sunday (October 16 to 18), this wild effort from writer-director Maciej Bochniak plunges viewers into a neon-bright and proudly artificial version of Poland in the ’90s. Critically despised dance bands like Akcent were the rage; Disco Polo affectionately lampoons a genre that thrived while a new-market economy tangoed with old-school political corruption, in a style that suggests Jeff Koons unleashed in Warsaw. More info is at www.vpff.ca/. OCTOBER 15 – 22 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 43
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD American rock band tours in support of debut album I Love You, with guests Bad Suns and Hunny. Oct 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $42.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. DIIV Brooklyn fusion quartet, with guests No Joy and Sunflower Bean. Oct 20, 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/, info www.bplive.ca/events/diiv-no-joy/. DANIEL ROMANO Ontario country musician tours in support of latest release If I've Only One Time Askin', with guest Steven Lambke. Oct 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. BARENAKED LADIES Canadian poprock band (“The Old Apartment”, “Brian Wilson”) tour in support of upcoming album Silverball, with guest Alan Doyle. Oct 21, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $37.50 to $90 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL Indoor electronica festival features music by Above & Beyond, Hardwell, Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Andrew Rayel, Oliver Heldens, Klingande, Tchami, 3LAU, Bakermat, Jauz, Mercer, Jai Wolf, Vanic, Wiwek, Snails, Slander, and Nghtmre. Dec 26-27, 5 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $250/175/150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.contact-festival.com/.
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COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2VIET CONG Oct 14 2NOBUNNY Oct 19 2BLACK MASTIFF Oct 23 2DUNE RATS Oct 24 2JOYCE MANOR Oct 27 2WE HUNT BUFFALO Oct 29 2THE SLOTHS Nov 5 2BRONCHO Nov 14 2JOANNA GRUESOME Nov 15 2GARDENS AND VILLA Nov 17 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 19 2NIKKI LANE Nov 21 2KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS Nov 22 2BELL WITCH Dec 3 2TACOCAT AND SALLIE FORD Dec 12 2PITY SEX Dec 22 2MAJICAL CLOUDZ Jan 22 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2GWAR Oct 16 2DESTROYER Oct 17 2MS MR Oct 19 2THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Oct 20 2XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS Oct 22 2MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oct 24 2GRIMES Oct 26 2HAWKSLEY WORKMAN Oct 29 2MAC DEMARCO Oct 30 2THE BACARDI BOOHAHA Oct 31 2PATTY GRIFFIN Nov 2 2LEON BRIDGES Nov 3 2BUCKCHERRY Nov 5 2BIG SUGAR Nov 6 23 INCHES OF BLOOD Nov 7 2EMANCIPATOR ENSEMBLE Nov 12 2TIM HICKS Nov 13 2BLIND GUARDIAN Nov 16 2RIDE Nov 17 2DEAR ROUGE Nov 20 2GOGOL BORDELLO Nov 21 2HALESTORM Nov 25 2RAC Nov 26 2HEADSTONES Nov 27 2ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA Nov 29 2ODESZA Dec 1 2K-OS Dec 9 2FUNK THE HALLS Dec 22
2CHASE RICE Jan 24 2 CORB LUND Jan 29 2ARKELLS Feb 1 2THE MUSICAL BOX: SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND Feb 17 2REBELUTION Mar 6 2DISTURBED Mar 11 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS Mar 20 2GARY CLARK JR. Apr 12
DOOLIN'S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2SKYLAR SPENCE (FKA SAINT PEPSI) Oct 14 2PPP SHOWCASE #4 Oct 15 2PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH Oct 17 2DIIV Oct 20 2MARIAN HILL Oct 25 2HERE WE GO MAGIC Nov 7 2TROYBOI Nov 7 2ODDISEE Nov 8 2THE GOOD LIFE Nov 14 2CITIZENS Nov 15 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2DEL BARBER AND FORTUNATE ONES Oct 14 2NERD NITE V.14: WITCHES, SEX, AND MICROSCOPIC SCULPTURES Oct 15 2NATIONAL INQUEERIES: TIRESIAS Oct 20 2DANIEL ROMANO Oct 21 2GREG DRUMMOND Oct 23 2PHANTOM SIGNAL Oct 26 2MARK FEWER, JOHN NOVACEK, AND JODI PROSNICK Oct 27 2THE ORCHID CLUB—OCTOBER MASQUERADE Oct 27 2JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO Oct 28 2TIMMY'S ORGANISM Nov 11
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PIANO POWERHOUSE Vancouver is slow to embrace its own, and that’s certainly true when it comes to pianist Kris Davis. Perhaps that’s because she’s spent most of her adult life in New York City, where the listeners are not so blasé. This year alone, the B.C.-born musician won a Doris Duke Impact Award, which carries a five-figure cash prize, and was picked for second place in Downbeat magazine’s Rising Star Pianist poll. Her recently released Save Your Breath is a gorgeous outing for an octet that includes four clarinet players, and while the concert she’s playing at the Western Front on Sunday (October 18) features a stripped-down trio, it’s one jazz fans will not want to miss—if only so they can say they knew her when she was still playing intimate rooms.
FRANKIE'S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). 2POLL WINNERS: A TRIBUTE TO BARNEY KESSEL, RAY BROWN, AND SHELLY MANNE Oct 15 2STEVE KOZAK AND HIS WEST COAST ALL-STARS Oct 16 2CANNERY ROW Oct 18 2ZAPATO NEGRO Oct 22 2BRADLEY/ MCGILLIVRAY BLUES BAND Oct 23 2BLUE MOON MARQUEE Oct 25 2JACLYN GUILLOU Oct 29 2OLIVER GANNON QUARTET Oct 30 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2CHRIST AIR, COPSICKLE, GLORYWHORE, OBSCENE BEING Oct 16 2TYRANTS BLOOD, KOPERLOSE STIMME, ASSIMILATION Oct 17 2CHILD ABUSE, CASSETTE MERCHANT, BOG, SEVENS NINES AND TENS Oct 21 2CROWN OF TALONS, HEAVY LIES THE CROWN, THE FIFTH CIRCLE, WARBEAR Oct 23 2BUSHWHACKER, THE HALLOWED CATHARSIS, 88 MILE TRIP, CRATERS Oct 24 2MONSTER MASH BOOLESQUE SPOOKTACULAR Oct 29 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-5236888. 2STEEL PANTHER Oct 23 2JUDAS PRIEST Oct 27 2FINGER ELEVEN Oct 30 2RUSSELL PETERS Nov 4 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 27 2TROOPER Dec 31 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2BOB MOSES Oct 14 2DJANGO DJANGO Oct 19 2LIDO Oct 20 2STRIKE A CHORD: A BENEFIT FOR MUSIC HEALS Oct 22 2MARK FARINA Oct 23 2HARVEST MOON CUP Oct 24 2PROJECT SOMOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE GRAND FIESTA FUNDRAISER 2015 Oct 29 2THE ZOLAS Nov 5 2CHERUB Nov 7 2GOOD FOR GRAPES Nov 12 2THE PAPER KITES Nov 18 2BORN RUFFIANS Nov 21 2FAMILY OF THE YEAR Dec 6 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 8 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 2STARK RAVEN Oct 16 2STARK RAVEN & SAVAGE Oct 17 2SONS OF THE HOE Oct 18 2ROCCOR Oct 21 2RICOCHET RABBIT Oct 23 2HONEYBOY WILSON TRIO Oct 24 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love '90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2TOMBOY: THE HOGWARTS HALLOWEEN BALL Oct 17 2WILD CHILD Oct 18 2TYLER WARD Oct 20 2RUBBLEBUCKET Oct 25 2JOCELYN ALICE Nov 12 2GIRL BAND Nov 20
ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN HANSARD Nov 12 2VANCE JOY Jan 12, 2016 2BLUE RODEO Jan 26 2LEON BRIDGES Mar 15 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2BARENAKED LADIES Oct 21 2THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM Nov 15 2DARCY OAKE Nov 27 2PUSCIFER Dec 2 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. Live bands some nights. 2EDDIE PEPITONE Oct 16 2GOOD RIDDANCE Oct 17 2DEAFHEAVEN Oct 20 2DESERT DWELLERS Oct 23 2THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Oct 24 2THE SWORD Oct 28 2CARNIVAL OF LOST SOULS Oct 30 2CATURDAY CREW: INFECTION Oct 31 2PARKWAY DRIVE Nov 3 2L7 Nov 4 2HARDCORE 2015 Nov 7 2HATE ETERNAL Nov 10 2STOMP RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Nov 13 2TESSERACT Nov 16 2KMAN AND THE 45S Nov 17 2MOVITS Nov 22 2TEXAS IN JULY Nov 24 2THE MAHONES Nov 27 2AUTHORITY ZERO Dec 4 2DIECEMBERFEST 7 Dec 11 2KEITHMAS VI Dec 18 2YOB Dec 31 2UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AND LOWER DENS Jan 28 2ENFORCER, WARBRINGER Jan 30 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. 2LOST '80S LIVE Oct 15 2KENNY G Nov 16 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 28 2ANDRE-PHILIPPE GAGNON Dec 31 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2MADONNA Oct 14 2KELLY CLARKSON: CANCELLED Oct 17 2FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Oct 25 2A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR Nov 10 2THE WEEKND Dec 2 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. 2THE KYLA COOPMAN BAND Oct 14 2THE ROXY LAUNCH PROJECT FINALE Oct 15 2WHISKEY RIVER GUN CLUB, THE THICK OF IT Oct 16 2SHANE CONNERY VOLK, JB MASON & JIMMY FEEDBACK, JAKE TOUZEL Oct 17 2KAREN LEE BATTEN, GB ROOTS & JACKSON HOLLOW Oct 18 2LEILANI THE ARTIST Oct 20 2ARTIST AND SLAVE Oct 21 2NOT A CHEW TOY, DEAD RIVALS, THE HARVEST Oct 22 2ELLICE BLACKOUT, THE CUT LOSSES Oct 24 2THE SYLVIA PLATTERS Oct 26 2MATT CAIRNS Oct 28 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-7363022. 2BEATLES NIGHT Oct 16 2DAR WILLIAMS Oct 24 2RED MOON ROAD Oct 30 2KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Nov 1 2SÉAN MCCANN Nov 6 2ALLISON CROWE BAND Nov 13 2THE JOCELYN PETTIT BAND Nov 14 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2DEATH Oct 17 2THE GLORIOUS SONS Oct 23 2ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Oct 26 2HEARTLESS BASTARDS Oct 27 2GAME OF THRONES TRIVIA NIGHT Oct 28 2RYN WEAVER Nov 1 2RUFUS DU SOL Nov 5 2THE STRUTS Nov 8 2THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Nov 14 2CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Nov 20 2ROBERT DELONG Nov 21 2PRONG Dec 3 2THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 11 2GRAVEYARD Dec 12 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. Tix at www.voguetheatre. com/. 2NEW POLITICS AND ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS Oct 14 2TECH N9NE Oct 17 2HEY ROSETTA! Nov 6 2MAC MILLER Nov 8 2RODRIGUEZ Nov 10 2MATTHEW GOOD Nov 13 2PROTEST THE HERO Nov 15 2X AMBASSADORS Nov 18 2JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Nov 20 2YO LA TENGO Nov 21 2SNARKY PUPPY Nov 23 2KING CRIMSON Nov 26 2BARNEY BENTALL & THE CARIBOO EXPRESS Nov 28 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Dec 9 2FRAZEY FORD Dec 10 2NICK LOWE'S QUALITY HOLIDAY REVUE Dec 19 2THE WOOD BROTHERS Jan 31 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. MIGHTY MIKE MCGEE AND FRIENDS Oct 15 2UNCEDED, NDIDI CASCADE, ANDY MASON Oct 16 2JOEY ONLY AND THE OUTLAW BAND Oct 23 2THE JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND Oct 23 2SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE AND NICHOLAS KRGOVICH Oct 24 2RED HAVEN Oct 29 2GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Nov 20
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MOVIES Goodnight Mommy
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you’re not sure whether she’s been in a horrible accident or is just recovering from cosmetic surgery. The boys aren’t too sure about her, either, doubting whether she’s even their real mother. She does act pretty strange, wandering off into the woods, removing her clothes, peeling off the bandages, and going all Jacob’s Ladder on our asses with that freaky blurred-out head-shaking. No, wait—that was just a nightmare. As the action slowly unfolds in unsettling quietude, the twins are shown to be pretty strange birds themselves. They collect huge Madagascar hissing cockroaches and place one on their mom while she’s sleeping, so we get to see that old bug-in-the-mouth trick. But waking up with a case of roach throat is the least of Mommy’s problems. Similar in tone to last year’s creepy sleeper hit The Babadook, Goodnight Mommy reels you in with its anguished portrayal of a strained mother/child relationship headed for an ugly end. Writer-directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz craft an absorbing, lustrously shot tale of domestic dread and coax near-perfect performances from the three leads. It’s the most unsettling identicaltwin psycho-thriller I’ve seen since The Other—and that was back in ’72! > STEVE NEWTON
EADWEARD Starring Michael Eklund. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 46
Movies have been with us for
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one reason we still call them motion pictures is that they started as little strips of motion-capture photography. The only person imaginative and monomaniacal enough to pave the way for that development was Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward Muggeridge in England, in 1830. In its impressive set pieces and cleverly mounted tributes to early
photography, it’s clear why this material attracted Vancouver-based filmmaker Kyle Rideout, who wrote this with Josh Epstein and also designed the production. Muybridge’s true-life story—involving a serious accident and a murder trial, among other crises—certainly lends itself to melodrama. But the movie is overly concerned with this side of things, at the expense of the photographic parts, which keep finding our whitehaired antihero in front of multiple cameras as they’re being triggered. Michael Eklund looks right—I mean, really perfect—as the eccentric Brit, prematurely white-haired in 1872 when the tale begins in the U.S. (with B.C. passing for California). But Eklund’s accent is all mumbles and long, indeterminate vowels. And the vivacious Sara Canning is far too modern as his neglected wife, Flora. The script and direction make her a Real Housewife of post–Civil War San Francisco, and we never get much sense of the actual person. Although the soundtrack by Anna Atkinson and Andrew Penner is generally quite evocative, events are marred by “comical” banjo music. There are verbal anachronisms every few minutes. And the filmmakers even manage to muff Eddie’s real-life line upon confronting Flora’s lover (Charlie Carrick), an event that leads to the world’s least convincing courtroom scene. If you subtract these numerous missteps, however, you’re still left with the almost miraculous cinematography of Tony Mirza, getting his first full-feature credit. This seems right, given the subject, as does the final 30 seconds, which almost makes the preceding 99 minutes okay. > KEN EISNER
HE NAMED ME MALALA A documentary by Davis Guggenheim. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 46
The best thing this eagerly indocumentary has going for it is the famous title subject herself. In the film’s most memorable
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scenes, Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged girl the Taliban famously shot on her school bus for promoting girls’ education in Pakistan, reveals herself to be much more than the earnestly determined force we know from news reports. In one of her less guarded moments—as in, when she’s not addressing the UN, appearing on The Daily Show, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, or meeting Barack Obama—she scrolls through Google images of some of the famous hunks she likes (Brad Pitt, Roger Federer), giggling with a hand covering her mouth when director Davis Guggenheim gently teases her. It’s a rare glimpse at the charming, naive girl behind the stagemanaged news conferences and appearances that have followed her tragedy. She’s disarmingly intelligent, funny (“This is the laziest one” she says, introducing one of her brothers), and strong, but it’s her more vulnerable side that’s most affecting here. Malala becomes more real when she reveals she’s bombing physics and finds it hard to fit in with her British schoolmates. She’s caught between two cultures, and the sad truth is she might never be able to return home, where there’s still a death threat. The filmmaker also unearths some intriguing characters in her family, most notably her father, who named her after a warrior and who overcame a stutter to become a teacher and political activist in the fundamentalist Swat Valley. Her illiterate mother’s own story is equally moving. He Named Me Malala feels educational, a bit too polished, and a little too intent on championing its saintly subject. But the unlikely celebrity herself, fearless and beautifully flawed, somehow transcends all that. So if you know a girl who needs inspiring, it’s worth grabbing her and introducing her to Malala—both the PR-created version and the very real teenager herself.
Director makes stars of her Beeba Boys > B Y K EN EISN ER
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orn in Amritsar, in the far north of India, future writerdirector Deepa Mehta moved to Canada in 1973, eventually using her between-twoworlds perch to spend three decades crafting internationally resonating films, most notably the award-winning elements trilogy Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). In 2012, she worked with Salman Rushdie to make the post-partition magic-realist drama Midnight’s Children. Now the Toronto-based filmmaker goes for a major change of pace with Beeba Boys, a fact-based gangster flick opening here Friday (October 16). “I grew up speaking Punjabi, and I thought I knew a lot about Sikhs in Canada,” Mehta says, visiting Vancouver during our recent film fest. “But the culture on the West Coast is completely different from the culture back East.” To explore this, she did a lot of reading and then headed here to see if she could find survivors of the unusually violent 1990s, in which rival gangs essentially wiped each other out. “The few survivors, or at least their relatives, are all older now, and they talked to me quite freely about their experience of that time. The most shocking thing I heard,” she adds, “was the story of the dead bridegroom.” That tale of a snitch who was shot on the day of his wedding—and how his mother insisted on going through with the party, with the groom propped up in the corner—kicks off the high-energy film. “The mother said, ‘That was what he most wanted, and I wanted that for him!’ How incredibly sad, and absurd! It’s all about finding the right balance of drama, action, and > JANET SMITH humour. I mean, it’s a gangster film,
so it has certain requirements, but it helped me so much that this comes from my community.” The new movie centres on a slickly fictional mobster (Bollywooder Randeep Hooda) who leads the titular gang in a Scorsese-like rebellion against more staid crooks from the generation before them. The Beeba Boys also interact like Punjabiinflected escapees from Tarantinoland. “Humour is such a big part of it,” Mehta continues. “The same way no one tells Newfie jokes like someone from Newfoundland, no one else can tell Sikh jokes, and our culture abounds with them. It was great to tap into that, for sure. Gangsters do tell jokes. We don’t become who we are in isolation. Our community informs us, and then the dominant environment sets up the ways we can react. I think of these guys as shooting stars: they blaze for a few seconds and then they’re gone.” She moved her fact-based story up to today, but you might imagine that things have become better since those headline-making days of almost two decades ago. “I think it has become worse,” Mehta laments. “When the economy is more stable, ethnic relationships become more stable. It doesn’t help when there are federal elections and someone like Harper is stirring up the divisions between people. And it’s disturbing when a politician appropriates different communities to show that he ‘cares’ about them. People are ignored for four years and suddenly they are wanted. “This feeds the kind of resentment that makes people act out. Fortunately, what you see in Beeba Boys is usually a generational thing; once people survive that and their kids get into college, everything changes. But that’s a whole different movie!” -
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BEEBA BOYS Randeep Hooda, Ali Momen, and Sarah Allen star in Midnight’s Children writer-director Deepa Mehta’s crime drama about a gang leader who takes on an established crime lord. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE Vancouver, SilverCity Mission and Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, and Jordan SilverCity Riverport Cinemas Carlos star in Bachelorette writer-director Leslye Headland’s comedy about a BRIDGE OF SPIES Tom Hanks stars in dirgood-natured womanizer and a serial ector Steven Spielberg’s historical drama cheater who form a platonic relationship. about an American lawyer who is recruited Rated 14A. 100 mins. Cineplex Odeon by the CIA during the Cold War to help International Village Cinemas rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet Union. Rated PG. 141 mins. Cineplex Cinemas STEVE JOBS Michael Fassbender, Kate Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Winslet, and Seth Rogen star in Trance dirVillage Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon ector Danny Boyle’s biographical drama Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon about the digital pioneer. Rated PG. 121 Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, mins. Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver Hollywood Cinemas Rialto, Landmark THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Roy Dupuis, Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Clara Furey, and Louis Negin star in a Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, Landmark drama by writer-directors Guy Maddin Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver, and Evan Johnson about a woodsman SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, who mysteriously appears aboard a subSilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity marine that’s trapped deep under water. Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas Rated PG. 130 mins. Vancity Theatre CRIMSON PEAK Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, and Tom Hiddleston star in Pan’s REPERTORY CINEMAS Labyrinth writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s thriller about a newlywed woman Times are current as of Friday, October 16 who finds herself swept away to a haunted mansion. Rated 14A. 119 mins. Cineplex THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecineMeadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon matheque.ca 2FORBIDDEN FILMS Fri Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, 6:30; Sun-Mon 8:20 2FROM MAYERLING Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, TO SARAJEVO Fri-Sat 8:20; Sun-Mon Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, 6:30 2KING KONG Mon 1:00 2NO NO:
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SPECIAL EVENTS VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL-VIFF REPEATS Screenings of 100 Yen Love, A Ballerina’s Tale, I Am Majoom, Age 10 and Divorced, Rams, Umrika, The Lobster, Requiem for the American Dream, Sabali, Sleeping Giant, Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Rainbow Island, The Royal Tailor, The Devout, Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey, Landfill Harmonic, Jumbo Wild, Palio, No Men Beyond This Point, Racing Extinction, Magallanes, and Marshland. To Oct 15, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info www.viff.org/festival/. REEL ROCK 10 - VIMFF Five outdoor adventure films featuring world-class climbers Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson, Alex Honnold, and a special tribute to the late Dean Potter. Oct 14-16, 7:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). The event also runs at the Centennial Theatre. Tix $17/15, info www.vimff.org/.
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20TH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Award-winning documentary films from around the corner and around the world. Some films will be followed by guest speakers or a panel discussion. Oct 15, 5-9 pm; Oct 16, 6-9 pm; Oct 17, 10 am–9 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. ANDEAN HORROR FILM FEST Celebration of fantasy, horror, and folklore films produced in the Peruvian Andes. Includes screenings of The Curse of the Jarjacha, The Other Cinema, The Mystery of the Kharisiri, and Pishtaco. Oct 16, 17, 23, 24, 5-9 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $11/6, info www. facebook.com/andeanhorrorfilmfest/. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 40th-anniversary screening of the 1975 cult classic, with a live shadowcast performed by local nerdlesque troupe the Geekenders. Oct 16, 11:55 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12 at the door, info www.riotheatre.ca/. EADWEARD Screenings of writer-director Kyle Rideout’s drama about turn-ofthe-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Oct 16-20, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
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THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Screenings of a drama by writer-directors Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson about a woodsman who mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that’s trapped deep under water. Oct 16-20, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Screening of 2012 family-friendly animated film Hotel Transylvania. Oct 17, 11 am, Vancouver Police Museum (240 E. Cordova). Tix $15, info www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/ movies-in-the-morgue/. KING KONG The Cinematheque’s familyfriendly film program presents RKO’s iconic 50-foot-ape-in-Manhattan feature. Includes a post-film green-screen activity. Oct 18, 1 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $9/6, info www.thecinematheque.ca/. VISIBLE VERSE 2015 VIDEOPOEM FESTIVAL Event celebrates poetry presented in the form of short art films. Curated and hosted by Ray Hsu. Oct 17, 7-9 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11, info www.facebook. com/groups/visibleverse/. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING Avi Lewis’s documentary brings Naomi Klein’s radical, inspiring thesis to life through a connective thread of stories from people living and working on the front lines of change. Oct 17, 3:15 pm; Oct 18, 3 pm; Oct 19, 6:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/. / VVSFILMS
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NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY Frames of Mind presents the Vancouver premiere of the Sundance hit about baseball icon Dock Ellis, famous for pitching a no hitter while on acid in 1970. Oct 20, 7:30 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.thecinematheque.ca/.
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I get a pang or a spasm of pain in a place deep in my clit/urethra area. I can’t pinpoint which part exactly. It takes me by surprise every time it happens, so I jerk around and press my crotch for a hot second—which doesn’t help, but it’s about the only thing I can do. This obviously does not look cool in public, and regardless of when it happens, the episode irritates me. Around four or five convulsions happen and then quickly it’s over. There’s no pattern—it happens at random times and anywhere from one to four times daily. It started about a week ago. It doesn’t hurt when I pee, apply pressure to the area, work out, masturbate, or orgasm. I wonder if my lady spasms are associated with stress. I started a new job in September that I love, but it’s very demanding of my time, which has taken a toll on my mental and physical health (i.e., doing work things all fucking day; having no “me” time). What’s going on down there? What’s the solution? Will doing Kegels help me manage these spasms? (P.S. I’m a lesbian, if that detail is helpful.) > SUPER PERPLEXED ABOUT SPASMS MOSTLY
I shared your letter with Dr. Lori Brotto, an associate professor in the department of gynecology at the University of British Columbia. Brotto has done extensive research on vaginal/ vulval pain and is a recognized expert on this subject and a lot of others. Brotto shared your letter with Dr. Jonathan Huber, an Ottawa-based gynecologist with expertise in treating genital pain. “SPASM definitely needs to see a physician as soon as
possible to have her vulva and vagina examined,” Brotto and Huber wrote in their joint response. “The collection of symptoms she describes does not map perfectly onto any single diagnosis, so these ideas below are best guesses.” Before we get to those best guesses, a word of warning for the hypochondriacs in my readership: if you’re the kind of person who can’t read about mysterious symptoms and their possible causes without immediately developing those symptoms—particularly vagina-having hypochondriacs—you might want to skip the rest of this response. Okay, back to the good doctors… “Sudden onset, intermittent genital pain can be caused by a number of simple things, such as abrasions, an infection, an allergic reaction, buildup of smegma, dermatosis, etc.,” Brotto and Huber continued. “Although these things are unlikely to be the cause of her pain, they’re easy to rule out and treat, if necessary.” (“Wait just a minute,” I hear some of you crying. “Women don’t have problems with smegma—that’s just a dudes-with-foreskins* problem.” Brotto responds: “Women get smegma too. We don’t hear about smegma in women because yeast infections get a lot more attention. But smegma in women is the same as smegma in men: a harmless buildup of skin cells and oils.”) “SPASM’s symptoms most closely map onto a condition called ‘interstitial cystitis’ (IC) or bladder pain syndrome,” Brotto and Huber explained. “IC is diagnosed when there is chronic bladder or urethral pain in the absence of a known cause. It’s typically described as having the symptoms or sensations of a
> BY DAN SAVAGE bladder infection without actually having an infection. Although IC usually has a gradual onset and presents with pressure more often than pain, some women do describe a sudden onset, with pain as the most prominent symptom as opposed to pressure. Since IC often coexists with vulvodynia (vulval pain), dysmenorrhea (painful periods), and endometriosis (when endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus), if this individual has any of these other diagnoses, then IC may be more likely to account for her pain.” How can you determine if it’s IC? “IC is best assessed by a urologist, who may choose to do further urine tests, like examination of urine under a microscope, and even a cystoscopy— putting a narrow camera through the urethra into the bladder to take a look.” Another possible cause: a urethral diverticulum. “It’s like an outpouching along the tube of the urethra,” Brotto and Huber wrote. “This is kind of like a dead-ended cave where urine and other debris can collect, which can possibly lead to infection and pain.” A gynecologist might be able to diagnose a diverticulum during a normal exam—just by feeling around—but you’ll most likely need to have a tiny camera stuffed up your urethra to diagnose this one too, SPASM. Moving on… “Some of her symptoms also sound like the beginnings of ‘persistent genital arousal disorder’ (PGAD), a condition of unwanted genital sensations and arousal in the absence of sexual desire. PGAD can be triggered by stress and temporarily relieved with orgasms. For some women with PGAD, it is related to starting or stopping a medication (especially antidepressants).” The good
news: you don’t need to cram a selfie stick up your urethra to determine whether you’ve recently stopped taking antidepressants. More good news: there are treatments for all of these conditions. “In sum, we feel she should see a gynecologist first and possibly get a referral to a urologist,” Brotto and Huber concluded. “She also asks about whether Kegel exercises will help. Sometimes pelvic floor dysfunction can contribute to vaginal/vulval pain, and seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist to learn proper pelvic floor exercises (including but not limited to Kegels) can help. A good gynecologist will be able to test her pelvic floor strength and control and advise whether she should be seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist.” Follow Brotto on Twitter @DrLori Brotto and Huber @DrJonathanHuber. (P.S. Lesbians, in my experience, are always helpful.)
I’m not a fan of him watching pornos when he is alone. But when I masturbate, I think only about him watching porno alone. What’s wrong with my sexual fantasies? > CONFUSED ITALIAN ASKING OBVIOUSLY
There’s nothing wrong with your sexual fantasies, CIAO; you’re just experiencing a little cognitive dissonance and residual sex-negativity—and that particular tension can both distress and arouse. But seeing as your boyfriend is going to look at porn (and other women) whether you want him to or not (just as you look at porn and other men), and since you enjoy porn together, I would advise you to err on the side of embracing your fantasies. And don’t feel like you have to overcome the cognitive dissonance. The naughtiness of it, the transgression, and the symbolic betrayal—all of that turns you on. So I am a 23-year-old Italian girl, and live with it, lean into it, and enjoy it. I have been in a long-distance relationship for one year. We love to have For the record, quickly, before sex, and when we are far away, we Tumblr explodes: some women have send each other hot pictures and vid- penises! Some women with penises are eos. At least two times per week, we uncut! A tiny percentage of uncutmasturbate on Skype. There is some- penis–having women have poor perthing that confuses me about the way sonal hygiene practices and, conI masturbate when I am alone. My sequently, have smegma under their boyfriend watches pornos daily when foreskins! #TheMoreYouKnow we are far away. This is something I don’t like, but I have not asked him On the Lovecast : It’s everyone’s to give up watching pornos. I think favourite half-mulleted, hilarious lesthere is nothing wrong in pornos by bian… Cameron Esposito! Find the themselves: sometimes I watch them, Savage Lovecast (Dan’s weekly podand when we are together, it’s me cast) every Tuesday at www.straight. who suggests to watch them together com/. Email: mail@savagelove.net. or I let him watch them while I’m Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter. giving something to him. However, com/fakedansavage/.
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You were a tall, very attractive brunette wearing jeans and grey boots leaving an open house viewing on W 12th near Arbutus. Me, tall, dark and in the company of my female realtor. You told us not to bother going in to see the unit because it was small. I’m quite sure our eyes locked for an extended moment. I haven’t stopped thinking about you since. I would love to take you out for a drink.
You: wearing shorts and a t-shirt, some salt in your dark brown hair. Me: black dress, jean jacket, curly light brown hair, holding an iPhone. You were a few people ahead of me waiting in the epic line to vote at the 604 poll Friday at noon. I wish that we had been next to each other so we could have chatted more. Thanks for the pat on the shoulder on your way out. Care to grab a drink and talk politics?... Unless you voted Conservative, then the deal is off.
DECK SUNNING ON THE FERRY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Ferry to Victoria
FROM BRIDGEPORT TO TSAWWASSEN ON FRIDAY ON THE 620
I kept running into you on the Saturday ferry over to Victoria. We both seemed to be seeking patches of sun. You had a cool haircut, maroon pants, tan boots, and black earbuds. I had red hair and a redder rain jacket. I wanted to say hi but I was slightly hungover and feeling sheepish. Hope to buy you a coffee.
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 9, 2015 WHERE: Bridgeport Station and on the 620 to Tsawwassen
HANDSOME SHAGGY HAIR MALE WHO GOT OFF AT KING ED STATION
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Canada Line SkyTrain Coming back from Richmond. I was in a leather jacket and jeans, you had a hat, shaggy hair and I think white headphones. I’m still learning how to be an adult so I couldn’t say hi. Instead I giggled loudly when you stood up to get off at King Ed, because the lady sitting in front of you watched me check you out from head to toe! You turned around because I giggled so loud. Coffee??
GRANVILLE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 11, 2015 WHERE: Granville Street We worked together for a brief moment in time. I saw you lately on Granville Street. You whistled to yourself with confidence. I wanted to say hi but fear slapped me in the face.
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You: handsome vegan student, me: colourful haired baconarian. I enjoyed our conversation. A lot. If you did too, and would maybe like to go for a bike ride to a place that serves vegan bacon, drop me a line :) S.
IGA ROBSON STREET
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: IGA Robson Street October 10th around 7pm, we were both grocery shopping at the IGA on Robson. I’m brunette and was wearing a grey sweater and black jeans and you were wearing a blue jacket I think. Great style. I smiled at you while we both were considering which hummus to get. I hope you see this.
HERSHE BABE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 11, 2015 WHERE: Hershe at Red Room You: cute Australian with a dodgeball injury. Me: blonde in the dress who knits. Loved chatting with you. Hope you had fun at the Odyssey. Would have loved to have gone with you, but had to escort my ladies home. Beer sometime?
WHERE COURAGE FALLS SHORT.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Commercial/Broadway SkyTrain Platform Eastbound It was shortly before 1pm as I approached the platform. you were standing listening to your music. I approached and you looked me in then eyes then looked down in a coy manner. I sat across you on the train reading a little before getting off, all the while subtly exchanging glances before I got off at Joyce. You; dark brown curly hair (maybe with highlights) wearing black tights and a black jacket. Me; dark hair, beard, wearing a blue jacket with a red pin and a blue bag. I was in shorts and sandals in the rain (which might seem bizarre). I am kicking myself for not saying hi. I got nervous to be honest and didn’t work up the courage to tell you I think you’re stunningly beautiful. I hope to see you again.
BABY GOATS AND “DAD” JOKES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Surrey? Langley? haha At a pub Wednesday night all I wanted was some comfort food and a beer after a long day. And we ended up talking for 3 or 4 hours. We laughed a lot, which is huge. You seemed kind and normal opposed to the majority of people out there. I felt like we hit it off, but I am not sure and I regret not saying anything. I figured you had to have a girlfriend... if you do, then I’m glad you’ve found your someone... if you don’t, then at the risk of being lame I’d like to have coffee. :) We joked about people finding each other online, but I read some of these other ones in contemplation for doing this, and realized how sad it is that we miss these connections in life. So I thought I’d take a crazy chance. - Dana
REAGLE BEAGLE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Reagle Beagle You: Obviously work there, I’ve seen you many times I’ve been in when on different dates. I think you’re nice looking but also have a nice overall energy to your personality.
IN THE ADVANCE VOTING LINE UP
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STARBUCKS CHAT / MARINE WAY
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UNFORGETTABLE WALK ON THE BEACH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 9, 2015 WHERE: West End
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 8, 2015 WHERE: Starbucks, Burnaby BC
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 3, 2015 WHERE: Burrard Bus Station, Bus 250
We exchanged a look as I approached the line to ask someone how long they were waiting. I couldn’t do the hour long wait, so left but regretted not hanging around until you voted! You: grey hair, black glasses, me: glasses, dark hair, black rain jacket
Hi, we had a brief chat, sharing a benchseat at Starbucks on Marine Way, Thursday Oct 8th. You were studying and I was working on a laptop. Be great to see you again & continue where we left off!
You, green eyed, brown haired guy at the Burrard @ west Georgia bus stop. Me: dark haired blue eyed. We were waiting for the same bus. You asked me if you knew me. We chatted for a bit while on the bus where you told me you were going to travel to Japan and then you invited me for a walk along the sea wall. We shared an amazing kiss and you held my hand as you walked me home. There are a number of reasons why I’m kicking myself about this encounter, but the biggest reason was not asking you for your number.
YOU LET ME ON FIRST
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You were wearing all tan colours and a black hat. You were really cute. I was wearing a plaid shirt, burgundy pants and brown boots. You smiled at me. When the bus came up, you let me on first. You had a really nice voice, I couldn’t stop smiling at you. I got off a few stops later among a sea of NDP campaigners. Next time you can get on first?
MET AT HASTINGS STEAM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 5, 2015 WHERE: Hastings Spa
You walked by and made a sassy little (unheard) comment after I joked to myself about making my own way... you could have said nothing, my eyes still would have been fixed entirely on you... ; ) Later you made a bullshit excuse to talk and cheekily accosted me in line. I couldn’t stop smiling. You were blunt bold gutbustingly hilarious and I was simply in awe. Did I mention how dreamy you were? I'll probably never see you again but you made my night : ) I'll be kicking myself forever for being buzzed and not getting the number of your freighter.
DARK HAIR, BROWN EYES, IN WHOLE FOODS
I saw you at the Hastings Spa, we met and more. You have a beard, thick build, a couple of tattoos. I’m blond with a beard, stocky and have a tattoo (left arm). Would like to meet u again sometime.
HASTINGS DONALD’S CEREAL AISLE JULY 2012
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 2, 2015 WHERE: Railway Club
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 9, 2015 WHERE: Hastings and Madison Bus Stop Headed West Bound.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JULY 5, 2012 WHERE: Donald’s July 2012 Your name is Missy and you worked at Red Wagon. I gave you my number so nervous in the cereal aisle at Donald’s. You wrote back: you were in a relationship but I had made your day. I moved to the desert and thought about you more than now and again. If you are still in that relationship, I wish you nothing but the best. If not, can we grab that coffee three years later?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Whole Foods, Cambie and Broadway I saw you in Whole Foods today. You were all in black. You have dark brown hair tied in semi-bun. I was at the salad bar and you walked past a couple times. We locked eyes once or twice. I was in a blazer and a gray hat and heels. You bought your dinner and you were eating it by the window when I was checking out. I literally walked towards you, and then walked away and then turned back. I had no idea what to say, I wanted to talk to you, but didn’t know what to say. I was so attracted to your energy in the very small interactions we had. I went to my car and hummed and hawed but at that point I was late for a rehearsal and left. But I am kicking myself. Seriously. If you remember who I am and would like to get to know me, let me know :)
THE WINKER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Pacific Centre I was shopping at Pacific Centre a few weeks ago and you were working in one of the stores I walked into. I walked in and you greeted me, I could almost feel your eyes following me around the store, when I turned around you looked like you were going to say something to me, and you kept winking at me, don’t know if you were flirting with me or not. You: shoulder length blonde hair, 5’10 - 5’11, medium build. Me: Asian, short black hair, 5’5. If you remember me, get in touch.
BEARDED BROWN HAIRED BAND BOY AT THE BILTMORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 3, 2015 WHERE: The Biltmore You were in a red and black flannel with a beard and your hair pulled back standing in the corner and loading gear out of the Biltmore Saturday night. I was a brown long haired girl dressed in black dancing with some friends on the outskirts of the crowd. Our eyes meet a few times and I smiled but I got shy then you were gone. Wish you would have come and said hi. Want another chance?
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day is upon us, and it’s the right time Wednesday are good for connecting, Sunday/Monday, talks, and such. down very well. for a move-along or moving on.
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he good wave continues. Make the most of it while the stars keep satisfaction, adventure, and reward on an easy dialup. Mars, Pluto, and Jupiter will keep our days full to the brim through to Monday’s goal posts. Having said that, the second half of Friday can take the steam out of ambition. Cocktail hour could start early. Venus in opposition to Neptune on Friday night finds most of us in the mood for an escape. Movies, music, romance, or an early night can hit it just right. The advance-poll turnout has been great. Expect to see a substantial, perhaps even historic, turnout on election day, too. The transiting Capricorn moon makes the rounds with Neptune, Mercury, Venus, Pluto, Jupiter, Mars, and Uranus all in one day! Whew! Only two planets are left off the list; the moon confers with the sun on Sunday and Saturn on Tuesday. Regarding the election and your personal get-go, start early and fi nish late; Monday is tagged for significant production, accomplishment, and results. Who will win the election? As is reflected in the current stats, the Capricorn moon on election day gives an added edge to the government or the Capricorn (Justin Trudeau). The moon’s fi nal act of the day is a square aspect to Uranus in Aries, which can produce a surprise result or two. Moon/Uranus also suggests a corner is turned, a fresh
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ARIES
March 20–April 20
You’re in excellent go-get’em shape, especially on Thursday and Saturday. Mars keeps you clipping along and hitting it just right. Friday is on your side too, but your time is better spent on creativity, pleasure, or romance rather than the roll-up-yoursleeves stuff. Monday is great for goalsetting or goal-reaching. Don’t you just love it when things run so smoothly?
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TAURUS
April 20–May 21
Hit it full swing. Take a big step, set the record straight, go hunting, put yourself out there. Through the weekend, Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto set an especially opportune backdrop for repairs and upgrades, moving it to higher ground, and finding what you’re looking for. On Friday night, Venus/Neptune is ideal for relaxing or romancing. Monday is a great getit-done day.
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GEMINI
May 21–June 21
Busy days continue. With such a full plate, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Don’t watch the clock or sweat the small stuff. Instead, aim to stay on top of one step at a time. Despite the overload, the stars keep things running on a relatively smooth track. Monday can be wonderfully productive. Tuesday and
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CANCER
June 21–July 22
The next few days can get you from A to B—or Z—in short order. A conversation or another look-see can uncover more than is apparent on the surface. Friday night is great for indulgence or romance, but know that practicality and reasonable boundaries are missing from your checklist. Sunday/Monday, priorities are in better order. Your best choices should be straightforward.
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LEO
July 22–August 23
Get on it, use your weekend, and you’ll feel great about it. Aim for smarter, not harder; scout for a bargain or a better deal. Outside of Friday evening, when Venus and Neptune are in an indulgent and perhaps impractical mood, you’ll find you can make your time and money work quite well for you. Monday is a great work-it-out, get-it-done day.
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VIRGO
August 23–September 23
Don’t hold back; let that tiger loose. Mars and Jupiter in Virgo keep your energy and chutzpah going strong. You can handle a lot more and get a lot more out of it, too. Venus/Neptune hits the sweet spot Friday night, but you can just as easily lose track or talk yourself into more than you should.
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LIBRA
September 23–October 23
Go by feel, stay focused on your to-do list, and don’t let yourself get distracted by the outside world and its opinions. You’ll gain greater clarity and make excellent use of your time if you can follow this advice. Take a load off and/or aim for a get-away-fromit-all on Friday/Saturday. By Sunday, you’ll be ready to hit it again. Monday is a great get-it-handled day.
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SCORPIO
October 23–November 22
Venus in opposition to Neptune can make it difficult to feel clear or secure, especially through the start of the weekend. Even so, your prospects look very good. Sunday/ Monday removes much of the guesswork or uncertainty. You’ll have it well sorted out by the start of the week. As of Monday evening, it’s a done deal— on with the next/the new.
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November 22–December 21
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PISCES
December 21–January 20
So far, so good—keep going! Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto continue to work in your favour. Venus loves you too, but on Friday she’ll make you lazy, indulgent, or soft around the edges. By Saturday afternoon, you’ll hit an energy upswing. Right time, right place; Monday’s Capricorn moon puts you in the driver’s seat. Seize the day! January 20–February 18
You’ll make great headway through mid next week. Mars and Jupiter help you tackle what’s necessary without feeling too much pain before gain. On Friday, you can easily be swayed. Aim for lowkey, simple, or romantic on Friday evening. Monday’s stars piece it together easily and well. You could gain a fresh wind late in the day. February 18–March 20
Friday’s Venus opposition to Neptune is great for socializing, conjuring, pleasure-seeking, or a romantic escape. Take note: the combo can also make you more susceptible to suggestion, viruses, alcohol, and drugs. Saturday lights a fresh spark. Sunday is par for the course. Monday’s a full-to-thebrim, profitable, and rewarding day of accomplishment. -
Mars/Pluto keeps you going strong and accomplishing well. So well, in fact, they give you licence to an early checkout from work on Friday. Relax, play up the romance, gift yourself on Friday evening. Saturday’s Mars/Jupiter is good for an energy boost or a fresh adventure. From early start to late finish, Mon- Book a reading with Rose Marcus at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/. day’s stars keep you on a great roll.
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