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Toronto’s Filipino-Canadian Amanda Joy. On the City television comedy series Second Jen (premiering on Thursday [October 27]), which they created and cowrote, the dynamic duo portray 20-something friends who move out on their own for the first time—much to the chagrin of their traditional, overprotective immigrant families. After Margaret Cho’s short-lived 1994 TV series, All-American Girl, home-screen shows with Asian–North American lead characters were few and far between until the TaiwaneseAmerican sitcom Fresh Off the Boat premiered in 2015. Wan says she finds the state of Asian representation in North American media “disheartening”. On the line from Toronto, the actor and writer says, for instance, that she was aghast when she read columns arguing that stories like the live-action film version of Mulan don’t need to be kept Asian. “I’m shocked that’s even a discussion,” she says of the controversy, when white actors were being considered for lead roles in Mulan instead of Asians. “We have #MakeMulanRight and #StarringJohnCho because there’s still so much battle for equality—or not even
equality, even stories that were originally Asian, Chinese to be kept that way.” Wan says she didn’t become as aware of her identity as Chinese as much as she did when she moved to Toronto (after attending Montreal’s National Theatre School of Canada). When she was growing up in Port Moody, she says, the majority of her peers were Asian-Canadian and she was unaware of being an “other”. Bang echoes that sentiment. “I find it really interesting, because people say Asians are a minority, but then growing up in Vancouver we’re, like, a majority of people,” she says over tea at a Broadway coffee shop. “So it’s interesting, the fact that even the word minority, it’s like you are an outsider, whereas I don’t feel that way living in Vancouver, but TV and media tells me that I am a minority and I don’t see my face on TV.” Breaking through that invisibility was part of Bang’s motivation to pursue acting as a career. “I didn’t see people like me onscreen, so I wanted to be a part of that conversation,” she says. “The fact that a show like Kim’s Convenience is coming out and it has real characters, fully
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speak Mandarin, who doesn’t speak Cantonese, but follows some of the traditions but not many,” the former Vancouverite (now based in Australia) says over coffee on Main Street during a visit here. “On the inside, I’m really quite white, I’m really quite immigrant. I don’t associate myself with China. I associate myself with Canada.” That’s why the Blood and Water role, written specifically for her, appealed to her. Not only was it a female lead role but she also identified with Bradley’s identity questions. “It [this role] feels a lot more personal, I think, because there is the whole addressing of who she is and where does she belong,” she says. “I think that’s probably something that I share with a lot of Asian Americans, Asian Canadians. We’re not fully accepted in the East and we’re not fully accepted in the West, so where are we supposed to be?” Like Wan and Bang, Song hopes her character can offer a sense of ref lection and validation for viewers who may not have felt represented before. “Hopefully, if there are any other Asian Canadians, Asian Americans struggling with personal-identity issues,” she says, “I’d hope that they would watch it and not feel like what they’re going through is so singular.” -
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An encampment of more than 80 tents pitched in a vacant lot at 58 West Hastings Street will soon be dismantled. On October 21, the City of Vancouver handed out letters to homeless campers, stating that they were to vacate the premises by Tuesday (October 25). On that day, city staff accompanied by police and firefighters entered the camp and began facilitating people’s relocations to shelters. “The City must advise you that you do not have consent to be on the Property or to maintain tents or other structures on it,” reads a copy of the letter. “You are prohibited from continuing to do so under the City by-laws and the Trespass Act.” Despite that tough language, a spokesperson for the city told the Straight that so far nobody has been forcibly removed from the site. “It’s going to be a slow process,” Tobin Postma explained in a telephone interview. “We’ve got a list of around 20 people today who have said they will be heading to the shelters tonight or tomorrow evening.…And right now, we’re just working with them and giving them big totes and garbage bags and other things to collect their belongings.” Organizers estimate there were 150 people living on the city-owned site these past three months. A city media release describes health and safety concerns at 58 West Hastings and notes that since the camp formed in mid-July, there have been 65 calls for police, including four assaults. Maria Wallstam is an organizer with the Carnegie Community Action Project, one of several Downtown Eastside nonprofits that have helped maintain order at the camp. In a tele-
phone interview, she acknowledged the city’s concerns as legitimate. “But I’m also not sure that people are going to be any safer isolated and by themselves on the streets,” Wallstam told the Straight. She criticized the city’s pledge to move people from the camp into shelters. “A lot of people at the tent city that I’ve talked to, they are there in tents precisely because they don’t want to stay in shelters,” Wallstam explained. “There are a lot of couples there who do not want to go to shelters because at shelters they are separated. And so a lot of these people are not going to go and sleep in shelters. They are going to be sleeping in back alleys.” According to a May 2016 city report, there were 1,847 homeless people in Vancouver when the last count was conducted over a 24-hour period in March 2016. That was up from 1,600 in 2013. > TRAVIS LUPICK
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Sharon Chisholm has watched Vancouver’s housing crisis unfold from a unique vantage, monitoring developments on the ground while placing them in a global context. “It’s not unlike what’s happening in London,” the former executive director of the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association told the Straight. “Foreign buyers play a part. But exactly what the connection is and how different fixes will work isn’t clear yet.” Today Chisholm is director of Shaping Futures, an “international knowledge exchange” project with an eye on policies designed for the cities of tomorrow. She has also advised Norway’s government on
The City of Vancouver has begun the process of clearing out homeless campers inhabiting a lot at 58 West Hastings Street. Travis Lupick photo. rental housing and performed similar work in Nova Scotia. On Thursday (October 27), she’s speaking at Re:Address, a weeklong conference organized by the City of Vancouver that is designed to help revisit and reset its housing and homelessness strategy. The event will bring together experts, policymakers, and stakeholders from around the world to talk about housing. Asked about what’s driving a crunch on affordable housing in Vancouver and around the world, Chisholm first mentioned the withdrawal of higher government support. “Housing benefits have disappeared,” she said. The second thing Chisholm discussed was a commodification of housing that is happening faster now than ever before. She argued that this has often occurred at the expense of affordable rental stock. Regarding Canada, Chisholm expressed optimism that there’s still time to bring hot markets like those of Vancouver and Toronto
back under control. “I think Vancouver is doing some stuff right, believe it or not,” she said. Chisholm pointed to the extent to which the city has used municipal land not only as a space where housing can be built but also as a bargaining chip that can attract higher levels of government and private partners to contribute to subsidized projects. She also praised city hall for requiring private developers to include social-housing components before development permits are granted. “They are using their municipal powers quite strongly,” she said. On what she’d like to see more of, Chisholm suggested ideas that come from out of the box. One way to find those, she said, is to talk to millennials and understand how their priorities are different from those of older generations. “Maybe they don’t need parking,” she said. “We need cities to come up with their own strategies.” > TRAVIS LUPICK
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t’s difficult to describe the toll that hunger takes on a person, Mary Clare Zak told the Straight. The City of Vancouver’s managing director of social policy and projects recounted the changes she felt while taking part in the annual Welfare Food Challenge, where participants are only allowed to spend $18 on food for an entire week. “My train of thought started to break down,” she said in a telephone interview. “There was a difference in emotions, for sure. I think they were stronger than they would have been normally.” At that moment, Zak began to cry. She continued the interview, attempting to explain how the experience affected how she thinks about programs and public policies for people living in poverty. “In my role, you intellectualize it,” Zak said, audibly holding back tears. “You know the data, you know the stats, you see people who are struggling with it every day. But until you’ve walked in their shoes even for this little bit, it’s hard to relate to. It drove home the cruelty of the system.” The 2016 Welfare Food Challenge ran from October 16 to 23. The organization behind it is Raise the Rates B.C., which calculated the figure of $18 per week for food from the province’s social-assistance rate of $610 per month for an employable single person. Under the B.C. Liberals, that’s where the province’s welfare rate has remained frozen since 2007. From $610, it is estimated that a “realistic” rent for a single-roomoccupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside costs $479. Raise the Rates B.C. then subtracted $20 for a damage deposit, $25 for a cellphone plan, and $10 for hygiene. What’s left for food is $76 per month, or $18 per week. A colleague of Zak’s who also took part this year is Andrea Reimer, a city councillor with the Vision Vancouver party. Reimer lived on the streets for most of a decade, beginning in 1986. In a telephone interview, she recounted how much the experience brought back memories of that time she was homeless. “A lot of trauma, I didn’t even realize I had,” she said. “And you think about that and all of the decisions that might have gone differently in my life without that submerged trauma.” Reimer said those thoughts surfaced at a Welfare Food Challenge 10 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 3 / 2016
event held earlier this week, where there were many people in attendance who are on social assistance. “I was realizing that everybody in that room who was on welfare was, in real time, right now, building up that trauma sediment that I dragged up,” Reimer said. Another politician who took the challenge is Melanie Mark, the NDP MLA for Vancouver–Mount Pleasant. Updates she posted on Facebook throughout the week provide a snapshot of day-to-day life on social assistance. From day five: “Breakfast two pieces of peanut butter bread. Lunch plain toast with hard boiled eggs. Dinner chicken noodle soup.” From day six: “Bowl of LIFE cereal for breakfast. Chicken noodle soup for dinner. Two hard boiled eggs for a snack.” And from day seven: “Cup of tea, 2 hard boiled eggs and 2 pieces of dry toast for lunch. Chicken noodle soup for dinner.” Katrina Pacey is the executive director of Pivot Legal Society. She told the Straight she was one of seven women employed by the nonprofit who participated in the challenge last week. As did Zak, Pacey described how the experience posed challenges beyond physical manifestations of hunger, fatigue, and weakness. “I was finding myself to be easily distracted, I was having trouble focusing on my tasks, and I was just having trouble keeping up with the pace of my work,” Pacey said. “Everything just felt harder. That made me think about what the experience would be like to be on social assistance and being in the very difficult position of trying to seek work.” Pacey went on to describe other psychological effects that manifest beyond one’s own mind. “The first day was really interesting because it was my first time, frankly, moving through the city and not being able to access many different spaces that were ordinarily available to me,” Pacey said. She explained that while on the Welfare Food Challenge, she could not afford to pay for the coffee that normally allows her to spend hours working in cafés, for example. “It felt like exclusion,” Pacey said. “It was a window into how excluded one feels when they can’t access those social spaces where people eat.” -
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ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK LOST SOULS OF GASTOWN Take a 90-minute walking tour through the back streets and alleys of Gastown and explore Vancouver’s gruesome history. To Oct 31, Cathedral Square (across from Holy Rosary Cathedral). Tix $25/22, info www.forbiddenvancouver.ca/. HAUNTED VANCOUVER TROLLEY TOURS Hear gruesome tales of Vancouver’s past, visit Mountain View Cemetery, and climb the stairs to the city’s first morgue, housed in the Vancouver Police Museum. To Oct 31, Canada Place (504-999 Canada Place). Tix $40, info www.vancouvertrolley.com/. HALLOWEEN PARTY: CIRCUS OF THE DAMNED Highlights include DJs, dancing, costumes, and happy hour. Oct 29, 7 pm, Vancouver Rowing Club (450 Stanley Park Dr.). Tix $30/20, info www.vancouver rowingclub.ca/Club%20Info/OnlinePayments/Halloween-Party.aspx/. WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE Kitty Nights Burlesque presents a live rockburlesque journey into the mind and madness of Alice Cooper. Oct 30, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15/12, info www.kittynights.com/.
KIDS’ STUFF 2THIS WEEK FRIGHT NIGHTS Halloween-themed attraction features seven haunted houses, two live shows, 15 rides, and 90 monsters roaming the grounds. To Oct 31, Playland (2901 E. Hastings). Info www.frightnights.ca/. DAY OF THE DEAD AT THE STANLEY PARK GHOST TRAIN Celebrate the Day of the Dead with a ride through a tunnel of flames and a haunted graveyard, live music, and theatrical performances. To Oct 31, Stanley Park Miniature Train (Stanley Park). Tix $11/6, info www.vancouver.ca/ parks-recreation-culture/ghost-train.aspx/. HALLOWEEN AT FLYOVER CANADA Take a spooky journey across Canada as you graduate from the Haunted Witches Academy. To Oct 31, FlyOver Canada (201999 Canada Place). Tix $19.95/16.95/11.95, info www.flyovercanada.com/. VANDUSEN GLOW IN THE GARDEN Walk through the woods and see lights, hear ghoulish music, and observe glowing pumpkin characters created by carvers Clive Cooper and Bruce Waugh. After
the walk, kids can enjoy Halloween crafts. To Oct 31, VanDusen Botanical Garden (5251 Oak). Info www.vancouver.ca/ vandusenglow/.
KOO KOO KANGA ROO All-ages, familyfriendly show by the comedy-musical duo. Oct 29, 12:30-3 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15, info kookookangaroo wisehall.bpt.me/.
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SPORTS 2THIS WEEK CANUCKS VS. OILERS The Vancouver Canucks take on the Edmonton Oilers in National Hockey League action. Oct 28, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $87.75-281.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. GIANTS VS. BLAZERS The Vancouver Giants take on the Kamloops Blazers in Western Hockey League action. Oct 29, 7 pm, Langley Events Centre (7888 200th St., Langley). Tix $19.50-40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketrocket.co/.
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new, fantastically decorated spot in oil before cooking and comes from the frothe heart of Yaletown, 21 Nautical zen section at the grocery store. It’s possible Miles is not, as its website claims, to source responsibly farmed basa, but when Vancouver’s “one and only Chinese- it’s not certified as such, the item is most likely style contemporary restaurant”. (See Bao Bei produced via intensive farming in large ponds Chinese Brasserie and Peninsula Seafood Res- that are stocked at extremely high densities. taurant as other examples.) It is, however, the Because of the great risk of pathogens and only one that specializes in seafood boils. parasites, basa is well-known to be loaded with Topped with white paper, your table is already antibiotics, pesticides, and disinfectants. set for the feast of Dungeness The restaurant had sold crab, snow crab, scallops, out of its 21 Nautical Miles mussels, clams, prawns, seafood with rice, made sausages, corn cobs, and powith “secret” ingredients, so Gail Johnson tatoes when you take a seat: we opted instead for another there are wooden boards, mallets, crab crackers, signature dish, the garlic seafood with rice. and, tucked by your chopsticks, a plastic bib and Garlic certainly stands out here, and so does glove and a packaged wet napkin. oil. The otherwise flavourless plate consisted Served on a silver platter for a minimum of tiny, deshelled clams and three prawns that of two people (at $38.95 per person), the sea- were somewhat slimy at the finish. food boil “party” is the dish to have. You get to Shrimp spring rolls were dark brown from a choose the flavour: garlic butter, black pepper, bit too much time in the deep fryer, and they sufsweet and hot, and “spicy”. These are celebra- fered from an unfortunate presentation, being tory, hearty share plates, and they’re what the served on a sheet of brown paper with large oil restaurant does best. splotches underneath and beside each one. By contrast, pieces of wok-fried spicy king Better items come from the dim-sum section crab, a signature item served in a small bowl of the menu. Served on a soft white bun, the pork of tongue-numbing liquid infused with chili in the Chinese burger is sweet, not spicy, though a and chili oil, were cold right through to the few greens or even a sprig of cilantro would have inner shell. lifted up the item’s flavour. XO sauce seasons a The king crab was one of a small handful of salad of cucumber and cold black fungus. The items on the menu featuring Ocean Wise prod- crunchy, frilly mushroom that’s also known as ucts. We avoided the “fragrance fish” ($38.95) cloud ear or tree ear is said to be helpful for after inquiring what type of fi llet it was; basa, improving circulation. Like tofu, it absorbs the our server said, noting that it is soaked in chili flavour of whatever it’s served with; black fun-
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Although Yaletown’s fantastically decorated 21 Nautical Miles specializes in seafood boils, its menu covers a range of Chinese cuisine, including dim-sum items such as Chinese burgers and spring rolls.
gus is more about texture than taste. If not terribly toothsome, barbecued beef and chicken skewers are also available. Other meal options include a crawfish feast ($178) that must be ordered 24 hours in advance, the little crustaceans served in four flavours (garlic butter, spicy, black pepper, and sweet and hot) in dramatic fashion in a tower with dry ice; and Beijing roasted duck, a two-course main with duck skin wrapped in mini crepes and
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Meal ticket GREASY SPOONS One of the most popular culinary events in the city is the Greasy Spoon Supper Series, a multicourse menu that blends upscale dining and diner food for a good cause. The next dinner (Greasy Spoon Vol. 21) takes place on November 14 at 5:30 p.m. at Save on Meats (43 West Hastings Street). Hosted by chef Daniel McGee from Au Comptoir, guests will enjoy a fourcourse meal paired with tasty drinks. Proceeds go toward A Better Life Foundation, a local charity that provides food security to those in need. Tickets ($95 plus processing fees) can be purchased online at www.eventbrite.ca/. -
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RADICLE JUICE (3088 Main Street) Tasty smoothies filled with nutritious ingredients like hemp seeds, almond milk, and coconut oil.
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AN ODD MOON Moonshine may historically have been stowed away in steel flasks and inconspicuous growlers, but it’s placed front and centre—in all its tantalizing, 100-proof glory—in this gorgeous sip dreamed up by Odd Society Spirits’ bar manager, Kylie Bartlett. Odd Society’s Mongrel moonshine is joined with vermouth, apple, walnut, and delectably tart Latin lime bitters, forming a dangerously smooth drink that makes the act of “turning up” a lot more sophisticated than it was during your teen years. Find it at Burdock & Co. (2702 Main Street). -
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Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Son, which delves into stories about his father, clearly struck a chord with audiences, who snapped up tickets during its inaugural run last year. Amanda Siebert photos.
A son’s empire strikes back
hard things are until it’s He remembers feeling offended the first time too late, so for me it was someone told him that. “But I realized this is why never really a question I’m being promoted to host, whereas I couldn’t of courage.” If anything, get arrested on TV unless I’m doing the Asian ache says, he’s inherited his cent,” Shigematsu says. “I’ve been doing this for father’s “almost suicidal 20 years now, and I’m noticing that things are level of integrity, like, I’m changing all over. I did a YouTube channel for a just going to do it this way little while, and because it’s the one mainstream because that’s the only medium that isn’t controlled by gatekeepers, sudway I know how to do it.” denly diasporic Asians are dominating well above The smash success of Tetsuro Shigematsu’s one-man The mindset has served our numbers in the population, and so it’s excitshow Empire of the Son reveals diversity is in demand him well, especially in his ing. Now, here in theatre, it’s an exciting time to first encounters with ra- be an artist of colour.” It’s been a little over a year since Tetsuro Shi- cism. During a recess game of Dukes of Hazzard, There’s talk now that Empire of the Son might gematsu’s Empire of the Son made history. It was the rather than let Shigematsu be Luke Duke, the kids tour around the world. “There’s this whole question about diversity, BY ANDREA WARN ER world premiere of his new one-man show, an intim- declared “Luke’s dead today!” and ran off. ate and affecting piece about his father, their family, “I remember being dumbstruck, like ‘Am I in- and I hope if there’s any take-away for cultural and cultural identity, and before the play even hit visible? Clearly, I am Luke Duke!’ ” Shigematsu decision makers, it’s that diversity can mean previews, the entire run was sold-out. The Cultch recalls. “You begin to realize that you’re different.” great box office,” Shigematsu says. “I think there’s extended the run, and those tickets sold out too. Shigematsu estimates that he’s had over 100 a hunger out there. Culture is more interesting Shigematsu still doesn’t know how it happened. jobs so far and says it’s been particularly fascin- when everybody’s story is told.” “We’ve researched it to the nth degree, but as ating to see how he’s run into different levels of As Shigematsu prepares to dive into telling his far as we can tell, for the world premiere of a Can- resistance based on the medium. father’s story again every night, he thinks back on adian play to sell out its run before it opens, it’s “I was hired to replace Rick Mercer for This the last 12 months. He watched a video of his pernever happened before that I’ve come across,” Shi- Hour Has 22 Minutes in order to do his rants formance and noticed how clenched he was. His gematsu says. He’s still bewildered but obviously and his monologues,” Shigematsu says. “I father had died just 18 days before Empire’s proud of the response to what is, ultimately, a remember my writing was strong, bepremiere last October. story so personal and family-focused that after the cause during the table read it would “The distance of time has allowed Check out… first workshop, his sisters took him aside and gave get huge response from the cast, the me to feel more open and more supSTRAIGHT.COM him a warning. producers, the crew. But when it ple,” he says. “My blood is flowing Visit our website “They said, ‘The good news is, we like it. We like was actually screened in front of the through all parts of my body and now for morning-after it a lot,’ ” Shigematsu recalls. “The bad news is, no Friday-night Haligonian audience— I feel access to my emotions in a way reviews and local arts news one else is going to find this interesting.’ ” which, bless their hearts, it’s the bigI’ve never felt before. And that’s really They were wrong. gest thing to do on a Friday night when interesting to me because I feel like my Shigematsu is back in rehearsals to remount you get tickets, and for the most part, father was kind of killed by patriarchy. You Empire of the Son at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture these were white, middle-aged or older Haligon- know there’s only so many ways to be a man. If Lab, and will also tour into early 2017, hitting Ot- ians—and when they saw me, looming large on- you’re a ‘real man’ you don’t show your feelings, tawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Shigematsu is quick screen, all they could think was ‘That’s a big Asian you make the most money, you fight, you have sex to point out that he’s not a trained actor, but that face and English is coming out of it.’ ” with the most women, you drink the most. My didn’t stop him 20 years ago from mounting his Instead of laughter, there was silence. father failed, and I fail, on all those counts. But first one-man show, and it hasn’t stopped him since. “Tellingly, I got poached by CBC Radio [as on account of doing this show, I see my father in a “It’s that whole cliché, ‘Babies aren’t afraid of the host of The Roundup] while I was a writer for different light.” tigers,’ ” he says. “If I’ve had any success in my life, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and I met with a lot of it’s because I’ve just jumped into the cockpit and immediate success on the radio because I sound Empire of the Son is at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab from Tuesday (November 1) to November 13. said, ‘Hey, yeah, let’s do this!’ I didn’t realize how totally white.”
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Editor’s choice LOST OPERAS FOUND It’s no surprise that it took the witty, ornate music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to coax Vancouver Symphony Orchestra maestro Bramwell Tovey into his first opera appearance. He’ll play the Impresario in City Opera’s ambitious, fun- and wig-filled reconstruction of three works that Mozart began but never completed—two Italian comedies, Lo Sposo Deluso and L’Oca del Cairo, and a German romance called Zaïde. Writer Maria Reva links them all into a single show here, with Charles Barber conducting a live chamber orchestra. You may not know the music, but believe us, you’ll know it’s Mozart. City Opera presents The Lost Operas of Mozart from Thursday to Saturday (October 27 to 29) at Christ Church Cathedral.
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WALKER EVANS: DEPTH OF FIELD (October 29 to January 22 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) His photos of the Depression still haunt today.
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STRAIGHT JACKET WINTER (To October 29 at Studio 16) If you’ve ever spent a long, rainy season here, you’ll be able to relate.
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WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ART (October 28 at Hot Art Wet City) Comedian Abdul Aziz and friends try to understand the world’s masterpieces.
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TRUMP CARD—WINNER TAKES ALL (To November 19 at the Improv Centre) Because you can’t get enough parodies of the orange-faced one.
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AGES OF THE MOON (To November 6 at Presentation House Theatre) A strong cast and production team should do justice to Sam Shepard.
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Jessica Lang takes dance to the battlefield American choreographer interviewed war veterans and ventured into the darkness of PTSD for poetic Thousand Yard Stare > BY JA NET SM IT H
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he battlefield is about as far from the dance stage as you can travel, and it was a place that American choreographer Jessica Lang was hesitant to go at first. But when a former marine on the board of her New York–based company Jessica Lang Dance encouraged her to take on the idea of war and posttraumatic stress disorder, she decided to wade in, eventually creating a work that broke new emotional ground for her. In retrospect, she says, “I think I was most surprised about how much I didn’t think about it before.” Lang is best known for pieces that are like moving artworks. There’s even a geometric and primarycoloured ode to Piet Mondrian on her company’s Vancouver program. But her journey in creating Thousand Yard Stare took her into the dark and unknown. “I accepted the challenge and then I said to myself, ‘The only way I want to explore this is through the human experience,’ ” Lang says, speaking to the Straight over the phone from her home on Long Island, where her company will soon move into new headquarters. “I wanted to connect to veterans and make it for them and with them.” Lang spent weeks interviewing those who have fought wars, listening to their posttraumatic struggles. Those still too damaged to open up to her were asked to create drawings while listening to the sombre music she uses in the piece: Ludwig van Beethoven’s haunting String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132. The experience took a huge toll on her, she admits. “Oh my God… It was super emotional, to the point where I had to actually just stop and go into
Dancers wear green camo in Thousand Yard Stare, a piece named for the blank gaze of weary soldiers. Todd Rosenberg photo.
the studio,” she says of her research. “I had a very visceral response and attachment to it. It’s important to know, but I also wish I didn’t know. You can’t unlearn it.” Perhaps most personally moving was the fact the stories gave her a new perspective on what her own father, who was drafted during the Vietnam War, might have gone through. “He never talked about it,” she recalls. “It was really downplayed in my life growing up.” The research led to a studio process that contrasted with her usual approach. Lang says she usually goes into creation with a set idea for her meticulously sculpted, visually evocative
dance—dance that draws on both her ballet and modern training dating back to her days at the Juilliard School. But this time, she says, was the first when she didn’t have her ideas fully formed. After she shared what she’d learned with her small, tightly knit group of nine honed dancers, they started improvising and creating imagery to bring to life the pain and camaraderie of war. The piece’s title comes from a phrase used to describe the blank gaze of a battle-weary soldier. The drawings made their way into the work too: costume designer Bradon McDonald was able to integrate some of the more striking ones onto the backs of the dancers’ green-
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camouflage outfits. “When everyone looks forward, they’re all the same; when they turn their backs, they’re all different,” Lang explains. Though the stage is bare to keep the subject matter raw, she’s bathed it all in a military-green light, punctuated by the odd bomblike white flash that sends the dancers into bodytwisting leaps. Thousand Yard Stare has turned out to be a piece that speaks to new audiences, says Lang, whose company tours the globe. “What I love is it’s a lot of people who are not dance aficionados coming up to me to talk about it [after the show],” she says. “They are saying, ‘I didn’t know I
liked dance.’ And that’s how you introduce new audiences. We have one time to get people back: what they see when they’re in that theatre the first time determines whether they come back. I always keep that in mind.” Lang says she has stumbled on a topic that’s “awful and timely”—and that can, unfortunately, be understood around the world. For his part, DanceHouse producer Jim Smith tells the Straight he’s interested to see the reaction here, in Canada, which likes to think of itself as a pacifist nation. “One of the things we try to do as an organization is show how the Canadian experience is contrasted to other nations through artworks,” he explains of bringing the American dance troupe here for the first time. “It’s like travel: we become more aware of where we live, of what it is to be Canadian, when we see work that is not Canadian. “Are people going to appreciate it as poetic? I’m curious to see if Vancouver audiences are going to go there.” He adds the mixed program here, which draws from her work over the last 10 years with her company, highlights Lang’s—and her dancers’— enormous range. Amid the offerings, there’s a dreamlike film called White and a hallucinogenic live piece with a woman engulfed in her flowing, parachutelike white gown, named The Calling. All of them, Thousand Yard Stare included, have a strong look and mood. As Smith puts it: “I’ve heard Jessica Lang talk about herself as a visual artist for whom dance is her medium.” DanceHouse presents Jessica Lang Dance at the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday and Saturday (October 28 and 29).
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The Pianist finds big laughs in high culture Blending mime, clowning, acrobatics, and classical music, Thomas Monckton’s wordless show turns an instrument into a wild beast > B Y TONY M ONTAG U E
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concert of classical music may seem an odd place to go for comedic inspiration. But New Zealand–born artist Thomas Monckton—whose work brilliantly fuses mime, clowning, and acrobatics—found rich material for his wordless solo show The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe at a performance by a philharmonic orchestra in Helsinki, where he now lives. “I love the comic potential in high culture,” says Monckton, reached on tour in Florida. “There are a lot of unspoken rules at a concert, so there are already plenty of hurdles for a clown to get stuck in. I was the only one out of about a thousand people who clapped after the first movement of the symphony. You don’t do that, apparently. And the drummer, who was meant to bang his drum maybe once during the two hours, lost his drumstick and tried looking for it—while appearing not to be looking. The whole experience for me was borderline absurd, and utterly beautiful from a comic’s perspective.” The original spark for The Pianist came from a conversation four years ago between Monckton and the show’s codirector, Sanna Silvennoinen of Finnish company Circo Aereo. “I was talking about another piece of mine, Moving Stationery, and suggested this idea of a piano falling to pieces. I thought no more about it, but Sanna returned a month later, asking if I’d be interested in her company commissioning the piece. She had her own ideas about reimagining my ideas, and we created it together through improvisation and choreography. It was great working with Sanna because she’s not comedy-based, she’s a
The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe takes the form of a recital that turns into a surreal disaster. Juho Rahija photo.
circus aerialist. We did a lot of looking at the grand piano and wondering what we could do with it.” The Pianist takes the form of a classical recital that quickly descends into a series of almost surreal disasters for the conceited and hapless performer. Monckton’s treatment of the universal theme of a head-on collision between order and chaos is both hilarious and cathartic, and the show is a major success internationally with audiences of all ages.
Monckton draws on a wide range of corporeal and theatrical skills acquired through many years of training and practice in his homeland and Europe. “I did circus school in New Zealand, but there wasn’t a lot of circus work available. I ended up working as the rear end of a zebra costume and going across zebra crossings, and at that point I remember thinking ‘I need to broaden my horizons!’ It was a great scenario for an epiphany. So I went to Paris and spent two years
is a great character to play—he’s so angry! I find it very satisfying to play aggressively frustrated people who get distracted really easily. And it’s fun to create a character that’s unlikable in some ways but that you end up rooting for just the same.” The Pianist may be a solo performance, but there’s a clear adversary on-stage throughout. For Monckton the grand piano that he plays—or attempts to—is like some wild beast he’s trying to tame. “Not just within the show, but setting up for it beforehand, and afterwards too, because it’s pretty temperamental. It’s our own piano, custom-made, and there’s lots of stuff that can go wrong with it. It’s definitely the diva of the production, and I’m always really nervous about how it’s going to behave.” The instrument’s tendency to malfunction has forced Monckton into some desperate improvisations. “One time I was performing and the piano wouldn’t work—didn’t make any sound! So I had to pull every hat I knew out of the bag to cover up. The technician came on-stage and was fiddling around with the piano and I did some hand-balancing. And, to finish off, instead of playing the piano I just did a back flip. People didn’t realize there was something going wrong. “Another time when the piano didn’t work I rounded up four members of the audience and we left the theatre, got a real piano, dragged it on-stage, and I continued playing the show. Since then we’ve introduced an if-all-else-fails miniature piano—about one foot square. I’ve only had to use it once so far, but you really never know what’s going to happen—and when.” -
studying at the Jacques Lecoq school of physical theatre.” A consummate clown, Monckton gives a new-circus twist to the timeless and wordless slapstick tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Harpo Marx, and Buster Keaton. And he acknowledges the inspiration of more contemporary physical comedians. “When I first started making acts I was influenced by Rowan Atkinson’s stupidity as Mr. Bean. Also John Cleese’s outrageous The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe is anger as Basil Fawlty. The pianist, too, at the York Theatre until November 6.
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N OV E M B E R 2 016 MARIZA
Wed Nov 2, 8:00pm Presented by the Chan Centre Audience favourite Mariza, the living voice of Portuguese fado, returns to the Chan Centre to celebrate her latest release, Mundo. SOLD OUT.
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Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society The VRS is thrilled to bring this Uzbek wonder back to the Chan Centre for a wide-ranging program including Prokofiev and Beethoven.
BRAIN
Thu Nov 17, 7:30pm Presented by the Chan Centre A hilarious, heartbreaking monologue about consciousness, mental illness, and friendship from award-winning novelist and slam poet Brendan McLeod.
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Canadian dance icon Margie Gillis plays writer-activist Pearl S. Buck in later life in the multimedia spectacle Pearl.
Gillis builds bridges in Pearl > B Y JA NET S M ITH
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mid all the spectacle in the culture-crossing new show Pearl, one audacious set piece has been the focus of most of the buzz: a real, flowing, sixfoot-wide river, meant to represent the majestic Yangtze. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Pearl S. Buck, the subject of the production, lived on the banks of the Yangtze during her years in China. But Canadian dance icon Margie Gillis, one of five performers who play Buck in the show, reveals she doesn’t get to splash around in the on-stage river herself. “We do have these beautiful mermaid women that float through the water,” she tells the Straight over the phone during “a rare moment” at her home in Montreal before heading out to Vancouver with Pearl on its North American tour. “But I don’t wade in the river. I go over the bridges.” Those bridges could not be a more fitting symbol for the show. Raised by missionaries in Zhenjiang, Buck built bridges between the East and West with best-selling novels like 1931’s The Good Earth, about peasant life in China. Later, she moved back to the States and became a big advocate for Asian and mixed-race adoption and understanding between China and the U.S. (That work and her feminist views later made her the target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his Communist hunt.) “I was a voracious reader when I was a child and I read all of her books. I loved them, and a number of images are still with me,” Gillis says.
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“They stuck so strongly in the psyche. I didn’t know what she did later in life, I only knew her as a writer. And I was amazed at all the work she did later when I found out with this show.” The production, too, is a study in East-West relations, a collaboration between Chinese producer Angela Xiaolei Tang, of Legend River Entertainment, and American choreographer Daniel Ezralow (a former Paul Taylor star who’s staged everything from Cirque du Soleil’s The Beatles LOVE to Broadway’s SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark). They bring together a cast of 26 Canadian, American, and Chinese dancers for the show. It’s a cultural melding that speaks to Gillis, who has herself worked to build artistic connections around the globe. In 1979, Gillis was invited to teach and give lectures in Maoist China, becoming the first western artist to bring modern dance there post–Cultural Revolution. “For me, as a young artist, I was thrilled with the opportunity to dance for a culture that hadn’t grown up with Mickey Mouse and didn’t have the cultural references my audiences did,” she recalls. “I wanted to see if I was teaching something basically human. It was just the depth and value of that communication and people feeling that life-changing experience.” After she founded her own company, the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation, two years later, she toured around Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. And that outreach has continued with the international cast of Pearl: “I’ve been able to teach a lot of my
work to the company as a warm-up,” she says. For Gillis, as much as the show is known for its multimedia spectacle, complete with acrobatics, aerial performance, and calligraphic video projections, it celebrates Buck and her work. The show is divided into chapters titled “Spring”, “River”, “Flower”, “Moon”, and “Night”, based on an influential Chinese poem written centuries ago by Zhang Ruoxu, with “Spring” representing her youth and “Moon” and “Night” her later life and death. “Danny is very discerning and has a strong critical mind, but he is a humanist at heart and very good at drawing people around a creative idea where the human being feels seen,” she says of Ezralow, whom she first met when he performed with her brother Chris at the Paul Taylor Dance Company and then worked with at companies like MOMIX and benefits for Amnesty International. The dancer-activist adds Pearl’s messages of cultural understanding could not be coming at a better time, in these days of American election rhetoric and fearmongering about immigrants. “When we’re looking at things in the States now, this is certainly heartening to see there are people who really care and are focused on humanitarian values,” she says. And she hopes those values will f low out like that river at centre stage. Pearl is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday and Friday (October 27 and 28).
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JESSICA LANG DANCE (USA) In Straight Jacket Winter, everyday objects become magical as a transplanted couple struggles with loneliness in Vancouver. Renaud Philippe photo.
Wild imagination conjures isolation in Straight Jacket Three Stories goes noir in the dark; Fight Night puts voting in spotlight; Mamahood gets real about pregnancy TH E AT RE
support the instability of the notion of home, and the terrific sound deSTRAIGHT JACKET WINTER sign, by Jacques Poulin-Denis and Antoine Berthiaume, uses instruWritten and directed by Esther mental music to underscore the Duquette and Gilles Poulin-Denis, with directorial assistance from Édith show’s many emotions. Straight Jacket Winter is headed Patenaude. A coproduction of Théâtre off on a national tour, but fortunately la Seizième, 2Par4, and the National Arts Centre French Theatre. At Studio for Vancouver audiences (and Anglos, please don’t deprive yourselves; 16 on Tuesday, October 18. Continues there are English surtitles on Tuesuntil October 29 days, Thursdays, and Saturdays), I wish everyone could make art Duquette and Poulin-Denis have dethis compelling from the tough cided to stick around. I can’t wait to seasons in their lives. Straight Jacket see what they do next. > KATHLEEN OLIVER Winter transforms its deeply personal source material into joyously THREE STORIES UP transcendent theatre. In January 2011, creators Esther By Mack Gordon. Directed by Marisa Duquette and Gilles Poulin-Denis Smith. An Alley Theatre and Levelmoved from Montreal to Vancou- Headed Friends production. At 805 ver, leaving behind almost every- East Pender Street on Saturday, thing. In the play, the real Duquette October 22. Continues until October 31 and Poulin-Denis narrate from the Three Stories Up puts the noir in sidelines while actors Julie Trépannoir. Its unusual presentation ier and Frédéric Lemay act out the couple’s struggles with cultural adds novelty and excitement to a play and social isolation. There’s a fur- that is primarily an exercise in style. Playwright Mack Gordon has ther layer of doubling in references to a novel by Quebec writer Réjean crafted an elaborate murder mysDucharme that Gilles is translating, tery in which Beatrice, a transit in which a brother and sister will- cop, is searching for the person fully cut themselves off from the who killed her husband, a bigcrime detective whose death has outside world. In other hands, this might be in- been labelled a suicide. After she sufferably heavy, but Duquette and seeks help from Gunnar, one of Poulin-Denis embed these layers her husband’s informants, the plot within a form that is endlessly in- thickens to include an assortment ventive. Live projections surprise of shady characters. But the audience can’t see any and delight: crumpled paper represents a blizzard; sparklers become of them. Before the show, we are full-blown fireworks when the couple blindfolded and escorted to our reunites. And the few possessions seats. When we’re finally allowed that Esther and Gilles brought across to take off our blindfolds, the room the country in just seven boxes keep is pitch black and it stays that way reappearing in subtle and satisfying for the show’s 80-minute duration. ways as the play’s narrative disinte- Cool, right? Under Marisa Smith’s direction, grates into expressionistic chaos. Trépanier and Lemay find every the actors move all over this immernote of comedy (Trépanier’s Esther sive environment; we never know repeats, distorts, and finally spells where they might turn up next. Both her name out for a customer-service hearing and imagination become rep on the phone), bewilderment, acute: I’ve never been so aware of and frustration in the characters’ the sound of actors breathing, for inlong string of lost days. Duquette stance, and the colours mentioned in and Poulin-Denis circle the periph- a narrated description are extremely ery like wizards, operating turn- vivid. Gordon revels in film-noir conventables and projectors, but when they address each other directly, their tions: there are tough guys, a giggly mutual devotion is deeply affecting; bimbo, and some terrific hard-boiled their account of a defining crisis in dialogue. “I’ve been running from their relationship is so intimate, it’s the truth so long I’ve almost got it lapped,” Gunnar tells us. And the like watching wedding vows. The design elements are equally writing is beautifully detailed: at a successful. Julie Vallée-Léger’s set, fancy restaurant, “there are napkins Itai Erdal’s lighting, and Antoine for the napkins.” Quirion Couture’s video design all see next page
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But the absence of visual information means that the characters have to fill us in verbally on just about everything; they narrate not only external events but long interior streams of consciousness. These are often poetic, but in combination with the dialogue exchanges—which are so relentlessly rapid-fire that there’s not enough time to take in crucial information about the convoluted murder plot—they can become exhausting. Sound designer and Foley artist Julie Casselman creates some arresting effects, but her talents have been underutilized in favour of text. I’ve been asked to keep the actors’ identities secret; all I will say here is that they pull off a heroic feat in a uniquely challenging set of circumstances. I’m not sure if Three Stories Up would captivate in a conventional staging, but in the dark, it’s a trip worth taking.
FIGHT NIGHT Presented by Ontroerend Goed, the Border Project, Vooruit, Theatre Royal Plymouth, and Richard Jordan Productions. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Wednesday, October 19. Continues until October 29
Fight Night couldn’t have had a
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the evening of the final debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. As the world watched with mouths gaping while a presidential candidate for the United States of America argued that he couldn’t possibly be guilty of sexually assaulting women who aren’t attractive enough, politics as performance art seemed quite fitting. And to their credit, these young theatre artists have crafted a clever, entertaining, and immersive production, even if its commentary is not as pointed or sharp as they think it is. The premise is simple: five candidates are trying to get the audience’s votes > KATHLEEN OLIVER to win “the game”. The host, played
Words like loyalty, winning, and manipulation are thrown around frequently, and as the audience votes, round after round, the questions vary between the basic (male or female—although a third, nonbinary option is essential in 2016) and the intimate (pick one that best describes you: a little bit racist, a little bit sexist, a little bit violent, none of these flaws). The answers are anonymous, but the results are tabulated and displayed in helpful circles that correspond in size to the percentage. About 48 percent of the audience on opening night described themselves as “a little bit racist”, and confronting that on a glowing display screen might be the most nakedly self-aware Vancouver’s ever been. Fight Night is fascinating when the audience is divulging and learning things about itself, and reassessing In Fight Night, five “candidates” try to win audience members’ votes in round its opinions of the candidates based after round of “the game”, and make the political personal in the process. on immediate reactions to each new with snarky perfection by Angelo questions about everything from piece of information. But, as candiTijssens, takes the crowd through a their platforms to the types of people dates are voted off, and as the piece series of votes and asks the candidates they hope will vote for them. builds to its big climax—democracy! anarchy! apathy!—the text (credited to director Alexander Devriendt, Tijssens, and the rest of the talented cast) becomes less nuanced, devolving into something more idealized and that has good intentions but lacks grit. I left feeling a little let down, but I was immediately curious about how the politics would play out with a different audience. Perhaps this is Fight Night’s accidental left hook: it makes the political personal, even though it’s actually trying to achieve the reverse. > ANDREA WARNER
MAMAHOOD: TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE By Nicolle Nattrass. Directed by TJ Dawe. A Firehall Arts Centre presentation. At the Firehall Arts Centre on Wednesday, October 19. Continues until October 29
There’s a lot to like in this very story of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, but structurally, it doesn’t totally deliver. Playwright and performer Nicolle Nattrass plays Marie, a mom who’s having a rare “night out” in the form of this performance. “I don’t think my toddler needs socialization classes; I do,” she confesses at the top of the show. Marie gets pregnant on the eve of her 40th birthday, and her status as a self-consciously “older” parent comes with its own set of complications. Her own mother and father greet the announcement of her pregnancy with silent shock, and she has to break the news gently to a dear friend who’s been trying unsuccessfully to conceive. Mamahood is billed as a play about postpartum depression, but Marie spends the first two-thirds of the show narrating an exhaustive chronology of her pregnancy and the birth of her son. There are plenty of great details in this story, both comic—in labour, Marie rips the belt loops off her doula’s jeans—and scary, as the expectant parents wait for potentially life-changing test results. Folks who’ve had kids in the last decade or so will relate to, and laugh about, much of this. Then the baby is born, and we suddenly jump forward—months or years—to an excessively anxious Marie. But the situation is described so briefly and help arrives so soon that there’s little dramatic tension. Nattrass is a big-hearted and fearlessly vulnerable performer whose charm is a great strength of this show. She and director TJ Dawe play with the metaphor of motherhood as an interplanetary journey. Though it sometimes feels forced, the conceit’s biggest payoff is the deadpan flight announcements, which frequently include the phrase “Don’t worry.” Set designer Pia Guerra’s mostly bare stage is backed by a colourful triptych of idealized mother figures: the Madonna and child, the stylish ’50s housewife, and the eight-armed career mom of today, trying to do it all. Mothers who’ve believed themselves to be alone in falling short of those ideals are this show’s natural audience. Nattrass has given them a gift.
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Troupe wields paper dolls, ropes, and wish lists “I care what you think” is a visually striking look at wants and needs; This Crazy Show lives up to its name with wigs, sequins, and disco balls D ANC E “I CARE WHAT YOU THINK” A Contingency Plan and plastic orchid factory production. At the Shadbolt Centre on Friday, October 21. No remaining performances
“I care what you think” is as
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props, lighting, and sound design as it is about dance—which isn’t a bad thing. Rather, the attention to detail required to make something this visually stunning successful on all levels is nothing short of masterful. Before the theatre doors open, audience members are each invited to write an anonymous wish on a slip of paper. It’s a clever way of inviting attendees inside a piece purposefully titled to engage. Inside, human-size paper cutouts are posed on the floor, the long white ropes attached to their heads snaking up to overhead lights and looping down to sandbags. A few paper dolls take up seats in the audience, blurring the line between form and flesh. The piece’s text-based through line consists of a series of “I wish” statements spoken and recorded by the three dance artists/choreographers, Vanessa Goodman, James Gnam, and Jane Osborne. The trio spent six years talking about what a collaboration between them would look and feel like. Perhaps that’s why “I care what you think” hums at such a high frequency. The artists want to contend with specific human behaviours—observation and action versus reaction—and the tension between the two, particularly as they explore collapsing ideals of perfection and the distance between want and need. Goodman and Gnam initially depict this with playfulness, lunging in and out of each other’s space,
In the collaborative “I care what you think”, dancers play with strings and cutouts to explore human behaviour and the things we wish for. David Cooper photo.
bending backward and forward, all crooked limbs and jagged angles as Osborne slowly begins to raise the cutouts into the air, silent witnesses suspended overhead. Gnam and Osborne follow this with highly controlled upper-body movements, each standing behind mikes at opposite ends of the stage, muscles tense and taut, arms flexed and torsos twisting as the “I wish” statements escalate from a whisper to a scream and then go back down to a feverish hush. Eventually, Gnam and Osborne find their way back to each other and there’s a genuine tenderness in their bodies, the mood almost romantic as they move past each other’s boundaries and toward something shared. Just as in real life, though, the lull of sweetness is primed for disruption. As Goodman begins her
own recitation, interspersing the audience’s scribbled wishes with the text, Gnam and Osborne loosen the ropes, twisting and contorting across the floor, the cutouts dancing violently as they tangle themselves amid the lengths of rope. The artists and the cutouts are cast in a flurry of shadows and bright lights, alone but together, knotted up as one.
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THIS CRAZY SHOW A Vision Impure production. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Thursday, October 20. No remaining performances
Surveying the stage’s off-kilter
2 array of swinging disco balls,
you might think that solo performer Noam Gagnon has picked a
very apt title for This Crazy Show. That thought’s confirmed while watching the dancer bang his head in a face-covering long platinum wig, or a black-masked accordion player wheezing out a haunting tune. Sporadically, an ominous figure in a wildly sequined bodysuit and balaclava hovers around the stage’s edges. The dancer-choreographer drew inspiration from f lamboyantly costumed, gender-bending ’80s performance artist Leigh Bowery for This Crazy Show, and the inf luence is clear—especially in the masked lurking figure. And then there are moments that are pure Gagnon, a mix of delicate human vulnerability and brutally exposed pain. The piece depicts different identities racking and convulsing one body. The cacophonous climax sees Gagnon fracturing and collapsing like a broken doll in his garish wig, white kneepads, and high-heeled booties. He slumps against the set’s antique-papered wall to rest his head on a mirror ball sitting on the f loor. Gagnon is interested in how we transform to adapt in our lives, but the ending suggests all that change takes a damaging toll. Still, he starts in a sort of silly, happy place, sitting in a vest and dress pants as the audience arrives, grooving to cheesy Italian pop ballads, addressing the audience and welcoming them to the “party” when the show begins. So there’s pleasure here, and pain, and even a little Kierkegaard—all playing out amid an over-the-top set. Sometimes it’s difficult to navigate the extremes— ones ref lected in a soundtrack that bounces from glitchy opera arias to club beats to disorienting
sampled sounds. Amid the chaos, the moments that resonate the most are the quieter, poetic ones, with one sequence even managing to find a strange poetic beauty in The Bionic Woman. We see projected clips from the ’70s TV series, and listen to a voice-over tell the story of a boy whose sister fishes a pair of snakeskin boots out of a rich neighbour’s garbage. He uses them to pretend he’s a Jaime Sommers–style superhero. It’s later revealed that his father despises his “sissy” antics, a hint at the pain and judgment that stif le identity. And that unwanted judgment may be part of what This Crazy Show is really about. The other strengths of the production? No doubt, the twisted imagery sticks with you—that half-dressed explosion of platinum blond, for instance, which eventually grows to body-covering, Thing-like dimensions. Gagnon remains a magnetic presence onstage, fearless as ever and able to pummel and pound his body as much as he did in his younger days with the Holy Body Tattoo. The perspective-skewing set is a striking art installation in itself. And composer James Coomber, who also plays the live accordionist, builds an atmospheric soundscape. But there are probably too many things wedged into This Crazy Show, from the autobiographical to the philosophical to the fantastic. There’s an unsettling incongruence between the disco-ball sparkle and the underlying melancholy darkness, but perhaps that’s the mood he’s after. Gagnon himself would probably say that riding out those crazy extremes is what life is all about. > JANET SMITH
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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW The Geekenders present Richard O’Brien’s stage adaptation of the cult-hit film about a man and a woman who get stranded at the castle of a transvestite scientist. Oct 27, 28, 28, 29, 8-10 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $25/20, info www.face book.com/geekenders/.
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SUITCASE STORIES One-woman show tells the story of a woman who leaves her home in South Korea and takes off for Canada, simply because her brother had a map of Toronto. Oct 28–Nov 12, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $23.95-34.95, info www.pacifictheatre.org/season/20162017-season/mainstage/suitcase-stories/.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS 12 ANGRY JURORS Standing Room Only Theatre presents a play that sees 12 jurors decide on the fate of a young boy. Oct 26–Nov 4, 8-10 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Tix $20/17, info www.standing roomonlytheatre.org/.
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2ONGOING DEAD IN THE WATER The Virtual Stage presents an interactive-theatre adventure in which audience members must defeat a strange new breed of mutant zombie-vampires. To Oct 31, Granville Island. Tix from $12.50, info www.zombiesyndrome.com/. THE FLICK The Arts Club Theatre Company presents director Dean Paul Gibson’s version of Annie Baker’s play about three underpaid ushers who’ll do anything to keep their beloved and endangered movie theatre running. To Oct 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
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CELLO COMPLETE It’s hard to talk about Vancouver’s classicalmusic scene without getting all boosterish; 2016 continues to be a landmark year for new discoveries and inspired programming. Still, we’ve got to give the Vancouver Recital Society extra props, for not only has it introduced local audiences to a number of emerging stars, it’s also hosted some of the most sonically diverse concerts going. Case in point? In a Vancouver Playhouse matinee on Sunday (October 30), Hungarian cellist István Várdai, joined by Zoltán Fejérvári on piano, will present a program that ranges from the aural comfort food of Johannes Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major to György Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Cello. The latter is a relatively conventional piece for the master of microtonality, but still a test of any cellist’s ability. Now, that’s range— and a concert not to be missed.
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/. FIGHT NIGHT The performance puts five actors into the position of candidates struggling to get the audience’s sympathy and their vote. To Oct 29, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/events/fight-night-2/. STRAIGHT JACKET WINTER A couple travel from Montreal to Vancouver in the dead of winter and attempt to integrate into their new city. Presented by Théâtre la Seizième. To Oct 29, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $26-30, info www.seizieme.ca/ saison/straight-jacket-winter/?lang=en/. BAKERSFIELD MIST The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Stephen Sachs’s story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a longlost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. To Nov 20, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. THREE STORIES UP: THEATRE IN THE DARK Play sees a female transit cop attempt to solve her husband’s murder and finds herself mixed up in Vancouver’s criminal underground. To Oct 31, 7:30-9:30
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HIDDEN ITSAZOO presents a site-specific horror event that guides audiences through a re-enactment of infamous and unsolved murders. To Nov 13, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research (6804 SW Marine). Tix from $17, info www.itsazoo.org/. FRANKENSTEIN, 1945 Writer-director Mily Mumford’s stage-noir thriller examines the monsters created by us and within us. To Oct 30, 8-10 pm, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $28/23, info www.theatrewire.com/. 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. To Nov 6, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/events/the-pianist/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK DISCOVER DANCE! KASANDRA FLAMENCO ENSEMBLE Flamenco virtuoso Kasandra “La China” leads a showcase of flamenco in its purest traditional form, the cuadro. Oct 27, 12 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $14/12, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/discover_dance_2016_17/. JESSICA LANG DANCE DanceHouse presents the Long Island City–based dance company in a performance of Thousand Yard Stare, a piece that evokes humanity, loss, and longing. Oct 28-29, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $35, info www.dancehouse.ca/. BALLET VICTORIA Victoria ballet company performs new works set to rock music by the Eagles (“Hotel California”) and Disturbed (“The Sound of Silence”). Includes a First Nations-inspired interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Oct 28, 7:30 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $35/28/20/15, info www.nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre/whats-on/ ballet-rocks-vivaldis-four-seasons/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK THE ITALIAN SYMPHONY Carlo Montanaro leads pianist Andrew von Oeyen and the VSO in a performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: Overture and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor and Symphony No. 4 in A Major. Oct 28-29, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS MISS HOKUSAI Featuring the voice of Anne Watanabe. In Japanese, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
Japanese animation meets its own origins in
2 Miss Hokusai, a lovingly crafted tale of art
and life in early-18th-century Japan. When Edo—later to be called Tokyo—became the capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, a growing merchant class indulged in new urban pleasures. And these were often documented in paintings and woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world”. In the West, the best-known practitioner of this art has remained Katsushika Hokusai, whose colourful, heavily outlined prints (such as the iconic The Great Wave Off Kanagawa) later influenced the French impressionists. Not all that much is known about Hokusai (voiced gruffly here by TV veteran Yutaka Matsushige), although it’s recorded that his eldest daughter, O-Ei (Anne Watanabe), stayed with the eccentric painter after his other assistants deserted
A chip off the old block
Keiichi Hara’s rich and colourful animated feature, Miss Hokusai, works hard to restore the artistic reputation of Katsushika Hokusai’s forgotten daughter, O-Ei.
whom fail in one way or another to confront their own lesser devils. As Piotr’s behaviour gets him. That’s the basis of the female-penned manga weirder and more upsetting, family patriarch Zythat gave rise to the female-scripted Miss Hokusai, gmunt (Andrzej Grabowski) becomes increasingly which goes some way toward restoring the daugh- bent on saving face and keeping the guests at a lavish rural ceremony buoyed with liquor and dance, ter’s reputation as a fine artist in her own right. Directed by Keiichi Hara, the 90-minute film while ducking behind the scenes to take things sticks to an episodic, graphic-novel style that is out on his harried son Jasny (Tomasz Schuchardt), short on narrative thrust but rich in colourful de- who lets him. The film’s most subtly amusing contail. Most of the story rests on O-Ei’s tense relation- frontation has a priest and a bibulous doctor tryship with her emotionally withholding daddy, who ing to fob the problem off on each other, with the lives only to paint and draw but at least encour- religious man insisting (or more probably hoping) ages her nascent talent. He shows no interest in her that Piotr is suffering from epilepsy while the sciblind, sickly younger sister (Shion Shimizu), also entist eagerly blames the supernatural. As it turns out, Hana is a real person—or was, at the only person to bring out her own softer side. Like her father, O-Ei paints masterful dragons and any rate—and is likely the source of Piotr’s possesBuddhas, and has a lucrative sideline in drawing sion. When the young man arrives from England erotica—although their publisher complains that to marry Zaneta in the film’s opening scenes, he promptly uncovers human remains on the grounds her sexy stuff lacks that certain something. Aimed at younger audiences, the film features of the sprawling family home, and just as promptly a cute dog and some comic-relief characters, as decides to cover them up again. The lone Jewish well as some nifty visual effects and a surprisingly guest at their wedding provides a key to underrocked-out score. Some parents may be asked why standing, and allows screenwriter Pawel Maslona O-Ei herself goes to a lower-class courtesan for and director Wrona—who was the son of a real-life adult instruction. They can always explain that exorcist, and who took his own life last year at the age of 42—to make a larger point about the fate it’s just another part of the floating life. > KEN EISNER of Poland’s Jews. It’s a theme that’s gripped other Polish filmmakers of late, notably in 2013’s OscarDEMON winning Ida, but this is frankly a lot more fun.
Miss Hokusai hails the daughter of the father of ukiyo-e; the lesson in Demon is don’t bring a dybbuk to the party
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Starring Itay Tiran. In Polish and Yiddish, with English subtitles. Rated 14A
A fistfight between the bridegroom and one
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pens at the wedding of Piotr (Itay Tiran) and Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska). Much worse is the moment during a speech when a distracted Piotr refers to his bride as “Hana”, although even that pales next to his eventual and total possession by a dybbuk—in Jewish lore: a wandering, anguished soul—complete with painful physical contortions and the surprise ability to speak Yiddish (in a littlegirl voice). In Demon, Polish filmmaker Marcin Wrona revels in embarrassing his characters, all of
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KONELINE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL A documentary by Nettie Wild. Rated PG
Doc maker Nettie Wild’s peripatetic camera
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changing Far North, as mining interests seek to scrape resources from land on which First Nations people struggle to survive. Gorgeously shot by Van Royko (who also lensed the beautiful Monsoon), the fast-moving doc is no polemic. It sticks to kaleidoscopic impressions of a sometimes dreamlike landscape, and lets viewers decide how they feel about what they’re seeing. The
OASIS: SUPERSONIC The ‘90s would have been a much duller place without Definitely Maybe, although that’s only a small part of the story (morning glory) in Mat Whitecross’s history of Oasis, described as “riotously enjoyable” by Variety. Vancouverites get one chance to see the film at the Park Theatre on Thursday (October 27), unless somebody throws something at the screen, in which case Supersonic will call you a cunt and storm out of the building. -
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RUSH: TIME STAND STILL A documentary by Dale Heslip. Rated PG
I was a rock-crazed 17-year-old when the
2 first Rush album came out in 1974, so of course I became an instant fan. And that was even before they latched on to the wildest drummer this side of Keith Moon. Paul Rudd was only four years old when the first Rush album came out, so he was a bit later to the party, but his affection for the band—as dramatized in the 2009 bromantic comedy I Love You, Man—has been verified. The actor was a worthy choice to narrate this sharply edited and extremely see page 33
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ROSEMARY’S BABY Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Ira Levin novel continues to offer a timeless point-by-point guide to anyone impregnated by Satan in the building where John Lennon would eventually be shot. Screens at the Rio on Sunday (October 30).
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THE HUNGER David Bowie and Catherine
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BLOOD LIONS In South Africa, the “canned
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famously fearless Wild usually inserts herself more willfully into her docs (like Blockade and A Place Called Chiapas), but here she remains an off-screen provocateur, skillfully steering her human subjects into highly personal observations about this majestic topography and their relationships with it. On the one hand, you have miners, engineers, and roughnecks who are alternately developing and exploiting remote regions of this gigantic province. Some, like a geologist who shows off his spectacular core samples, are quite eloquent. But even while contemplating nature’s vast creations, they are necessarily specialized in their attitudes. The humans who live, hunt, and create in the northwestern territory associated with the Tahltan Nation, whether native leaders or white settlers who live off the land, take a more holistic view of their home, in both its bounty and its fragility. They worry about how quickly an environment can be permanently wrecked even as they want to welcome jobs and infrastructure. Most prominent among these is Oscar Dennis, a widely educated Tahltan man who returned to the Iskat area to document his ancestral tongue before it dies out. The film, which won best feature at this year’s Hot Docs fest in Toronto, expands that concept to the visual realm, asking us to understand the language of people who dwell in the far reaches of this super, natural place.
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Deneuve get it on in Tony Scott’s kinky vampire flick, a.k.a. the most ‘80s movie ever made, screening alongside The Fearless Vampire Killers and Near Dark at the Cinematheque’s Bite Nite on Saturday (October 29).
lion” industry exists to breed and provide lions for hunting and bone-trading, among the other unsavoury practices captured in this doc, getting a matinee screening at the Rio Theatre on Sunday (October 30).
NOTFILM UCLA film preservationist Ross Lipmann has made a (not) documentary about Samuel Beckett’s “Film”, the writer’s silent 1965 short starring a perfectly cast, if bemused, Buster Keaton. Praised by the L.A. Times as “gossipy and philosophical by turn”, Notfilm begins a short run at the Cinematheque, double-billed with “Film”, on Thursday (October 27). OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 3 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31
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ISTVAN VARDAI Hungarian cellist and pianist Zoltan Fejervari perform classical music by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Kodaly, Ligeti, and Brahms. Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society. Oct 30, 3 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Info www.vanrecital.com/. KITS CLASSICS AND WORLDS BEYOND Pianist Monica Pfau, oboist Geronimo Mendoza, clarinetist Johanna Hauser, bassoonist Gwen Seaton, and French horn player Richard Mingus perform Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Quintet, Opus 16. Oct 30, 4-5:30 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Free admission, info www.sjcommunitysquare.org/events/.
DANNY BHOY Scottish comedian known for performing at the Edinburgh Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and Just for Laughs. Oct 27, 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $45.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.hahaha.com/. HALLOWEEN MONSTER MATCH Spooky evening features costumed performers, two onstage shows, music spun by DJs, a costume parade, and a complimentary glass of witches brew. Oct 29, 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $33/25, info www.vtsl.com/.
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AN EVENING WITH GRAPHIC JOURNALIST JOE SACCO The American comic artist will be in conversation with Chris Brayshaw from Pulp Fiction Books and Roxanne Panchasi from SFUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history department. Nov 2, 7-9:30 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre (SFU Woodwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 149 W. Hastings). Tix $13, info www.sfuwoodwards.ca/.
THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2CASEY CORBIN Oct 27-29 2IAN BAGG Nov 3-5 2BETH STELLING Dec 1-3 2BRENT MORIN Jan 12-14 2SCOTT THOMPSON Jan 26-28 2BRIAN POSEHN Feb 16-18
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YUK YUKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks. com/vancouver. Comedy club with Top 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. 2KATHLEEN MCGEE Oct 28-29 LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-5252262, www.lafflines.com/. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most daring and innovative improv. Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Halloween Monster Match (Sat, 7:30 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri, 11:15 pm); OK Tinder (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri, 9:30 pm); Trump Card (Thu and Fri 7:30 pm). Oct 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 2, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
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 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 6, various Vancouver venues. Info www.heartofthe cityfestival.com/. PEARL Canadian-American-Chinese dance-theatre spectacular, inspired by the life of author Pearl S. Buck, with guest artist Margie Gillis. Oct 27-28, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $35-120 at www.ticketstonight.ca/, info www.pearltheshow.com/.
GALLERIES BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART 639 Hornby, 604-682-3455, www.billreidgallery.ca/. 2LAYERS OF LOVE (wearable art by Clarissa Rizal and Sho Sho Esquiro) to Feb 19 GALLERY GACHET 88 E. Cordova, 604687-2468, gachet.org/. 2STILL HERE (collection of photographs and art from gay and bisexual men affected by suicide) Nov 2-13
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GURU OF CHAI Diwali Fest continues with its presentation of The Elephant Wrestler (November 1 to 5), an acclaimed production from New Zealandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Indian Ink Theatre Company. Loosely based on a traditional Indian fairy tale, the awardwinning show sees actor Jacob Rajan playing a poor chai wallah, or tea seller, whose life is dramatically altered at a busy railway station one day when he witnesses a young girl being abandoned. Alongside multiinstrumentalist Adam Ogle, Rajan channels close to 20 characters as he tries to tackle the conundrums of life, love, and tragedy amid the contradictions of modern India. 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 2NEXT: STEPHEN WADDELL DARK MATTER ATLAS (photographs and paintings by Vancouverbased artist Stephen Waddell) to Oct 30
MUSEUMS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition features the carvings of Papua New Guineaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iatmul people) to Jan 31, 2017
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK ARTWALK 2016 Arts Whistler presents its annual self-guided walking tour of more than 40 pop-up galleries. To Nov 30, various Whistler venues. Free, info www. artswhistler.com/events/artwalk-0/.
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Along with a big side order of moss, Earth’s primordial soup finally gets its close-up in Terrence Malick’s epic Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience.
Rush: Time Stand Still
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insightful doc, which follows the Canuck prog-rock greats on their “final” tour last year. The main theme of Rush: Time Stand Still is devotion: both that required by the band to stay together for 40 years—while always doing things its own way—and that shown by its biggest fans, notoriously hardcore followers. Written by Canadian musician-author Dave Bidini, it goes deep into the backstage realities of touring life, inserting interviews with everyone from perennial manager Ray Danniels on down to the truck driver who’s been hauling their gear since ’76. A lot of screen time is also given to those most ardent of fans, like the guy from Scotland who barely survived a horrific car crash and used constant heavy doses of Rush music to help heal himself. The conversations with the band members themselves—singer-bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart—reveal them all to be thoughtful, articulate artists who somehow manage within the high-pressure world of rock never to take themselves too seriously. That could be the secret to their longevity, you start to think. Particularly interesting are the sequences detailing avid biker Peart’s determination to carefully map out routes on which to ride his motorcycle hundreds of miles between gigs, rather than flying, even after drumming his ass off for three hours straight. The movie is preceded by the 20-minute short “Rush: A Salute to Kings”, which features rockers like Gene Simmons of Kiss and Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy offering recollections of first seeing and/or touring with Rush in the ’70s. Gorham’s appearance gave me hope that someday someone might make a similar film about Thin Lizzy because, at their peak, they were an even better live band than Rush. But that’s a pointless argument for another day, I suppose. > STEVE NEWTON
VOYAGE OF TIME: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE A documentary by Terrence Malick. Rated G
Terrence Malick finds a heady
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high-tech FX in Voyage of Time, a film
that tries to conjure the wonder of the universe—and mostly succeeds. In fact, many of the scenes of cosmic creation, Earth’s primordial soup, and creature-laden prehistoric seas are awe-inducing. The magic of the film is that it so seamlessly weaves together real shots of blurping geysers and barren canyons with digitally generated starand landscapes. As brilliantly entertaining UBC astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews commented before the opening screening at Science World, experts have now put together pretty much all the pieces of our 14-billionyear-old origin story. But it’s amazing how few of us really understand it or celebrate it. “Look. Listen,” Brad Pitt says in the film’s mercifully sparse narration, as a child in a suburban park looks up toward the heavens. And that’s what Malick is coaxing us to do too. It’s the same territory he explored in that strangely transcendent 20-minute sequence in The Tree of Life, when the trials of a forming galaxy set up those of humans on Earth. Whether you enjoy this poetic “voyage” deeper into that philosophical realm will have a lot to do with whether you rolled your eyes during that previous film. Here, though, he’s also trying to evoke a childlike amazement at where we come from; in fact, the entire film is addressed to a child. Pitt asks why, out of nothing, came something? And Malick proceeds to answer, with largely unmoderated sequences of suns exploding, galaxies swirling, and microbial life forming. At other moments, you stare down the cold eye of a gigantic squid or the glowing mouth of a volcano. All of this visual spectacle—and yet we’re reminded we can only see a tiny fraction of what surrounds us. It’s clear in Voyage of Time, as it’s been in his recent films, that Malick ties that perfection to a great Creator; everything here is pierced by divine light, with resounding choirs providing the soundtrack. But you don’t have to be a believer to marvel at the miracle that unfolds before your eyes. If you can free yourself to ride the millennia with Malick, it’s a strange voyage, but one ultimately worth taking.
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n almost three decades of dedicated slogging through minefields both real and bureaucratic, Vancouver’s Nettie Wild has proved herself a master of the documentary form. In early films like 1993’s Blockade, and A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution, five years before that, she literally put her body on the line to capture stories as they were dangerously unfolding. “I don’t want to work that way anymore,” says the veteran filmmaker, calling from her Kitsilano home. It’s not that her art is getting any less physical, or even less risky. It’s just that for her latest effort, Koneline: Our Land Beautiful (opening Friday [October 28]), she wanted to change the way she thought about making movies. “This time,” Wild continues, “it was really about letting the image evolve instead of going out to get something. It’s still about being there to grab opportunities, but chasing a predetermined story. In northern B.C., there’s a big debate about land development, and we don’t hear much about it down south. Compared to Blockade, which addressed similar issues, this one has more to do with finding the cinematic poetry in a place. People are getting so tired of being told what to think and feel; as filmmakers, I think it helps to leave ourselves open for something to evolve on-screen.” For Wild, that meant spending a lot of time in the rugged northwest, sometimes with only cinematographer Van Royko in tow, and letting the people she met there determine where the story would go. “It’s challenging to trust yourself, and your subjects, to reveal some core truths without interference from a political perspective.” In that region, it was impossible to ignore looming conflicts between the indigenous community, charged
Vancouver-based documentarian Nettie Wild allowed her story to develop a little more naturally than usual with Koneline: Our Land Beautiful.
with protecting wildlife and pristine surroundings, and the needs of the mining industry, acting as agents for our “civilized” needs. She was initially locked out of the latter. “The whole industry was leery of what we were trying to do. But once some of the geologists and lineworkers started to talk, we had these ‘tailgate screenings’, in which we showed them what we were shooting. Essentially, we were saying, ‘Don’t worry. We’re going to show everything that’s in the frame.’ I’ve always sought out contradictions in my work, but this time I had to really push it, and include all perspectives without editorializing.” She knew the film would also need to convey a sense of Canadian history that doesn’t preclude any particular future.
“I needed to use all the riches of the cinematic language. A lot of people think filmmaking is made easier by new technology, but mostly it’s just two people running to catch up with whatever’s happening. In the end, Michael Brock delivered an edit that’s like jazz in the way it flows.” The atmospheric music, by Jesse Zubot and others, certainly helps. But the movie’s hypnotic pull is mostly down to Wild’s seasoned eye. “I’ve had the honour of travelling this land for 20 years,” says the filmmaker, who was born in New York City. “I’ve crossed it by horse, car, train, and foot. And I’m still hopelessly smitten with the North.” Go to www.canadawildproductions. com/ for an interactive exploration of the award-winning film’s main themes.
MUSIC It’s a rare debut album that can simultaneously capture the mundanity of contemporary life and expound upon matters metaphysical in nature, but Sunflower Bean’s Human Ceremony strives to do each of those things in equal measure. For an example of the former, check out “I Was Home”, on which guitarist Nick Kivlen and bassist Julia Cumming, who share lead-vocal duties, trade off lines like “What did you do today?/Didn’t do much today/I was home and then I wasn’t.” Elsewhere on the album, “Creation Myth” probes the origins of all things. Reached at a Minneapolis tour stop, Cumming is reticent to reveal who wrote what, preferring to have Sunflower Bean’s work stand as a collective effort by her, Kivlen, and drummer Jacob Faber. “There are definitely differences between me and Nick lyrically, but I think we have to kind of trust each other in what the song is and in what the art is and stand behind it as a group,” the singer-bassist says. “And that’s what’s so fun about a group instead of just one person: you get all of the identities and all of the flavours. I think the combination of the metaphysical and the cosmic mixed in with the down-to-earth really is kind of about being us, and
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Only one of the members of Sunflower Bean is a professional model (that would be Julia Cumming, centre) but all three have perfected the sultry camera gaze.
our newest record, Limit of Love, and that was one of the reasons we chose Ethan Johns to produce it. “Ethan is famous for recording everyone playing together in one room, in one take, and we hoped he Sunflower Bean’s Human Ceremony is a reflection would be able to capture our touring sound,” Hart continues. “His configurations of the mikes made of both the trio’s youth and its love of musical icons our instruments fill the entire space of the track, so being late teenagers and dealing with existential- that runs through that. once all our basic parts were recorded, there wasn’t ism and dealing with growing up and coming of “And I know that the next record will have that, really any room for more overdubs. When we lisage. So I think that that’s what ties us together.” but each year is different. Being 19 is a lot different tened back, the songs already felt complete—so the Cumming is 20 and Kivlen and Faber are 21; than being 20, you know. And I think that will be a whole album is pretty much live.” much of Human Ceremony was written when they big part of it too—looking inside of ourselves even Sporting a more classic sound than the band’s were all still in their teens. In spite of their youth, deeper and touching upon those things a little bit.” folky hits “Southern Sun” and “A Moment’s Grace”, > JOHN LUCAS Limit of Love sees Boy & Bear channelling musical however, they arguably have the musical tastes of people twice their age. The members of Sunflower icons from the ’70s and ’80s. Kicking off with a Bean have cited everyone from the Beach Boys to Sunflower Bean plays the Fox Cabaret on Friday groove reminiscent of Steely Dan’s masterpiece “Do Black Sabbath as inspirations, and the trio recently (October 28). It Again”, the record segues into lead single “Walk released a covers EP featuring its versions of songs by the Wire”—a track with a crunchy guitar riff and the likes of the Modern Lovers and T. Rex. Because of simple synth line that recall Brothers in Arms– its far-reaching influences, the band’s sound is hard era Dire Straits. Never venturing too far from the to sum up in a sentence or two. When Cumming’s group’s jaunty style, however, Limit of Love repredreamy vocals come in over the chiming jangle of sents a more mature version of the band’s sound. When the Straight reaches Boy & Bear key“Human Ceremony”, you’d be forgiven for thinking “In terms of influences that cross over for all five boardist Jon Hart in Minneapolis, he admits of us, I think that classic rock seems to make it into you were hearing a lost Sundays B-side. Then again, “Wall Watcher” is powered by a fuzz-blitzed guitar that, understandably, he’s feeling a little tired. everyone’s palette at some point or other,” Hart “Recently, we’ve been playing somewhere be- says. “The stuff that stays listenable throughout riff that suggests there are more than a couple of tween 150 and 170 shows in a year,” the Sydney- time always has elements from that genre, which doom-metal LPs in Kivlen’s record collection. Given that the band has inspired headlines like based musician says. “It seems like it’s one of those Ethan helped us with. And the positive thing about “How Sunflower Bean Reclaimed Classic Rock tales where the number grows each time, but the recording in that style is that the songs are really and Made It Cool Again” (courtesy of Noisey), amount of dates is pretty demanding either way. easy to play live—which works out well for us.” > KATE WILSON Cumming is understandably wary of being per- As soon as we arrived from Europe, we headed straight into the U.S. We cross into Canada toceived as a nostalgia act. “When you’re a rock-music fan, there’s a whole morrow, and then drive down to finish up in San Boy & Bear plays the Commodore Ballroom on treasure trove of history to delve into, which is Diego early next month. Then we’ll fly home and Saturday (October 29). potentially even not that good,” she admits. “We’re do a regional tour of Australia.” While the band’s schedule might seem punishmaking rock music in 2016, and you want to be inspired by the other people who are making rock ing, however, Hart is the first to credit the group’s music in 2016 too. So I feel like it can be a little live shows with its success on the indie-rock cirdangerous to just stay stuck in the past, but all of cuit. Using international tours to reach new audiAuthor Henry Miller once famously noted our parents are really into music themselves, and ences, Boy & Bear’s busy calendar has contributed “No man wants to be an artist. He is driven passed that love on to us and gave us a few places to securing its status as a multiplatinum-selling group, and—most importantly of all—providing to it,” and that sentiment certainly resonates with to start. And then you kind of go from there.” Where Sunflower Bean does go from here is the five-piece with a fresh idea for its latest album. Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor. When he’s reached on his cellphone in White “Having such a frenzied set of tour dates definitely anyone’s guess. Cumming says the trio is already writing songs for its next album, and while she made us play better as a unit,” the keyboardist says. Sands, New Mexico, the North Carolina–based says she expects its sound to evolve, she declines “All that practice made us confident about where musician acknowledges that there are times when to go next. On our previous LP, Harlequin Dream, he wonders what he’s doing with his life. And beto speculate on what exactly that will mean. “It may be too soon to say, and I don’t want to spoil we had a lot of songs that we thought could have cause of that, he’s grateful to have a fail-safe outlet it,” she says. “But one thing I will say about every- been better if we’d captured the live energy a bit for when the dark clouds roll in. thing we’ve put out, and everything we will continue more. We didn’t want to repeat that mistake on see next page to put out, is that despite us having a lot of different influences and covering a lot of different vibes on Human Ceremony, I think that there is a Sunflower Bean sound and identity
Boy & Bear strove to capture its live energy on Limit of Love LP
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MUSIC Let’s talk about DEAD INSIDE Pete Townshend has revealed that he gets zero enjoyment out of playing live shows, stating, “It means nothing to me.” And you thought things didn’t get any more offensive than a band that bills itself as the Who when half of it is dead.
You gotta see MAJID JORDAN Until about five minutes before writing this, we thought Majid Jordan was an NBA player in the ’80s. Turns out it’s the name of a Toronto R&B duo, comprising singer Majid Al Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman. Drake fans already know these guys, who collaborated with Drizzy on his No. 1 hit “Hold On, We’re Going Home”. Majid Jordan—playing the Commodore on Sunday (October 30)—is signed to Drake’s label, OVO. Drake played high-school basketball star Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, and later became the Toronto Raptors’ official ambassador. So there is an NBA connection. Right? Cut us a little slack here. -
Fresh and local KICK IN THE EYE KICK IN THE EYE IS CANADIAN
Any doubts about the aching sincerity of KICK SCREW REFRACTORY PERIODS The members of in the EYE are erased Pussy Riot rolled out their new video for “Straight Outta Vagina” precisely 13 seconds into by announcing “[We’re] going to celebrate the premiere by this 20-track, Canadianarubbing our clits all day.” Take that, dong owners, as final inspired outing, when proof that whatever you can do with your genitalia, women can singer-guitarist Donnie do it better with theirs. Lochrie rasps “I’d like to thank David Suzuki/For TO THE DOGS Outkast rapper Big Boi is launching a line of dog teaching me about ecology.” shampoos, some geared for puppies (Wild & Fresh) and others If you’re a fan of The Kids in the Hall, NOFX, or The Onion, you end for our full-grown four-legged friends (Strong & Gentle). Now if up waiting for a punch line that never comes. The same holds true someone would only step up with a line of goddamn breath mints. for the sadly, well, just sad “Our Canucks (And the Stanley Cup Run of 2011)” (sample lyric: “Our time is here/It’s time to cheer”). Luckily, IT’S OH SO QUIET Björk has released a teaser trailer for her the long-running local duo—which includes singer-bassist-spouse forthcoming virtual-reality film, Family. We’re currently hoping Marian Lochrie—have fun elsewhere, with “Trailer Park Boys” findfor the creation of a virtual-reality experience in which the past 20 ing the sweet spot between the Ramones and April March, and “My years of the Icelandic singer’s career never happened… Home on the Fraser” offering more twang-tastic fun than Loretta Lynn’s first appearance on Hee Haw. OCTOBER 27 – NOVEMBER 3 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 35
Hiss Golden Messenger
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Listen to Heart Like a Levee, the singer-guitarist’s latest record with Hiss Golden Messenger, and you’ll indeed hear a man who seems to be conflicted. The record has enough beautiful moments—symphonic string swells, soft-focus piano—to suggest that Taylor is enamoured by life and all the things that it has to offer. At the same time, taking to the road is harder than ever now that he’s got a young family at home. Taylor reveals that he finds himself missing his kids more than he’d ever dreamed, which explains lines like “Do you hate me, honey/As much as I hate myself?” from “Heart Like a Levee”, where he plays the part of a singer about to load into the van. “I’m really trying to work on that ration of days of joy versus days of anxiety,” Taylor confesses. “Regardless of how much I try to have a sort of quiet mind, I’m not totally wired like that—I have my anxieties and insecurities and existential moments of freak-out. But the great thing is that when I trust in the art of it, and the power of making a beautiful thing, then it feels really easy. And that’s the thing that’s so wild. Being a travelling musician, and making records and being an artist, it can sort of feel like you’re out on the edge. The people in this van are not really a whole lot different from anybody in normal society, other than the fact that we’ve dedicated our lives to making music. Because of that, we’re really just out here flapping in the wind sometimes.” Taylor is at least used to the uncertainty. Before moving to North Carolina, he fronted the San Francisco–based Americana band the Court and Spark and hardcore punk unit Ex-Ignota. Having kids made him re-evaluate not only life, but also his relationship with music. In 2009, Taylor discovered the power of quiet introspection while working on Hiss Golden Messenger’s sophomore outing, Bad Debt, which was recorded in his kitchen, the playing and singing hushed so as not to wake up the family. Heart Like a Levee shows him continuing to grow, tackling everything from Dylan-esque countryfolk (“Tell Her I’m Just Dancing”) to desert-baked psych (“Like a Mirror Loves a Hammer”) to golden-Sunday gospel (“As the Crow Flies”). He’s been rewarded for that with glowing praise from outlets ranging from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone. “Bad Debt was a bit of a restart for me,” Taylor says. “I’d made many records before that and played in bands my whole life, so making music isn’t something that’s new to me. But at a certain point it started to seem really important that there was something at stake when I was singing a song. If it wasn’t moving people, and moving me on a deep and genuine level, I kind of felt like it wasn’t worth doing.” What might make Taylor proudest about Heart Like a Levee is that the songs are coming from a place of honesty, shedding light on “Cracked Windshield” lyrics like “A song is just a feeling and when you make it pay the
Neither Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor (left, Harlan Campbell photo) nor King Dude’s TJ Cowgill looks like the sort of guy you want to catch in a bad mood or piss off if you wish to keep breathing. Consider that fair warning.
rent/Next thing that you know, you’re saying something you’d never say.” “It’s always an ongoing reckoning with how my life continues to change as I go deeper into the music,” he says. “The part of me that craves routine and regularity is always looking at the moments where it’s ‘We did it—we accomplished what we set out to accomplish.’ But the wilder, impulsive, artistic side of me—which is the part that I really need to nurture—understands this is all about the journey. It’s ongoing, and it’s a very long road.” > MIKE USINGER
Hiss Golden Messenger plays the Fox Cabaret on Saturday (October 29).
Musica Elettronica Viva’s sounds remain provocative Local audiences can consider lucky that they’ll soon have a chance to see electroacoustic pioneers Musica Elettronica Viva in concert—and the members of that group can consider themselves fortunate to be here at all. Back in 1966, when American expats Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, and Alvin Curran first convened in Rome, electronic music was not only an aesthetically risky proposition, it also involved real physical danger. “Like many of our generation, we learned it from scratch,” explains Rzewski, interviewed by phone from his home in Belgium. “People today don’t have that privilege. You kind of buy the chips, or it comes with your iPhone; you don’t have to think about it.…But we were armed with soldering irons. We were putting things together without knowing what we were doing, and sometimes in a dangerous way. I mean, we didn’t understand how dangerous electricity could be in damp Roman cellars, working with no ground. In a way, we’re lucky to be alive.”
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It’s possible to look back on Musica Elettronica Viva’s 50-year trajectory and argue that any number of familiar sonic tropes were generated in those subterranean spaces: sample-based music, for one, or the fusion of electronics and improvisation, or even ambient sound, at least in the broader sense of Brian Eno’s term. But Rzewski, who was there at the beginning and is still artistically provocative at 78, says it’s necessary to look back even further to find the true roots of electronic music’s less dance-floor-friendly variants. “I don’t think we invented anything, actually,” the Massachusettsborn pianist and composer stresses. “We borrowed a lot of things from John Cage and David Tudor and the Living Theatre and various jazz groups who were passing through Rome at the time. And there was a lot of mutual borrowing, of course. The jazz people also borrowed from the classical people very heavily—starting with Ornette Coleman.” It’s hard to say if Rzewski is being self-deprecating, or simply realistic. What’s undeniable, though, is that once he and his bandmates graduated from playing written scores by Cage, Tudor, Robert Ashley, and David Behrman, they soon codified several historically important developments. Curran’s use of found sound—at first on reel-to-reel tape and now delivered via sampler—has become standard practice in electronic dance music, rap, and even pop. And Teitelbaum, who owned the first Moog synthesizer in Europe, showed his then-radical keyboard to a number of musicians—including Tangerine Dream’s Edgar Froese and other Krautrock pioneers—who would go on to revolutionize rock. What allows MEV to be vital today, however, is that its members have abandoned genre altogether. With the virtuosic Rzewski concentrating on piano, the group is no longer
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entirely electronic. (In recent performance footage, Curran and Teitelbaum play sleek electronic keyboards rather than bulky tape recorders or banks of electronic modules.) And if the three performers haven’t entirely abandoned form, they’re dedicated to making it up on the spot, with little in the way of pre-show preparation. “If we try to rehearse anything, we’ve kind of wasted it, because then we might tend to repeat something in the performance, and it won’t be as good,” Rzewski says. “So we avoid rehearsing, since there really isn’t anything to rehearse. “It’s important not to know what you’re going to do,” he continues. “The only thing that I think is really important is that we all have ears. What all three of us have is this ability to respond to something that we hear— and this is a mysterious process.” That’s literally Rzewski’s last word on the subject—immediately afterward, the line to Belgium goes dead and can’t be revived. Even in today’s wired world, it seems, unpredictability is everything. > ALEXANDER VARTY
Musica Elettronica Viva plays the Western Front next Thursday (November 3).
Let’s talk about sex with King Dude’s TJ Cowgill When the Straight calls TJ
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Sex, you’re going to get asked ‘Why’d you name your album Sex?’ ” The simple answer to that question is that the title of the latest King Dude LP—which comes out this Friday (October 28) on Cowgill’s own label, Not Just Religious Music—was inevitable. Sex is the latest installment in a series of thematic releases that began with 2011’s Love and continued with 2014’s Fear. “I’ve already planned this all out,” Cowgill reveals. “So I know what the next record’s going to be called and I know what the record after that is going to be called. Which is kind of weird. I know a lot of people don’t work this way, but for the kind of mind I have, I suppose, a lot of order keeps me from getting distracted, keeps me on task, and I’m able to complete projects pretty efficiently.” Sonically, Sex is one of King Dude’s most eclectic efforts, encompassing bass-guitar-propelled punk (“Holy Christos”), greasy garage rawk (“Swedish Boys”), way-past-midnight piano balladry (“Shine Your Light”), and organ-fortified gloom (“The Leather One”, which sounds like an undead Doors tribute band fronted by Jim Morrison’s bloated corpse). For “The Girls”, he even swaps his usual sepulchral bass-baritone croon for an affectedly fey English accent, landing somewhere between Donovan Leitch and Genesis P-Orridge. As for the themes explored, song titles such as “Prisoners”, “Sex Dungeon (USA)”, and “Conflict & Climax” should be enough to tell you that this isn’t King Dude’s version of As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Instead, Sex finds Cowgill poking around in the darkest, grimiest corners of the human psyche. “Yeah,” the 37-yearold tunesmith agrees, “I think I might be there all the time anyways, trying to explore the places that other people might not be too comfortable exploring normally—or they try to keep things a little bit lighter. But I’d rather get to the nitty-gritty, the core, the ideas that we don’t really strike upon all the time. I didn’t want to make a Blowfly-sounding album, or David Allen Coe, crass. It was important to me that there wasn’t anything too explicit on the album about sex, because that’s just cheap.” Cowgill was concerned enough with avoiding the perception of vulgar exploitation that he considered calling the album something else. He realized in the end, however, that any other name would be a cop-out. Sex is the title because sex is the subject, and it’s not one King Dude takes lightly. “It’s as important as love or fear, but it’s completely different,” Cowgill says. “But it involves both of those things. It’s one of the biggest things that we have to work through as individuals, as people. It motivates people, probably more than they think about on a daily basis. It can completely change somebody. And it is a profound subject that’s taboo in some cultures. It needs to be meditated upon, so that’s what the record is.”
singer-songwriter also known as King Dude proves to be an engaging conversationalist on subjects that include the Manson Family and the Church of Satan. The guy has a lot to say about a lot of different things. There’s one topic Cowgill can’t seem to avoid, however. “I’m doing a lot of > JOHN LUCAS interviews lately, and they’re asking me a lot of questions about sex,” he says. “I should have known this was King Dude plays the Astoria on Sungoing to come. You name an album day (October 30).
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DJ Del Stamp likes to push people’s buttons The veteran spinner discusses his best gig ever, his top track right now, his oddest request, and his tactical use of offensive flyers
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amed for his boisterous DJ celebrated their enjoyment at the back sets and unmistakable Hello of the DJ booth. Hopefully, someone Kitty hand tattoo, Davie warned the cleaners. Street legend Del Stamp is on a self-assigned mission to challenge BEST GIG EVER Vancouver’s “lame and tame” label. That’s an easy one—it’s got to be the Holding down residencies at the Whistler Pride and Ski Festival in Junction and the Pumpjack, and re- 2014. I played with the Freemasons, cently becoming a regular behind the who are multiplatinum-selling prodecks at Celebrities, the larger-than-life ducers from the U.K. It was just fanperformer is known for expertly sound- tastic. They took the early part of the tracking parties in the city’s rainbow night because they have quite a soft district. The DJ’s flexibility places him sound, and I’m a little bit more harsh in high demand: so I took over at 2 renowned for both a.m. when everySoManyDJs his high-quality thing was just house and tribal exploding. That Kate Wilson sets and spinning room was packed. Top 40 cheese, Stamp is uniquely able It was probably one of the most to drop a Justin Bieber record without overwhelming feelings to follow the dying a little bit inside. Freemasons, and to have the room at Some might say that the St. John’s na- peak as well. It’s going to be hard to tive’s greatest achievement is managing top that. to shake off that weird Newfoundland accent. Less xenophobic individuals, TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW however, would highlight Stamp’s first- I would say Technasia’s “I Am Somerate performances in the States, where body”. You need to hear it to underhis regular appearances in San Fran- stand, but it’s really captivating. cisco venues have started building his I love the vocals, which is what completely sold me on it. It’s sexy. name south of the 49th parallel. A veteran of some of the most sexually charged clubs in Vancouver’s A SONG THAT CLEARED THE LGBT scene, Stamp plays alongside DANCE FLOOR naked men dancing on platforms and Obviously, it’s occurred a lot over male strippers performing live in the the years, like it does to all DJs, but Pumpjack’s shower. And that’s not all. luckily I can’t recall it happening Rumour has it that Stamp once spun a too recently. I don’t even know if set so exciting that eight men openly I could identify a particular track
emptied the entire room. Which surprised me, because gays kind of live for her. FAVOURITE VANCOUVER PRODUCER
Nick Bertossi. Nick is actually my best friend, but his stuff is just amazing—you have to check it out on iTunes. It’s been an honour to have had the chance to see him grow from a DJ into a producer.
WHAT’S UP WITH THOSE RAMBUNCTIOUS PROMO PICS?
I’m a ridiculous individual, as you can probably tell. I like being out to lunch and pushing people’s buttons in every way possible. I think that one of the best ways to do that is through offensive flyers. I’m assuming you’re thinking of the religious one? It’s definitely one of my favourites.
ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED
I was DJing with a friend of mine once, and literally someone came up and said—and this is a direct quote—“Can you play us the first gay song ever written?” I don’t know if there’s an answer to that question. I played “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, though, which went down pretty well. -
Trust us when we say you’re better off not being able to read the rest of what’s printed on DJ Del Stamp’s T-shirt. Dusti Cunningham photo.
that’s cleared my f loor—I would just totally wipe that song out of my life. I do remember that there’ve been some instances where I’ve
taken a request and it hasn’t gone so well, though. Someone once Del Stamp plays at the Pumpjack Pub asked for the brand-new Lady Gaga Apocalypse Halloween party on Satsong, for example, and that just urday (October 29).
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TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk-traditional ensemble. Nov 11, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16111120/.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED VANGIV’ER II Fundraiser for the Vancouver Food Bank features music by 2 Days & Counting, the Binz, Cobra Ramone, Crummy, Death Sentence, Eddy D & the Sex Bombs, the Furniture, Joseph Blood, Li’l Miss M’s Rockpile, Trailerhawk, and Wett Stilettos. Nov 4, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.rickshawtheatre.com/. CLUB HABANA The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presents an evening of Cuban jazz by Alfred Thompson, Miguelito Valdés, Israel Berriel, Pablo Cárdenas, José Sánchez, Danay Sinclair, and Roberto Riverón. Nov 4, 8 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.brownpapertickets.com/. LIDO Norwegian rapper, record producer, and songwriter. Nov 7, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $24.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/. ITAMAR EREZ AND THE ADAMA ENSEMBLE Caravan World Rhythms presents world-jazz ensemble, with guests Nick Apivor and Hamin Honari. Nov 10, 8-10:30 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $25-45, info www.caravanbc.com/.
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QUIET CITY #30 Deep-listening concert features music by Chad Munson, Forever and Sunsmell, Mark Henrickson, Mike Jedlicka, the OO-Ray, and Wndfrm. Nov 11, 9 pm, Red Gate Gallery (855 E. Hastings). Info www.facebook.com/ events/621269554709766/. THE BOOM BOOMS Vancouver indiesoul band, with guests Bazooka Picnic. Nov 12, 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb. ca/, info www.theboombooms.com/. EPICA Dutch symphonic-metal band tours in support of upcoming album The Holographic Principle, with guests Fleshgod Apocalypse, Arkona, and the Agonist. Nov 15, 6 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $30, info www.face book.com/events/156028754809380/.
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THE BALCONIES Toronto-based altpop group, with guests the Living and the Benton Roark Band. Dec 1, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
ADRIAN GLYNN Canadian singer-songwriter performs tunes from his new album morelightthannolight. Oct 27, The Emerald (555 Gore). Info www.adrianglynn.com/.
ANCIIENTS AND AUROCH Vancouver heavy-metal band coheadlines with Vancouver death-metal group, with guests Ahna, Wormwitch, and Graveolence. Dec 2, 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
HOLY ROLLER REVUE Monthly music showcase features the Wayward Hearts, Viper Central, Burmis Tree, and Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron. Oct 27, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15/10, info www.facebook.com/ events/547461202127950/.
THE SLACKERS’ 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT The Victoria B.C. Ska Society presents New York City ska band, with guests the Sentiments, the Valuables, and Space Chimp. Dec 3, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $22-25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/, info www.victoriaskafest.ca/.
LE HORROR SOIREE Halloween party features music spun by DJs Physik, Stimulant J, J Fresh, and Hypnotiq. Oct 27, 10 pm, Republic (958 Granville). Info www.soulgoodevents.com/.
MAYHEM Norwegian black-metal band tours in support of latest album Ordo Ad Chao, with guests Black Anvil and Inquisition. Feb 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BILLY TALENT Ontario rock band tours in support of latest album Afraid of Heights, with guests Monster Truck and the Dirty Nil. Feb 16, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Abbotsford Centre (33800 King Rd., Abbotsford). Tix on sale Oct 29, 10 am, $70.50/55.50/40.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
THE TEA PARTY Canadian rock band (“Temptation”, “Babylon”) performs fourth album Transmission in its entirety. Mar 31–Apr 1, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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SUNFLOWER BEAN New York rock band tours in support of full-length debut release Human Ceremony, with guests the Lemon Twigs. Oct 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
TINARIWEN World-blues ensemble from Tessalit, Mali, tours in support of upcoming eighth album Elwan, with guests Dengue Fever. Apr 5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE DAMNED English punk-rock band performs on its 40th Anniversary U.S. Tour. Apr 15, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $29.50 (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.
102.7 THE PEAK’S HALLOWEEN PARTY Vancouver indie band Bear Mountain performs at an album-release show for new album BADU, with guests Little India and DJs Trizzy and Harvey Harvey. Oct 28, doors 7:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15-20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. SUM 41 Canadian rock band tours in support of upcoming album 13 Voices, with guests Senses Fail and As It Is. Oct 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $30.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
BANNERS English alt-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of new single “Into the Storm”. Feb 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Oct 28, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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DWIGHT YOAKAM American country artist tours in support of latest release Second Hand Heart. Oct 28, Molson Canadian Theatre at Hard Rock (2080 United Blvd.). Tix $119.50/109.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.hardrock casinovancouver.com/.
DONNY MCCASLIN WITH “A” BAND AND NITECAP American jazz saxophonist known for appearing on David Bowie’s final album Blackstar. Oct 28, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $32/29, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. JAMES KEELAGHAN The Rogue Folk Club presents the Canadian folk singersongwriter and guitarist. Oct 28, 8-10:30 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $28/24, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16102820/. THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Canadian garage-rock duo tours in support of latest release Bad News Boys, with guests Paint
Fumes. Oct 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Los Angeles-based electropop band tours in support of upcoming release Simple Forms, with guests XYLØ. Oct 28, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/. BOY & BEAR Australian indie-folk quintet plays tunes from latest album Limit of Love, with guests Cobi. Oct 29, doors 6 pm, show 6:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Indie-folk/ roots act from North Carolina, led by M.C. Taylor. Oct 29, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TRACE BUNDY Acoustic guitarist performs a concert in support of the DuncanAfrica Society, which fights poverty by creating guitars by hand in its trade school in Uganda. Oct 29, 7-9:30 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $35/25, info www.frontofthelineproductions.com/. JOE TRIO Violinist Cameron Wilson, cellist Charles Inkman, and pianist Allen Stiles perform unique arrangements of pop, jazz, and rock tunes. Oct 29, 7:30 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $28/25/21, info www.nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre/whats-on/joe-trio/. K.FLAY Los Angeles-based hip-hop artist tours in support of latest EP release Crush Me. Oct 29, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. WALDO Hip-hop artist from Michigan, with guest DJs Marlon J. English, Flipout, and Cherchez. Oct 29, 9 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketweb.ca/, info www.facebook.com/ events/327462170929769/. BLACK*MAGIC HALLOWEEN DJ Landon James and DJ Harris spin music at an adults-only Halloween party featuring costume prizes, stage performances, and a glow paint booth. Oct 29-30, 9 pm–4 am, The Odyssey Bar & Nightclub (686 W. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.theodyssey. ca/blackmagic-halloween/. THE BACARDI BOOHAHA Adults-only Halloween party features DJ Flipout spinning hits. Cash prizes for best costume will be awarded throughout the night. Oct 29, 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $29.45/19.45/9.45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MAJID JORDAN Canadian R&B duo composed of singer Majid Al Maskati and producer Jordan Ullman. Oct 30, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $38.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.live nation.com/.
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MAJID JORDAN AFTER PARTY The Canadian R&B duo hosts an after party featuring guests Freeman Young and DJ Floetic. Oct 30, doors 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15-20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. POST MALONE American hip-hop artist performs on his Hollywood Dreams tour, with guests Jazz Cartier and Larry June. Oct 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $36.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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HARAM On one side you’ve got Haram, Vancouver’s leading (and probably only) Middle Eastern free-jazz party band. On the other, you’ve got Michael Blake, a Vancouver-raised saxophonist now living in Brooklyn whose most recent LPs have included tributes to ’70s soul and ’40s bop. What will result when they merge—at the VCC Auditorium on Friday (October 28)—is anyone’s guess. And then there’s this to consider: Blake’s memorable 1997 debut, Kingdom of Champa, included a traditional Vietnamese folk song, while Haram bandleader Gordon Grdina is both a skilled and slippery performer on the oud and a fiercely inventive noise guitarist. Whatever they come up with together is sure to be wild. DEREK GRIPPER South African guitarist and kora player performs as part of the Cap Global Roots series. Oct 30, 8 pm, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $30/27, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. NIK TURNER’S HAWKWIND English space-rock band. Oct 31, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. HALLOWEEN HOWLER British alt-rock band Bush performs, with guest the Dead Deads. Oct 31, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BUCKCHERRY Los Angeles-based hardrock act performs a Halloween show, with guest the Wild. Oct 31, doors 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $32 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. FREE HALLOWEEN NIGHT PARTY X REMEMBER SHAUN G Halloween party features music by DJs Flipout, Physik, and Drwkskee. Proceeds go to the Shaun G Foundation. Oct 31, 9:30 pm, Fortune
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PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT English alt-rock band tours in support of latest album So This Is Permanence. Nov 1, doors 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $28 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/.
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RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix 4550. 2YOUNG THE GIANT Oct 26 2SUM 41 Oct 28 for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2DONNY & 2BOY & BEAR Oct 29 2THE BACARDI BOOHAHA MARIE Dec 20-22 Oct 29 2MAJID JORDAN Oct 30 2HALLOWEEN HOWLER Oct 31 2NICOLAS JAAR Nov 1 2HANNAH ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. NIYKEE HEATON American pop-R&B singer-songGEORGAS Nov 2 2NOFX Nov 4 2SHOVELS & 2CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE Nov 7 writer performs on her Centerfold Tour. Nov 1, doors ROPE Nov 9 2LAPSLEY Nov 11 2THE TREWS Nov 2FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nov 12 2AMY SCHUMER 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince 12 2YELAWOLF Nov 13 2ANIMALS AS LEADERS Dec 2 2STEVIE NICKS Dec 9 Edward). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Nov 16 2PORTUGAL. THE MAN Nov 17 2A TRIBE www.ticketweb.ca/. CALLED RED Nov 18 2WINTERSLEEP Nov 19 2GORD THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & NICOLAS JAAR New York-based composer, producer, BAMFORD Nov 22 2JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW JULY TALK Nov 25 BROTHERS OSBORNE Nov 24 2 2 Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys and recording artist. Nov 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Nov 30 2THE DANDY WARHOLS Dec 6 2MICHAEL ‘R Us Wed-Thu. 2THE LEGEND OF SHUICHI Oct 26 Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus Dec 7 ANDRA DAY Dec 12 IN FLAMES KIWANUKA 2 2 2DREW ROUSE Oct 28 service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. AND HELL YEAH Dec 14 2FUNK THE HALLS Dec 21 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2JAMES MARIZA Portuguese fado vocalist performs tunes DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604-605-4343. Live KEELAGHAN Oct 28 2KITS CLASSICS AND WORLDS from latest album Mundo. Nov 2, 8 pm, Chan Centre music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed BEYOND Oct 30 2WENDY MACISAAC, MAIRI RANKIN, for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. AND MAC MORIN Nov 6 2JADEA KELLY AND SWEET $62, info www.chancentre.com/events/mariza/. ALIBI Nov 10 2TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN Nov FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569DANIELA ANDRADE Toronto acoustic singer11 2STARRING MARCUS MOSELY Nov 13 1758. 2THE VEILS Nov 11 2TIMEFLIES Nov 12 2THE songwriter tours in support of latest release Shore. GOTOBEDS Nov 16 2LEMAITRE Nov 17 2THE PACK Nov 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 25TH ANNUAL A.D. Nov 26 2MERCHANDISE Dec 2 Broadway). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at GOOD FRIDAYS MASSIVE HALLOWEEN PARTY Oct 28 www.livenation.com/. 2BUCKCHERRY Oct 31 2PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2HOLY ROLLER REVUE Nov 1 2ME & MAE Nov 5 2COLEMAN HELL Nov Oct 27 2SUNFLOWER BEAN Oct 28 2HISS GOLDEN WET Brooklyn-based alt-pop band tours in sup10 2JAI WOLF Nov 16 2SCRAPE RECORDS FINAL MESSENGER Oct 29 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 8 port of latest release Don’t You, with guests Demo 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11 2MAX FROST Nov 12 Taped. Nov 2, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial 2HANNAH EPPERSON Nov 18 2TEEN ANGST NIGHT (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Nov 19 www.livenation.com/. FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. HANNAH GEORGAS Canadian pop-rock singer2SOCIAL ARSONIST, BENEATH THE THRONE, JOHNNY songwriter tours in support of latest release AND THE TIT WHISTLES Oct 27 2FUCK GUNS (SEX enters in B.C. will soon be able to check For Evelyn. Nov 2, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, PISTOLS TRIBUTE), BB ALLIN & THE STABBERS (GG ALLIN Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus out their prospective landlord online. TRIBUTE), BALONEY SANDWICH (GREEN DAY TRIBUTE) service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. They’ll know whether or not the Oct 28 2INFECTIOUS DECAY, FUNCTOR, VOMITSELF, ASHES OF PURGATORY Oct 29 2METAL MONDAYS property owner understands and com2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS KARAOKE: HALLOWEEN EDITION Oct 31 mits to abide by the Residential Tenancy Act. It will KEITHMAS VII: A FOOD BANK FUNDRAGER THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2WET Nov be as simple as typing in a name to see if a propriCelebrate the birth of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith 2 2CLASSIXX Nov 4 2KIIARA Nov 8 2THE STRUTS etor is listed on the landlordregistry.ca website to Richards and help raise money for the Vancouver Nov 9 2AUTOGRAF & GOLDROOM Nov 11 2THE Food Bank. Performers include Rich Hope. Dec 16, be launched by industry association LandlordBC. BOOM BOOMS Nov 12 2THE JEZABELS Nov 13 doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. In order to be included in the registry, a 2DRAGONETTE Nov 23 2RÜFÜS DU SOL Nov 24 Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at house owner must complete a Landlord 101 Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with course online and pass a test. Upon complelive bands on weekends and open jam night Sun CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL Electronic music tion, a lessor gets an ‘I Rent from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and festival features performances by Flume, Disclosure DJ, daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. It Right’ certification. Marshmello, Zeds Dead, Baauer, Gareth Emery, W&W, 2WOODY JAMES Oct 28 2PURPLE GANG Oct 29 According to LandlordHucci, Getter, Slushii, and Big Wild. Dec 26-27, BC Place 2HALLOWEEN BASH Oct 29 2SONS OF THE HOE Stadium (777 Pacific Boulevard). Tix $150 (plus service BC CEO David Hutniak, the Oct 30 2HARPDOG BROWN Oct 31 charges and fees) at www.contact-festival.com/. registry will let tenants know LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687if a property owner took the time to learn how COLDPLAY British rock band led by Chris Martin per4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and forms on its A Head Full of Dreams Tour 2017. Sep 29, to become a good landlord. bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & doors 5 pm, show 7 pm, BC Place Stadium (777 Pacific Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. “Say two landlords renting out a basement Boulevard). Tix $199.50/139.50/89.50/59.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most suite: if the guy with one basement suite has completed the program, has secured the comnights. 2AN EVENING WITH DAVID RAMIREZ Nov 11 ROGER WATERS Prog-rock legend and former petency certificate, his name is going to show Pink Floyd member performs on his Us + Them Tour. MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK up in there. The other guy’s won’t. So who are Oct 28, 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 2DWIGHT YOAKAM from $52 to $247 (plus service charge and fees) at you going to rent from?” Hutniak asked in a Oct 28 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25 www.ticketmaster.ca/. phone interview with the Georgia Straight. ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. The registry is meant for landlords in the secOPETH Oct 26 THE HEAD AND THE HEART Dec 5 2 2 CLUBS & VENUES 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 16 ondary rental market, which consists of houses, CL South Korean K-pop vocalist performs on her Hello Bitches Tour 2016. Nov 1, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
POP-UP SHOPPE Nov 19 2NICK CARTER Nov 23 2SONATA ARCTICA Nov 28 2AESOP ROCK Dec 19 2NEUROSIS Dec 20 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-569-1144. 2THE NAKED AND FAMOUS Oct 28 2POST MALONE Oct 30 2CL Nov 1 2CHARLIE PUTH: CANCELLED Nov 4 2A$AP FERG Nov 5 2MAC MILLER Nov 6 2LUKAS GRAHAM Nov 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2TORY LANEZ Nov 14 2THE LIFE AQUATIC: A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE Nov 20 2YG Nov 21 2MØ Nov 23 2AURORA Dec 3 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2MIGHTY MIKE MCGEE AND FRIENDS Oct 26 2HUNTED IN THE WOODS: A HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR Oct 28 2FORBIDDEN PLANET OF THE TRIBUTE BANDS Oct 29 2KOO KOO KANGA ROO Oct 29 2A WISE HALL HALLOWEEN SURPRISE Oct 31
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK JETHRO TULL British prog-rock legends, featuring singer, flautist, and main songwriter Ian Anderson. Oct 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Moore Theatre (1932 2nd Ave., Seattle, Wash.). Tix US$75.50/45.50 (plus service charge) at www.stgpresents.org/.
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plated in Metro Vancouver. The proposed levy is intended to help fund new investments in transit and Carlito Pablo transportation. Identified as a revenue source by the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation, the suggested charge would have to be legislated by the province. The levy is separate from the development charges collected by municipal governments. In addition to a new regional development fee, the mayors’ council has also proposed to increase transit fares and property taxes starting in 2017. TransLink is conducting public consultations until the end of October about the first phase of the mayors’ 10-year plan for transit. suites, basements, and condos. A background paper prepared by TransLink “This is about education for the landlord, about the development fee states that the “refirst and foremost,” Hutniak explained. According to Hutniak, teaching landlords gion would be able to bear a rate in the range of about their and their tenants’ rights and re- $700 to $2,000 per new residential unit”. The document claims that the new levy will sponsibilities will reduce disputes and, ultimnot affect prices of new homes. ately, save time and money for both sides. “Instead, developers will generally seek to re“The business of being a landlord effectively, that’s what the material is going to cover,” he said. duce the amount that they pay for development Landlords listed in the registry will also be sites,” the backgrounder states. “At the rates required to use a standardized set of indus- contemplated within this Plan, the new regional try forms developed by LandlordBC to meet development fee is not expected to significantly provincial requirements. These include tenant impact the financial performance of new proapplication forms, tenancy agreements, and jects or to affect the pace of new urban development, so there would be no negative impact on rental-condition inspection reports. Although the registry will not be a marketing housing affordability.” TransLink staff will be available to answer portal for rental properties, Hutniak said that it is going to provide some landlords an oppor- questions about the 10-year transit-investment plan on Thursday (October 27) at an open house tunity to differentiate themselves from others. The landlord registry will serve as the first in New Westminster. The event will be held at comprehensive landlord database in B.C., the Centennial Community Centre (65 East according to a concept paper by the Vancouver- Sixth Avenue) from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. -
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the kids are still playing it up. The Health, work, and working it out stars set a fluid backdrop for Hallow- are the priority for the Scorpio new n a fresh visit to Scorpio, een and also for the week ahead. moon. A smooth-running, getMercury meets with the lifeyourself-there week lies ahead. ARIES giving sun on Thursday. It March 20–April 20 CANCER is an exposing, motivating, Thursday’s Mercury/sun June 21–July 22 and zero-in-on-it influence. Beyond Thursday’s Mercury/sun the consuming attention given to the brings you into fuller awareness, trick-or-treat blitz, this transit is ad- especially regarding a money or key could spark a fresh idea or something vantageous for the detective, bargain relationship matter. Through the much more. While Friday/Saturday hunter, negotiator, recycler, lover, and spoken, written, perceived, or wit- could put you under extra (or unseducer. The next two weeks of Mer- nessed, it is a strengthening and/ expected) strain or pressure, overall cury in Scorpio are also well timed for or refortifying influence. Thanks to the week ahead provides you with tests, trial runs, surgery, paperwork, Mars/Uranus, Friday evening could stellar favour. Along with Sunday’s strip-it-down talks, or facing yourself. be a wild one. Saturday brings you to new moon in Scorpio, the stars set up The next few days could bring fresh a stop, pause, or finish line. Sunday’s a fruition time for matters of the heart clues, insights, news, or an announce- new moon puts you/it into an easier, or wallet. A healthy new mindset or obsession could be just the ticket. ment. Be they a lover, agent, adviser, more lucrative flow. coordinator, or messenger, a key someTAURUS LEO one can set the power play in motion. April 20–May 21 July 22–August 23 Friday’s Mars/Uranus kicks it up a Thursday/Friday puts it Stuff to get at? Motivation notch. Make the most of a night out or a night to yourself. Spontaneity into action, perhaps a little faster is on the increase. Scorpio month is delivers. If you are going to party, than you had in mind. Friday night, always good for renovating a little or keep your wits about you. The moon, get out and enjoy. Still, know when a lot. Strip off the veneer and call the Mars, and Uranus keep the excite- enough is enough. Saturday’s Venus/ spade by its name. Thursday’s Mercury/ ment going strong, but they are also Saturn may finish you off, but not for sun could give you a fresh perspective long. Sunday’s new moon revitalizes or a new idea. It can also spark a new prone to take you too far, too fast. By Saturday evening Venus is on you or it. There’s likely something dialogue or negotiation. Friday evena completion with Saturn. It’s time new to shoot for. Halloween Monday ing, anything goes. Sunday through to put the finishing touch on it or and the rest of the week keep you/it Wednesday, dish up opportunity. call it quits, slow down, and/or reap on a smooth upswing. VIRGO your reward. GEMINI August 23–September 23 Sunday’s new moon in Scorpio is May 21–June 21 Something said, heard, beautifully aligned with Mercury Socially, romantically, or read, or observed could get you going and Neptune. Let yourself get lost in the moment or the music, but keep entertainmentwise, Friday’s the ac- on a fresh track (or obsession). Fritrack of your stuff. The mind and tion peak of the weekend. Coming day’s full to the brim. It’s also your heart are open to suggestion. Two in or going out, Friday and Sunday best night to get out and let loose. hearts can beat as one. Let creativity, through mid next week also keeps Saturday evening, you could feel imagination, inspiration, romance, the money in motion. There’s al- done, spent, or obliged. Sunday, your ways room for improvement and creativity, sway, and sexy are workand passion sweep you away. You may be over it by Monday, but there’s no escaping necessity. ing well for you. Halloween makes
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Are your time and money investments paying off ? Thursday’s Mercury/sun and Sunday’s Scorpio new moon prompt you to make revisions and/or to recommit to what you feel/know is in your better interest. Sharpen your radar and increase your prospects and resourcefulness. AQUARIUS They can also fire up a new obsession January 20–February 18 and/or energize your libido. For the Mercury/sun and Sunday’s most part, the week ahead should new moon in Scorpio launch a lucrarun smoothly. tive couple of weeks for starting a SCORPIO new project, career trajectory, or any October 23–November 22 other renovation or improvement You don’t miss much! mandate. New contracts or contract The next few days keep you on a renewals are also well timed. Friday/ fast uptake. You’ll also find yourself Saturday can be somewhat demandon a quick cut to the chase. Thanks ing or pressurized. Sunday can simto Mercury/sun and Sunday’s new ply evaporate. A full-to-the-brim but moon, your ability to read people and smooth-running week lies ahead. situations is uncanny. You have sway, PISCES creativity, savvy—and your sexy is February 18–March 20 cranked up too. Friday night, get your Haven’t been able to bend kicks. Sunday onward, you’re on a roll. your mind around it or work through SAGITTARIUS it well enough yet? Scorpio stars November 22–December 21 prompt a fresh perspective, helping Answers or solutions can you take aim with better precision. appear of their own volition. The Along with Venus/Saturn they also innext few days could spark an insight fuse you with greater motivation and and/or get you clued in better. A po- determination. Beautifully aligned tential shows good promise. Satur- with Neptune, Sunday’s seek-and-find day’s Venus/Saturn can bring you to new moon holds great prospects for a conclusion, finish line, or goal post. lovers, luck, money, and fame. More importantly, it signals the time is right to settle on a new course of B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r action. Sunday through Wednesday, Rose’s free monthly newsletter at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/. ease yourself into it.
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savage love I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment, and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she’s content with sex once a week or so, and I need relief pretty much every night to help with my insomnia. What’s more, I really don’t enjoy porn at all, but if we aren’t having intercourse, there’s pretty much no other way for me to get off. Blame it on my fundamentalist evangelical upbringing, but I fear my porn use becoming an addiction. It makes me feel dirty. I would love a solution to this problem that doesn’t involve me jerking off in a dark room by a computer screen after my wife falls asleep every night. All I want to do is feel close to my wife, orgasm, and sleep. I think she does sincerely care and wants to help me but is just so tired and busy with her career and our kids. And, yes, I have talked and fought with her countless times. In weaker moments, I’ll admit, I have also guilted her for her more “active” sexual past (with prior boyfriends) and for her current “neglect”, which I know is unfair and unhelpful. I just don’t know what to do. > WHEN ORGASMS ENABLE SLEEP
You’ve been married four years; you have more than one child; you both work—and if you divide household labour like most couples, WOES, your wife is doing more/most of the cooking, cleaning, and childcare. But
even if you were childless—living in a hotel suite with daily maid service, eating only room service, and throwing your underpants out the window after one wearing—WOES, it would still be unreasonable to expect PIV intercourse every night of the week. Frankly, WOES, once-a-week PIV is more sex than most young straight dads are getting. And if you’re demanding PIV from your wife as a sleep aid—“ask your doctor if Clambien is right for you”—it’s a miracle you’re getting any sex at all. And the limited options you cite— it’s either PIV with the wife or masturbation in front of the computer—aren’t doing you any favours. Consider PIV from your wife’s perspective: her husband fucks, comes, and falls asleep. She lies there for a while afterward, tingling, and may have to go to the bathroom once or twice. The PIV that puts her husband to sleep after a long day? It puts her sleep off. And if she wanted to get it over with quickly—because she was exhausted—there wasn’t much foreplay, which means she probably wasn’t fully lubricated (uncomfortable) and most likely didn’t come (unfair). That’s a recipe for resentment, WOES, and resentment kills desire. (Or maybe you should think of it this way: if your ass got fucked every time you said yes to sex, WOES, you wouldn’t say yes to sex seven nights a week.) If you expanded your definition of sex, WOES, if your options weren’t PIV or nothing, you might not have to masturbate six nights a week.
> BY DAN SAVAGE Because if your definition of sex included oral (his and hers), mutual masturbation, and frottage—and if these weren’t consolation prizes you settled for but sex you were enthusiastic about—your wife might say yes to sex more often. Still, you’re never going to get it seven nights a week. So make the most of the PIV you’re getting, broaden your definition of sex and get another night or two of sex in per week, and enjoy porn without guilt the rest of the week. And if you’re concerned about the amount of porn you’re watching, try this trick: lie on the couch or the floor or the guest bed, stroke your cock (even if it’s soft), and think dirty thoughts. Your cock will get hard, I promise, and you’ll get off. It’s how most people masturbated before the Internet came and ruined everything, WOES, and it still works.
When I met my partner of three
years, I thought I’d hit the jackpot: a Dom who packs a wallop but knows how to listen and loves group sex (which is kinda my jam). It’s hard to let go of my memories of the early days. We have had some rough patches, especially since he has had increasing fi nancial trouble/underemployment, whereas I am back in school and have too many jobs. The biggest issue, as I see it, is he always makes me explain at length why I am busy—not just what I am doing (e.g., midterms) but whether that is “normal” (yes, every semester). I am tired. I care about my partner a lot
and feel very close to him in some ways, but I also see him taking advantage of me fi nancially and demanding endless reassurance on top of this. So my desire is to DTMFA. But when I talk about my feelings in the relationship, he argues with me—about what my feelings are or should rationally be. I am really ground down by this. The prospect of breaking up feels like it will be an ordeal. I feel trapped. I don’t think I can stay with him, but I also don’t want to have a conversation about leaving. > SINCERELY TROUBLED UNDER CONSTANT KRITICISM
We need someone’s consent before we kiss them, suck them, fuck them, spank them, spoon them, marry them, collar them, et cetera. But we do not need someone’s consent to leave them. Breakups are the only aspect of our romantic and/or sexual lives where the other person’s consent is irrelevant. The other person’s pain is relevant, of course, and we should be as compassionate and considerate as possible when ending a relationship. (Unless we’re talking about dumping an abuser, in which case safety and self-care are all that matter.) But we don’t need someone’s consent to dump them. That means you don’t have to win an argument to break up with your boyfriend, STUCK, nor do you have to convince him your reasons are rational. You don’t even have to discuss your reasons for ending the relationship. You just have to say, “It’s
over; we’re done.” It’s a declaration, STUCK, not a conversation.
Thank you so much for all of your advocacy—of both sexual and political persuasions—through the years, Dan. Like MADDER, the mom whose letter you ran in last week’s column, I have used Trump’s past and current behaviour to help further discussion about the concepts of consent and body awareness, safety, and respect with my young daughter. There’s just one thing I wanted to add: parents should not restrict the “Trump Talk” to their daughters. Our sons need to be told that words and actions that objectify, demean, and damage women are not what being a boy or man is about. My son is only three, so he’s a little young as of yet. But I will definitely have the Trump Talk with both my children. > SONS NEED TRUMP TALK TOO
Thanks for writing in, SNTTT, and you’re right: we need to have the Trump Talk with our sons, too. But I would add another reason to your list: while our sons absolutely need to be told not to objectify, demean, and damage women, our sons also need to be told that they, too, have a right to move through this world unmolested. Parents have sex too! Or so say the hosts of One Bad Mother on the Lovecast: savagelovecast.com. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on 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 St. like a tired trend. Hope you enjoyed your dinner. Neighbourhood drink sometime?
WISH I SAID SOMETHING
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 23, 2016 WHERE: Bus 9 Boundary at Cambie/Broadway I hopped on the 9 bus (at Cambie) through the back door and we noticed each other immediately. You had strawberry blonde hair, overalls, and sweater/shawl type of thing. I was in black with a leather. We were exchanging glances and smiles at each other the whole ride, but for some reason I didn’t say anything and I’ve been kicking myself for it ever since. We both exited at Commercial/ Broadway. Here’s hoping you see this and I can correct that mistake. Perhaps over a drink?
LADY IN RED @ ARMY & NAVY STORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 20, 2016 WHERE: Army & Navy Store East Cordova St., Downtown You are the gorgeous Lady in RED; Red overcoat with a red dress below, beautiful full brunette with a wondrous smile @ Army & Navy store housewares department. I was looking for a pepper grinder and said hi to you, you responded with a lovely smile. I could have asked your name and didn’t initiate the conversation. DANG! I’m now wondering why because I was in green; green jacket, green shirt, green socks, and even a green iPhone cover with white long hair and beard. We complement each other in this season with the holidays coming so soon! Green and Red; a present to behold! H ope you see this and give it a try?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 23, 2016 WHERE: Bump n Grind Café Just as our rapport soared into a suspenseful crescendo, I disappeared into a dark dimension that may as well have been devised by the Duffer brothers. Today, firmly rightside-up, I sipped a chai latte at the café to which we both belonged, and recalled how your quiet energy seemed to soften the minimalist edges of the room. Sometimes stories happen in a disorderly fashion - is it possible that we will find ourselves reunited in a narrative arc? Doubtful, but I suppose stranger things have happened.
OUTSIDE THE RIO FOR OPRY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 22, 2016 WHERE: Rio Theatre We waited together for your very late friend outside the Rio so she could buy my extra ticket. Chatting nonstop on all manner of subjects. You were so sweet taking that upset girl under your wing. We both told everybody within earshot what a great talk we’d had but parted quickly without exchanging cont ac t s. Romantic interest or no, I’d love to continue the conversation, and perhaps take you on a tour of that world I described. Hope you danced your feet off. And I find you again.
OAK STREET RUSH HOUR
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 21, 2016 WHERE: Oak St. North You made slow moving traffic an unexpected pleasure. Glancing over at you in your red Tercel and scoring a smile, we kept on getting lined up together at each red light where it went from blushing to flirting over several city blocks. I waved as you turned off, you gave me the peace sign and felt all smiles for the rest of the day. Never had anything like that behind the wheel. Thanks!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 19, 2016 WHERE: Arbutus and West Broadway
We were having drinks on the counter around the band playing, and I tried to discreetly pull out earplugs from their container, which looked like a container for drugs. I noticed you noticing, and turned to you a bit slyly as I revealed the not-so-scandalous contents. We had a sweet but to-the-point convo about this and how the container would in fact be handy for such a purpose, and went our separate ways. Wish I would have asked for your # but was a little psyched out you could say. Walk on the beach sometime?
Thanks again. I think I’m supposed to write some witty romantic blurb here. You were wearing a black five panel hat and had long-ish brown hair. If you do read this, message me something that confirms it’s you.
YOU BOUGHT MY COFFEE - TOO NICE!!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 21, 2016 WHERE: Starbucks You’re the cute redhead who paid for my coffee at Starbucks on Friday. I didn’t know what to say - except “thank you” of course. I should’ve gone over to where you sat down and chatted a bit. Coffee sometime? My treat...
WE SHOULD SMILE TOGETHER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 WHERE: Matchstick I come into the coffee shop now and then. You were an ordinary barista. You always remembered my name and smiled with your eyes when you handed me my coffee. And you stayed awhile read a book after almost every your shift. It is ridiculous, but I was curious about you. What your name is. What you were reading. And I wanted to talk about books. I thought just because of my boredom. That day you made a small mistake and you told me‚ "you were in space". This was cute. And your soft and low laugh between words was quite attractive. I like you. I haven't seen you lately, however, I want to see you again. I don’t want to admit it, but I greatly miss your smile.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 16, 2016 WHERE: Nesters Gastown You are somewhat short and wearing athletic clothing. I was tall in a black jacket, couldn’t stop starring at you.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 12, 2016 WHERE: 8 Bus South, Rush Hour Crunch Up Main St. It was a rainy, crappy day on a stuffed bus and you smiled at me when I saw you. Honestly, that never happens. I feel invisible most of the time in this city. I was super cranky, huddled up in a scarf, having a bad day. So thanks, I needed that. You: cute, blue eyes, dark hair, friendly energy. Keep being friendly!
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