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here are plenty of global wine regions that seem to get much of the spotlight. The Napa Valley, Rioja, Bordeaux, and the like sure get their share of love, but there are a myriad of others producing wines that are equally delicious and more than worthy of your time. This week, let’s look at three of those regions.
ripening process. The purity of fruit is a hallmark of Limari wines, but it’s all about the minerality; that limestone is front and centre more often than not. CONCHA Y TORO MARQUES DE CASA CONCHA CHARDONNAY 2014 ($18.99 at B.C. Liquor Stores;
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Swartland is quite a sizable region, about 60 kilometres north of Cape Town in South Africa’s Western Cape, but we’re going to focus on the southern part of the area, cradled by the Paardeberg Mountain foothills in the south and the coastal region of Darling in the west. Shale and decomposed granite make up much of the soils, and with a hot and dry climate, any vineyard disease pressure is minimal. Plenty of bush vines can be found here, growing more popu- This Chardonnay from Chile’s Limari lar varieties like Sauvignon Blanc, Valley is a single-vineyard wonder. Shiraz, and Pinotage, but you’ll also come upon rarities like Palo- seafood dishes, sushi, and constant mino, a white grape more com- top-ups. monly known as the variety behind PROTEA CABERNET SAUVIthe sherry wines of Spain. GNON 2014 ($13.99 at B.C. Liquor PROTEA CHENIN BLANC 2015 Stores) Warm and cozy concentra($12.99 at B.C. Liquor Stores) Oh, tion here: toasty baking spices and how I love me some dusty cocoa envelop Chenin Blanc, in stewed blueberwhichever form ries, blackberries, it takes, whether and cherries, with Kurtis Kolt vinified sparkling, an undercurrent of dry, or sweet. The variety’s abil- earthiness and some well-integrated ity to harness and express terroir, tannins brought on by partial aging in then deliver it with a good balance French oak. Wrap yourself in this juicy of acid and charisma, is among value on cold, rainy nights. the things keeping it close to my heart. As the most widely planted LIMARI VALLEY, CHILE grape variety in the country, Chenin makes itself nice and comfy in Limestone-rich soils and the reSouth Africa, where it’s also known gion’s cool, crisp desert nights as Steen. In fact, there is more Che- (which aid the preservation of natnin Blanc planted in South Africa ural acidity in grapes) are just a than there is in France’s Loire Val- couple aspects of what makes this ley, the grape’s historical home. fledgling region, about 320 kiloThis particular bottling—which metres north of Santiago, offer is visually stunning, by the way— wines that fascinate. Although the carries plenty of Granny Smith area’s northern latitude suggests apple and quince, with jasmine extreme heat, a daily morning fog and gardenia gracing the finish. rolling in from the Pacific moderBuoyant and spry, it calls for lighter ates the climate and evens out the
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$16.99 until October 29) Echoes of Burgundian elegance are in fine form, but that’s where evidence of any other place ends. Lemon curd, papaya, and guava notes are vivid and on brilliant display on both the nose and palate, and they’re all ricocheting off a solid crack of limestone. Eleven months in French oak perfectly frames this single-vineyard wonder, courtesy of winemaker Marcelo Papa.
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AEGEAN, TURKEY
I mean, really: I could probably just have said “Turkey”, and that would have been enough. Yup, the country bordered by Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria is one of the oldest wine-producing countries on the planet, boasting hundreds upon hundreds of indigenous varieties, along with more common European wine grapes like Riesling, Viognier, and Sauvignon Blanc. More of a Mediterranean climate here, with clay loam soils getting calcareous and chalky at higher elevations.
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The sacking of the Vancouver school board has triggered new fears of school closures. Judy Choi, who earlier started a petition to save Gladstone secondary, related that she and other parents are worried. On Monday (October 17), Education Minister Mike Bernier fired the board and appointed former Delta school district superintendent Dianne Turner as official trustee. “Considering that it was the minister that appointed that one trustee, who cannot debate with another trustee about school closings, and the fact that she was not elected by me…I have no confidence that the minister has… my interest at heart,” Choi told the Straight in a phone interview. On October 3 the former board suspended the process of considering the possible shutting down of 11 schools, meaning there will be no closures in school year 2017-18, the earliest it could have happened based on the policy of the former board. In a teleconference with media on Tuesday (October 18), Bernier said parents should not worry. According to Bernier, Turner’s main task is to “bring stability” to the district, not to close schools. “Her comment to me is that school closures are not going to be considered anytime soon at all, because there’s other areas she needs to focus her attention on,” Bernier said. Janet Fraser of the Green Party of Vancouver was one of the trustees dismissed. “If the incoming trustee wants to change the school-closure policy…I presume they could do that…and they can make any decision they want,” Fraser told the Straight by phone. Fraser Ballantyne of the NonPartisan Association was also fired. He noted by phone that with a projected budget shortfall of $15 million for the next school year, closing some schools might help. The alternative is to slash more services, although Ballantyne doubts that’s a good option, telling the Straight: “It’s just going to cut through the core way too much.” For the current school year, the district cut $21.8 million in education, maintenance, and administrative costs. > CARLITO PABLO
long-term service provider, including options outside the Downtown Eastside. Connections will also have a pharmacy on site and function as a teaching clinic. “It’s meant to be a specialized node for addiction care where the door is open for crisis management,” Wood said. “With a really highly skilled staff with relationships beyond that clinic.” The second of the two new health-care facilities was only announced on October 6 and remains in the early planning stages. It’s proposed for a vacant lot at 58 West Hastings Street that the city wants to develop with a large mixed-use social-housing complex. VCH’s mental-health and addiction programs in the Downtown
Dr. Evan Wood, medical director of community addictions services at VCH, which has announced two new health centres in the Downtown Eastside. Eastside are overseen by Andrew MacFarlane, operations director of community health services (inner city–east). He said the building planned for 58 West Hastings will prioritize mental-health, substance-
use, and primary-care services. It will also serve as a home base for two VCH “integrated care teams” that will be relocated from other clinics in the Downtown Eastside, MacFarlane continued. He
discussed those teams as part of a new model favoured by VCH where general practitioners work alongside social workers, nurses, and peer navigators to deliver interdisciplinary care for people with mentalhealth and addictions issues. “It’s integrated care,” he emphasized. “It’s not going to be siloed.” VCH also recently announced the locations of two new low-barrier supervised-injection sites. Those are proposed for 528 Powell Street and 330 Heatley Street. In addition, it has expanded hours at the city’s existing injection site, Insite. That facility, at 139 East Hastings Street, is now open 24 hours during the three days a month following welfare-cheque issuance. A fourth, women-only site for intravenous-drug users is also in the works but still without a proposed address. > TRAVIS LUPICK
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During the past five years, mentalhealth and addiction problems have simultaneously intensified in Vancouver, and to shocking extents. In 2015, there were 505 illicit-drug overdose deaths in B.C., more than double the number from five years earlier. At the same time, the number of apprehensions Vancouver police made under the provincial Mental Health Act increased from 2,276 in 2010 to 4,713 in 2015. Every level of government is bolstering programs to meet these challenges. In the Downtown Eastside, where they are most acute, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has gone so far as to announce not one but two new health centres for the area. The first, scheduled to open early next year, is called Connections and will stand on Powell Street just east of Oppenheimer Park. Dr. Evan Wood is medical director of VCH community addictions services. In a telephone interview, he said the facility will function as a onestop shop for people seeking to overcome drug and alcohol issues, with a goal to eliminate barriers that prevent people from getting clean. “When people are motivated, that’s when you want to be able to offer addictions services,” Wood told the Straight. “And so this clinic is meant to be very low-threshold, so people can come, without an appointment, and be seen by a health-care team focused on addiction care.”
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Kainth began repay- millennial buyer moved back home with his ing her parents in regular parents and rented out his place on West Pender increments while she was Street while he saves for a bigger place. “Another still living in their home. one sold their place in Burnaby, moved in with “So when I moved in their parents, and is now looking to move into 2015 and when I was final- False Creek,” Rennie added. ly on my own, I was used He pointed out that baby boomers often to a good chunk of my moved out of their parents’ homes at very paycheque going toward a young ages, but that’s not as common with milmortgage,” Kainth said. lennials. Another difference: millennials are Young people share their stories about how they managed to It’s young buyers like far less likely to be hooked to the automobile become homeowners in Metro Vancouver’s hot housing market Kainth that Wesgroup than preceding generations. Properties is hoping to “We’re advising developers to not even build Everyone knows that it’s not easy for lure two stops eastward on the SkyTrain line one-bedrooms unless they’re on transit or in close most millennials to buy a home in Metro Vancou- in New Westminster’s Brewery District. It’s a proximity to transit,” Rennie said. Samson Tam is one of those young homeBY CHARL IE SM IT H ver. But it’s far from an impossible dream, accord- master-planned community around Sapperton ing to four local homeowners born in the 1980s Station, anchored by Royal Columbian Hospital owners with easy access to the SkyTrain. At the and 1990s, if people are willing to make some sig- and TransLink’s head office. ripe old age of 27, he’s now buying his second nificant sacrifices in their lifestyles. Wesgroup’s senior vice president of develop- home after buying a presale unit in the Onni Sitting in the Truffles Fine Foods ment, Beau Jarvis, told the Straight that the Group’s Block 100 project beside Main Street– across the street from New West- company first built up a commercial presence, Science World Station. minster Station, Tej Kainth ex- bringing in Save-On-Foods, Starbucks, ShopRaised in Coquitlam, Tam moved to Ontario, pressed relief that she made the pers Drug Mart, and Brown’s Socialhouse. The where he obtained an engineering degree. He told decision to take the plunge not long first 114-unit residential building, the Sapper- the Straight by phone that during paid co-op terms after her 30th birthday. “I really felt ton, sold out. Wesgroup is developing a in university, he saved as much as he could, with it was time for me to get into the 240-unit building called the Columthe goal of buying a home. 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It’s ref lected in the cre- to make sacrifices to cover strata fees and After gaining some work experience, he was ation of Westminster Pier Park, other expenses for her New West condo by not hired as an engineer back in the Lower Mainland. new conference and performing- eating out as often as before and paying close Based on advice from his parents, he immediately arts facilities inside the new attention to her budget. But that’s offset by the bought a 660-square-foot unit in Block 100 and Anvil Centre, and hip restau- joy that comes from hosting friends in her home. saved as much as he could while the project was rants like Wild Rice, Longtail And because she can walk to work and stroll back under construction. Kitchen, and El Santo. home in the middle of the day, she rarely uses her He advised other young people without liabilIn 2012, the Salient Group car, saving money on gas and parking. ities to sock money away if they’re living rent-free was converting part of a heri“I’ve got this beautiful view overlooking the riv- with their parents. tage block on Columbia Street er,” Kainth said. “I enjoy my lunch on the patio.” “People are blowing so much money on expeninto the new Trapp + Holbrook Kainth wasn’t alone in getting a boost from her sive dinners, weekend things, and partying,” Tam condo tower, which wasn’t going parents. Real-estate marketer Bob Rennie told the said. “I don’t know how anybody my millennial to be completed for two to three years. So when Straight by phone that “well over 50 percent of our age should be driving a $50,000 car. It’s not even Kainth, who was single, bought a two-bedroom first-time buyers are getting help from parents an investment; it’s a toy. I drive a used Honda that unit that year, she knew she had plenty of time to and grandparents.” my mom sold me for $4,000.” prepare before she moved in. She already had a “Millennials will find their affordability in the Another young Vancouver homeowner, 10-percent down payment; to get to 15 percent, region, not in Vancouver,” he stated. 31-year-old consultant and part-time banker see next page she borrowed from her mom and dad. He noted that one Rennie Marketing Systems OCTOBER 20 – 27 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 13
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Clockwise from top: Onni’s enormous Block 100 development lured Samson Tam (Travis Lupick photo), whereas Trapp + Holbrook became Tej Kainth’s home.
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Samantha Stewart, told the Straight by phone that she originally wanted to buy a place in the downtown core. But after extensive market research, she concluded the best option was a two-bedroom resale in the Fraserhood area for well under $400,000. So she “pulled the trigger” about two years ago. She noted that the extra room will come in handy if she decides one day to get married and have a child. “When you have a mortgage, it really commits you to Vancouver,” Stewart acknowledged. “You can’t fly away for a three-month vacation in Thailand.” Like other millennials contacted by the Straight, Stewart received help from her family for a down payment. This has kept her monthly mortgage payments around $1,400, which is only slightly higher than what she used to pay in rent for a basement suite. Another millennial homeowner, 25-year-old ecommerce specialist Rita Lee, is moving with her 25-yearold boyfriend into their first condo on Friday (October 21). She told the Straight by phone that her parents instilled in her that it was very important to get her name on title and own property. “The idea of renting was never a part of my goal, never a part of my reality,” Lee said. “It was save up and save up until I could buy myself a home.” The couple’s real-estate agent told them that they could buy a bigger place along Kingsway, but they preferred to purchase a 600-square-foot unit in Gastown because they love the neighbourhood so much. Lee said that because the market was so hot, they had to submit bids quickly or else they would have missed their chance. “When I was looking into buying a home, I thought it would be easy—find your 20-percent down payment—but there are so many other things just to get started,” she said. “We had to go completely subject-free, which means that we had to make sure that all of our finances were in place.” Recent changes to mortgage rules have upped the ante for first-time buyers. This month, the federal government declared that anyone with a down payment of less than 20 percent of the purchase price will only obtain government-backed mortgage insurance under this condition: they must qualify at whichever is 14 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT OCTOBER 20 – 27 / 2016
Bank of Canada’s five-year fixed rate. By the end of November, all homebuyers, regardless of down payment, will face a “mortgage stress test” before being able to qualify for mortgage insurance backstopped by Ottawa. Under the new rules, no more than 39 percent of household income can be allocated for gross debt servicing (mortgage payments, heat, and taxes). The total debt-service ratio (carrying costs and other debt payments) must not exceed 44 percent of household income. Rob McLister, a mortgage expert who writes for the Canadian Mortgage Trends website, has claimed that this will stifle demand for new homes. “Many young buyers will now be riding the pine until they scrape together a bigger down payment, get a raise, settle for up to an ~18% cheaper home or find a co-buyer,” he wrote. The new mortgage rules could have an impact on prices, given the large number of millennials in the region. According to a recent paper by demographic expert David Baxter, there were 373,746 people between the ages of 25 and 34 living in Metro Vancouver in 2014-15. Meanwhile, housing prices may already be on the decline after months of sagging demand. The B.C. Real Estate Association recently reported that in September, the average Multiple Listing Service price for residential properties in B.C. was $585,844. This was off 3.2 percent from September 2015. Although it’s tempting to time a housing purchase to get the best deal, this tactic is not endorsed by young homeowner Tam. He said that housing was expensive when he bought his first condo in Toronto and remained high when he purchased his second home in Vancouver. “The right time to buy is when you can afford it,” Tam recommended. “If you can’t afford it, then don’t do it. That’s just the reality. If you’re stretching yourself putting down five percent at a ridiculous interest rate, that’s not affording.” He has a dog and a steady girlfriend, and he said his condo suits his needs. And he’s not concerned about whether residential real estate suffers a correction, because he’s “not a house flipper”; he’s in it for the long term. “If it comes down a little bit, more people will get into the market,” Tam predicted. “Fifteen years from now, house prices will be up.” -
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Clockwise from left: artist Lindsey Hampton at work in her Mount Pleasant studio (Amanda Siebert photo); rectangularhandled mugs by Hampton; speckled planters by Cathy Terepocki; and female-nude tumblers by Maggie Boyd.
fascination with objects that tell a story. “I think the fact that people are drawn to ceramics right now, in part, has to do with the fact that they’re drawn to things that are made by hand,” she says by phone. A graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design, Terepocki has been refining her pottery process for over 10 years. Her wheel-thrown
pieces walk the line between old and new, pairing antique elements like weathered cork and natural rope with hanging planters, canisters, and lidded containers. The affable artist makes her own glazes and coloured slips, which help achieve a layered, almost vintage look in many of her wares. Terepocki is a particular fan of her Pine Creek
collection, its name an ode to an Australian town of the same name where she once worked in a gold mine. The soft-hued set features repurposed gilt decals atop vases, bowls, and mugs adorned with geometric patterns. “I really like the juxtaposition between the speckled clay and gold,” she explains, “because gold is traditionally used as an
embellishment on fancy china, and that’s so different from the earthy clay that it’s placed on.” Maggie Boyd, a Vancouver-based artist who specializes in ceramics, illustration, and sculpture, among other things, occasionally pulls from the past when crafting her decidedly brazen pieces, too. Take her high-contrast, chalkboardlike cups, for example, which are decorated with hand-glazed doodles of intricate Grecian urns. “I like illustrating lesser versions of these classic pieces of pottery on my work,” she says by phone with a slight chuckle. “I think it’s kind of funny, playful.” When she’s not channelling ancient Greece, Boyd draws inspiration from a myriad of sources including, but not limited to, art history, gender theory, figurative studies, and feminist politics. Her female demoiselle nudes—typically depicted on short tumblers and mugs in strong, quick strokes—are especially striking. For Boyd, handmade tableware simply serves as an out-of-the-box canvas—a concept she’s also seen other ceramists adopting. “I think what’s happening…is this fusing of the art piece and the functional object,” she muses. “And the space between them is becoming a little bit blurry.” Like Hampton and Terepocki, Boyd notes that her work is constantly evolving. And though she acknowledges the roles of Pinterest and Instagram in ceramics’ recent resurgence (“These are 3-D objects we’ve f lattened out again,” she explains), the artist is confident that the craft carries a staying power absent in other so-called socialmedia trends. “People’s interests have been sparked,” she says, “and I guess they understand that this useful beauty is actually a pretty spectacular thing to engage with.” -
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REFRESH THE BASICS Simple finishes like baseboards and casing can easily be overlooked when it comes to partial renovations, but replacing these seemingly small details can make a world of difference. “You’re not removing a wall or anything, but it will make it feel a little bit fresher,” says Hibbs. In the bathroom, a large, clunky mirror can be replaced with a chicer option from HomeSense, for example. Look for a framed ornate or vintage-inspired piece that will add charm to your space. Severson and Hibbs also stress the importance of good window coverings. Consider tossing the requisite blinds for airy linen drapery. “Keeping it light in colour just softens the space and adds enough texture without being too much,” says Severson.
CREATE A FEATURE WALL While wallpaper can be a big—and costly— commitment, wall decals are an affordable alternative. Whether you go for oversized polka dots, tropical palm leaves, or a cheeky animal print, the patterns help add a punch of personality to any space. “Something like that, especially for a kid’s room, is really fun to update it, modernize it,” explains Severson, “and it’s totally inexpensive.” Severson and Hibbs are fans of Urban Wall, a Vancouver-based producer of vinyl wall decals that are easy to both install and remove. When decking the walls in a tighter space, however, keeping the print to one side may work best. “If your room isn’t huge, you don’t want to do the whole space, because it will just feel too busy,” says Hibbs. -
dated lighting units—or worse, the builder-grade “boob light”—by installing new fixtures throughout. To keep your budget in check, Severson suggests fitting cheaper options in high-traffic areas so you can spend more in feature rooms. “Splurge on dining fixtures or pendants that you might have in the kitchen, because that’s an area where you really want to draw your eye up as a focal point,” she says. For foyers and hallways, a simple flush-mount light—available from $20 at home and hardware stores like Home Depot—will do. You can have more fun in the dining room, for example, with a drum-shade pendant or modest chandelier. However, try not to go too OTT. “If you add in a very elaborate fixture, it can sometimes take away from the space, and you never want it to feel that way,” adds Hibbs.
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Amanda Severson and Kristina Hibbs suggest updating by painting kitchen cabinetry and installing new flooring throughout. Janis Nicolay photo.
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with big impact. “If you have a decent layout but if it’s a bit dated and the cabinets are fine and a good colour, just switching out the hardware changes it up a lot,” says Severson.
bit of vinyl, a dash of parquet, and some questionably clean carpeting seem to be the go-to formula when it comes to flooring in older spaces. To help bring your space into the 21st century, rip out the mishmash of materials in favour of one type all the way through. Severson and Hibbs recommend laminate wood flooring, which is more durable than many people think. It’s also pretty easy on the wallet and eyes. “People are kind of scared to do laminate in kitchens… but we say install it throughout the whole place just to make it feel larger, more open,” says Hibbs. The two note that homeowners working with south-facing spaces, which are exposed to more natural light, should opt for flooring options that feature a low sheen. “The shinier you go, the more you’ll notice dirt and marks—especially if you have a lot of windows,” explains Hibbs.
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different systems. Thanks to a shift in demographics—out with the boomers and in with the millennials—consumers are more likely to research and buy their gear on the Internet, secure in the knowledge it can be on their doorstep the next day. “With all the choices of technology, and all the digitization, we’re not living in an analogue world anymore,” Clark says. “We have less of the tire-kickers, and less of the over-50 people who are coming in and looking for something to buy because it’s reminiscent of their twochannel music days. Now we have people coming in with plans under their arms, wanting to sit down and have a conversation and tell us a story about their dream home.” What they are often looking for is direction. “They will be like, ‘This is how I want my living room to be, this is the design I have for my master bedroom, but I don’t know what in the hell to do with the kitchen. Tell us what you have as ideas so we can start putting together something that feels right for us.’ They’re looking at trying to make sense out of the digital world, which is more and more confusing day by day. People come in to us and bemoan the fact that they’re getting updates every two weeks on their tablets or phone. “Other people come in and say ‘I’ve got an app on my iPad for playing my music and another for my lighting, and a third app for my television and it’s confusing,’ ” he adds. “ ‘It’s like having a coffee table full of remote controls. Can’t you guys put all of these things together and give me one menu with just a few buttons that gives me what I want quickly?’ That’s what they’re looking for.…They want guidance, rather than someone to rattle off all the features and benefits of technology.” As for where things go from here on the home-entertainment front, Clark suggests that millennials are having a profound impact on a world where the rules seem to change daily. “They have the idea ‘We don’t really need to own all this stuff that our parents had stacked away in their equipment closets,’ ” he offers. “We want something simple and transportable because we are moving around a lot. But we also want access to all media— we want the social networking, but want to be able to swap video with each other and show movies and music we like and share it internationally. That’s a different shift that’s more connected to the millennial generation. When they come into our business, they are looking for more portable products that are wireless.” As a result, the trend in homeentertainment manufacturing is for businesses to target a DIY crowd who are looking to set up their own wireless audio systems or optimize streaming of video to their tablets. “There’s more emphasis on the quality and reliability of the home network,” Clark says. “That’s why we’ve shifted our efforts as a company to, let’s say, a common enterprise-quality network solution. Not the stuff off the shelf from the big-box stores, but really carefully thought-out networks that are difficult to set up, but are going to last a really long time with a minimum of maintenance.” -
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At Fable Diner, located in the historic Lee Building, “ketchupless” cottage pie is basically shepherd’s pie in a mini skillet with all the seasonings of ketchup minus the sauce. Gail Johnson photo.
pickled jalapeños come with the crispy, tender fried chicken, while the roast-duck pancake is a must-have: the poultry is perfectly moist, while the whole textural thing sings with flavour thanks to bacon, kimchi, Kewpie mayo (a popular Japanese condiment), scallions, flatleaf parsley, and more of that puffed rice. Meat lovers should pass on the Reno’s Burger (unless you happen to be an oversize kid
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Meal ticket BOTTOMS UP A once-lost art form, burlesque has had an ongoing revival in Vancouver since America’s Dita Von Teese started putting the tease back into striptease in the mid-’90s. As for our local craft-beer boom, move over, Portland and Washington, because Cascadia has a new major player. This Saturday (October 22), Beerlesque VI brings the two together to steam up the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Society in Yaletown. On-stage will be burlesque dancers including Burgundy Brixx, April O’Peel, Veronica Vex, and Scarlet Delirium Sabrina. On tap will be beer by some of our most beloved breweries, including Granville Island, Stanley Park, Steamwhistle, and Strange Fellows. Sponsored in part by Vancouver Craft Beer Week, the night is a fundraiser for the Roundhouse community programs. Bottoms up—and lest you think we’re being cheeky, we’re talking about the beer. Visit www.beerlesque.com/ for details. -
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WILDTALE COASTAL GRILL (1079 Mainland Street) Its Taste of Yaletown menu includes Alberta beef carpaccio and pan-seared white sturgeon.
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ones dancing across the wall of Richard Tetrault’s Strathcona studio. A Ukrainian folk performer, First Nations artists, an African-Canadian/Cherokee singer, a Japanese taiko drummer, a Latin-American guitarist, and a Chinese pipa player all find space amid the figures in his massive new triptych. The piece marks 13 years of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, a celebration that encompasses more than 100 events, from storytelling and poetry to film, theatre, and history walks. “It’s a microcosm of the Downtown Eastside— the idea of having different figures stand in for all the different disciplines there,” says the artist, speaking in his expansive space in front of the mural, the rest of the walls stacked with leaning and hanging paintings and prints of the neighbourhood he has devoted most of his career—almost four decades—to capturing. “Every one is an actual person and many I know or have known personally,” he says, studying the figures he’s painted in the work, which will be officially unveiled at the fest’s opening ceremony next Wednesday (October 26) at the Carnegie Centre. It’s just one of a series of visual-arts-minded projects happening at Heart of the City, whose theme for 2016 is “Living on Shared Territory”. Aside from the new mural, carver Skundaal Bernie Williams will be raising her Survivors Totem Pole in Pigeon Park and Jumblies Theatre will helm a community project that creates entire miniature worlds that depict the title’s Realms of Refuge. As for Tetrault’s mural, it was commissioned to capture the fest’s past and present performers, as well as the artistic legacy of a neighbourhood often unfairly summed up with dismissive headlines about the down-and-out.
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Richard Tetrault stands before his massive new triptych, which pays tribute to 13 years of the Downtown Eastside’s Heart of the City Festival. David Cooper photo.
geometric background forms and spontaneousfeeling brushwork. “I The Heart of the City Festival uses art to throw light on a didn’t want it to have a neighbourhood too often associated only with suffering melancholy aspect to it. They’re the positive “I remember somebody once writing a piece forces in the community, and the challenge, really, about the Downtown Eastside that was so relent- was to give them all individuality.” lessly depressing and unresearched, and I thought really what I want to do is show the other side of ELSEWHERE AT HEART OF THE CITY, festiit,” Tetrault emphasizes. “Not that I don’t know the valgoers are invited to turn their own ideas into negative side, and some of that is in my work; I don’t miniature worlds that they can animate with want to put blinders on. But if they think that’s all storytelling or poetry. Called Realms of Refuge, the two-week resithere is to the Downtown Eastside, they’re missing the boat. Only when you go into the Downtown dency produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre Eastside and don’t drive through it do you realize and Toronto’s Jumblies Theatre brings local artthe complexity and mutual support there is. And ists like weaver Sharon Kallis together with the that’s what the festival is: accentuating the positive.” community. Jumblies Theatre founding artistic To create it, Tetrault, who’s well-known for his director Ruth Howard says she based the procommunity mural work and depictions of East Side cess on workshops she’s done elsewhere across alleyways and storefronts, worked from photos col- the country. “Since my childhood, it’s something I’ve loved lected over the years by Heart of the City organizer Vancouver Moving Theatre. You’ll recognize artists to do,” explains Howard, who’s visited the Heart like Dalannah Gail Bowen and Diane Wood in his of the City Festival before. “I also work in theatre painting. Late poet Bud Osborn has a central place design, so I’ve done maquettes and made a lot of in the mural, his book Lonesome Monsters poking little things into big things. But it’s kind of fun out of his windblown pocket. “I see him as being not to have to make something big out of them, such a powerful force in the Downtown Eastside and but just enjoy them as miniatures. And if you’re such a creative force,” says Tetrault of Osborn, who dealing with any disturbing material, such as imturned his life around from drug use and alcoholism ages from a residential school or images of death, there’s something about it being small that can to perform poetry about the people of the ’hood. “I wanted it to be uplifting,” Tetrault notes, con- help people to deal with it.” sidering the painting, with its rich yellows, oranHoward says the process will start with asking ges, and blues flowing together with his signature people for four realms—“senses, memory, history,
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Editor’s choice PICK UP THE PHONE Take two beautifully crafted booths and equip each with an old-school red phone with a curly cord. Add a TelePrompTer and a conversation about life and art guided by a playwright, and you get a theatre experience with an intimacy unlike anything you’ve seen before. To launch its latest Micro Performance Series, Boca del Lupo is bringing back Red Phone as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest. This is as micro as it gets, folks: there’s only an audience of two, each in his or her booth, having a 10-minute talk with a complete stranger. Take the leap and connect. Red Phone is at the Fishbowl on Granville Island from Wednesday to Sunday (October 19 to 23).
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MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS (October 21 at Ryerson United Church) The Vancouver Chamber Choir travels to the Caribbean, Mexico, and beyond.
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THE FLICK (To October 29 at the Arts Club’s Granville Island Stage) Rave reviews for this tale of three movie-house misfits.
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SCREENS AND THRESHOLDS (To December 4 at Presentation House Gallery) Raymond Boisjoly curates a provocative array.
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FIGHT NIGHT (To October 29 at the Cultch) Cast your votes for actors in this clever deconstruction of election systems.
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THE HEART’S JEWEL (October 22 to 24 at the Orpheum) A chance to see violin superstar Stefan Jackiw play Mendelssohn.
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PRESENTS Comedian Hannibal Buress is riding high with sold-out standup shows and six new films. But he tries to keep it all in perspective—even the Cosby controversy.
Hannibal Buress takes the weirdness in stride > B Y GUY M A C PHER SO N
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Buress also received a lot of press and a certain amount of infamy with a bit about Bill Cosby, revealing until-then underreported—but already public—allegations of sexual abuse to the public, effectively bringing down the House of Cos. It’s something he’s been reluctant to talk about. He describes the whole situation as “very weird”. Buress was thrust even farther into the public eye. Every time a new claim came forward, his name would be thrown in for good measure as the genesis of the public’s knowledge. “It was more that they kept going back to me with it, you know what I mean? There are still people bringing it back to me. It’s a very fascinating situation,” he says. His standup has grown from mellow and understated to more energetic and forceful. His Hannibal Montanabal tour includes a DJ and a video element to “mix it up a little bit”. The aim is to “keep people engaged from when they come into the house, even before the show starts. We just have fun with it and tinker with the show and make sure people have a good time.” In a business where performers hold on to the spotlight until the bitter end, Buress claims he’ll retire from standup well ahead of his bestbefore date. “I’m doing some real-estate investing,” he says. “Trying to set up some stuff so that I won’t have to tell jokes in about seven years.” It seems unlikely, but he clarifies: “I don’t want to grind at telling jokes in seven years. I want to have the option to do it. I want to do it at my leisure. I want, seven years from now, anytime somebody comes at me with an offer, I want it to be a known thing where it takes an obscene amount of money to get me out of the house.” I still don’t believe it. He counters with “Interview me on my 40th birthday.” Deal. If I can get past his publicists. -
ou can chart Hannibal Buress’s climb up the comedy ladder from his Vancouver appearances over the years. In order, he’s played the Biltmore, the Rickshaw, and the Vogue, and he’ll be prowling the stage at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. The guy is one of the biggest names in the business. Yet he still has time to talk to us, even against the wishes of his New York publicists. Asked if he’ll get in trouble for talking, Buress responded, “They work for me; I don’t work for them.” Despite the successes, from his sold-out standup shows to his work on Broad City and The Eric Andre Show, Buress remains low-key. “I don’t think I’m really different. I just try to manage everything and keep it in perspective and try to have fun and be appreciative,” he says. “It’s definitely weird. I mean, it’s weird with women and different situations like that, where I kind of know what they’re there for. It’s not my looks. But you know, there’s worse things in the world to deal with.” Buress was in six films in 2016, and four more are in the works for 2017. And it’s not because he’s such a great actor, by his own admission. With all his television work, and the fact he slays thousands upon thousands throughout the world with his standup both in person and on his Netflix specials, he’s a recognizable face. Buress has one goal in mind when acting: “I just try to say my lines and not be jarringly horrible.” Words to live by. He’s not a trained thespian, although he admits to working with an acting coach if he’s got a big audition coming up. “I just say the words, man,” he says. “I mean, a lot of times you’re already acting in your standup a little bit, switching into different characters. I used to not think I could do it. I would get offers to go on auditions and I wouldn’t go just because I didn’t see myself in that way. I’m talking more in 2009, 2010, where my agent at the time would try to push me into film and different roles like that and I just didn’t feel The Hannibal Montanabal Tour plays comfortable as an actor. But it really the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday (October 21). just takes time and learning.”
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or more than 30 years, English early-music ensemble Fretwork has dedicated itself to the repertoire of a single stringed instrument. The viol—also known as the viola da gamba— reached the height of its popularity in the late Renaissance but faded rapidly in the late 17th century with the rise of the more versatile violin and its family. When Fretwork formed in 1985, the founders were determined not only to revive the ancient viol but to alter the way the instrument had come to be viewed by musicians. But the prospect before them was daunting. “It seemed like an exciting, but risky venture,” says Richard Boothby, cofounder of Fretwork, reached at his home in Gloucestershire, England. “Not risky in an artistic sense, but it seemed fairly unlikely to succeed because the public perception of viol consorts and consort music at that time was very amateur. This was the preserve of amateurs and the repertoire was not music to play in front of the public, but music to be enjoyed by the players. In forming Fretwork it was that perception we were trying to change. I’m sure it came about because we were a group of like-minded viol players who happened to be on the scene at the same time.” Fretwork not only met the challenge but has come to be widely regarded today as the world’s leading viol ensemble, and is expanding the repertoire of the instrument. Although most of the works the company performs are drawn from the roughly 150-year period between John Taverner and Henry
Viol ensemble Fretwork not only explores older compositions for the instrument but is expanding the repertiore with contemporary music. Chris Dawes photo.
Purcell, Fretwork likes to include recent compositions in its programs. “We started with just one contemporary piece, then a few more, and eventually, contemporary music became a bigger and bigger part of what we do,” Boothby says. “Nowadays it is unusual for us to do a program without some contemporary music in it. In fact, we sometimes do a whole concert of contemporary music.” In Nomine, the program that Fretwork presents in Vancouver, is bookended by works by Taverner and Purcell, but also includes modern pieces by composers Gavin Bryars and Nico Muhly. “The contemporarymusic angle gives us never-ending possibilities for new repertoire,” says Boothby. “That doesn’t mean we’ve exhausted the standard repertoire, and we’ve really only recently started to explore early-16th-century music in Italy and Germany. But in terms
of the public perception of the group, contemporary music locks into a whole new audience that is not only intrigued by the idea of new music for old instruments, but is also interested in what these composers are trying to communicate.” At the same time, Fretwork is still exploring what the older works for the viol actually sounded like when originally performed. “The fact is we simply don’t know how consort music was played,” says Boothby. “There is almost no information at all, which seems odd, because it is such a big repertoire, yet nobody said anything about it. We don’t know if ornamentation was used in the same way as it was with keyboard music. It leaves plenty of room for our interpretation.” Fretwork performs the program In Nomine at Christ Church Cathedral on Friday (October 21).
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emember when you’d head to the horror section of Blockbuster to get your Halloween scares? Well, now a night of indie theatre is becoming a new October tradition in Vancouver. Forget watching The Blair Witch Project on your couch: there’s a show this year that sends you into a real nighttime forest with your flashlight. No need to sit through a double bill of Fright Night and Dawn of the Dead: another interactive offering will have you hightailing it from zombie-vampire hybrids. And pass on Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark: another production takes place entirely in a pitch-black room. It’s clear audiences are looking for real frights—the kind that only come from live performance. The range of inventive works speaks to the growing popularity of Halloween-time theatre. The site-specific, interactive The Zombie Syndrome is a mainstay on the scene with five years under its rotting belt. Newcomers for 2016 include Alley Theatre and LevelHeaded Friends’ Three Stories Up: Theatre in the Dark, set disorientingly in a black-as-a-moonless-night space. There’s also ITSAZOO’s woods-set murder tale Hidden, which sends audience members out with flashlights into the UBC Botanical Garden. And then there’s Nebula Company Theatre’s Frankenstein, 1945, a film-noir-style reimagining of Mary Shelley’s classic. Determining what audiences are looking for at this time of year has become a fine science for The Zombie Syndrome’s Andy Thompson. “Scares have been something I have been really focused on in terms of analysis,” the Virtual Stage artistic director tells the Straight over the phone, referring to his full-audience-participation show that changes locations and mixes it up each time. “Last year we stumbled upon this amazing dynamic in Trout Lake where the audience had to go into the forest in the dark. It was creepy and the zombies would lunge at them and completely freak them out. And people loved that! It really hit home for me how people love running from zombies.
Halloween audiences are the thrill seekers who want to be freaked out.” That puts pressure on Thompson to give those adventurers a new scenario each year. (Past renditions have explored everything from alien plagues to chases through downtown streets.) For this year’s installment, called The Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water, he’s introducing blood-sucking zombies and setting the action on Granville Island, sending his audience out on water for the first time (thanks to a partnership with False Creek Ferries). “I physically want to move my audience in this show as much as possible, so I’ve always brainstormed different modes of transportation,” he says. “I certainly want to retain the audience and keep them excited year after year.” The other key to the hit, he says, has been its interactivity, including the use of cellphones to help follow clues and solve puzzles. For 2016, that means using Apple’s location-based iBeacon for tracking down the monsters. “In one sense it’s a living, breathing zombie board game,” he says, adding it’s up to the audience to determine how things are going to work out as far as the zombie apocalypse goes. “They’re empowered to save the world.” And if they fail? “Everything goes to hell in a handbasket,” he says with a hearty laugh. AUDIENCES WILL GET a completely different immersive experience at Alley Theatre’s Three Stories Up: Theatre in the Dark. Working more of a suspenseful vibe than a horror one, its spookiness comes from being performed in the pitch black. Director Marisa Smith tells the Straight that audience members will be led into the space blindfolded, then asked to remove those blindfolds once the lights are off. She says the inspiration for staging local playwright Mack Gordon’s new script this way came from a trip to Dark Table, the light-free Vancouver restaurant with blind servers. “There was something about just looking out into a sea, an abyss, and then you sort of relax into it, like learning to see again,” Smith says over the phone between rehearsals. “There have been studies done that show that
your senses heighten quite quickly when you can’t see.” The script had the feel of a radio play, she says, and because she and her team were going to stage it with sparse sets anyway, they decided to tweak it to take place in that “abyss”. The story is a suitably twisty noir suspense, following a female transit cop as she tries to find her husband’s murderer. In another disorienting wrinkle, the audience will be surrounded by the actors, with whispers, sound effects, and conversations coming from unexpected directions. “You don’t know how many characters there are or who comes on next. There are no usual expectations,” says Smith, who’s been rehearsing with her actors in blindfolds. “What I’ve noticed is it’s really heightened the listening and the stakes so much. “We spend so much time on a screen and working on a computer and social media,” Smith continues, “so I’ve kind of enjoyed working on this play, because there is absolutely no visual component. It’s almost like a novel, where you imagine what the characters look like. We get so much media at us all the time, but we don’t necessarily get the visceral experience that you get from a rock concert or a roller coaster.” The hope is to give viewers that visceral experience through theatre. The larger aim is that these indie Halloween shows are also going to introduce the art form to people who might not otherwise go out to plays. “We are definitely attracting people who are not theatregoers per se, but adventure seekers,” says Thompson, adding that the audiences for his shows skew young. “Hopefully, by exposing those people to live theatre, they’ll go on to see more of it.” Three Stories Up: Theatre in the Dark runs from Thursday (October 20) to October 31 at 805 East Pender Street. The Zombie Syndrome: Dead in the Water runs to October 31 on Granville Island. Hidden runs from Saturday (October 22) to November 13 at the UBC Botanical Garden. Frankenstein, 1945 runs from Monday (October 24) to October 30 at Studio 1398.
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Director John Cooper has found Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon is about facing hard existential questions, change, and death—”human being stuff”.
of life—and in another way, it’s two guys not looking at their own shit, right? So there’s all these different things, and it depends what day of rehearsal somebody asks me what thing is really interesting me. “There is a great story there, from resistance to surrender—which is not fighting the truth anymore, the scary truth, and just slowly coming to terms with it,” Cooper continues. “To me, there’s great meaning in that. There’s also a poetic rhythm to it that happens from running into walls and letting go, and running into walls and letting go, and running into walls… So there is a kind of ebb and flow to it. Things keep shifting and shifting.” What’s fixed is that Byron and Ames have wedged themselves into some kind of bolt hole—a fishing cabin, maybe, or some other rustic hideout—where they’re faced with the slow and remorseless unravelling of their lives. The wreckage of their wrong choices—the women disappointed, the money squandered,
the vitality taken for granted—whirls around them as they seek solidity in their 50-year friendship. Which is all that remains for them, and yet not quite what it seems—much like the two central characters themselves, archetypical American males who also somehow represent the whole of the human condition. “It’s really about the nature of being in your 60s, and facing existential questions and change and death and all these sorts of things,” says Cooper. “We do all this comic stuff to resist it—you know, behave foolishly and stuff—until we’ve suffered enough and have to stop fighting. It’s human-being stuff. That’s how I feel about it, anyway. It’s real stuff that people I know go through, more than ‘Here we are at the theatre, darling.’ “It certainly is a play,” he adds, “that’s more about inviting questions than offering simple answers.” -
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he trouble with interviewing actors on the job, as it were, is that you’re never quite sure who you’re talking to. Have we interrupted Alec Willows and Jon Bryden during rehearsals for Ages of the Moon, or is it Byron and Ames, the crusty old guys at the heart of Sam Shepard’s play, who are bemoaning the facts of the senior’s life via speakerphone? “You find out that there’s things you didn’t take care of that never occurred to you that it might be necessary to take care of, so you end up with the same problems that you had when you were in your 20s. You realize you haven’t really solved anything. Especially if your life is devoid of love,” says the voice that identifies itself as Willows. “It’s like waking up in the morning, and you look in the mirror and you don’t recognize the person staring back. Then you start to assess where your past life has gone to, and whether or not there’s enough milk in the fridge for Cheerios,” Bryden answers back. The banter goes on, making a couple of seemingly contradictory things clear: these two veterans are perfectly cast in this production, and director John Cooper will have his hands full bringing Ages of the Moon to the Presentation House Theatre stage. With two weeks to go before opening night, Cooper can’t fully explain what he wants viewers to get out of the play, marked as it is by Shepard’s characteristic blend of psychological insight and halfarticulated emotions. “Right now, in trying to think what I would possibly say to you about a play that has such a rich fabric, there’s lots of different lines that go through it,” he says, on the line from the theatre. “There’s this whole existential thing, which I see in Buddhist terms of dealing with the groundlessness
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lassical-guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero has yet to discover the fountain of youth, but he’s hit on the next-best thing: how to keep one’s hands limber and arthritis-free well into one’s eighth decade. “The trick is ‘Never let them stop,’ ” the 72-year-old musician tells the Straight from Austin, Texas, where he’s leading workshops with a youth orchestra, holding master classes with older students, and playing a few concerts before returning to the West Coast for performances in Vancouver and Victoria. That Romero loves teaching is clear. After laughing, he delivers a short lecture on the importance of proper preparation, which for him involves more than just studying the notes on the page. “Always, always warm up well,” he advises. “Warm up well, and feel. Every sound has to sound good, and has to feel good. I think if I were to completely lose my hearing, I would continue to play because I love the way it feels. And that sensation of the touch—and enjoyment of the touch—is what we have to cultivate in order to keep healthy hands.” Romero admits that his own training “could not have been better”. As the second son of the adventurous guitarist Celedonio Romero, he grew up surrounded by music, and never looked elsewhere for his education. “It was just the absolutely most perfect situation to learn the guitar,” he reiterates, a hint of his Spanish accent creeping into his easy, colloquial English. “But I think that there are wonderful programs all over the world now, and the guitar is being recognized and loved the world over. There are excellent teachers everywhere, and I am very fortunate that many of the people that studied with me are in all different parts of the world, teaching the guitar and actually taking to the universities that which I imparted to them from my very personal and really fantastic training with my father.” The concerts he’s giving in B.C. reflect that, both in the all-Spanish program he’s prepared and in the people he’s performing with. Several of the works continue the fourguitar format the Romeros pioneered in the 1960s, but rather than Maestro Celedonio and his three sons, it’s Maestro Pepe and his three students: Randy Pile, Robert Ward, and Alexander Dunn, professor of guitar at the University of Victoria. The program will include several duets and a venture into flamenco, but it’s Dunn’s quartet arrangements of music by the early-20th-century composer Joaquin Turina that Romero is most looking forward to playing. “These were originally written for the Quartetto Aguilar, which was a lute quartet—but not lutes like
Classical-guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero says teaching a new generation, and always warming up, keep him young.
the Elizabethan or baroque lute, the European lute,” the guitarist explains. “They were for the Spanish lute, which is actually closer to the mandolin.” A new Romero family tradition will also be audible. Pepe Romero has an admirable collection of instruments from the world’s best luthiers, but he’ll most likely perform on one built by his son, Pepe Romero Jr. “I’ve always been very involved and very interested in the creation of the guitar—how the different trees are put together to vibrate in just the perfect way with each other,” he says. “And now I’m very fortunate, because my son and my grandson are both phenomenal makers, and I get to watch that every single morning, every single day, because their workshop is in my house. “The instruments that he produces are extraordinary, as you will hear,” Romero continues. “There will be, I believe, three, if not four, of them at the concert. But exactly which guitar I will use I’m not sure—because, you know, we guitar players, we don’t commit until it’s time to play.” -
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entertains and terri es me. Obviously, I’m not alone. e Vancouver eatreSports League always have their nger on the pulse of popularity, so their latest feature show is called Trump Card: Winner Takes All. It’s their second time lampooning the man. Back in 2005, they had a successful run with The Imprentice, a takeoffl on Trump’s reality-TV show The Apprentice. e man is comedy gold, clearly. It’s the usual improv funny business, only with a political bent. e title is a bit misleading, though. I could have watched a whole show on the man, the myth, the monstrosity, but this production features characterizations of Hillary Clinton and Justin Trudeau along with the Donald. Nothing will offlend diehard political hacks, however. Improv comedy is usually much kinder than standup. ese are broad-stroke shots: Justin’s oppy hair and bare chest, Hillary’s composure, and Trump’s orange blowhardiness. e rst half of the show takes place 24 years in the future, as news anchors (on this night played by Nathan
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Clark and Brian Cook) continually promise Decision 2040, before getting sidetracked with various scenes. It’s all a big tease that I get a er the fact, but there were times during the rst half when I was thinking the show’s name was misleading. ey were drawing us in with Trump, but he was nowhere to be seen. But they eventually get around to the big election. Characters drawn from audience suggestions are the candidates being advised by the pros. At this showing, Denise Jones played a pretty baker named Jenny, and her adviser was Hillary Clinton, played hilariously by Lauren McGibbon. ey went up against an angry pole dancer named Joe Cocker, played by Graeme Duffly, who was given advice by our own JT, played by the comically bilingual and buffl Allen Morrison. ese aren’t dead-on impersonations but rather impressions of the leaders, in the true sense of the word. But you knew there had to be a Trump card. Scott Patey, caked in orange makeup, made a dramatic entrance as our hero, introducing his star candidate, an audience member. e three duos battled it out, improvstyle, to see who would win the nal showdown. And just as the real Donald J. Trump has asserted, the whole process was rigged. Only this time, he’d be happy with the outcome. In the end, I got my Trump x. And Patey is just as viable a candidate as the real deal.
work is o en so innovative it leaves you breathless. Local dance renegades David Raymond and Tifflany Tregarthen set Major Motion Picture in a dark universe where Big Brother surveillance cameras keep an oppressive, ever-watchful eye on the action. is is a world where blackclothed citizens battle marginalized rebels in striped bodysuits and balaclavas, and the cinematic scores of Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann drive all the action with a sense of doom. Within that universe rules a giant, ominous black overcoat, animated by three bodies so that it sprouts six skittering legs and four grasping hands. As for the remaining set of hands, they are le to reach out from the top and straighten its collar, make it look like it has a pounding heart, or drag humans into the neck hole. It’s brilliantly realized, alluding to lm noir and Orwellian nightmares, the surreal and the circus all at once. But the oppressive beast has to be tamed, and in an expressive scene toward the work’s end, Tregarthen pays homage to Charlie Chaplin, inserting her own arms into the coat to animate it, ultimately wrestling it into an almost nurturing force. e coat is the best part of Major Motion Picture, but there is much else to marvel at. Out Innerspace resourcefully uses its seven dancers (Tregarthen, Raymond, Ren e Sigouin, Elissa Hanson, Arash Khakpour, Ralph Escamillan, and Laura Avery, all products of the couple’s Modus Operandi training program) to create a world that seems much more populous. Dressed in black, they tangle and writhe as a single organism as they move across the stage. In one of the show’s more indelible images, they interlock their limbs to conjure the moving mouth, eyes,
and nostrils of some unspeakable, roaring monster the omnipresent evil that hangs over the entire show. Expressive hands are used again and again to create illusions, at one point caging Escamillan’s face menacingly from behind, then moving quickly to imitate a beautiful nger headdress. As the hip-hop in uenced others, dressed in patchwork bodysuits that suggest exploding sock drawers, they hide behind the scenes and try to disrupt the oppressive order. Amid all this is some truly groundbreaking video-projection work, playing with the idea of a panning surveillance camera and ashing hidden cameras catching blurry images of citizens hiding and eeing. e piece raises provocative questions about how much we’re being watched these days and how much it builds fear, con ict, and paranoia in our society an idea that’s heightened when, toward the end of the work, the audience is implicated in the watching. Props should also go to lighting designer James Proudfoot, who plays with ideas of the silver screen, shadowy corners, and exposing spotlights to moody efflect. Clearly, there’s no shortage of concepts or in uences here, in this retro cinematic world that speaks so directly to the technology of today. Some judicious editing would clarify the busy, sometimes ba ing narrative, however, and the show’s driving intensity loses a bit of its re with an intermission breaking the action. But Tregarthen and Raymond have solidi ed their place as a bold force on the local dance scene. You can see the in uences of their work with mentor Crystal Pite: the love of moving group-organism sculptures and penchant for surprising trompe l’oeils. But what sets them on their own journey is their sociopolitical awareness and wild mashup of references. Most of all, though, with Major Motion Picture, they’ve successfully built a believable, disturbing universe that sinister, humongous overcoat aside might not actually be that far from our own. > JANET SMITH
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Twelfth Night gets a playful cultural mashup King of the Yees takes audience on a chaotically fun ride through San Francisco’s Chinatown, while Whitman boasts strong acting TH E AT RE PIYA BEHRUPIYA (TWELFTH NIGHT) Translated by Amitosh Nagpal. Directed by Atul Kumar. A Company Theatre production presented by the Cultch and Diwali Fest. At the York Theatre on Tuesday, October 11. Continues until October 22
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numbers while you’re at it. Colourful, giddy, exuberant, and so much fun, Piya Behrupiya is a terrific way to kick off Vancouver’s Diwali Fest, a lively local incarnation of the Hindu celebration of light. This play, in which translator Amitosh Nagpal and director Atul Kumar reimagine Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night as a Bollywood musical, was commissioned by London’s Globe Theatre, and the Mumbaibased Company Theatre has performed it over a hundred times. A brief synopsis of their version: after twins Sebastian and Viola are separated in a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy, Cesario, and enters the service of the Duke, Orsino, who sends Cesario to woo his beloved, Olivia. She spurns Orsino but falls in love with his messenger. Meanwhile, Olivia’s uncle Toby, his friend and unwitting benefactor Andrew, and the servants in Olivia’s home conspire in convoluted mischief. The plot’s many twists and turns offer ample opportunities for show numbers in the Bollywood tradition. The playful cultural mashup starts with the stage backdrop, a giant banner triptych on which the Bard’s face blooms from a cluster of lotus petals, like a Hindu deity. The image looms over a platform for the musicians and whichever cast members aren’t part of the downstage action in any given scene. This doesn’t stop them from interrupting the proceedings to heckle each other, both in and out of character, in a play whose fourth wall is delightfully flimsy. Audience members with no knowledge of Hindi or of Bollywood conventions (like me) can still be caught up in the boisterous spirit of this show; there are helpful surtitles (and the occasional sprinkling of English), and there’s not a weak link in the cast of nine. Geetanjali Kulkarni’s Viola relishes the boyish mannerisms she adopts for her disguise, while Mansi Multani’s Olivia finds countless flavours of swooning. As Sebastian, Mantra Mugdha gripes entertainingly
Piya Behrupiya (Twelfth Night) puts a bouncy Bollywood spin on a Shakespearean favourite. Company Theatre photo.
about his paucity of lines. Tall, rubbery Aadar Malik is a physically inventive Andrew, and Neha Saraf’s vocal precision makes Feste a clever and watchable fool. Everyone on-stage appears to be having a great time; it’s hard not to get swept away by their sense of fun. So, performers and spectators, celebrate love, celebrate light—play on! > KATHLEEN OLIVER
KING OF THE YEES A Gateway Theatre production, by special arrangement with Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Directed by Sherry J. Yoon. At the Gateway Theatre on Saturday, October 15. Continues until October 22
“As long as someone remembers,
2 it always remains true.”
Lauren Yee’s ambitious, complicated, and complex King of the Yees is full of thought-provoking, beautiful lines like this, moments that ring true even as we know that sometimes these are lies we tell ourselves about legacy, tradition, family, and belonging. Yee’s script explores big questions and universal concepts by making them hyperspecific and personal, as she turns the spotlight on herself and her father, Larry, and their relationship. King of the Yees stages a play within a play set on their home turf of San Francisco’s Chinatown. The play opens with two actors portraying Lauren and Larry, when the “real” Larry (a warm and engaging performance by Gateway Theatre’s artistic
director, Jovanni Sy) interrupts the show, breaking the fourth wall and causing the “real” Lauren (Andrea Yu) to lose control of her cast. Larry is a local legend who knows everything and everyone, and is always sure of a deal or a discount through friends of friends. He’s proud of his heritage and the long line of Yees who have survived to the current generation. It’s this pride that makes him a faithful fundraiser for and backer of California state senator Leland Yee, but it’s also his old-fashioned ways and obsession with holding up tradition that make his daughter wince with disdain and pity. Lauren warns her father that the senator has been using him for 20 years, but Larry disagrees, saying his proximity to the senator puts him in a position of power. When the senator is arrested for public corruption and gun trafficking (which actually happened in 2014), Larry is crushed, and the blows keep coming when Lauren tells him she’s moving to Berlin and bowing out of their trip to their ancestral village in China. The three other cast members, whose titles are Actor #1, #2, and #3, play everybody from the “fake” Lauren and Larry to rogue audience members to ancestors. Milton Lim is a compelling presence, and a scene between Raugi Yu and Donna Soares involving accent coaching is jawdroppingly funny. King of the Yees isn’t a new story, not really. Most kids get embarrassed by their parents at some point, and then
eventually learn the hard way that maybe their parents’ ways have some merit. But what’s inspiring is the way Yee breathes new life into this familiar motif, upending the audience’s expectations at every turn, pivoting from real-life events to commentary to surrealist, ghost-whisperer territory. King of the Yees looks messy and chaotic. But only at first. In actuality, it’s an intricate, playful nest that satirizes western stereotypes of Chinese culture while lovingly sending up some actual, traditional Chinese customs, as well as providing sharp, insightful commentary about racism, gentrification, assimilation, sexism, love, and familial obligation.
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WALT WHITMAN’S SECRET By Sean O’Leary. Based on the novel by George Fetherling. Directed by Jack Paterson. A frank theatre company production. At Presentation House on Friday, October 14. Continues until October 23
Two hours of intriguing pre-
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drama: Walt Whitman’s Secret feels like an extremely long trailer for a really good novel. That novel, by Vancouver writer George Fetherling, is the basis for Sean O’Leary’s stage adaptation, set in 1918, which focuses on the relationship between an elderly Walt Whitman and his biographer and self-professed “disciple”, Horace Traubel, whom Walt is urging to marry another of
his devotees, Anne Montgomerie. As the three question the nature of true love—as expressed in Whitman’s poems and in their lives—Walt is haunted by memories of his own great romance decades earlier with a younger man named Pete. There’s an abundance of rich material in this blend of fact and fiction, but O’Leary’s script is thin on theatricality. The physical action is static: Walt spends most of his stage time in bed, talking to whichever character is visiting him. Director Jack Paterson attempts to liven things up with pure-movement sequences that express the sensual liberation celebrated in Whitman’s poetry, and the production’s design elements inject energy: the all-white surround of Michelle Allard’s set becomes a canvas for the shadows thrown by Itai Erdal’s sculptural lighting, Carmen Alatorre cleverly slips wisps of manuscript into details of her handsome period costumes, and Dorothy Dittrich’s music is sumptuously textured. All of the actors are compelling, too. Tom Pickett sports a bushy beard and a twinkle in his eye as Walt, whose mischievous charm magnetizes both Horace, played with emotional nuance by Conrad Belau, and Anne, to whom Adele Noronha brings a warmhearted, grounded presence. Kamyar Pazandeh’s Pete is confidently captivating, though neither as otherworldly nor as sensual as one might expect a ghost lover to be. But despite the production’s strengths, the wordy dialogue gets repetitive, and the play lacks clear stakes. Walt wants Horace to marry Anne—but we know this will eventually happen, because the opening scene introduces us to Anne after her husband’s funeral. Horace wants Walt to reveal the secret of his great love, but we’ve already met Pete in Walt’s reveries. The exchanges about Walt’s poetry are engaging—it’s fun to watch Walt respond to Anne’s contention that the earlier versions of “Leaves of Grass” are better than subsequent revisions—but they don’t lead to an accumulation of tension. And many lines feel inexpertly lifted from the page, which drags down the rhythm. At one point, Anne asks, “We haven’t stumbled into a state of being for which the English language has no word, have we?” It’s meant to be witty, but it’s so writerly that it falls flat. For all the strengths of this mounting, Walt Whitman’s Secret hasn’t quite made the leap from ink on paper to living, breathing flesh. > KATHLEEN OLIVER
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less privileged inform two quite different shows in downtown Vancouver. Tomoyo Ihaya’s Eyes Water Fire, at Art Beatus, compresses large themes into small works, including drawings, videos, and a mixed-media installation. White, Steel, Slice, Mask, an exhibition of found objects by collaborating artists Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten, employs the windows of the Contemporary Art Gallery to address discriminatory museum practices. Ihaya, who was born in Japan and is based in Vancouver, has made some 16 extended trips to India, especially to the remote northern region of Ladakh, known colloquially as “Little Tibet”. She has spent time, too, with the Tibetan community in exile in Dharamsala and Delhi. Not surprisingly, her art has been profoundly influenced by her experiences abroad and by her personal practice of Tibetan Buddhism. A number of the small drawings on view, executed in her characteristic style of simplified outlines and delicate washes of colour, relate to her two recent stop-motion videos Eyes Water Fire and Through Water Through. Both videos are seemingly rudimentary in execution, yet they have a strong emotional impact on the viewer. Through Water Through uses the element of water as a metaphor for the cycle of life and death, Ihaya writes in her exhibition statement. Eyes Water Fire contemplates “peace and human dignity”, with particular reference to selfimmolations by Tibetan Buddhists. Her mixed-media installation, which includes drawings made on Japanese paper and also directly on the gallery’s white walls, uses recurring images of water, boats, and watery blue legs to suggest forced migrations of people, over snowy mountains and across wide seas. Immense crowds of eyes, some of them shedding tears, others surrounded by tiny holes burned through the paper, symbolize both prayer and bearing witness. Boats crowded with hapless souls, seen in the installation and in the large drawing Refuge, relate particularly to Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution and violence by the
Tomoyo Ihaya, whose Sketch for Eye Water Fire is shown here, uses simple imagery to refer to boat migration, Tibetan-Buddhist self-immolation, and more.
Buddhist majority in Myanmar. By massing and repeating her small, simple visual motifs, Ihaya compounds their impact, creating work of surprising power and complexity. At the CAG, White, Steel, Slice, Mask engages us more intellectually than emotionally, demanding our heightened consideration of issues of otherness and hierarchical power structures. Canadian artist Farooq, based in Toronto, and Dutch artist Linschooten, based in Paris, frequently collaborate on projects of community engagement and social criticism. Recently, they have been applying the collecting, categorizing, and display strategies of anthropology museums to challenge our cultural complacencies. One of their CAG commissions has involved making a series of visits to Vancouver and, among other activities, purchasing mass-produced cultural objects from import shops throughout the metropolitan region. The artists have displayed these variously pretty and tacky items—
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including vases, bowls, teapots, figurines, masks, and clothing—in the CAG’s Nelson Street windows. Not incidentally, the objects conform to stereotypes of East Asian and South Asian cultures and are satirically placed here as representative of large immigrant communities. The intent, it seems, is to challenge the power structures and value judgments embedded in museum practices and to alert us to the ways mainstream society frames minority cultures. Treating each window as a vitrine, Farooq and Linschooten have fractured and disrupted conventional museum-display techniques, installing what would normally be horizontal shelves in zigzags, cutting objects in half, and mounting old atlases upside down, right side up, and sideways. In the case of an embroidered red dress, they have awkwardly stretched the garment over a set of square shelves. Dress and display furniture are not at all suited to each other—and that is the point.
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THE PIANIST: A CONCERT CATASTROPHE A mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus, this catastrophic solo comedy is centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano. Oct 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 6, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/the-pianist/.
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AGES OF THE MOON Lonesome Moon Productions presents Sam Shepard's darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse. Oct 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 6, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $30/20, info www. phtheatre.org/show/ages-of-the-moon/. 12 ANGRY JURORS Standing Room Only Theatre presents a play that sees 12 jurors decide on the fate of a young boy. Oct 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 4, 8-10 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Tix $20/17, info www.standing roomonlytheatre.org/.
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VIEW FROM MONTREAL Although such things are hard to quantify, the combination of Quebecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-supported conservatory system and VĂŠronique Lacroixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visionary leadership means that Ensemble contemporaine de MontrĂŠal just might be Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most accomplished new-music group. But instrumental expertise isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t all that will be on display at the Orpheum Annex on Tuesday (October 25): the ensembleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ECM+ program features the music of four brilliant young Canadian composers, including Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sabrina Schroeder. How often do we get to hear the future right now?
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Oct 23, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $30, info www.westerngoldtheatre.org/.
COMFORT COTTAGES Western Gold Theatre presents the story of four single female friends of retirement age who are unsettled financially and emotionally. To
DEAD IN THE WATER The Virtual Stage presents an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant
THE FLICK The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson's version of Annie Baker's play about three underpaid ushers whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do anything to keep their beloved and endangered movie theatre running. To Oct 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. PIYA BEHRUPIYA (TWELFTH NIGHT) Diwali Fest presents the Canadian premiere of the Company Theatre's Bollywood-influenced adaptation of Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night. To Oct 22, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $25, info www.diwalifest.ca/. WALT WHITMAN'S SECRET Sean O'Leary's play mines the life of American poet Walt Whitman for insights about creativity, sexuality, relations between the sexes, and the often irreconcilable tensions between idealized love and how love actually manifests. To Oct 23, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $15-28, info www.thefranktheatre.com/. FIGHT NIGHT The performance puts five actors into the position of candidates
struggling to get the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sympathy and their vote. To Oct 29, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/events/fight-night-2/.
MAMAHOOD: TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE Nicolle Nattrass's one-woman show tells the story of an extremely deprived first-time mother who dares to tell the tale of her descent into motherhood as she travels to an alternate time and place. To Oct 29, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www. firehallartscentre.ca/onstage/mamahoodturn-and-face-the-strange/. STRAIGHT JACKET WINTER A couple travel from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempts to integrate into their new city. Presented by ThÊâtre la Seizième. To Oct 29, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $26-30, info www.seizieme.ca/saison/straight-jacketwinter/?lang=en/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK I CARE WHAT YOU THINK Performance invites the audience to be part of an experience, exploring how the perfect dance has nothing to do with an unattainable ideal but exists in the spaces
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MOVIES REVIEWS UNDER THE SUN A documentary by Vitaliy Manskiy. In Korean, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
The reason that no outsiders shoot mov-
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there without government permission. Ukrainebased Vitaliy Manskiy, who specializes in making tough-minded docs under onerous conditions, went against that grain by going with it. He agreed to every condition demanded by North Korean officials, including sticking to the “script” they provided and submitting at least some of the footage for review afterward—to correct “mistakes”. And he still came up with a heartbreaking record of lives relentlessly stifled from birth. Certainly, the film—one of two docs about North Korea playing this week—is loaded with sympathy for the inhabitants, starting with lovable Lee Zin-mi, a big-eyed eight-year-old proud to join the Children’s Union (yikes). She’s seen reciting an Orwellian history lesson in class (Japanese aggressors, American cowards, and Korean landowners are all pretty much the same, you see) and taking dance classes for an upcoming group performance. She clearly hates every part of it, as underscored by Manskiy’s use of sombre classical music. Zin-mi is slightly more at ease with her parents, although given the humourless interference
Censor and censorbility Remarkable Under the Sun pulls a fast one on North Korea; Teens go on the lam in moody Canadian indie Mean Dreams from (sometimes on-screen) handlers, we can’t be sure that they are her parents. Indeed, these two are even assigned different jobs for the movie, and their interactions with “coworkers” are almost hilariously stilted. Their apartment is fake, and they don’t even get to eat the absurdly bounteous dinner, since the untouched food is taken away after every take. It’s clear, however, that North Koreans have become excellent performers, whether feigning enthusiasm for a phony work celebration, moving in geometric formations, or crying on command for the anniversary of the founding Great Leader’s death. “Every spring,” one of Zin-mi’s classmates proclaims at one mass event, “our little flower-bud hearts are filled with grief for our beloved generalissimo Kim Il-sung.” Sadly, their little flower-bud hearts are spoken for the moment they are born.
Eight-year-old Lee Zin-mi turns her back on Dear Leader in Vitaliy Manskiy’s incredible documentary Under the Sun, which was shot entirely in North Korea.
CAMERAPERSON A documentary by Kirsten Johnson. Rating unavailable
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shot collection of people and places encountered in this unusually constructed and exceptionally powerful documentary. Cameraperson stitches together footage cinematographer Kirsten Johnson shot for other people’s films, or for herself between gigs. She’s been the DOP or pivotal camera operator on gutsy, in-thefield stuff like Citizenfour, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Darfur Now. Her titles for PBS’s Independent Lens and other series have been as hard as death row and as playful as profiles of French philosopher Jacques Derrida and choreographer Elizabeth Streb. Consequently, her catalogue of images is drawn from everywhere, and from any emotional key or colour, and these are parcelled out in moments both intimate and grandiose. Much seems to be drawn from side stories Johnson encountered along the > KEN EISNER way, or as textural research in places briefly identified as Nigeria (to follow a local midwife), Yemen MEAN DREAMS (to tour a prison), and Washington, D.C. (to work with Michael Moore). These sequences are unStarring Bill Paxton. Rated PG predictably edited; you rarely know where things Part dreamy coming-of-age story, part crime are going, or if she’ll return to that location. thriller, part homage to Badlands, Mean Some themes eventually emerge, and begin to Dreams manages to build a mood all its own. Call connect the geographical and personal dots; many it Sault gothic. involve the primacy of the eye in uncovering parFilmed in northern Ontario, it has a quiet tially hidden truths, and the responsibilities that intensity and a strong, visceral sense of place. come with determined observation—as well as the Naturalistic young Sophie Nélisse and Josh accidental kind. Only glimpsed a couple of times Wiggins play two teens who bond in a bleak herself, the filmmaker pointedly returns to some rural setting. They live next to each other, in the sites and subjects, such as the Bosnian family she kind of farmhouses that have duct-taped screen meets again five years after the Balkan wars, and doors, peeling shingles, and dated wood-panel- the rural Northwest, where she finds her own and-Arborite-counter kitchens. His mother mother drifting into an Alzheimer’s goodbye. suffers crippling depression, and his father The film, which has won top-doc honours in at made him quit school to work the farm; her least eight festivals, asks you to put aside normal single dad, a cop played by Bill Paxton, hides a strategies for organizing information. She offers sinister side beneath his smile. Watch Nélisse’s what took her three decades to gather and promCasey hesitate and subtly f linch the first time ises that you’ll really feel most of that experience he warmly says, “C’mere.” in a scant 102 minutes. > KEN EISNER When the do-gooder Jonas (a fresh-faced Wiggins) witnesses a crime and ends up with a bag of stolen cash, he sees their chance for escape. But THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT they’re not sure where they’re running to (Casey A documentary by Ross Adam and Robert Cannan. vaguely wants to “see the ocean”), and they’re be- In English and Korean, with English subtitles. ing chased by forces of true evil. Rating unavailable Along their journey, director Nathan Mor“There are no love stories in North Korea.” lando makes artful use of the Sault Ste. Marie So says Choi Eun-hee, a 1960s glamour star region in autumn, wrapping scenes in orange and yellow foliage, and finding atmospheric back and filmmaker who became famous twice, for roads, misty lakes, tired motels, and even a beat- reasons that boggle the mind, even by Pyongup, abandoned Sunday-school bus. Helped by Son yang’s standards. Choi became part of a bizarre Cold War spy Lux’s driving, ominous soundtrack, he also builds a palpable sense of suspense and danger for the saga when she was kidnapped from South Korea in 1978, after being lured to Hong Kong by a movie innocent lovebirds. The soulful setting is matched by strong per- offer when her career was faltering. Partially, that formances, not just by the unaffected Wiggins and decline was because she had divorced Shin Sangok, one of the South’s leading directors—although Nélisse, but by a genuinely frightening Paxton. The film’s last act enters more conventional ter- his poor money skills saw him faltering by then as ritory, complete with a gun, a showdown, and an well. Eventually, he would also be kidnapped, and overwrought finale that’s predictable and yet not be much more roughly treated, before the couple entirely satisfying. Still, what stays with you is the was reunited in Pyongyang. This was at the whim of Kim Jong-il, the moviebleak yet burnished northern landscapes and the idea that two teen protagonists can have unironic loving son of North Korea’s dynastic founder, Kim conversations and show vulnerability—no matter Il-sung. Dear Leader rightly concluded that his own national film industry produced nothing but how rotten the world around them is. > JANET SMITH “the same plot over and over again”, in his words.
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(Choi was able to surreptitiously record the enigmatically coiffed strongman, who was rarely heard in the West.) But Kim couldn’t see why his repressive regimentation made it impossible to be creative. He therefore simply “imported” two culture workers and alternately seduced and threatened them into being his own personal Hollywood. The result was an amazingly productive period, with the power couple—finally free from fundraising chores—producing 17 movies in less than three years. It’s too bad Despot directors Robert Cannan and Ross Adam didn’t, or couldn’t, obtain more of this astonishing output, as the snippets we glimpse—alongside other Korean clips, talking-head interviews, and grainy re-creations—don’t convey as much subtext as we might like. It would also help to know how this hothouse revival affected their relationship, at least until their daring escape, some years later. “In intense situations,” explains Shin at one point, “people imitate what they’ve seen in movies.” In some cases, life is infinitely weirder. > KEN EISNER
AMERICAN PASTORAL Starring Ewan McGregor. Rated PG
“You’ve done everything wrong, Mr. Levov.”
2 So says a philosophical FBI agent to Ewan
McGregor’s character in American Pastoral. Mr. Levov’s answer: “When did that start, exactly?” This exchange captures the tartness familiar from most Philip Roth novels, which have been notoriously hard to adapt, and this one also misses the mark after a solid beginning. In his feature-directing debut, McGregor looks good as Seymour Levov, nicknamed “the Swede” in high school for his fair hair and football prowess. A scar-free marine at the end of World War II, the Swede returns to Newark, New Jersey, and initially does everything right. He marries the most beautiful shiksa in the neighbourhood, a pageant winner named Dawn, here played by Jennifer Connelly, and takes over his father’s glove business, building it up with a mostly black staff. The young couple move to the country to raise cows and their young daughter, a blond nymph saddled with a debilitating stutter. After she turns into (a very good) Dakota Fanning in the 1960s, the Vietnam War, inner-city rioting, and other ills sharpen her tongue against anything establishment—especially her parents. (This is the second movie this month, after Unless, to feature a teen driven to extremes by Buddhist self-immolation.) Eventually, the kid goes underground, and so does the movie’s narrative tension. McGregor struggles throughout to find the right ethnic accent, but it’s not a real problem until about halfway in, when Connelly’s character pretty much goes nuts and we get too many scenes with the Swede trying to find his daughter before the feds do. There’s a lot of yelling, too little nuance, and even less humour. (Peter Riegert does add some amusement as Seymour’s crotchety dad.) But, hell, we have those Taken movies if that’s what we want. Screenwriter John Romano (The Lincoln Lawyer) has kept the book’s original frame, with the Swede’s younger brother telling this whole story, in flashbacks, to Roth’s writerly alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman (David Straithairn), at a 1996 reunion. This device adds nothing to the screen version—except as a reminder to stay home and read. > KEN EISNER
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between, around, and within us all. Oct 19-22, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
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TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Trump Card (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Oct 19-26, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST...FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME English comedians and Monty Python alumni John Cleese and Eric Idle give a performance that blends scripted and improvised bits with storytelling, musical numbers, exclusive footage, and aquatic juggling. Oct 20-22, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tix $69.5099.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
THIS CRAZY SHOW Noam Gagnon, artistic director of Vision Impure, presents a provocative new work that explores how our bodies and sense of self can continuously morph and evolve. Oct 20-22, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $32/24, info www.thedancecentre.ca/.
Ten years after Tekkonkinkreet, filmmaker Michael Arias brings his longawaited new feature film Harmony to Vancouver’s Spark Animation 2016.
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n 2006, Michael Arias capped a lifelong career in the fields of computer effects and animation with his first feature-length film. Adapted from a Taiyô Matsumoto manga, Tekkonkinkreet was instantly recognized as a visionary work and a landmark in anime. On Saturday (October 22), Spark Animation 2016 scores a major coup when Arias arrives from Japan to present the western Canadian premiere of his second full-length animated feature, an adaptation of the Project Itoh manga Harmony. “It’s a very dark story and also very cynical and quite pessimistic. There’s no way around that,” says a refreshingly frank Arias, talking to the Georgia Straight by Skype from his home in the Tokyo suburbs. “I think some people will be turned off by the bleakness of the story, and other people might be stimulated by it. For me, what drew me to the story of Harmony is that even though it’s set 50 years in the future, it feels incredibly contemporary. It’s very now.” The rest of us might be drawn either way by what looks to be another ravishing piece of work, even if the American expat considers Harmony, which he directed alongside Takashi Nakamura (“One of my heroes in traditional animation”), to be a “compromised” work. “But everything’s a compromise,” he states with a wry smile, explaining that the scope of the project was ultimately reduced—as many are—by budget and time. “At the same time, I’m quite proud of it. If not every detail, then at least the core of it,” he says. “People aren’t pieces on a chessboard. At some point, you have to give the process over to the animators and the artists. And maybe sometimes you get to really steer the process; other times, you have such trust between your collaborators that everything they do
DANCE ALLSORTS: PROJECT20 AND LESLEY TELFORD A mixed program of contemporary dance, showcasing new works by project20 and Lesley Telford. Oct 23, 2 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $20/5, info www.newworks.ca/2016/06/project20and-lesley-telford/.
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2THIS WEEK is going to be better than you hoped. Other times, it’s just a mad dash to DENIS MATSUEV Russian classical the finish line. Harmony is kinda pianist performs works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Prokofiev. Oct 20, somewhere in between, I think.” 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts With a business symposium and (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $55-105, info career fair amid a massive slate of www.chancentre.com/. screenings, Spark attendees should FRETWORK: THE CRIES OF LONDON devour the opportunity to tap a source Early Music Vancouver presents a concert as candid and thoughtful as Arias. by London viol consort Fretwork, in which The 48-year-old has seen it all, scoring music for viol consort is overlaid with the raucous voices of 16th-century London’s early experience under no less of an ef- street venders, mendicants, tradesmen, fects pioneer than Douglas Trumbull and river taxis. Oct 21, 7:30 pm, Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard). Tix $18before going on to work with the Coens, the Wachowskis, and Studio 67, info www.earlymusic.bc.ca/events/ Ghibli, all while pioneering state-of- fretwork-the-cries-of-london/. the-art computer-animation tech- MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS: WESTERN niques along the way. The industry has HEMISPHERICS Jon Washburn conducts the Vancouver Chamber Choir in changed dramatically in that time. a performance of music inspired by the “There was a real Wright brothers New World. Oct 21, 8-10 pm, Ryerson sensibility about computer graphics United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $10-33, in the early ’90s, where people were info www.vancouverchamberchoir.com/. on a first-name basis with each other,” UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The he recalls. “You can’t make a movie Postmodern Camerata presents Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, Aaron Copland’s without visual effects and computer Appalachian Spring, Terry Riley’s In C, graphics now, and that’s reflected in and Dominick Argento’s Dover Beach the armies of people—armies of very Revisited. Oct 22, 7 pm, St. Paul's Anglican talented people—who commit them- Church (1130 Jervis). Tix $25, info www. postmoderncamerata.com/. selves day in, day out to this work.” But, Arias laments, the astound- THE HEART’S JEWEL: STEFAN JACKIW ing ascension of computer graphics PLAYS MENDELSSOHN Jun Märkl conducts violinist Stefan Jackiw and the VSO and animation cuts both ways. in a program of Hosokawa's Blossoming “I think it’s kind of a tough rack- II, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E et these days, whereas when I was Minor, and Debussy's Images. Oct 22, 8 growing up, even the pros were pm; Oct 23, 2 pm; Oct 24, 8 pm, Orpheum (601 Smithe). Info 604-876-3434, working out of their garages,” he Theatre www.vancouversymphony.ca/. says. “You know, really just mixing up batches of stuff and cooking COMEDY it in the oven and seeing what came out. We’ve moved way beyond that 2ONGOING in terms of the scale of technology THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century and manpower needed to create the Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. kind of complex visual effects that thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with are a staple in the movies we watch. pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners It’s really become mainstream and Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 scaled up to a point where a guy in pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, a garage can’t really make anything $20 Sat. 2PHIL HANLEY Oct 20-22 2IAN BAGG Nov 3-5 2BETH STELLING Dec meaningful anymore.” -
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BE PREPARED The prepared piano is not so much an instrument as a way of transforming the everyday into the extraordinary. By introducing various foreign bodies to the strings, the familiar concert grand becomes an exotic percussion orchestra—and a new resource for the imaginative composer. Although Lisa Cay Miller is perhaps best known as an improviser, it’s the compositional side of her music that will be most prominently on display in Lessing Stories, at Pyatt Hall on Friday (October 1). In the first part of the program, Rachel Iwaasa and Dana Reason will join Miller for a selection of piano solos, duos, and trios; after intermission, Miller will play music inspired by the short stories of Doris Lessing, with narrator Peter Anderson contributing his voice. Expect a smart, literate, and beautifully strange evening of inventive sound.
HANNIBAL BURESS The Georgia Straight presents American comedian performing on his Hannibal Montanabal Experience tour. Oct 21, 7 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ANJELAH JOHNSON American actor and comedian known for her viral video “Nail Salon” and her roles on MADtv. Oct 26, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre. Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2JOHN BEUHLER Oct 20 2ALONZO BODDEN Oct 21-22 2KATHLEEN MCGEE Oct 28-29
VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world's most daring and innovative improv. Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); OK Tinder (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm);
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PIANO WITH POWER From Russia with the love, adulation, and reverence that he enjoys there comes piano virtuoso Denis Matsuev for a one-night concert at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Thursday (October 20). The musician is a familiar face at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, and other great venues around the world, acclaimed for his big, powerful sound, suave phrasing, and faultless fingerwork. A national icon, he took the stage at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. The Russian piano star plays Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Schumann, and Prokofiev at the show here.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK THE VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST Participating authors include Yann Martel, Wade Davis, Teva Harrison, Sam Wiebe, Sarah Glidden, Madeleine Thien, Michael Helm, M.G. Vassanji, Lindy West, Joy Kogawa, Ivan Coyote, Kenneth Oppel, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Billie Livingston. To Oct 23, Granville Island. Info 604-681-6330 x111, www.writersfest.bc.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK 13TH ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Twelve days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, processions, spoken word, forums, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibitions, public art, mixed media, art talks, history talks, and history walks. Oct 26–Nov 6, various Vancouver venues. Info www. heartofthecityfestival.com/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2HARRY CALLAHAN: THE STREET (photographs by Harry Callahan of the streets of Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Cairo, Mexico, Portugal, and Wales) to Oct 30 2AN AGREEABLE STATE OF UNCERTAINTY (photographs, drawings, prints and paintings by artists such as Weegee, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Leon Golub, Lewis Hine, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, Jack Shadbolt, and Fred Herzog) to Oct 30
MUSEUMS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guinea's Iatmul people) to Jan 31
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ou can go to YouTube for migraine-inducing clips of D.O.A. shot last July from the moshpit at the Jarocin Festival in Poland. Or you can get a much fuller sense of the annual event— known since its inception in the grim Communist days of 1971 as the Polish Woodstock—when the documentary Jarocin: Rock for Freedom makes its North American debut at the Vancouver Polish Film Festival this weekend, with codirector Marek Gajczak in attendance. The film neatly (and loudly) embodies the VPFF’s goal of appealing to an audience outside of the 60,000 Vancouverites who claim Polish roots. “Of course, those that participate in cultural events connected with Poland is much less, but it is still a fairly sizable number,” marketing coordinator Victoria Kowalski tells the Straight, adding that since its inauguration in 2012, the VPFF’s audiences have consistently grown beyond “repeat spectators who annually appear in the cinema and are present at all screenings”. That trend is sure to continue with the five titles we recommend below.
Let’s Gdansk! Punks, rebels, and freethinkers converge at the Jarocin Festival, an oasis of sanity (and noise) during Poland’s period of martial law.
director Ryszard Bugajski (who also made the vicious Canadian eco-thriller Clearcut in 1991) recounts a strange episode in the life of Julia Brystiger. Known as “Bloody Luna”, Brystiger sadistically carried out Stalin’s persecution of the Catholic Church. In Blindness, the decommissioned torturer turns to the church for some kind of absolution, a personal mission whose internal conflicts are powerfully and bravely embodied in the performance of the film’s lead, Maria JAROCIN: ROCK FOR FREEDOM Mamona. October 21 (9:20 p.m.) As martial law descended on Poland in 1981, a music festival in the mod- CHEMO Drenched in wild style and est town of Jarocin evolved into a now hitting the kind of melodramatic legendary hot spot of freethinking, peaks we’ve come to expect from youthful rebellion, and music as a force Xavier Dolan, this might be the best for change. Filmmakers Marek Gajczak date-night flick at the VPFF. The suband Leszek Gnoinski assemble their ject matter is heavy: mad love meets history of the Jarocin Festival from breast cancer, suicidal ideation, and some contemporary sources, but there’s accidental pregnancy in the quasian especially potent charge to the abun- true tale of Lena and Benek, but the dant archival film and video footage. filmmaking couldn’t be more manWho could have imagined that this ma- ically alive, or the performances any terial would ever find its way to western better—especially from Agnieszka eyes and ears? October 21 (6 p.m.) Zulewska, who will be in attendance. October 22 (4:50 p.m.) BLINDNESS Returning to something like the paranoid territory of his KAMPER Variety raised Judd Apa1990 VIFF favourite The Interrogation, tow’s name in its appraisal of this
deceptively lightweight relationship comedy, in which Piotr Zurawski’s titular 30-something character wrestles with his own immaturity, a marriage interrupted by his wife’s affair with a celebrity chef (never, ever trust those guys), and a staggeringly bad approach to foreplay. Charming and unexpectedly poignant. October 22 (7 p.m.) GENERATIONS Its title is a play on Andrzej Wajda’s groundbreaking 1955 feature A Generation, the film that kicks off this dazzling collage of clips from some 35 years of cinema produced at Wrocław’s fabled Feature Film Studio. Like The Moment at this year’s Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival, Generations is a hymn to national cinema (featuring work from the likes of Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, and Roman Polanski) that meanwhile reflects the tumult of Nazi occupation, Stalinism, and all the other upheavals that led to Poland’s historic general election of 1989. October 23 (4:40 p.m) The Vancouver Polish Film Festival takes place at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts from Friday to Sunday (October 21 to 23).
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home in nature. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting is that the Group of Seven actually painted around that area where we shot. They had a cabin not far from Sault Ste. Marie.â&#x20AC;? (That town was, incidentally, the place where Morlando shot 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equally moody true-crime bank-robber tale Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster.) Whatever he and his crew went through to shoot the film, it seems to have paid off. Mean Dreams, which opens Friday (October 21), was selected for the Directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fortnight series at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and is garnering substantial indie buzz for the way it looks and feels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The weather conspired with us, and as much as it was challenging, it rained when we needed rain. When we needed leaves to fall, they would fall. And that reinforced the faith we had in the film,â&#x20AC;? Morlando reflects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This film was being made literally under the radar and it felt like we were making it with God. We all could feel on set that this was something that we would be proud of. We were confident that we were making art.â&#x20AC;? -
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fucking insane—as they come across in their art, coconspirators theOGM and Eaddy prove to be unexpectedly chill when the Straight tracks them down on a rampage through Florida. To understand the surrealness of their interview demeanour, consider the mounting underground buzz for their band, Ho99o9 (pronounced “horror”), which meshes doom-generation electro-goth with blowtorch hip-hop and punishingly authentic ’80s hardcore. Musically, the duo seems solely obsessed with ripping the face off of anyone who stumbles across their songs on grimy cassette tape. If anything connects the down-tuned gutter-metal squall of “Double Barrel” to the warp-speed thrash of “Kill You” to the cancer-black nightmare “Hate Crimes”, it’s that you don’t enjoy Ho99o9’s songs as much as you press Play and then ride out the insanity. Defiling the dead is an obsession, as are various forms of human mutilation. (Consider the “From the Bottom of the Lake” line “I’ll take your eye and use it as a souvenir.”) Live YouTube videos show rapper theOGM sweatslicked and buck-naked on-stage except for shoes on his feet and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer box on his head.
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The members of Ho99o9 sleep on a pile of tires in a dirty New Jersey alleyway, not because they can’t afford better, but because they say it’s good for their art.
because it was so close,” Eaddy relates. “I would go there to shop for clothes and shit, but then started going to parties and shows. Combining the aesthetics and attitudes of punk Once I started going to and hip-hop, Ho99o9 is a soundtrack to insanity shows, it opened my mind Less explicit, but just as captivating, are the official up to so much more than what I was doing in my life. clips. Check out the neon-splattered art-star night- It was like a fucking blastoff. I loved everything about mare “Blood Waves”, where theOGM struts around them: the people, the adrenaline, the energy, the a black-light-lit basement in a white wedding dress, fucking sweat, the griminess, and how real it was.” Big Apple bands like Dawn of Humans altered a Joker-like glow-in-the-dark grin painted sloppily on his face. His hair dyed radioactive yellow, Eaddy, how theOGM and Eaddy looked at music, teaching meanwhile, does backflips and screams like Al Jour- them that the best shows are the ones that quickly dismantle the separation between audience and gensen being sucked into a wood chipper. While joined by a drummer live (Santigold crowd. That inspired them to launch a no-comskinsman Ian Longwell), both concentrate on promises street-level arts collective in New Jersey singing—and marauding through the audience— called NJstreetKLAN, from which Ho99o9 grew. “It was us as homies creating a platform for us when they take the stage, triggering the guitar and synth salvos through sample pads. It’s crazy shit, a to do cool shit,” theOGM remembers. “In New throwback to a time when bands like the Butthole Jersey, there wasn’t too much going on in that Surfers, the Jesus Lizard, and pre-fame Marilyn realm. We grew up in New Jersey going to clubs Manson terrorized tiny clubs in the pre-Internet and battle-rapping. As far as going to cool rap American underground, building a following shows or going to see cool bands, that shit really with shows that were legitimately dangerous. Nei- didn’t exist. So NJstreetKLAN was just us doing art shows, rap shows, punk shows, popups, whatther member of Ho99o9 is going to disagree. “Hearing the music online and seeing the shows ever we could get our hands in.” The mandate for Ho99o9 was, not surprisingly, online is one thing,” theOGM says from Orlando, on a conference call with Eaddy. “But actually coming to go full-bore right from the start. That’s certainly to a show and experiencing it live gives our fans the evident in last year’s fantastically fucked-up Dead opportunity to really, really, really soak it in. And Bodies in the Lake mix tape, which suggests that the once they get that experience, they are just hooked.” band’s dream dinner guests include the Wu-Tang Eaddy continues: “It’s like back in the day, people Clan, Scratch Acid, GG Allin, Articles of Faith, didn’t have phones and the Internet, and they only Skinny Puppy, Bad Brains, and George A. Romero. If you’ve ever wondered what a low-budget ’80s heard a band through records. So when the band came into town, they didn’t even know what the horror flick would sound like if it came to life, conband looked like until they got on-stage. When we sult “Floating Corpse”. “Deathkult Disciples (999 play, it’s like, ‘Whoa’—a fucking forest on fire that Anthem)” breaks out the crack for something akin keeps catching. People tell their friends, and then to a rave in a mortuary, while the recent single “The those friends tell their friends and it all keeps going.” Dope Dealerz” is crunk retooled for the apocalypse. Career highlights for Ho99o9 have included beThere’s a lot to say when it comes to Ho99o9, which is based in Los Angeles but got its start in ing kicked off the Warped Tour—presumably for inner-city New Jersey. Eaddy grew up playing giving organizers a master class in what punk rock basketball and loving illustrating, and eventually was before the Hot Topic crowd ruined it for good. “We knew that we wanted to make something had his world rocked by New York hardcore shows, to which he began dragging his friends. One of dark, aggressive, heavy, and really hard,” theOGM those friends was theOGM, who was already rap- says. “Whatever came out of that is pretty much ping, inspired by hip-hop giants like DMX, Bone what you’re getting today.” Considering where the members of Ho99o9 Thugs-n-Harmony, and Eminem. “Growing up in Jersey, I got exposed to New York came from—they describe the New Jersey of their
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AGAINST ME! Rock ’n’ roll is supposed to be all about unbridled rebellion, but Christ knows that’s been bullshit since Elvis Presley first hit big. But every now and then a true original pops up. Enter Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, who, after years of fronting one of punk rock’s most uncompromising bands as Tom Gable, came out in 2012 as a transgender woman. While that meant countless sacrifices (a marriage left in tatters, bandmates who up and quit), it’s also proved that angst is good for art, with critics calling Against Me!’s latest, Shape Shift With Me, “introspective” and “biting”. Judge for yourself when Against Me! plays the Commodore on Tuesday (October 25). -
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Ho99o9’s theOGM and Eaddy sound off on things that enquiring minds want to know.
On mashing genres: [Eaddy] “We never planned this—we never put something down on paper where we were like, ‘We’re going to make it sound like this.’ It was more ‘You rap, I scream, let’s just make it happen.’ ” On NJstreetKLAN: [theOGM] “Everything was street-level and DIY. We weren’t able to get shows, we weren’t able to get money to back our shit. So we did it ourselves.” On New Jersey vs. New York: [theOGM] “Niggas in New York do not come out to New Jersey, you know what I’m saying? In New Jersey, we would go to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx—wherever there is a dope show. Niggas in New York would not come to New Jersey, though, so one of our goals was to really unify that gap. Like ‘Yo—we got dope shit too.’ ”
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childhood as a place overrun by gangs, violence, drugs, and poverty—dark and aggressive comes naturally to them. Positives to arise out of channelling that past misery are that they’ve not only escaped Jersey, but are also seeing the world. And what they’ve seen is, sadly, a world that’s every bit as fucked-up as Ho99o9, but not in a good way. There are some things scarier than theOGM and Eaddy as seen in the basement in “Blood Waves”. “We were in Europe on tour when the terrorist attack happened,” Eaddy says. “We played Paris the following weekend. We saw the memorial and walked by the venue. That shit is unreal.” Jumping in, theOGM adds: “Think about things like the shooting that happened in Orlando—we just drove by that spot. We’re very aware of all of this. The world is always going to move between lightness and darkness. We’re trying to express that even as we roll with it.” -
BURNT OFFERING Order a copy of Negativland’s new album and the group will send you a bag containing two grams of founding member Don Joyce’s cremated remains. A perfect Halloween gift for that special ghoul in your life! DUMB AND DUMBER Oasis were never Britpop’s brightest bulbs, as was reconfirmed this week when Trainspotting costume designer Rachael Fleming revealed that the band declined to be part of the movie because they thought it was about watching trains. They were, however, apparently really excited about Snatch. GOODBYE, CUCUMBER Harry Shearer is suing the company that owns the fabled mockumentary Spinal Tap, saying that he’s earned a total of $179—“enough to buy one miniature Stonehenge”—for his role as bassist Derek Smalls in the film. All winnings will be stuffed down the front of his pants.
Fresh and local BRUTES BRUTES There aren’t many acts in Vancouver in 2016 that proudly wear the label of “darkwave”. Actually, Brutes might be it. If you’re looking for some local content to round out that playlist with Switchblade Symphony and the Crüxshadows on it, Brutes’ brand of gloom—all minor-key synths and spine-chillingly detached vocals courtesy of Lindsay Dakin—is the answer. The trio officially releases this four-track EP with a show on Friday (October 21) at the Hindenburg. In theory, this is music for those whose clothing, hair, and fingernails are as black as their souls, but don’t worry about looking the part—this is Vancouver. With the exception of Halloween, no one here dresses up for anything. OCTOBER 20 – 27 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 43
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Sweden’s Opeth discovered life after death One run-through of its new Sorceress, is evidence enough that Swedish quintet Opeth was heavily influenced by ’70s prog rock. The disc was also recorded at the famed Rockfield Studios in Wales, where bands like Rush, Budgie, Hawkwind, and Queen laid down progheavy tracks back in the day. As Opeth singer and founding member Mikael Åkerfeldt explains over the phone before a gig in Houston, Texas, he wouldn’t have minded living in the era of the 8-track himself. “I missed that scene,” he says. “I was born in the wrong decade. I was born in 1974, so I grew up with the [’80s] heavy-metal scene. But I loved Black Sabbath and Zeppelin when I was growing up, and I started digging around for bands that looked like Black Sabbath did on their Paranoid record—the flared jeans and that. So I looked for bands like that and stumbled on King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator and Yes—those types of bands. I’d found my calling, basically. “And those were glorious days for me as a record collector,” he adds, “because this was in the late ’80s, early ’90s, and everybody was throwing out their vinyl in order to buy CDs. I could pick them up for next to nothing, so I bought shitloads of records, and I still do. I never stopped.” It may come as a surprise to anyone soaking up the adventurous sounds on Sorceress that Opeth actually started out as a death-metal band back in 1989. “Basically, we wanted to go fast, and we wanted to play loud, and I was screaming,” recalls Åkerfeldt. “That became our sound, basically, in the beginning. But, like I said, in the early ’90s, when I discovered these prog bands, as opposed to being just a run-of-the-mill death-metal band we incorporated those types of influences. So we were really extreme at times, but we also had these calmer bits, and lots of dynamics, and lots of things going on. We had long tracks, like 13-, 14-minute songs.” While much of the instrumental work on Sorceress emanates a positivesounding vibe, the lyrical content itself tends toward the negative, touching on jealousy, bitterness, and paranoia. “The negativity in the lyrics is just a taste thing,” says Åkerfeldt. “I don’t like ‘sunshine’ lyrics, really. And I’d also been going through a couple of rough years—I got divorced, and that inspired the lyrics to a certain extent. But I didn’t plan to write those lyrics. They just came out that way, I guess.” While the Opeth fans who loved the band when it was a full-on deathmetal act may be appreciative of the darker elements on Sorceress, Åkerfeldt admits that many of them have not forgiven the group for its abandonment of the genre. “There’s a lot of that,” he says. “A lot. But we don’t listen to fans unless they cheer what we’re doing. I mean, this form of expression, it can’t be dictated
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Some Scandinavian metalheads burn down churches, but the dudes in Opeth just like hanging out in their ruins.
by public opinion, I think, or it would things politically, or the way you see be a corporation. We’re not a corpora- poverty or people on the streets, and things like that. Once you engage that tion, we’re just a band, you know.” > STEVE NEWTON relationship on any level, and involve yourself in the dynamics of care, Opeth plays the Orpheum on Wed- where you have to admit that you’re nesday (October 26). in need—and in need of something which will not only pacify, but something which will actually nurture you to grow—you look around and you see the absence of that everywhere.” That’s pretty deep stuff for an inTom Krell gave the latest How die-pop record, especially one that to Dress Well album a one-word kicks off with “Can’t You Tell”, a title, but that one word is loaded with steamy, mid-tempo, R&B–informed meaning. Care includes songs about celebration of boning. Krell says that giving a damn about others on both in singing unapologetically about a one-to-one level (“If you ever need carnal matters, he’s keeping it real just a hand just let me know,” Krell sings as much as when he tackles the plight on “Made a Lifetime”) and a society- of the economically dispossessed. wide one (as on “They’ll Take Every“People want songs about real-life thing You Have”, a lament for those things that are not, like, false,” says marginalized by the class divide in the Chicago-based singer-producer, the United States). who records solo but performs live “For me, the value of restoring that with a full band. “That’s why people on an interpersonal level is as a way like independent music, you know of combating the rabid antisympathy what I mean? And the weird thing that’s perpetuated on a sociopolitical is that independent music has been level,” Krell, reached at a Los Angeles sort of sequestered into a very speciftour stop, says of the idea of caring. ic range of themes and acts, and sex “If you learn to care for yourself or to hasn’t typically been one of them, let care for someone else, you’re just lit- alone that kind of, like, rompy, joyerally yelling at the top of your lungs. ous, freaky sex, you know? For some If it happens in one register, it almost reason we’ve left that to commerce, automatically clicks into place on the which seems like a mistake.” How to Dress Well’s fourth other register. So if you start to care for yourself in a true and fundamen- album, Care finds pop experimenttal way, then it changes your inter- alist Krell f lirting with the mainpersonal relationships, and then that stream more than he has in the past. will echo out into the way you view “Anxious”, for example, would be
How to Dress Well’s Krell cares, and so should you
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a serious contender if we were living in a world where earnest philosophy postgrads with soaring falsettos ruled the charts. As infectious as cuts such as “What’s Up” and “Lost Youth/Lost You” are, though, Krell admits his music isn’t for everyone. In fact, he knows specifically for whom it is definitely not. “Somehow my music is super polarizing, and almost exclusively amongst a subset of heterosexual male listeners,” he notes. “I know there are gay guys, and gay and straight and otherwise women, who don’t like my music, but they don’t tend to have the same, like, ‘What is this? How dare he!’ response like a certain subset of straight guys. They have a really intensely defensive reaction to the tenderness or the vulnerability or something.” Here’s hoping that, at least in this instance, Krell simply doesn’t care. > JOHN LUCAS
How to Dress Well plays the Biltmore Cabaret on Thursday (October 20).
Ban and Maneri found out love at first sound is real Some people believe in love at
2 first sight, while others think it’s
delusion. But for the Romanian-born, > ALEXANDER VARTY New York City–based pianist Lucian Ban, love at first sound is very real, as he and violist Mat Maneri discovered Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri play the during their initial on-stage meeting. Western Front on Saturday (October 22).
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The place? The 2009 George Enescu Festival, in Bucharest, Romania. The context? The debut performance of Enesco Re-Imagined, a classical-meetsjazz tribute to Romania’s most famous composer. The challenge? “Playing chamber music with a group of daring jazz musicians,” says Ban, in a postshow phone call from Valencia, Spain. “And trying to make it not suck.” This shouldn’t be read as a critique of Enescu’s work, or of classical music in general—like many European keyboardists, Ban trained as a concert pianist before falling under the sway of artists such as Abdullah Ibrahim, Thelonious Monk, and Paul Bley. Instead, he’s referring to the task of playing complex arrangements without adequate preparation—a chore that, in the end, proved quite doable. “We barely had any rehearsals before the gig that actually commissioned the project,” Ban explains. “I booked a studio when I came back to New York so that we could record this Enescu project—but in the end we used the live recording, because it was much better. But what happened, because of the lack of time, on one of the sonatas by Enescu I had piano and viola open by improvising together. Of course, we never rehearsed this; we barely had time to rehearse the written stuff, which was a little more complex. So what you hear on the album is the first time I ever played with Mat in duo.” The two musicians knew that they’d struck something special. “It felt so amazing for both of us,” Ban recalls. “We said, right then, that we needed to do something together— and then we recorded a concert in an opera house in Romania, and it got picked up by ECM.” Transylvanian Concert, released by the respected German label in 2013, is moody, entrancing, and remarkably coherent, especially given that it encompasses free improvisation, composed works, and a cover of the African-American spiritual “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”. It also documents the very early stages of Ban and Maneri’s musical partnership. The pianist estimates that it was only the fourth or fifth duo show they’d played together, noting that their music has gotten more intense and more intuitive over the past three years. “I don’t quite know how to put this, but Mat is one of the few brilliant musicians I’ve met,” Ban elaborates. “Truly brilliant, with his own universe, and truly committed to improvising in a way that’s similar to [the groundbreaking English saxophonist] Evan Parker. He’s really dedicated to this. And you’ll hear that in Vancouver: we can sit down and create from little ideas, or from almost nothing, concerts like Keith [Jarrett] says he does it. He just sits down and creates a body of music, and we do the same.”
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THE ZOMBIES The Georgia Straight presents the British rock band (“Time of the Season”, “She's Not There”) performing on its 50th Anniversary Finale Tour. Apr 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ROGER WATERS Prog-rock legend and former Pink Floyd member performs on his Us + Them Tour. Oct 28, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, from $52 to $247 (plus service charge and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED KEITHMAS VII: A FOOD BANK FUNDRAGER Celebrate the birth of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and help raise money for the Vancouver Food Bank. Performers include Rich Hope. Dec 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TIM HICKS AND CHAD BROWNLEE Canadian country singer-songwriters coheadline on their Shake These Walls Tour and Hearts on Fire Tour 2017. Jan 7-8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 20, 10 am, $40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. STEEL PANTHER Los Angeles-based glam-rock/comedy band performs on its 2017 Girls in a Row Tour. Jan 20-21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BEAR'S DEN British alt-rock band tours in support of latest album Red Earth & Pouring Rain. Jan 21, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BLUE RODEO Canadian country-rock band, led by vocalist Jim Cuddy, tours in support of upcoming album 1000 Arms. Jan 27-28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $83.50/63.50/33.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ARKELLS Hamilton-based rock band tour in support of latest album Morning Report, with guests Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls. Feb 1, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Thunderbird Arena (6066 Thunderbird Blvd., UBC). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $50.50/40.50/26 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOHN K. SAMSON AND THE WINTER WHEAT The Georgia Straight presents Winnipeg folk-punk singer-songwriter and his band touring in support of second solo album Winter Wheat. Feb 2, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. USS Canadian alt-dance duo tours in support of new album New World Alphabet, with guests Repartee. Feb 10, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 21, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
SLAYER American thrash-metal legends, with guests Anthrax and Death Angel. Oct 20, 7 pm, Abbotsford Centre (33800 King Rd., Abbotsford). Tix $69/49 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. SHE WANTS REVENGE American alt-rock band, with guests the Dig and Raw Fabrics. Oct 20, 7:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $27 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/. DON ALDER The Steveston Folk Guild presents the Canadian acoustic-guitar wizard. Oct 20, 7:30 pm, Britannia Heritage Shipyard (5180 Westwater Dr., Richmond). Tix $10, info www.stevestonfolk.net/. HOW TO DRESS WELL American electropop-R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Care, with guests Ex Reyes. Oct 20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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THE BOXER REBELLION English rock band tours in support of latest release Ocean by Ocean. Oct 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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BAD SUNS Rock band from Southern California tours in support of upcoming release Disappear Here, with guests Coin. Oct 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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DAN BERN American guitarist-vocalist, with guests Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron. Oct 23, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15, info danbernjackgarton wise.bpt.me/.
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JACUZZI BOYS Florida rock band tours in support of upcoming release Ping Pong. Oct 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
DANIEL HERSOG JAZZ ORCHESTRA FEATURING NOAH PREMINGER Vancouver jazz orchestra performs Daniel Hersog's compositions with tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger. Oct 21, Pat's Pub & Brewhouse (403 E. Hastings). Tix $15/12, info www.danielhersog.com/.
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DEMILICH Finnish death-metal band, with guests Hooded Menace, Vastum, and Temple of Abandonment. Oct 23, 7 pm, Red Room Ultrabar (398 Richards). Tix $20, info www.facebook. com/events/573135352871521/?active_ tab=highlights.
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JEREMY ENIGK Seattle emo singersongwriter tours in support of the 20th anniversary of solo album Return of the Frog Queen. Oct 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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CHANCE THE RAPPER Hip-hop artist from Chicago performs material from latest album Coloring Book. Oct 25-26, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Thunderbird Arena (6066 Thunderbird Blvd., UBC). Tix $69.50/55/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. FACE TO FACE Punk band from Southern California tours in support of latest release Protection. Oct 26, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. OPETH Swedish progressive deathmetal band, with guests the Sword. Oct 26, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $75/42.50/30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. YOUNG THE GIANT As part of the Straight series, Los Angeles-based rock band performs in support of upcoming studio album Home of the Strange, with guests Ra Ra Riot. Oct 26-27, doors 7 pm, show 8:15 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix for Oct 27 show SOLD OUT. Tix for Oct 26 show $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE SHRINE AND HO9909 California thrash-metal band coheadlines with New Jersey hip-hop group. Oct 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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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. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-6082871. Live music most nights. 2TERRA LIGHTFOOT Oct 19 2AN EVENING WITH DAVID RAMIREZ Nov 11 MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604523-6888. 2DWIGHT YOAKAM Oct 28 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2OPETH Oct 26 2THE HEAD AND THE HEART Dec 5 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 16
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he last of the U.S. presidential debates has coincided with Mars and Pluto culminating a two-year growth (and/or grow-beyond-it) chapter. Personally and collectively, the next two-year Mars/Pluto cycle sets the stage to reap the reward or labour the consequences of what we have designed thus far. Either way, there’s nothing small or insignificant about today, tomorrow, the choices we face, and the actions we take. Wasting no time facilitating our evolution is Mercury’s opposition to Uranus, a cut-to-the-chase and jump-on-it-quick influence. Friday’s Cancer moon in dynamic tension to Pluto, Mars, and Uranus keeps emotionalism dialled up. The sun enters power-play Scorpio on Saturday (4:46 p.m. PDT). Mercury, the communications planet, follows suit on Monday. Both keep motivation and passion in ample supply. Agendas and obsessions stay well fuelled too. It is a critical time to get to the bottom of it, to get a better handle on it, to tackle the situation, to confront another or ourselves. The next couple of Scorpio weeks will intensify attention on matters to do with sex, money, power and control, use and abuse, trust, addiction, secrecy, surveillance, and the criminal element. Tuesday’s Venus/Neptune can buy into illusion or delusion, and/or blur the lines temporarily. By Wednesday, Venus/Jupiter are feeling their way along just fine. Birthday lady Hillary Clinton, a double Scorpio (sun
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If it hasn’t kick-started for you yet, it will now. Now through Monday, motivation or need provides ample fuel. Friday is especially triggered regarding home, family, and other important matters. You can feel confronted, pushed, or compelled. Sunday is a better day for making personal gains. The sun and Mercury into Scorpio intensify the focus on money, sex, trust, and control issues.
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Thursday provides a fresh insight or reason to get up and go. Friday’s push/pull puts you under significant added pressure. Watch for the day to sort it out for you. The sun and Mercury in Scorpio prompt more questioning and soul-searching. What do you want; what do you need; is there a better way to play it? Take your time; go by feel.
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The next few days keep you/put you on the move-along. As of Sunday, you’ll feel you’ve reached someplace good. Tuesday’s Venus/ Neptune can confuse you, dissipate your attention or energy. Even so, the
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backdrop of the sun and Mercury in Mercury into Scorpio help you to Scorpio helps you to stay better fo- stay better on track. cused. The next few weeks call for LIBRA you to stay a step ahead and to put September 23–October 23 your smarts to work. Both the sun and Mercury CANCER leave your sign now, but they’ll conJune 21–July 22 tinue to serve you well, especially on Thursday/Friday, the Can- the confidence, conviction, and comcer moon assists you (or forces you) mitment levels. Thursday to Saturto tackle it head-on and to gain bet- day, you’ll feel a fresh burst or boost. ter speed. You’ll also appreciate the The stars can revitalize you, them, or boost you get from the sun and Mer- it. Tuesday, it’s easy to get lost. Hang cury in Scorpio. Both help you to be loose; don’t bank on it. Sunday through more effective where it will add up Wednesday, put creativity into play. for you the best. Tuesday, ease up, go SCORPIO with the flow. Wednesday is a better October 23–November 22 day for making gain. The sun advances into LEO Scorpio on Saturday and Mercury folJuly 22–August 23 lows suit on Monday. Both are good for Friday, lighten your load, diving into it fresh. There’s no need to ditch out if you want to, simplify wait, though; the stars set you onto an where and if you can. Saturday is a action track as of Thursday. Tuesday’s switch-track, resurface day. Sunday stars are confusing and unclear. Plans, is your best for calling the shots and/ good intentions, and effectiveness can or putting yourself first. Mercury into falter. Go with the flow. Wednesday is Scorpio, a smarter, not hard, influence, a more productive/lucrative day. begins the new workweek. Still, lack of SAGITTARIUS clarity or loose ends can get the better November 22–December 21 of you through Tuesday. The stars can keep you VIRGO going strong through the weekend. August 23–September 23 Sunday is your best. As both the sun If Friday is the end of and Mercury trek through Scorpio, the week for you, it can’t come you are likely to feel in the mood to fast enough. If you have to put in pull back, to be more selective rethe time, try to keep patience in garding who and what gets a piece of check. Also watch your driving. you. Monday and Wednesday, take Saturday/Sunday are best for tak- care of business. Tuesday, stay noning it as it comes. Tuesday could be committal; prioritize health; catch a write-off, but overall the sun and up on rest and sleep.
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The next few days can see you revisit something important. As you work your way through it, watch for something fresh or added to give you more to go on. If Tuesday chips away at conviction, confidence, health, or effectiveness, it’s only a temporary sidetrack. As of Wednesday, you should feel you are on a much better gain.
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January 20–February 18
Thursday to Saturday, a reconnection, repeat, or revisit could make your day and/or give you more to consider. Seize advantage; aim to improve upon a good thing. Sunday, gift yourself your extra time. The sun and Mercury into Scorpio prompt a new take-charge attitude. It looks good on you! Tuesday, you can easily loose track or momentum.
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February 18–March 20
Another conversation, go -round, or look-see is likely Thursday/ Friday. Saturday through Monday, you’ll gain a better handle on it. Both the sun and Mercury into Scorpio are empowering. They give you an added advantage, help you to speak with conviction and to play it smarter. Tuesday, don’t second-guess. If you are unclear, pause or pass. -
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savage love Waiting to pay for my groceries at the market this evening, this guy, stinking of booze, says to my nineyear-old daughter, “Sweetheart, can you put the divider thing there for me?” First, why is some leering grown man calling my child “sweetheart”? He then thumps two huge bottles of vodka down on the belt. I move closer to my daughter; he then reaches his hand over me and wraps his hand around her arm, saying, “Now, you be nice to your Mommy, sweetie.” I pluck his hand off. “Do not touch my child,” I say. My other hand is pressed against my daughter’s ribs, and I can feel her heart pounding. “You have a beautiful daughter,” he says. The cashier, whom we know, a guy, looks at me, eyebrows up. I roll my eyes. So pissed. We leave. “I hated that man,” my daughter says once we get in the car. “He smelled bad; I wanted to hit him; if anyone ever does that to me again I’m going to scream.” Here we effing go: “Sometimes you have to be hypervigilant,” I tell my daughter, “because some gross men out there feel they are entitled to touch us.” And then I share my story: “When I was a little girl…” I don’t even remember the first time it happened to me. I don’t remember the last time some pervert rubbed up against me. But that’s what you have to deal with when you are a girl. We have to learn to brush this shit off, to make sure that this endless assault course of predators doesn’t take one bit of your pride, your confidence, or your sense of peace as you walk through this world. I am so angry. We should call this the “Trump Talk”. The depressing conversation that every parent needs to have with their
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little girl about revolting, predatory, there to protect her from worse, and there to help her process the experientitled men. The Trump Talk. > MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ence. And in that car ride home, you DISCUSS ENRAGING REALITIES inoculated your daughter with your message (you are a human being and I’m sorry about what happened to you have a right to move through this your daughter at the grocery store— world unmolested) before gross predI’m sorry about what was done to ators could infect her with theirs (you your daughter by that entitled asshole are only an object and we have a right at the grocery store—but I’m glad you to touch you). I want to live in a world were there with her when it happened. where this sort of thing doesn’t hapThe author Kelly Oxford, in re- pen to anyone’s daughter, MADDER, sponse to Donald Trump’s horrific but until we do: Every little girl should comments about sexually assaulting be so lucky as to have a trusted adult women, called on women to tweet standing by ready to intervene when it about their first assaults under the does happen. I only wish the groceryhashtag #notokay. Oxford’s post went store clerk had intervened too. viral—more than a million women Regarding your suggestion, MADresponded—and reading through DER, I’ve received roughly 10 million the seemingly endless thread, I was emails begging me to do for Donald struck by how many women were Trump what I did for Rick Santorum: alone the first time they were as- my readers and I redefined santorum saulted. Oxford herself was alone the (“the frothy mixture of lube and fecal first time it happened to her: “Old matter that is sometimes the byprodman on a city bus grabs my ‘pussy’ uct of anal sex”) and some wanted and smiles at me. I’m 12.” us to do the same for Trump. People A lot of women I know, including even sent in suggestions: trump is the some very close friends, were your streak of shit a large turd sometimes daughter’s age the first time it hap- leaves on the bottom of the toilet bowl; pened to them, MADDER, but they trump is the snot that sometimes runs were alone. Tragically, many assumed out of your nose when you’re giving a that they had done something wrong, blowjob; a trump is a guy so hopelessly that they had invited this on themselves inept in bed that no woman (or man) somehow, and most didn’t go to their wants him, no matter how rich he is. parents for fear of getting into trouble. The suggested new meanings all struck And when it inevitably happened me as trivial and snarky—and I don’t again, some became convinced they think there’s anything trivial about were, indeed, to blame, that they were the racism, sexism, xenophobia, antibringing this on themselves somehow, Semitism, and violence that Trump because they thought it wasn’t happen- has mainstreamed and normalized, ing to anyone else, just them. and I’m not inclined to snark about it. So thank God you were there with And, besides, trump already has a your daughter, MADDER, there to slang meaning: It means “to fart audpull that asshole’s hand off of her, ibly” in Great Britain—and that defin-
ition is already in the Oxford English Dictionary. And, frankly, it didn’t seem possible to make Donald Trump’s name any more revolting than he already has. If I may paraphrase the amazing letter the New York Times sent to Trump after he demanded they retract a story about the women he’s assaulted: nothing I could say in my sex column could even slightly elevate the feelings of disgust decent people experience whenever they hear his name. Mr. Trump, through his own words and actions, has already redefined his last name. But then your email arrived, MADDER, and I set aside the column I was already working on to rush your idea into print. Because your suggestion—that parents call the conversation they need to have with their daughters about predatory and entitled men the “Trump Talk”—is just as fitting and apt as the “frothy mixture” definition of santorum. It’s not trivial and it’s not snarky. It has gravitas, MADDER, and here’s hoping “Trump Talk” isn’t just widely adopted, but universally practised. Because no little girl who gets groped on a bus or in a grocery store or on a subway or in a classroom should ever have to wonder if she did something wrong.
a shitty partner, and he’s being shitty in response by spouting Clinton conspiracy theories. A huge part of it is that he’s someone who lives to disagree— a true contrarian—and our current political environment has been like manna from heaven for his sense of humour. What advice do you have? We’ve been together for ages and have survived other elections and issues. But, as you know, this one’s different. > STRUGGLING AFTER DEBATE
Unlike your husband, SAD, I don’t think there’s anything funny about Donald Trump. I’m going to enjoy watching him lose the election, and I’m going to enjoy watching his hotels and golf courses go out of business one by one, but our politics and public life have been sickened by the poison that is Donald Trump. It’s going to take years for us to recover, SAD, and I just don’t see the humour in it. And, personally, SAD, I wouldn’t be able to climb into bed with someone who was planning to vote for Donald Trump. I would be out the door. But if you can’t leave because you love him despite his moral and political bankruptcy, or because leaving isn’t an option for you fi nancially, avoid the subject for the next three weeks, don’t take whatever bait your husband throws Big fan, long-time reader and out, and try not to gloat too much listener, and I need your help. How when Hillary hands Donald his ass in the hell can a bipartisan relation- on November 8. ship survive this election? Things have gotten so heated that my husband and On the Lovecast, Dan chats with a law I recently exploded in an ugly argu- professor about advanced sexual dirment. I know I’m not fighting fair— ectives: savagelovecast.com. Email: calling him stupid and irresponsible mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on for supporting Trump—and I’m being Twitter @fakedansavage.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 12, 2016 WHERE: Mount Pleasant You’re from Montreal and wore an Expos hat... well. Our chat was brief but somehow delightful. Might have been that smile of your's that stayed with me. Either way, decided I’d rather reach out than let it drift away down Main street like a tired trend. Hope you enjoyed your dinner. Neighbourhood drink some time?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 12, 2016 WHERE: C38 Community Bus Your name is Jennifer and I saw you on the C38 bus. I enjoyed our talked about Florence and Israel. You were headed to the dentist. How about coffee? I’d love to hear more Florence. - Michael
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 12, 2016 WHERE: Lidl Ballinteer I’m the guy in the navy, striped t-shirt that walked by you in the wine isle at around 9pm in Lidl Ballinteer on Oct 12. We locked eyes for a moment, but neither of us said anything... Probably because we were both on the phone! Which is a shame, because you looked very friendly. If I *had* said anything, I probably would’ve made a fool of myself anyway; which is a compliment to you, because that only tends to happen when I’m taken a back by something... Like someone who is absolutely beautiful, for example. :) Anyhoo, on the one in a million chance that you see this, feel free to let me know. Perhaps then I can at least ask to buy you a coffee sometime instead of saying nothing. Cheers, J
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Saw you at Dollarama. I asked if you were jealous of the hat I was wearing and told you it was in aisle 3. I am kicking myself for not introducing myself and asking you for a drink. Message me if you feel the same.
We met at Capitol on Davie the night of the Pride block party. You bought me and my friend a drink then you and I had a Jägerbomb then had a smoke outside together. You were there alone as you had recently moved here and didn't know many people. I lost you in the craziness and wish I had of got your info.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 7, 2016 WHERE: HotArt Gallery Picture this: I’m attending an art show and meet this stunning girl with the most amazing laugh. She was wearing a stunning red dress with all the right places accented and high boots like a superhero warrior. Her friends proceed to try and drag her away to a nearby watering hole so she invites me to join them. I, of course, decline because I am a moron. The next morning I’m still kicking myself for not going or at least asking for your number. If you’re willing to give an idiot a second chance I’d love to see you again.
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