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Long-time College Street milliner Karyn Gingras was brought in to top off Downie’s outfits for the Tragically Hip’s Man Machine Poem tour by fellow Toronto designer Izzy Camilleri. The latter created the crazy metallic-leather suits the frontman wore. And, not surprisingly, Downie’s charismatic headwear kicked off a huge demand for artful, feathered hats for men—a bunch of which the Lilliput founder will be showcasing at the market.
“He [Downie] sent me an old photo of Bob Dylan, from the 1970s Desire era,� Gingras tells the Straight over the phone from her eclectic Hogtown shop before heading west for the market. “He was wearing a hat that was similar—it doesn’t have the rustic hippie vibe but it [the brim] turns slightly upward and has a very tall crown with feathers.� In all, Gingras fashioned four oneof-a-kind hats for the tour, out of black, grey, and off-white rabbit-fur felt to go with the different metallicleather suits. She played with coloured bands on the looks: “Some are shredded, some are textured, and some look like scarves, with these feather embellishments that spring out of the side.� Gingras was watching social media during the opening show in Victoria, and saw it explode with reaction to Downie’s dramatically different new look. “People were blown away. Here’s this guy that could be your next-door neighbour at the cottage coming out in metallic suits and hats,� she says of the project that was deeply moving for her, given Downie’s struggle with brain cancer. “Now we’re getting businessmen, kids, fans, and other guys wanting to just bust out a little bit. Also people are just curious about how a hat gets made and that’s great for all of us who make things by hand.�
At her booth, look for softer men’s and unisex looks that are variations of the classic fedora or homburg style. “A lot have interesting natural embellishments like feathers, leather, porcupine quills, and bone—things from nature,� she adds. “We will still have beautiful cold-weather and special-occasion things too, with a lot of beautiful natural colours and fabrics, a lot crossing over between men and women.� (Most men’s hats are around $150, with prices starting around $90 for Lilliput’s collection and going as high as $240.) MAJESTY INDUSTRIES
With a degree in intercultural studies, Edmontonian Julie Morrison has backpacked across Europe, taught English in China and Cambodia, and visited Mother Teresa’s humble home in Kolkata. And her miles in the air and over ground exposed a big need for wallets to carry your foreign currency, your passport, your cards, your phone, and everything else on your journeys. “There isn’t really cool travel stuff out there that can go gate to gate,� says the artist, who’s crafted her entire, bright-coloured line out of vegan materials like cork and Naugahyde car upholstery. Emblazoning her Majesty Industries pieces—in vibrant aqua blues, purples, polka-dot reds, and wood-grain see next page
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looks—are silk-screen prints of her own drawings. Favourites at the upcoming Circle Craft market include a sloth, a “Sasquatch Yeti”, and everpopular smart-dressed cats. Look also for retro phone booths, skulls, and more. “I like contrasting colours, and I love bringing the cute,” says Morrison, adding she also has a practical side: “There’s lots of room for cards and a gigantic chang e purse, and the two small ones come with a wrist strap that’s handy.” Prices range from about $40 to $50, and no two are the same. MISTURA
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team has experimented with design and materials in its studios, the looks have become more intricate. “Our focus is always to make a unique, oneof-a-kind piece, with new materials and different combinations of colours to create a different piece every time.” That means artful touches, like the looks that integrate perfectly preserved hortensia flowers from Colombia on the face. Mistura means “mixing” in Spanish, and that’s what the designers do best, with both colour and texture: a rich red leather strap plays off the darkbrown pui of a geometric case and multicoloured petals on the face; a bright turquoise strap looks smashing with a light-teak case. In its debut at the market, Mistura boasts its new cork-strapped collection, juxtaposing the porous material with different wood tones. Elsewhere, scope out the Arkitect ore collection: instead of wood, the blocky rectangular case is made from black granitelike Corian, playing nicely off a thick black suede strap. (Prices are $189, $239, and $279, with Swiss-movement pieces running $495.) -
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After injuries, gold-medallist Maëlle Ricker channelled her snowboarding experiences into coaching. Travis Lupick photo.
And I promised myself that if I had that realization, that I wouldn’t drag it out and that I would stop. And I could just feel that I wasn’t going to be able to push through it like in previous years. For some reason, it felt different. A switch flicked. I just knew it was time.” Ricker announced her retirement from professional snowboarding in November 2015. That winter, for the first time in two decades, she wasn’t training for a race. For professional athletes, life after competition can amount to an existential crisis. But although Ricker said the transition was definitely a big one, she found support in the same place she had for as long as she could remember: her team. Today, Ricker still represents Canada’s national snowboard team, but as a coach instead of as a rider. “I would still love to be getting ready for race season,” she said. “I’m not going
to lie. But I still do get to do that, just in a different way, so it’s cool….In some ways, it’s really different. But in some ways, it’s still the same. I find comfort in that. I’m still on the team.” With a laugh, she added: “The thing that’s scary, obviously, is that I’m not the one controlling the board anymore.” Alongside two senior trainers, Ricker is working with both the men’s and women’s teams this year but said she’s most focused on five girls aged 18 to 25. “Which is pretty cool,” she said. “Finding effective ways that I can give my 20 years’ racing experience back to these younger girls.” That keeps her on the mountain full-time for most of the year. “We just finished a month-long camp in South America,” Ricker said. “The only day I didn’t put my snowboard on was the day we flew from Chile to Argentina. Now the team is
finishing up a big block of strength and conditioning training off snow. And then next week we go to Europe and we’ll be in Europe until Christmas.” The priorities right now are the FIS Europa Cup in Pitztal, Austria, this November, then the World Cup, which opens in Montafon, Austria, in mid-December. But Ricker said the team is already thinking about Pyeongchang, South Korea, where the Winter Olympics are happening in 2018, and even working on the team’s long-term development ahead of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. “They’re all so young,” she said of her team. “It’s going to be really exciting.” Asked about her time participating in the Olympics, Ricker said the home-field advantage was something special. “To compete in an Olympics in your home country, and then in your
hometown, and then, literally, in your back yard…” she said. “Yeah, it was pretty unreal.” But it was not her victory or even the speed—which can approach 100 kilometres an hour in the straight sections of a snowboard-cross course that precede a jump—that Ricker said she thinks of the most. “The bigger thing was the years leading up to the Games and how much support the Canadian athletes had and how much we worked as a team to perform on that day,” she said. “Those were my strongest memories. Not actually the day of the race, but the progression leading up to the day and how much fun we had.” Going back further, Ricker recalled how it was her appreciation for camaraderie that led her out of her earliest focus in snowboarding, halfpipe, and pushed her to the more team-oriented racing format. “My fond memories from growing up snowboarding are with my brother,” she began. “We would go up to Blackcomb and Whistler and there were these big spring sessions in the park, where everybody is hiking the pipe for hours at a time. That’s where you really develop strong sessions in the snowboard community. Those fun sessions where everybody is out trying new things and pushing each other. So I really love competing in halfpipe. But I was drawn into snowboard cross in the end because that’s where I felt like I could progress more, and I really loved the team environment with the snowboard-cross group. I really loved the approach.” All these years later, Ricker said it’s still that feeling of belonging to a team that draws her to the mountain. “I love watching the athletes still and I feel everything they’re feeling,” she said. “I still really want to be on the mountains every day. And this is a really great way to continue that.” -
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WINTER ISSUE
Cross-country offers ski workouts in solitude > BY GA IL JOHNSON
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hen Jenn Dickie isn’t at her desk, the Nordicarea manager at Cypress Mountain Resort prefers the pace and tranquillity of cross-country skiing over the zooming swooshes of downhill. The activity is even more rewarding for outdoors lovers who know that a downpour in downtown Vancouver often means a winter wonderland atop the West Vancouver mountain. “I enjoy that quiet, calm winter experience,” Dickie says on the line from her office. “It’s a beautiful way to experience winter—you get to enjoy fresh air, you get exercise.… It’s peaceful. I don’t like speed, so the downhill stuff is less my style. “And there’s nothing like getting out of the rain in the city; and, 15 minutes up the road, we’re truly in another world.” With 19 kilometres of Nordic trails, nearly half of them illuminated for night skiing, Cypress is the only cross-country ski area in Greater Vancouver. The terrain features two warming huts and everything from green to black runs, the latter having lots of hills, giving those who want to build up a sweat a serious workout. The physical benefits of crosscountry skiing are well known. One hour of moderate cross-country can burn approximately 470 calories for someone weighing 130 pounds and about 700 calories for someone weighing 190 pounds, according to the website for Human Kinetics, a publisher of information about physical activity. A full-body workout that has tremendous effects on people’s cardiovascular system, cross-country is also an efficient way to exercise several muscles at once, including the biceps, triceps, pectoralis major, deltoids, latissimus dorsi, quadriceps, gastrocnemius (the large, powerful muscles of the calves), and core. Cross-country skiers at Cypress have the newly constructed Hollyburn Lodge to look forward to this season, with a projected opening date of December 15. A West Vancouver landmark and the only surviving commercial lodge built on the North Shore mountains before 1960, it is nestled on the western shore of First Lake. It has been rebuilt in the same footprint as the 1926 original but with upgrades like a proper sewage line. The licensed lodge offers food and drink and, every Saturday night, live music. Those who wish to travel a little farther for their snow can head to the Callaghan Valley. Just southwest of Whistler (where Nordic skiing is available at Lost Lake Park), the area is a microclimate known for its abundant, soft, fluffy snow. The same warm, moist maritime air that moves up the valley from Howe Sound to Whistler climbs more than 2,300 metres and across seven kilometres of permanent snowfield before dropping the white stuff on the Upper Callaghan Valley. The area receives an average annual snowfall of 36 feet (1,097 centimetres). A Ski Callaghan trail pass gives people access to the integrated trail system of Callaghan Country Wilderness Adventures and Whistler Olympic Park, for a total of more than 130 kilometres of groomed trails set over 7,000 hectares. Those willing and able to ski about 14 kilometres over an elevation gain of about 560 metres can turn their Nordic trek into a getaway with a stay at the 5,000-square-foot backcountry Journeyman Lodge in the heart of an area called Solitude Valley. That name is apt, the way Callaghan Country Wilderness Adventures assistant general manager Kim Ebers sees things. “What I love about cross-country skiing is the solitude of it,” she says by phone. “It’s not as busy as alpine [skiing] has gotten. I find it
Many winter warriors opt for cross-country skiing over downhill for the serenity and for fitness. Callaghan Country photo.
comparable to hiking in that you can explore the geography and cover a lot of terrain while you’re doing it. It’s good for fitness; and even though
it offers solitude, it can also be fairly “In the Callaghan, you’ve basicsocial. You can bring a friend and ally got it all,” she adds. “You’ve talk, unlike alpine, where it’s ‘You got everything from dense, blantake your run and I’ll take mine.’ keted forest to open meadows in
the lower terrain, and as you go up in elevation, the trails bring you up to the subalpine, right at the foot of the mountain. I don’t think that experience is available too many other places on the planet.” Another benefit of Nordic skiing, Ebers says, is that it’s for all ages. Although many baby boomers are looking for an alternative to downhill, many younger people enjoy it because of the level of fitness it fosters. “It’s great for families,” she says. “It’s multigenerational. “One of our objectives is to connect people with the natural world,” she adds. “You can be on a trail and have no other skiers around. You can stop and immerse yourself in the environment and have that connection. a deeper experience people can have when they’re out on the trails. It’s almost spiritual.” -
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WINTER ISSUE
SEASON OPENS
ALTITUDE
VERTICAL DROP
LIFT TICKET
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TERRAIN PARK
TUBING PARK
SPECIAL EVENTS
WHISTLER
Nov. 24
2,182 metres (7,160 feet)
1,530 metres (5,020 feet)
$278 + taxes for two days
$1,649 + taxes
Yes
No
Cornucopia (Nov. 10–20); Whistler Film Festival (Nov. 30–Dec. 4); Whistler Pride and Ski Festival (Jan. 22–29)
BLACKCOMB
Nov. 24
2,284 metres (7,494 feet)
1,609 metres (5,280 feet)
$278 + taxes for two days
$1,699 + taxes
Yes
Yes
GMC Race Centre opens (Dec. 13); Whistler Blackcomb Foundation 23rd Annual Telus Winter Classic (Jan. 20-21)
SUN PEAKS
Nov. 19
2,152 metres (7,060 feet)
882 metres (2,894 feet)
$92 + taxes
$1,249 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Sun Peaks Winter Okanagan Wine Festival (Jan. 13–22); Garden Rail Jam (Jan. 22); Telus Nancy Greene Alpine Classic (Feb. 24-25)
BIG WHITE
Nov. 24
2,319 metres (7,606 feet)
777 metres (2,550 feet)
$91 to $99 + taxes
$1,179 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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GROUSE MOUNTAIN
Nov. 25
1,250 metres (4,100 feet)
384 metres (1,260 feet)
$48 + taxes (to Nov. 13); $61 + taxes
$825 + taxes
Yes
No
Peak of Christmas 2016 (Nov. 25–Jan. 2); New Year’s Eve celebration (Dec. 31); 24 Hours of Winter (Feb. 11–12)
MANNING PARK RESORT
Nov. 26
1,790 metres (5,828 feet)
437 metres (1,417 feet)
$55 + taxes
$675 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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HEMLOCK VALLEY RESORTY RESORT
Dec. 15
1,371 metres (4,500 feet)
396 metres (1,300 feet)
$53.33 + taxes
$629 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Check www.hemlockvalleyresort.com/ for updates
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN
Nov. 18
1,440 metres (4,720 feet)
610 metres (2,000 feet)
$55 + taxes
$747 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Check www.cypressmountain.com/ for updates
REVELSTOKE MOUNTAIN RESORT
Dec. 3
2,466 metres (8,058 feet)
1,713 metres (5,620 feet)
$95 + taxes
$1,199 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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RED MOUNTAIN RESORT
Dec. 10
2,075 metres (6,807 feet)
890 metres (2,919 feet)
$89 + taxes
$1,059 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Ski with Santa (Dec. 25); Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships (Jan. 18–21)
MT. SEYMOUR
To be announced
1,265 metres (4,150 feet)
330 metres (1,083 feet)
$56 + taxes
$819 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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PANORAMA MOUNTAIN RESORT
Dec. 9
2,375 metres (7,800 feet)
1,220 metres (4,000 feet)
$92 + taxes
$999 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Nor-Am Cup (Dec. 11–18); Kootenay Freestyle Classic (Mar. 11-12)
SILVER STAR
Nov. 10 (Nordic) Nov. 24 (full)
1,915 metres (6,280 feet)
760 metres (2,500 feet)
$97 + taxes
$1,249 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Silver Star Rail Jam (Jan. 14); Slopes for Hope (March 4)
APEX
Dec. 3
2,187 metres (7,175 feet)
610 metres (2,000 feet)
$78 + taxes
$999 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Canadian Mogul Selections (Dec. 15–18)
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WINTER ISSUE
Five years after starring in Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling reunite in La La Land, which will open the Whistler Film Festival on November 30.
Whistler gets ready for some Oscar buzz > BY C HA RL IE SM I TH
T
his year’s Whistler Film Festival will feature more new movies and possibly more future Academy Award nominees than ever before. It will open with La La Land, an Oscar-buzzworthy romance starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Another film that’s been the subject of Oscar talk, 20th Century Women, will premiere at the WFF. It stars Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, and Billy Crudup. It’s one of 23 premieres at the festival, which takes place in Whistler from November 30 to December 4. Another premiere will close the festival, Shades of Winter: Between, a documentary about female athleticism directed by Austrian filmmaker and skier Sandra Lahnsteiner. Also premiering is John Madden’s Miss Sloane, starring Jessica Chastain as a ruthless lobbyist taking on the U.S. gun industry. Miss Sloane is not the only film themed around firearms. Brie
Larson, who won an Oscar for her performance in Room, stars in Free Fire. It’s an off beat Ben Wheatley– directed feature about an encounter between Irish Republican Army members and gun dealers. In a news release, WFF director of programming Paul Gratton said that the annual movie bash in Whistler has become the “premium western showcase for Oscar-bound movies”. “When you throw in the large number of exciting films from emerging Canadian talent, it is hard to imagine a more densely programmed five-day film festival anywhere,” he added. It’s remarkable how many Canadian films—more than 65 percent of fest screenings—will be shown this year in Whistler. Nineteen films are competing for the annual Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature. Named after Vancouver director Phillip Borsos, it comes with a $15,000 award sponsored by the Directors Guild of Canada and a $15,000 postproduction prize sponsored by ENCORE Vancouver. The festival will hand out 15 awards and $154,500 in cash and prizes. In all, there will be 86 movies screened from 18 countries. -
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WINTER ISSUE
Snow style meets sustainability on slopes > BY L UC Y LA U
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or a seasoned skier or snowboarder, there are scarce things more gleeful than waking up to a freshly powdered hill. But with the probability of snowfall in B.C.—and other typically f lurry-friendly sites—increasingly dwindling, entire weekends spent shredding are becoming few and far between. (In case you still had doubts: global warming is real, people.) It’s no surprise, then, that the latest fashion trend to hit the slopes is one not immediately discernible by the naked eye: eco-friendly outdoor wear. As Jenny Wong, buyer at the Vancouver-based Comor Sports and Pacific Boarder, explains, more and more businesses are adopting environmentally minded textiles and practices in order to protect Mother Earth’s playground. “We play in nature, so we want to make sure what we’re doing with nature is sustainable,” she says by phone. Skiers and snowboarders interested in sporting gear made using eco processes should look for the “bluesign” label. The Swiss-founded system works
White and Kelly Clark—has long been a champion of bluesign. Among the Vermont-based brand’s green goods are the women’s AK 2L Altitude jacket ($449.99), a sleek, highcollared piece available in a vibrant grape-jelly purple, and the men’s Reserve bib pant ($309.99), a luxe reimagining of a boarding basic with a taffeta and mesh lining. Vancouver’s Mountain Equipment Co-op and Arc’teryx, as well as North Face, Patagonia, and Salomon, also offers bluesign-approved gear. “We recognize our responsibility for chemical management…especially when you talk about the first stages of product manufacturing,” says Vanadis Oviedo, MEC’s sustainability specialist, by phone. “So that’s really important to us.” Renewable and recycled fibres are hot too. Check out MEC’s Waxwing hybrid jacket ($135)—suitable for activity both on and off the slopes— which protects the wearer from Burton’s L.A.M.B. Riff parka (left) and MEC’s merino-wool T2 Zip-T are harsh temps through the use of postboth manufactured using environmentally conscious techniques. consumer recycled materials, and with various companies to ensure that are implemented throughout soft- Smith Optics’ brilliantly bright snow sustainable practices, such as the re- goods production. goggles (from $35), most of which Wong notes that Burton—a fa- incorporate plant-based polymers in duction of waste materials, water pollution, and greenhouse-gas emissions, vourite among athletes like Shaun their construction. Patagonia’s Nano
Puff jackets and hoodies (from $239) hide green insulation in a funky, 100-percent-recycled polyester shell, while Burton’s Gwen Stefani–inspired L.A.M.B. Riff parka ($379.99) joins recycled insulation with the ’90s patch trend that’s recently taken runways by storm. “They look good, which is a big thing too,” says Wong of the products. “They’re waterproof; they’re breathable. And they have all the technical aspects that you’d need when you go skiing or snowboarding.” Organic cotton—grown without the use of harmful chemicals—and ethically sourced wool and down are other eco elements emerging on mountains and at après-ski sessions. MEC’s merino-wool layers (from $49) and lightweight coats (from $195), many of which come equipped with a removable fauxfur-trimmed hood, safeguard the welfare of animals without sacrificing style or topnotch quality. “We need to provide high-performance gear and as an outdoor retailer, that’s our main priority,” notes Oviedo. “But we also need to be responsible in the way that we source these materials.” -
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WINTER ISSUE
Whistler’s Sidecut Modern Steak and Bar executive chef Eren Guryel will serve up three types of poutine alongside bubbly.
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hen celebrated Mex- pretation of local produce. I can’t ican chefs Benito Mol- wait to see the fish. People will be getina and Solange Muris ting a taste of Mexico for sure.” travel to B.C. from Now in its 20th year, Cornucopia Ensenada soon, they will be bring- packs seminars, brunches, lunches, ing more than reading material and dinners, tastings, winemakers’ personal items with them in their dinners, cooking demonstracarryon luggage. tions, parties, health-and-wellness The husband-and-wife duo be- events, and other activities into 10 hind Manzanilla—considered one of days every November. Latin America’s top restaurants—will First-timers to the fest are chefs also have a stash of ingredients that Ryan and Melissa Leitch, who operare essential to their locally sourced ate Whistler’s recently opened Venue Baja-style cuisine: annatto seeds and Restaurant. With a firm belief in chilmole (a paste made of chilies and minimizing the impact that their inspices that’s prepared in a traditional dustry has on the environment, the clay dish), as well two are hosting a as ancho, guajillo, five-course Feast chipotle, cascabel, of Fields–style pasilla, and other dinner that will Gail Johnson dried chilies. showcase organic, “We always work with local pro- local, and sustainable products from duce,” Muris says on the line from the Sea-to-Sky Corridor along with Mexico. “What we’ve been doing for pours from the Okanagan Falls– a long time, ever since we opened the based B.C. Wine Studio. restaurant 17 years ago, is work with Also new this year are sommelocal farmers, going to the market lier tours at the Crush Grand Tastevery day to get local fish, fresh oys- ing, which is billed as Cornucopia’s ters, clams, and mussels. f lagship food- and winetasting “We just went to Paris and taught event. Whistler’s top wine experts a class at the Cordon Bleu; every will guide groups of no more than time we travel, we use local ingredi- six people through the offerings ents too,” she adds. “We always say from more than 70 wineries for that the food doesn’t travel but the a curated experience that gives chef does—except our spices. We Crush attendees early entry. The take our spices with us. Things like B.C. Craft Brewers Guild Winter chilies, seeds, paste… We always Beer Market, meanwhile, will have have a secret little package.” more than 60 craft breweries and The two are visiting Canada for the brew pubs from throughout the first time in mid-November to head- province on hand to give a sneak line Cornucopia, Whistler’s annual peek at their seasonal recipes. festival of food and drink. They’ll After a successful launch last seajoin forces with Araxi Restaurant and son, the Cornucopia Cicerone Vs. Oyster Bar executive chef James Walt Sommelier session is back. Presented to collaborate on a multicourse din- by Whistler Debates, the multicourse ner using local ingredients, the dishes tasting is held under the Munk Depaired with B.C. wines. bates format, with attendees voting “When we first opened, we used to on their way in and again after the describe Manzanilla as avant-garde showdown between Whistler native food, but that’s too pretentious,” says Brendan Grills, Canada’s youngest Molina, a champion of sustainability cicerone, and 2013 sommelier of the who is a judge on Master Chef Mex- year Samantha Rahn. Guadalajara, ico, which garners 10 million view- Mexico–born chef Luis Valenzuela, ers in that country every week. “We who specializes in Spanish-inspired do Baja, California, food. There, in cuisine at Carmen restaurant in ToWhistler, we’ll be doing our inter- ronto, will create several dishes, each
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the Scotiabank Dance Centre’s Earl Kraul Studio, and Cayetano Soto is sculpting his dancers’ leg-kicking, torso-twisting, body-arcing pas de deux. He is so hands-on that he jokes he feels like a chiropractor. Wearing a black Ballet BC hoodie and baggy sweatpants, the company’s resident choreographer is moulding his intricate, speed-of-sound pairings in the weeks before his season-launching, fullevening Program 1. It’s intense—but fun, too. Kirsten Wicklund and Peter Smida are trying to nail a gruelling sequence where he dips her and she rolls 180 degrees under one of his arms, opening her legs into a spectacular side split behind him. “When you roll, it’s almost like a Spanish omelette but with a little bit of taste!” the Barcelonan quips. Every riveting flash of movement takes a long, intricate stretch of rehearsal time to shape. And that’s one key factor in what makes the Spaniard’s work so thrilling to watch. LATER, AT 1 P.M. in the studio, the dancers have slipped into their new costumes—tight black leather-look bodysuits that have high necks and long sleeves, and appear as if they’ve been pierced by a thousand needles. The performers can’t help watching themselves in the wall of mirrors as they get used to their new skins. They love the way the fabric creates shadows when they suck in their diaphragm or curl a shoulder. Just as he’s hands-on in his choreography, Soto is hands-on in his costumes and design. Soto creates entire, cinemalike worlds on-stage, many of them pulled out of his innermost moods and struggles. And here, for his new work, Beginning After, Soto has conjured costumes with a dark, hard look that typifies his style. In the run-through that follows, the movement takes on a more mysterious edge.
Darkness dances into the light
Spanish choreographer Cayetano Soto is hands-on as he works with Ballet BC dancers Emily Chessa and Gilbert Small. Michael Slobodian photo.
the place to be for con- here? Should we make it special?’ With another temporary dance,” he company, you would have to start from zero. Here states, listing off the ac- we passed that a long time ago.” complishments of Ballet On the program, Beginning After takes Soto to BC, Crystal Pite, and the prep work of Artemis Gor- some of the darkest territory he’s ever explored, he don at Arts Umbrella as proof. “I am an outsider, so admits. It is about how truth differs from memory. I can say this: I am not sure people here know what He says that blackouts will make you wonder if you they have with Ballet BC. There are not so many just saw something in the piece, and there is a mocompanies doing this in the world. [Artistic direc- ment that will make you confront the truth. “You tor] Emily Molnar’s question on the table is ‘How will ask if what you’re seeing is really happening,” he can we make art relevant to the world today?’ ” adds, getting visibly excited about the concept. Soto clearly loves working with the Soto will only allow that Beginning Afdancers, and he loves pushing them. ter was inspired by “a deeply spiritual Check out… He’s challenged them, in the weeks experience” that came to him in the STRAIGHT.COM here preparing this mixed promidst of a recent serious illness. Visit our website gram, to find different aspects of “I’m not very religious, but I lost for morning-after themselves to show in each work. all my hope and my religion when reviews and local “I asked them to be chameleons,” he my father died,” he says, thinking arts news says. They’ll fly from 2007’s Fugaz, a back to the tragedy that spawned Fumeditation on his father’s death set to gaz. “When I see my work, it’s 90 percent a score of haunting Armenian sacred songs, related to death or layers of death. It’s intriguto the unleashed exuberance of a new work that ing for me that in the moment you’re born, you’re riffs on his own Conrazoncorazon (created in 2015 counting out your days to death.” for Gauthier Dance/Dance Company TheaterBut in the strangely alluring, shadowy Beginhaus Stuttgart). His moods have changed in his ning After, there is hope. “Even in the blackest work over the years, and Ballet BC’s dancers will night you have to turn the shadows into light,” he change with them. says, making it clear that his own words always “I couldn’t wait to be back in the studio with sum up his dance the best. the dancers,” Soto says. “They kept me up at night, thinking about ‘How can we do it better and Ballet BC presents Program 1 at the Queen better?’ It’s not good to be good. I said to them, Elizabeth Theatre from Thursday to Saturday ‘Should we create a piece that I can just create (November 3 to 5).
Ballet BC resident choreographer Cayetano Soto’s work is thrilling to watch but mines difficult questions of mortality At moments, the dancers seem like they’re caught between life and death. Alexis Fletcher is on the floor, gazing at her foot as she moves it up and down, as if she no longer feels attached to it—or, maybe, as if she’s no longer of this world. Another key factor in Soto’s work: it’s gorgeous to watch, but often explores difficult questions of mortality. Audiences here got their first taste of that with the haunting exploration of death and rebirth in his company debut, 2015’s Twenty Eight Thousand Waves. IN THE SCOTIABANK DANCE Centre
Lounge on a break, it becomes clear that as dark and enigmatic as some of Soto’s work might be, in person he’s upbeat and enthusiastic. He’s drinking an iced coffee and talking at a rate that comes close to the speed of his dance. Ideas for the rehearsal ruined his sleep, as they so often do, and he jokes that he’s trying to wake himself up. More than anything, Soto is just glad to be here. The Catalan is in demand around the world, from São Paulo to Munich, and he’s headed to Ballett Zurich right after the Ballet BC gig. But he is proud to call Vancouver his “second home”—after Barcelona, where he goes “just to sleep, eat, and enjoy”. “Don’t ask me why right now, but Vancouver is
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Editor’s choice MISS-BEHAVING In the 1600s, women were banned from performing on-stage. In Miss Shakespeare, Tracey Power—the mastermind behind the hit Chelsea Hotel:The Songs of Leonard Cohen—imagines what might have happened if the Bard’s own daughter, Judith, staged a secret show with her female friends. The musical works in large part due to the cabaret-sassy songs, written by Power and Steve Charles. Laughs abound and the production design looks handsome, too. If you missed this sleeper hit, a Jessie Award winner, last year, catch it now that it’s coming back to the Firehall Arts Centre. Miss Shakespeare is at the Firehall Arts Centre from Saturday (November 5) to November 26.
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WALKER EVANS: DEPTH OF FIELD (To January 22 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Try not to be moved while gazing at his iconic 20thcentury portraits.
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BAKERSFIELD MIST (To November 20 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre) Nicola Cavendish is back in fine, stunningly complex form.
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ANNA FEDEROVA (November 6 at the Vancouver Playhouse) The young star will show you how sensual classical piano can sound.
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DOLLS ON RECALL (November 4 at 89 Smithe Street) The city’s glammest vixens strut across artist Caliden’s latest canvases.
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100 VERY GOOD REASONS WHY ______ (November 6 at the Roundhouse) Bang your head as a hundred electric guitars blow the roof off the Modulus Festival.
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MURAL CITY In August, Mount Pleasant was adorned with more than 30 pieces of world-class street art, thanks to the inaugural Vancouver Mural Festival. Planning for the 2017 art fest is already well under way, and organizers have announced that they’ll add an exciting new element to the second edition: they’ll accept applications for three spots reserved exclusively for Vancouver-based artists. Those interested in applying are invited to attend a video launch and info session hosted by the VMF team at the American (926 Main Street) on Tuesday (November 8). Applications are now available and will be accepted through www.vancouvermuralfestival.com/ until January 30. NOVEMBER 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 21
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Turning Point fetes its faves at Modulus fest > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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t’s fall, and fall means rain, and rain means salmon. Dog salmon in particular, one of the last of the salmonids to ascend the rivers, brooks, and creeks that surround the Salish Sea. Also known as chum or keta salmon, they’re big, meaty fish, a favourite of sea lions and home smokers, and yet they’re so hardy that they can spawn in rivulets insufficient to cover their own dorsal fins. And they come to those streams in the millions—even to urban gutters like Burnaby’s Still Creek, where if you’re lucky you might see some right now. Owen Underhill had his most significant salmon find indoors, however: in the airy Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology, amid towering mortuary poles and intricate carved masks rather than among salmonberry canes and sedge grass. And that encounter led to English Horn—Dog Salmon, a new—or at least freshly reconfigured—piece that the Turning Point Ensemble will premiere as part of this week’s annual Modulus Festival. “My piece was prototyped in a program we did at the Museum of Anthropology in 2010, where we worked with Robert Joseph and William Wasden of the Kwakwaka’wakw,” explains Underhill, in a telephone interview from his East Van home. “As part of that, there were a whole bunch of solo pieces played all over the gallery, and the audience moved around. The subjects of those solo pieces were things that I had discovered in the gallery: there was one called Clarinet Transformation Mask, and one called Double Bass Cedar. There was also, in some of the sculptures, a mention of dog salmon, and I thought the idea of a dog salmon swimming upriver very much suited the sound of the English horn. So I started writing the piece—but I’ve actually added substantially
Among 13 other works at Under the Microscope, maestro Owen Underhill honours the dog salmon with an English horn.
onto it and changed it, and that’s why I’m calling it a premiere.” As co–artistic director of Turning Point—a position he shares with trombonist Jeremy Berkman—
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Underhill could easily have added English Horn—Dog Salmon to this weekend’s Under the Microscope program by executive order. But he’s especially pleased that horn soloist
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As one of the Turning Point Ensemble’s two artistic directors, the former artistic director of Vancouver New Music, and the onetime head of SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Owen Underhill knows a thing or two about curating successful concert programs, in festival form or otherwise. So when he says that the 2016 edition of the Modulus Festival is “a strong festival from beginning to end”, Music on Main’s artistic director, David Pay, should be proud. It’s true, though, that Underhill might be just a little bit biased. Not only does Turning Point open Modulus with a pair of concerts, but other events in the festival’s five-day run focus on artists with whom the composer and conductor feels a strong affinity. Asked to pick his favourites, Underhill quickly singles out Montreal’s Bozzini Quartet, who’ll join Rachel Iwaasa in playing Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet at the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre on Saturday (November 5), and the Music on Main AllStar Band, who’ll close the festival with Steve Reich’s
David Owen asked to play it. The idea behind Under the Microscope is that it shows off 14 of the ensemble’s firstcall players in mostly short works of their own choosing—or, in the case
hypnotic Music for 18 Musicians at the Roundhouse on Wednesday (November 9). “First of all, the Bozzini Quartet is just a superb quartet,” he says. “We’ve worked together on my music, and every year they come to Vancouver and we do a Bozzini Lab for young composers. And Morton Feldman is still very much underplayed. The Piano and String Quartet is one of his very last pieces. It’s an hour-and-20-minutelong work, and it’s not to be missed.” Underhill’s connection to Music for 18 Musicians is just as strong: when he was working on his master’s degree at Long Island’s Stony Brook University, he managed to sit in on the final rehearsal before Reich’s masterwork was premiered. “We met a number of the musicians in a pub after,” he recalls, “and I can remember the violinist talking about how you had to be relaxed and alert at the same time—that if you got too alert, you would get tired, because the music is very continuous. But if you got too relaxed you would make mistakes, because the music is very precise and difficult to play. He gave a perfect explanation of how you need to play that music—and it’s a great piece!” > ALEXANDER VARTY
of trumpeter Marcus Goddard’s Solus, their own devising. “I put out a call, and there was actually enough music proposed for something like four or five programs,” Underhill reveals. “It was nice to see how many works people wanted to propose. So I kind of pieced it together in such a way that pretty much all the players in the ensemble are represented.” The longest and largest composition on the program is Marjan Mozetich’s 20-minute Angels in Flight, for flute, clarinet, harp, and string quartet. It was harpist Heidi Krutzen’s idea to include this transcendentally tonal work on the bill, but that didn’t bother Underhill: he’d commissioned it in the 1980s, when he was artistic director of Vancouver New Music. Judith Weir’s Distance and Enchantment, based on Irish and Scottish folk music, is another link to Underhill’s past: he once brought the Master of the Queen’s Music to town to work with the late and lamented CBC Radio Orchestra. The connections even extend to Turning Point’s upcoming programming: Bohuslav Martinu’s jazzy La Revue de la Cuisine, from 1927, hints at what the ensemble will deliver during the 2017 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. “We like to collaborate,” says Underhill, noting that this season’s co-pros stretch from last month’s stellar performance by Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal to an exploration of Frank Zappa’s music in conjunction with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. “It’s a way of partnering, reaching more people, and making more connections artistically also.” Music on Main’s Modulus Festival presents the Turning Point Ensemble at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Saturday and Sunday (November 5 and 6). For concert times and a full schedule, visit www.musiconmain.ca/.
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aven is the presiding spirit of the Northwest Coast; bringer of light and player of pranks, he is the archetypical trickster. Buddha, in contrast, is rotund rather than beaky, a source of grounded compassion rather than pointed teasing. And while the two have more in common than might be readily apparent—both embody the quest for enlightenment, for instance—what they’ll get up to when they meet is anyone’s guess. That historic moment is set to take place as part of the Museum of Anthropology’s upcoming Taiwanese Puppet Festival, during which First Nations artist Connie Watts will launch a new venture with members of the Happy Puppetry Company and Puppet & Its Double Theatre. While even she can’t say what’s in the cards, she’s looking forward to developing a shared narrative—and seeing her West Coast ravens take flight as puppets. Narrative and performance are what she and her Taiwanese collaborators have in common, Watts says. “Our potlatching rites involve storytelling,” the multimedia artist, who is of Nuu-chah-nulth, Gitxsan, and Kwakwaka’wakw ancestry, explains in a telephone interview from her Port Alberni home. “It’s a big part of our culture, and of theirs, too.” The production, which Watts sees as more of an initial exploration than a finished product, will be built during two days of intensive workshopping, during which she’ll be introduced to the possibilities of puppetry and the Taiwanese puppeteers will get a crash course in Northwest Coast iconography. “I’m bringing ideas, I’m bringing characters, and I’m bringing cultural stories as well,” Watts says. “I think I’ll focus more on the animals, because most of our stories stem from or use or go though the animals. One of my characters that usually comes up a lot is Raven, ’cause he’s always learning things, right? But he’s very much a trickster, and often goes so fast through his lessons that he has to go back and learn how to do things properly. “That’ll be one of the main characters that I’ll bring—but I don’t know what they’ll want to do, so in our first meetings we’ll just be discovering each other, which is very much our Northwest Coast way of being. Visiting, talking, discussing, and then creating!” Of the two Taiwanese companies, Happy Puppetry is the more
The Happy Puppetry Company is one of two Taiwanese outfits on the bill.
traditional, and stresses stories from the Buddhist tradition. Puppet & Its Double Theatre, in contrast, is part of Taiwan’s burgeoning avant-garde, with a multimedia sensibility that incorporates dance and sculpture into the theatrical world of the puppet. “It is a very different kind of troupe, really looking to both innovate and reinterpret,” says MOA’s curator of education and public programs, Jill Baird, interviewed from her office. “When I saw them perform in Taiwan, it was amazing! They have this kind of bodyarmature puppet, where the whole person is part of the puppet. The puppeteers were wearing headgear and changing their cadence and their movements to become human puppets. And the piece I saw was about a critical issue in Taiwan, which is clean water. So they’ve become more advocates and activists through their puppetry traditions. “Like a lot of artists in the 21st century, they’re sort of not paying any attention to the lines that other people draw between forms, or what’s allowed, or between what’s considered traditional or contemporary,” Baird continues. “I can think of many First Nations, Northwest Coast artists who would feel very comfortable in that zone.” Watts, for one, agrees. “It should be a fun weekend,” she says, laughing. “We’ll have two days of crazy work, and then a celebration of whatever we create at the end.” The Taiwanese Puppetry Festival takes place at the Museum of Anthropology on Saturday and Sunday (November 5 and 6). For a full schedule, visit moa.ubc.ca/programs/.
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Crowd-work king Ian Bagg returns to his home base > B Y G U Y M A C PHERSON
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’m coming home! Get my bedroom ready!” Ian Bagg fake-enthuses on the phone from his home in Long Beach, California. The standup comic and Terrace, B.C., native best known for his top-five finish on NBC’s most recent season of Last Comic Standing has been living in the U.S. for 20 long years. But he says Vancouver is where he became a man. Our town was Bagg’s base for four years in the mid ’90s, and he started his standup career at Punchlines in Gastown and Yuk Yuk’s at the Plaza of Nations with the likes of Bonnie McFarlane, Pete Johansson, Craig Campbell, and Peter Kelamis. While the aspiring comic was still an amateur, Pat Bullard (brother of comedian and former Canadian talk-show host Mike) pulled him aside and said, “I need you to promise me you’ll move to America as soon as you can. You can’t stay here. There’s nothing going on. Show business is in America.” Bagg took US$600 and moved to New York, where he lived in a youth hostel for $17 a day, and got paid $25 under the table to perform at the Comic Strip. “The funny part is I got my ass handed to me every night,” Bagg says. “I would go onstage and just bomb for about two weeks, and then all of a sudden it just started to click in.” After six months, he was seen by the bookers of Conan O’Brien’s late-night show, who helped him get his work papers. And he’s been there ever since. Bagg stood out on Last Comic Standing with his carefree act. He looked like he was having more fun than anyone else there. “The only time I was tight was the first round, because all I could think was ‘What if I can’t even get through one round of this stupid show?’ ” he says. “It absolutely would have been the most embarrassing thing!”
He says he wasn’t out to win, and knew he wouldn’t. “The reason I did the show was to put my face in front of people that had never heard of me before,” he says. It worked. Now he says he doesn’t have to search for bookings nearly as much, his pay is better, and he gets meetings with higher levels of production companies. He recently filmed a new special with Paul Miller, the Comedy Central director, who saw him on Last Comic Standing and contacted his agent. Bagg is the king of crowd work, engaging with as many people during his rapid-fire set as he can fit in. “I like talking with people; I don’t like talking at people,” he says. “If you’re shy, don’t worry. You’re in a solid professional’s hands. I can tell when people are nervous. I don’t want to make people that are insecure feel bad about themselves. That’s not what I’m about. I’m about people having fun. I’ll pull out right away if somebody’s uncomfortable. If they’re a dick, I’ll go harder. But I want them to have fun.” It often takes some time before a comedian has the confidence and competence to veer off prepared material and converse with the crowd, but Bagg’s done it since day one, when the jokes he had scrawled on his hand got swept off by nervous sweat before he hit the stage, forcing him to talk to the audience. “I was very deadpan at the time,” he says. “Steven Wright was huge and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s how you do it. You don’t really give any emotion.’ It took me a while to be myself as a crowdwork guy. Now I would say for the last 10 years I’ve been me. I’m just me in concentrate on-stage.” Ian Bagg headlines five shows at the Comedy MIX from Thursday through Saturday (November 3 to 5), with MC Dan Quinn and Sophie Buddle.
Young piano star brings his chutzpah to Chopin > B Y A LE XAN DER VAR TY
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ettling for second best isn’t always that bad. Yes, it’s true that Korea’s Seong-Jin Cho took the top honours at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition, narrowly beating Quebec-born Charles Richard-Hamelin for the gold. But in order to come in second, Richard-Hamelin had to eclipse 498 other highly accomplished pianists. Ordinary mortals will likely be less discerning: viewing the video footage of Richard-Hamelin’s competition recitals, they’ll see only an astonishingly gifted musician, one fully capable of bringing contemporary verve to Frédéric Chopin’s almost 200-year-old compositions. And even a second-place finish in Warsaw can mean quite a lot. “There are four or five hundred piano competitions every year, international ones, but there’s only a handful of them that can change a young pianist’s life—and it certainly did for me, with the Chopin,” Richard-Hamelin tells the Straight from Alberta, where he’s performing with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. “Even though I didn’t win the competition, it feels like I did, because my whole life has changed. My international career, or the beginnings of my international career? It’s all thanks to the Chopin competition, really.” Of course, it’s a little more complicated than that. For one thing, Richard-Hamelin can legitimately claim a direct link to the greatest Chopin interpreter of all time, Arthur Rubinstein, who was his teacher Janina Fialkowska’s mentor. And although Fialkowska offered all kinds of insight
into Chopin’s compositional methods, not to mention tips on how to transfer his music from the 19th-century forte-piano to the 21st-century concert grand, Richard-Hamelin says that confidence was by far the most important thing she imparted. “That’s what you need at this competition,” he explains. “You can practise endless hours and play your repertoire in concert all the time, but in the end you need a lot of confidence when you get into that room in Warsaw, in front of those 16 jury members and the tens of thousands of people who are watching online or on TV. You have to block it all off, and really believe that you’re the one that knows how the piece should go.” It’s exactly that kind of chutzpah that allows Richard-Hamelin to approach Chopin’s music without the slightest fear of making a mistake. And it’s not that he doesn’t make mistakes; he’s just not afraid of them. “Some people, especially with the competition, get so nervous they try to rehearse everything and play it exactly the way they planned it,” he explains. “Sometimes the music can sound a little bland, you know—a little too careful and prepared. And I’m really sort of allergic to that. If you listen to my performances, there are a lot of mistakes sometimes, but in the end that’s the price I have to pay in order to be communicative and emotional and present. Maybe I’m not perfect technically, but I think that’s a better price to pay than the other way around.” The Vancouver Chopin Society presents Charles Richard-Hamelin at the Vancouver Playhouse on Sunday (November 6).
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Maki Yi journeys in Suitcase Stories (Emily Cooper photo); Thomas Monckton gets laughs in The Pianist (Juho Rahija photo).
A piano and a suitcase inspire TH E AT RE THE PIANIST: A CONCERT CATASTROPHE Direction and planning by Thomas Monckton and Sanna Silvennoinen. A Thomas Monckton and Circo Aereo production, presented by the Cultch. At the York Theatre on Wednesday, October 26. Continues until November 5
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the get-go on the night I saw The Pianist, and so were most of the adults. The sense of silliness underpinning this show’s virtuosic physical comedy is irresistible. Creator-performer Thomas Monckton is the tuxedoed title character, the evening’s entertainment at a fancy soiree—but first he has to get onto the stage. Once his hand, then foot, then leg, then whole body find their way through a small hole in the stretchy curtain, the pianist runs into trouble with everything from his sheet music to his gag-inducing glass of wine—and that’s before he even sits down at his instrument. Monckton’s long limbs appear to be made of rubber as he wrestles with the piano stool, his music, and the various parts of the piano itself, repeatedly affecting a look of nonchalance following the latest disaster. His physical antics range in scale from the grandly acrobatic (the chandelier becomes a trapeze) to the more commonplace (head bonks, slips and falls) to the very tiny (racing his fingers around the edge of a stool seat). Monckton is a fearless contortionist who finds endless surprises in the few objects on-stage, and his occasional forays into the house (there’s some nonthreatening audience participation) ratchet up the hilarity. I don’t want to give away any more of the surprises in this hourlong show; you should see it for yourself. And bring the whole family, because The Pianist will make everyone laugh. > KATHLEEN OLIVER
AGES OF THE MOON By Sam Shepard. Directed by John Cooper. At Presentation House Theatre on Thursday, October 27. Continues until November 6
There’s a famous quote that “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” In Lonesome Moon Productions’ Ages of the Moon, a play by Sam Shepard, a one-day hangout session between two old friends brings up lifelong jealousies, frustrations, and vulnerabilities while the two wait to witness a lunar eclipse that night. It serves as an ironic metaphor for the play’s story, as the show examines how the choices we make in life, whether they seem significant or not to us at the time, shape our paths. The entire play takes place in
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what seems at first to be the most uninspiring of settings—the porch of a weathered country house. The house’s resident, Ames (Jon Bryden), has invited his long-time friend Byron (Alec Willows) over for some much-needed buddy time after Ames’s recent infidelity with a decades-younger 20-something woman resulted in him getting dumped by his wife. At first glance, the men’s conversations seem rather pointless, including references to sex and pouring bourbon over ice cream. However, it soon becomes clear that they’re not able to fully recount incidents from the past without experiencing ambiguity and missing pieces in their stories. It’s a commentary on aging, but also on how our memories are never really accurate in the first place, since our individual lenses limit our interpretations of life. A lot of this humour pokes fun at aging, such as when Ames and Byron get into a physical scuffle but end up huffing and puffing before long. There’s also an entertaining section of the play involving a broken fan, a frustrated Ames with a rifle, and a terrified Byron. Both Willows and Bryden deliver strong performances that capture the struggles of aging. From drunken outbursts to health-related incidents, both actors masterfully employ physicality and well-developed characterization to make their roles compelling and believable. At times, though, Bryden pushes too hard and somewhat overacts, which diminishes the authenticity of the story. Willows, however, is exceptional in the subtlety with which he brings his character to life. There are times when Byron is staring off into space and you can’t help but be intrigued by the look in his eyes, wishing you knew what he was thinking. Director John Cooper has done a solid job staging the show, utilizing all the space available at Presentation House. At one point, the actors come into the house, extending the performance space into the audience. At other points, they position themselves either in front or on the steps of the country-house porch. Kudos to designer Ted Roberts, whose set fills the stage space nicely, with no restricted sightlines; this is worth noting, because even though most seats face the stage head-on, a section of the audience faces the stage from the side. The rhythm of the show flows nicely and comes across naturally. On opening night, the audience, which consisted of many individuals mature in age, seemed to react positively to the show, bursting out in laughter throughout and rising to their feet during the curtain call. Undoubtedly, many of them were able to relate to the story’s characters reflecting on their lives. However, Ages of the Moon can be appreciated by audience members of any age, as
most of us have had moments in our lives when we’ve looked back and thought, “How did I end up here?” Most importantly, Ages of the Moon is a reminder to appreciate the relationships we value, as the passing of people from our lives is as inevitable as the moon being eclipsed into darkness.
> VINCE KANASOOT
SUITCASE STORIES By Maki Yi. Directed by Colleen Lanki. At Pacific Theatre on Friday, October 28. Continues until November 12
Maki Yi’s journey from Korea to the Vancouver stage was long and difficult, but it sure makes a compelling story. Suitcase Stories began as a series of short preshow monologues that Yi performed in the Pacific Theatre lobby during that company’s 2013-14 season. They’ve been stitched together into a one-act play that explores Yi’s “placement, replacement, displacement” as an immigrant to Canada. Yi leaves her native Korea, seeking a new life “where nobody knows I’m a loser”. When she lands at Pearson International Airport—she chooses Toronto from the three Canadian cities she knows because she has a map of the city that her brother once brought home—Yi is startled by the diversity of the people around her. “The West means to me a land of white people,” she says. That’s only the first of many realizations about how life in Canada differs from her expectations. “It didn’t even occur to me that I’d watched Hollywood movies, not Canadian movies,” she admits. On the advice of a fellow ESL student, she somewhat impulsively relocates to Regina via Greyhound bus. At the university there, she discovers a passion for theatre, a dubious career path in the eyes of her family back home and pretty much everyone else: “To most of the world, theatre doesn’t seem like a good word,” she muses. Upon finding her passion, Yi decides to become a landed immigrant—and finds herself embroiled in a bureaucratic process of epic absurdity. Yi’s writing is beautifully crafted as she details her numerous cultural collisions, and she is a lively and engaging storyteller with many moods: ebullient when she discovers acting, scandalized when she sees a couple making out at the Greyhound station, depressed when her application for immigration is refused. Under Colleen Lanki’s direction, a few simple flourishes add theatricality to the minimalist staging, which capitalizes on Pacific Theatre’s unique space. Yi’s sole prop, her suitcase, becomes a character as well: like an annoying sibling, it occasionally pipes up to offer wiseass comments on her narration, even dramaturgical advice. Suitcase Stories is a testament to
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Jessica Lang Dance’s first show in Vancouver this week. Indeed, pretty, polished images swirled across the stage in an astonishing variety of short pieces. Dancers—dressed in black, then red, then yellow, then blue—played on the colour-blocking of Piet Mondrian. A soloist in a long, flowing white gown sank into a giant skirt like it was quicksand, then twisted it around her legs as she turned. And in the show’s bubbly i.n.k., dancers chased and mimicked the projected Rorschach-like waves of black ink that spilled across the screen behind them. The crowd ate it up. This was work poetic yet accessible, often like moving abstract art. What it lacked in enigma it made up for in joyous, balletic lifts and leaps that defied gravity. There’s an earnestness to Lang’s work, a lack of irony or conceptualism—and that offered something different to audiences here. The nine dancers are top-flight, honed—especially the magnetic Kana Kimura. She turned The Calling, with the long white gown, into a soulful portrait of yearning, and the central duet in i.n.k. into something so fluid she seemed to be as liquid as the slo-mo video imagery splashing around her. The balletic movement and abstract ideas are not something you see much of in these parts, amid the fierce, Euro-driven work at Ballet BC. (Witness the lightning-fast, body-pushing pas de deux of resident choreographer Cayetano Soto.) They’re also a world away from the high-concept, more earthbound dance-theatre of Crystal Pite. Lang’s work, though enjoyable, lacks that edge we’re so used to in the contemporary-dance hotbed of Vancouver. It felt safe as a result. This was especially apparent in the piece Thousand Yard Stare, a poetic look at the trauma and camaraderie of soldiers and the
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Yi’s resilience and to the joy she takes in her chosen profession. For audiences, that joy is infectious.
> KATHLEEN OLIVER
SULTANS OF THE STREET By Anusree Roy. Directed by Marcus Youssef. Produced by Carousel Theatre for Young People in association with Diwali Fest. At the Waterfront Theatre on Sunday, October 30. Continues until November 13
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collaboration between Carousel Theatre and Diwali Fest. Kids need plays that deal with tough subjects, and it’s refreshing to see cultural diversity on-stage instead of just in the audience. But that audience is savvier than this show lets them be. Anusree Roy’s script follows two pairs of siblings in Kolkata. Through the eyes of privileged brothers Prakash and Ojha, we meet Mala and her younger brother Chun Chun, orphans who dress up as gods and beg for money on the streets, giving most of their money to Aunty, who soon blackmails Prakash and Ojha into working for her as well. Aunty’s slippery hypocrisy (“Not beggars, earners,” she corrects) is a microcosm of exploitive capitalism; we see its seductions when the first rupee to land in the brothers’ begging bowl inspires a victory dance and dreams of opening their own shop. But Mala and Chun Chun are working toward
In The Calling, Kana Kimura paints pretty imagery. Takao Komaru photo.
endless cycle of war. Bathed in eerie green light, it was full of striking images, of marching soldiers who froze mid-step, or slung limp bodies over their backs, or formed tunnels for others to crawl through. It was moving, aching stuff set to Ludwig van Beethoven’s haunting strings. But given it was depicting the hell of war, it sometimes felt too aesthetically pleasing, as pairs swirled and lifted toward the heavens. What Lang does best is play with illusion, and collaborate with other creative types to concoct striking, stage-filling visual worlds. Vancouver design company molo took a starring role in Lines Cubed, its accordionlike paper structures extending and collapsing to create different modular shapes out of the stage’s space. The interpretations of the colours’ moods—cheery yellow, melancholy blue—was sometimes trite, but the shifting formations were gorgeous. At the end of the show, the way the dancers’ forms echoed the rippling shapes of the ink in Shinichi Maruyama’s video was equally lovely to the eyes. Yes, it was beautiful, and a chance to see top-flight work from another place, and props go to DanceHouse for bringing us such an array from around the world—some of it incredibly avant-garde. But sometimes that work reminds us there’s no place like home. > JANET SMITH
a less fanciful goal: they long simply to go to school. For a play with such high stakes, the action often feels surprisingly flat. One culprit is Roy’s dialogue, which is either expository, filling us in on action that has happened elsewhere, or on the nose: everyone always says exactly what’s on their mind, often more than once. A scene in which a street vendor lectures the brothers on choosing their food clobbers us over the head with its metaphor. Under Marcus Youssef’s direction, the actors do their best with largely one-dimensional characters. Nadeem Phillip’s Prakash is courageously principled, an anchor to Parmiss Sehat’s reckless Ojha, and Amitai Marmorstein radiates youthful hope as Chun Chun. Carmela Sison plays Mala, the most nuanced character; she’s fiercely protective of her turf but tender with her brother, hard-nosed but willfully self-deceiving. Nimet Kanji plays all of the adult characters, including the intimidating Aunty. The design is strong: Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh’s colourful costumes pop amid the urban detritus littering Amir Ofek’s wide-open set, and lighting designer Adrian Muir creates a beautiful moment when the children’s imaginations transcend their bleak circumstances. That hope can infuse the harsh reality that so many children inhabit is a powerful and important message, and Sultans of the Street invites us to reflect on injustice at home as well as in other countries. I just wish it didn’t underestimate its audience. > KATHLEEN OLIVER
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THE WHO’S TOMMY The Renegade Arts Co. presents director Chris Lam’s musical about the pinball-playing, deaf, dumb, and blind boy who triumphs over his adversities. Musical direction by Adam Da Ros, choreography by Anna Kuman. Nov 3-19, The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). Tix $25/20, info tommymusical.brown papertickets.com/.
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GHOSTS United Players presents director Michael Fera’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s drama about a woman who has has long kept hidden the negative aspects of her marriage, primarily due to the immoral and unfaithful behaviour of her late husband. Nov 3-27, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $12-24, info www.united players.com/. BECKETT 16 Professor emeritus Norman Young returns to the stage with theatre alumni Beverly Bardal, Cam Cronin, Deb Pickman, Joe Procyk, Tom Scholte, and students from the UBC Theatre Program in these limited-run fundraising performances benefiting the Peter Loeffler Student Prize. Nov 3-5, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $10-15, info www.ubctheatretickets.com/. LES FILLES DU ROI Fugue Theatre presents an in-concert, work-in-progress presentation of a new Canadian trilingual musical. Nov 4-5, 7-9 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Free admission, info www.fuguetheatre.org/. NASHVILLE HURRICANE Musician Chase Padgett tells the story of the rise, demise, and resurrection of a fictional guitar player. Nov 4-5, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $30-38, info www.shadboltcentre.com/. JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Align Entertainment presents the hit musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Nov
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Food, music, and the other arts are found
BY KEN EI SN ER
at the head of the table for this year’s Vancouver Jewish Film Festival—the 28th such event, running November 3 to 10 at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas, with an all-ages follow-up November 11 to 13 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. Indeed, it’s the cultural flotsam that makes the Diaspora, and the nation of Israel, so compelling. “The whole food scene is exploding,” says Robert Albanese, the VJFF’s long-time director, calling the Straight from his Vancouver home. “The 100-mile diet is a real thing there,” he says, referring to In Search of Israeli Cuisine, the fest’s sold-out opening film (on November 3), and its companion Hummus! The Movie (November 6). “All those radically different food cultures, and I don’t think anyone’s able to claim any of it as uniquely their own.” Elsewhere, Presenting Princess Shaw (November 5) finds a struggling African-American singer partnering with a much-lauded Israeli musician. “Kutiman is known for cutting together random tracks from YouTube, and he found a star in Samantha Montgomery, who I’m happy to say
The joker & the kosher Expect Jewish
As we learn in Presenting Princess Shaw, American singer Samantha Montgomery found herself with a surprise collaborator in Israeli remix artist Kutiman.
In the end, all these stories each other. A film may show a culture but it isn’t are really about individuals, necessarily about a culture; it’s about real people with the imprimatur “Jewish”, and what they bring to the world.” like “black” and “Asian-AmerOn the most instantly gratifying level, they ican”, simply a starting point bring the stuff that dreams, and food trucks, are made of. a good laugh and a full belly at this year’s Vancouver within particular contexts. “In so many of these “Chickpea is catering our opening reception, and Film Festival, washed down with a few good tunes films,” the fest honcho says, Hummus Express will cater a brunch before the will be here for the movie and will perform after- “it’s about finding new ways to communicate with other food film. Because a person’s gotta eat!” wards, with new tracks. The themes of this film, like so many others here, go beyond tolerance for May we recommend these items? others, to understanding and relating on a huThere’s a bounty of visual treats at the 28th annual Vancouver Jewish Film Fesman level, as opposed to the political.” tival, running at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas and the Norman Rothstein Theatre This isn’t to say that the fest shies away from from Thursday to next Sunday (November 3 to 13). Here are some of our top the two major conf licts haunting the Jewish picks: homeland: the Holocaust, and the ceaseless conf lict with its neighbours, including minorIN SEARCH OF ISRAELI CUISINE (USA/Israel) Fans of Anthony Bourdain, or of awesome cookities who struggle for agency within the nation’s ing in general, should take this two-hour tour of, as one veteran chef puts it, “over 180 different disturbingly f luid borders. nationalities” coming together to make something deliciously new. Israeli-American chef Michael The receding past is here represented by two Solomonov travels the length and breadth of that compact country, and doesn’t shy away from its melancholy, music-minded efforts: Song of the impoverished, frequently traumatic history, or from today’s unfortunate tendency to build walls Lodz Ghetto and Claire Klein Osipov—A Life Sung when bridges—especially when made of food—tend to work better. Very tasty indeed. Fifth Avenue, Yiddishly (both screening November 10), the latNovember 3 (7 p.m.) ter focusing on a Vancouver institution who’s still with us. The subject and her filmic biographer will THE LAST LAUGH (USA) Talk about chutzpah! Comedy itself and its outer limits are the real also be on hand, and Lodz director David Kaufsubjects of Ferne Pearlstein’s expertly made doc, which assembles key comic clips from the last man will attend with his debut effort. half-century and visits with past (and present) masters like Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, the latter’s If someone said, “The Shoah must go on,” son Rob, and Sarah Silverman about what makes a joke too soon, too late, or—the biggest sin—just how would you feel about that? That’s the quesnot funny enough. Equally fulfilling chats reveal Holocaust survivors who have their own sage tion raised by The Last Laugh (November 5), a thoughts on gallows humour at its most extreme—and how we can’t use history to blind us to the doc that interrogates Jewish comedians about genocides of today. In the end, though, as the elder Reiner explains simply, “It’s more fun to laugh the uses and limits of laughter. than not to laugh.” Fifth Avenue, November 5 (6:45 p.m.) “The subject is so all-encompassing,” Albanese insists. “I don’t know if Holocaust fatigue is likeMOOS (Netherlands) Writer-director Job Gosschalk has a long history as a casting director for ly to set in. But it is integral to our identity, and Dutch TV and movies, and it shows in the perfect collection of actors and nonprofessionals in this these stories are important to retell.” sweet-hearted tale of Jewish subcultures in modern Amsterdam. The key is redheaded Jip Smit, a As are today’s tales of searching for identity in a plain-Jane would-be singer—nicknamed Moos, a play on Moses—who must detach herself from fractured state. The attitudes among Israel’s Arab her dependent single dad to begin the life she wants beyond the bulrushes. The story gets a little and other minority populations are examined in the goofy, but the characters are all so lovable (no villains allowed!) that you end up rooting for everyCanadian-made doc My Home and Israeli drama one. Fifth Avenue, November 10 (7 p.m.) A.K.A. Nadia (both November 8), among others. “My Home is a microcosm of Druze, Bedouins, MR. GAGA (Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands) “Movement, in its purest form, is above Arabs, and Christians who very much believe in gender.” So says Ohad Naharin, a veteran dancer and choreographer whose profoundly witty work the state of Israel and who proudly serve in the compares favourably to Pina Bausch’s. This beautifully shot and assembled doc neglects to explain army, despite some obstacles. The director, Igal why the demanding, assertively hetero company director is called Mr. Gaga, but dance fans will be Hecht, will be here with the film, which is one enthralled anyway by this charismatic figure and his rule-bending art. Norman Rothstein Theatre, of my favourites. I’m so happy that we’re able to November 13 (7:30 p.m.) put together three-and-a-half-dozen films with > KEN EISNER such strong subjects and high-quality production values.”
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1 2 Midnight madness RIO GRIND FILM FESTIVAL Oedipal conflict, pink turtlenecks, lard, nudity, and a general vibe of mental unwellness compete for your attention in The Greasy Strangler, a film dismissed by Variety for “stubbornly remaining on the peepee/caca level”, and therefore very welcome at the Rio Grind Film Festival this weekend (November 4 to 6). See the full lineup at www.riotheatre.ca. -
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THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LIVE (AND FREE!) Watch U.S. dem-
ocracy dive faster than Sonny Liston when Cheeto Mussolini faces off against Syria’s worst nightmare, live at the Rio on Doomsd—sorry, Tuesday (November 8).
OWEN LAND (FKA GEORGE LANDOW) One of the greatest and easily
most amusing tricksters of experimental cinema receives a one-night retrospective as part of the Cinematheque’s DIM Cinema series, on Wednesday (November 9).
OASIS: SUPERSONIC You just can’t get enough of those lovable mop-tops from Manchester, Vancouver! Mat Whitecross’s documentary makes a return visit when Oasis: Supersonic screens at the Rio on Wednesday and Friday (November 9 and 11).
RENDER MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL 2017 There’s scant information about what we can expect to see at the third annual festival of the best in music videos, but based on the image above, we’ll take a shot in the dark and say that Paul Thomas Anderson’s promo for Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” will be in there somewhere. At the Vancity on Friday (November 4). NOVEMBER 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 29
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MISS SHAKESPEARE The Firehall Arts Centre, in association with Musical TheatreWorks, presents the play about the creative journey of the Bard’s daughter. Nov 5-26, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehall artscentre.ca/onstage/miss-shakespeare/.
Award-winning Malian singer/songwriter blends blues, rock and traditional songs KAY MEEK CENTRE
PUBLISH THE QUEST• THU. NOV. 10 @ 8 PM
Socially conscious Seattle-based afro-beat indie rockers FOX CABARET
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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/.
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BASKERVILLE : A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY Five actors play over 40 comical characters, filling the stage with suspects, allies, and heirs in this zany whodunit based on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Nov 7-8, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $29-46, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
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THE PIANIST: A CONCERT CATASTROPHE A mix of classical clowning and contemporary circus, this catastrophic solo comedy is centered on, in, under, and around a magnificent grand piano. To Nov 6, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/events/ the-pianist/. AGES OF THE MOON Lonesome Moon Productions presents Sam Shepard’s darkly funny play about two friends who are reunited by mutual desperation on the eve of a lunar eclipse. To Nov 6, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave.). Tix $30/20, info www.phtheatre.org/show/ ages-of-the-moon/. 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. To 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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GOING GREEN Tom Green is the poster man-child for arrested development. It keeps him—and his fan base—young. From his gross-out antics and pranks on his Ottawa-based cable-access TV show to the MTV version of the same, Green became a hero to frat boys everywhere. His Freddy Got Fingered film was trashed by the button-down crowd but remains a cult classic. He’s done talk shows from his living room and released rap albums, but in the past several years he’s been going back to his roots. Green first did standup as a teenager. Now he makes regular appearances across the continent in clubs and theatres with a relatively mature act that still appeals to his die-hard fans. Green headlines four shows at Yuk Yuk’s on Cambie on Friday and Saturday (November 4 and 5), with opening act Patrick Coppolino from Hamilton. SULTANS OF THE STREET Carousel Theatre for Young People presents Anusree Roy’s play about the courage and tenacity of children in the face of adversity on the streets of Kolkata, India. To Nov 13, Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Granville Island). Tix $18-35, info www.carouseltheatre.ca/production/ sultans-of-the-street/. THE ELEPHANT WRESTLER Canadian premiere of Indian Ink Theatre Company’s tale of a poor tea seller who attempts to solve the interwoven mysteries of love, tragedy, and joy. To Nov 5, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www. thecultch.com/events/elephant-wrestler/. EMPIRE OF THE SON Writer and star Tetsuro Shigematsu presents the story of one immigrant family and its generational
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Manhood beneath the moonlight of Miami RE VIEW S MOONLIGHT Starring Alex Hibbert. Rated 14A
This splendid sophomore ef-
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Jenkins is a tale of everyday AfricanAmericans in which white people have no say. Well, someone is behind the fixed impoverishment of whole neighbourhoods facing the otherwise replenishing beaches of Miami, where most of this tripartite story about one young Florida man takes place. Set in the 1980s, the first chapter of Moonlight is, like the others, named after the handle our main character currently goes by. A local don of much respect named Juan (House of Cards’ impressive Mahershala Ali) dubs him “Little” when he spots the spindly kid (Alex Hibbert) running away from schoolmates seemingly intent on beating him for being “different”. Little has trouble with his tooyoung mother (Skyfall’s U.K.–based Naomie Harris), currently escaping into the new world of crack cocaine. The alternative home provided by Juan and his bohemian girlfriend (singer Janelle Monáe) provides something solid, even if this is compromised by the older man’s dubious profession. Despite his macho swagger, Juan has the most apt answer to the boy’s anxious request to define faggot: “It’s a word people say to make gay people feel bad about themselves.” There’s a small sag when Ali leaves the building. But the next section features tightly wound Ashton Sanders as the teenage Little, now using his given name, Chiron. He’s also called “Black” by the light-skinned Kevin (Jharrel Jerome), the only boy who shows real interest. The movie could have survived without the overly familiar bullying subplot, although this does take Chiron (now played by Trevante Rhodes) into a massively toughened-
Ashton Sanders is one of three actors who take on the role of Chiron in Moonlight, which was directed by Barry Jenkins.
up present, complete with gold fronts and a Detroit ride just like Juan’s. Jenkins lets the scenes play out with organic ease, and cinematographer James Laxton physicalizes the locations with a kind of off-kilter poetry. Stereotypes are pushed aside here as men make their own ways through the minefield of masculinity in battleground America.
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HACKSAW RIDGE Starring Andrew Garfield. Rated 14A
You could be forgiven, during the first act of Hacksaw Ridge, for feeling like you were watching an
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old Jimmy Stewart movie—an awshucks prewar film about a country boy who dreams of marrying the prettiest nurse in town. It’s a bit hokey—but ultimately essential to making main character Desmond Doss’s descent into the depths of hell more devastating. Centring the journey is Andrew Garfield, understated as the evergrinning, naive kid who holds true to his Seventh-Day Adventist faith— right into the carnage of Okinawa, the site of what was arguably one of World War II’s most gruesome battles. Doss was a conscientious objector who signed on for service but refused to ever carry a gun.
But first, let’s address the Mel Gibson thing. The idea of the tarnished actor-director helming another film about religious devotion might sound off-putting. Yet it’s made clear here that Doss’s refusal to harm others was based as much on earthbound trauma as on the Bible: he’s the son of a shock-ridden Great War veteran, a drunk who rules with a belt, and sometimes a gun. So not a lot is explained about Doss’s religious convictions; he just doesn’t want to hurt anyone. That makes for some tense sequences in the barracks, where his officers and working-class platoon members have no patience for someone who won’t be backing them
up with a Ma Deuce. Gibson turns the American boot camp into a smothering ordeal, Vince Vaughn holding court as a nasty but gentler version of Full Metal Jacket’s Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. In one of the movie’s few contrived-feeling plot points, an 11thhour letter helps send Doss into battle against his superiors’ wishes. In Okinawa, Gibson outgores Saving Private Ryan in battle scenes that send limbs, meat, and intestines flying. Scarred with skeletal black trees, the island escarpment is portrayed in Dante-esque detail: bodies and severed torsos scattered, flames licking, smoke forming a dark curtain between aggressors. The combat scenes are teeth-grindingly tense. Doss heads into this inferno with his team members—and what he does there should remain a surprise. Suffice it to say Gibson casts his real-life feats as miracles—which they just might be. Questions remain. Is Gibson, so obsessed with blood and death in films like Apocalypto and Braveheart, making a strong case against war in Hacksaw Ridge? Can you read Doss in nonreligious terms, as a man important for holding on to peace amid mass slaughter? Whatever your conclusions, you’ll probably find yourself contemplating the film for a long time afterward. You’ll also be thinking about a Jimmy Stewart– style everyman Garfield moulds into a very different kind of war hero—a sort of anti–John Wayne. > JANET SMITH
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DANCE 2THIS WEEK BALLET BC PROGRAM 1 Ballet BC presents two new works by Cayetano Soto, as well as the choreographer’s Sortijas and Fugaz. Nov 3-5, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $30100, info www.balletbc.com/performance/ program-1-2016/. WILD STATE Dance project sees a wayward group land on an unknown shore after 451 days at sea. Nov 5-6, 7 pm, Outside Courtyard (SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/10/7, info www.facebook.com/ events/643507699146144/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK ECHO PAINTING Peggy Lee’s suite of new compositions ranges from lush big-band sounds to Stravinsky-inspired chamber music. Includes a solo set by JP Carter. Nov 3, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20, info www.coastaljazz.ca/ peggy_lees_echo_painting/. UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Turning Point Ensemble presents a performance in which the musicians select a playlist of their favourite works. Nov 5-6, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $25/10, info www.turningpointensemble.ca/. MODULUS FESTIVAL Includes performances by Turning Point Ensemble, Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet, Bozzini Quartet, Rachel Iwaasa, Standing Wave Ensemble, and Music on Main AllStar Band. Nov 5-9, various Vancouver venues. Tix from $10, info www.musicon main.ca/concerts/2016-modulus-festival/. THE VSO AT THE MOVIES: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in a program that sees the Indiana Jones film played on the big screen alongside a performance of the score by John Williams. Nov 5, 7:30 pm; Nov 6, 2 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. ANNA FEDEROVA Ukrainian concert pianist performs classical works by Mozart, Chopin, Takemitsu, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann. Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society. Nov 6, 3 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Info www.vanrecital.com/. CHARLES RICHARD-HAMELIN The Vancouver Chopin Society presents the Canadian concert pianist in a program of music by Chopin. Nov 6, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $40/30/20, info www.chopinsociety.org/.
BEYOND TATTOOS If you’ve always liked the work of local tattoo artist Nomi Chi, you’ll want to check out her first solo art exhibition, Shed yr skin, at Hot Art Wet City from Thursday (November 3) to November 26. The artist’s intricate paintings, drawings, and sculptures unfold a fascinating array of creatures— female, animal, or chimerical—often in a state of transformation. Change, desire, death, sex, and feminism are all themes swirling around these fantastical worlds, marking bold new ground for the Emily Carr University of Art and Design graduate. VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Daring innovative improv. Firecracker (Thu, 9:15 pm); Improv After Dark (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); OK Tinder (Wed, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm); Trump Card (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Nov 2-9, 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. To Nov 6, various Vancouver venues. Info www.heartofthe cityfestival.com/.
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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2EMILY CARR AND WOLFGANG PAALEN COMEDY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (work by Modernist painters Wolfgang Paalen and Emily Carr) to Nov 13 2WALKER EVANS: DEPTH OF 2ONGOING FIELD (exhibition features more than 200 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, black and white and colour prints from the 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/vancouver. 1920s through to the 1970s) to Jan 22 Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and profesMUSEUMS sional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2JOHN BEUHLER AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604Nov 3 2TOM GREEN Nov 4-5 2GARRETT 822-5087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2IN THE CLARK Nov 10-12 FOOTPRINT OF THE CROCODILE MAN: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE SEPIK THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century RIVER, PAPUA NEW GUINEA (exhibition Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. features the carvings of Papua New thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with Guinea’s Iatmul people) to Jan 31 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. 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 2JON DORE Feb 24-25
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iconic singer’s bandmates—drummer Scott Asheton, guitarists Ron Asheton and James Williamson, and bassist Dave Alexander—meanwhile displayed an appetite for booze and drugfuelled self-destruction that would make vintage Keith Richards blanch. Live Stooges shows in the ’60s and ’70s were famously anarchic, and the band’s recordings were so punishing, they basically invented the template for punk rock. So considering how all-around fucking badass the Stooges were during their all-too-brief initial run, it’s hard not to wish for something more from. The weirdest thing about Jim Jarmusch’s love letter to the Motor City protopunks is that it comes across as anything but scary. Instead of revelling in the dirt and violence, Gimme Danger glosses over the addictions that helped tear the band apart, with Pop instead delivering a cute anecdote about receiving methadone from a pharmacist friend of his dad’s. And not to nitpick, but couldn’t Jarmusch have shot Pop’s interview segments in a place a little more rock ’n’ roll than what seems to be an enclosed backporch laundry room? Those curious about the back story of one of rock’s most-important-ever bands, however, will like the way that Gimme Danger fills in the blanks. Opting for straight-ahead and linear storytelling, Jarmusch conducts interviews with Pop, Scott Asheton, and James Williamson. (Ron Asheton, who died in 2009, pops up from beyond the grave in archival clips.) The film starts with Pop’s highschool band the Iguanas, dutifully traces the creation of iconic albums like The Stooges and Raw Power, and then skips to the group’s unexpectedby-no-one reunion in the ’00s. Minor revelations include that the future Iggy Pop—who was born James Osterberg—spent some time drumming for obscure blues artists like Big Walter Horton. Post–Velvet Underground Nico hung around the Stooges’ dirtbag home base in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a short while, presumably mesmerized—although consummation is never made clear—by Pop’s famously large pants python. To truly get a handle on Gimme Danger’s shortcomings, compare it to essential Julien Temple documentaries like The Filth and the Fury and Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. Those films spent as much time on the cultural impact of their respective subjects—the Sex Pistols and the Clash—as they did on the bands. Gimme Danger is content to be a sanitized history lesson—the last thing you’d expect from a band that not only gave the world the immortal line “I’m a
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“STERLING PERFORMANCES.” The tower at the University of Austin looms in director Keith Maitland’s timely animated documentary retelling of the Charles Whitman story, Tower.
street-walking cheetah with a heart the end of the Vietnam War and the full of napalm,” but sounded like beginning of endless conflicts since. they meant it. “The chickens have come home to > MIKE USINGER roost,” Malcolm X famously said of JFK’s assassination—not long before TOWER being shot to death himself. But the movie mostly sticks to the moment Directed by Keith Maitland. Rating Americans became sitting ducks. unavailable Fifty years ago last summer, Charles Whitman took a highpowered rifle to the top of Austin’s University of Texas tower and shot 49 randomly selected people in roughly an hour and a half, killing 16 of them before being shot at close range by a brave sheriff’s deputy. (This was also the pre-SWAT-team era.) The stomach-churning events of that horrible day are re-created by director Keith Maitland through survivor interviews, here given voice by unknown but excellent actors approximating the age of the students, police, and others at the time. These haunted recollections are illustrated by realistic, if still weirdly dreamlike, animation in the rotoscoped style of Waking Life, by fellow Austinite Richard Linklater. The graphic-novel approach is hypnotic and incrementally disturbing, as this true-life horror story begins shading into an indictment of a culture that has since succumbed to the lure of mindless violence. Even seeing kindergartners machine-gunned to death is not quite enough to shake the national torpor. The Republican governor of Texas recently pushed through a law allowing concealed weapons on that same campus, institutionalizing the kind of fear triggered by Whitman, who is appropriately given almost no profile here. The implied intellectual chill is even more threatening. Maitland’s outstanding Tower makes a few, Michael Moore–ian nods toward the dystopian carnival of weapons the U.S. has become since
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The best Korean-language film in the USA in recent years, Spa Night is also one of the most assured debut features of this decade. With only a couple of shorts under his belt, young writer-director Andrew Ahn manages to tell an immigrant-specific and universally compelling coming-of-age story. It’s also a coming-out story, although sexuality is just one of many arenas yet to be explored by teenager David Cho, played with thoughtful hesitation by the everyguy-ish Joe Seo. Fresh out of high school, David helps around the restaurant run by his anxious mom (Korean-American TV veteran Haerry Kim) and stolid dad (newcomer Youn Ho Cho) in L.A.’s sprawling Koreatown—itself a character in the well-grounded tale. But the joint is going down, and pressure increases for their only child to score big on his SATs, which this otherwise Good Son has been neglecting. Subtle and not-so-subtle distinctions in class, gender, and ethnicity mark everything here, as when the taciturn lad is pushed into shadowing the assimilated, USC– attending son (Tae Song) of a wellto-do family friend. This leads to more vomiting than studying. But their big night out also takes David
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to the men-only bathhouse where he snags a part-time job, ostensibly to help the family (he never tells them) but also to find himself. Since David speaks passable Spanish with restaurant suppliers, it’s somewhat surprising that this doesn’t come up among the “bad hombres” who keep returning to the spa. In any case, Ahn and cinematographer-producer Ki Jin Kim unfold events with sublime restraint. The episodic structure and lack of soundtrack music—other than what’s found in dorm rooms and karaoke bars—may appear haphazard to some viewers. But the movie is packed with dramatic inner rhymes and start- Abbie Cornish’s Jane moves into her ling colour shifts that convey the chal- dead family’s old home in Lavender. lenges and pleasures of breaking away from your parents, even if—especially makeup but does trigger terrible if—you love them. memories. She, or someone, killed > KEN EISNER the rest of her family, with the only apparent consequence being that LAVENDER she was raised by foster parents and now is generally surly to her bland Starring Abbie Cornish. Rated PG husband (Homeland’s Diego KlatThe “you can’t go home again” tenhoff) and petulant daughter adage gets another spin around (a monotonous Peyton Kennedy). the spooky farmhouse in Lavender, Jane spends her copious downa would-be psychological thriller with time photographing dilapidated few thrills and even less psychology. dwellings, eventually stumbling on Director and cowriter Edward the place where the bad thing hapGass-Donnelly is very confident, pened; it’s now maintained by her stylistically. That isn’t always a good late dad’s secretive brother (Dermot thing, especially when a film and Mulroney). Hmmm. Odd packages its cast need some occasional beats and small blond girls suddenly to gather themselves and move at a appear wherever she goes. human pace, if only to provide conThanks to lugubrious pacing and trast for the scary stuff. Weirdly, the relentlessly doomy string music, her spooks don’t arrive until more than mental state never really changes, halfway into this 90-minute effort, even when she’s prompted by a shrink which aestheticizes everything, from (Justin Long) who also has a lot of the slow-mo start and finish to a free time. No sense of geography is whole lot of having children stand in conveyed, so when Jane finally visits doorways like they’re posing for stills the old homestead with her young from Poltergeist VII. (Gass-Donnelly family, we have no idea why she also directed The Last Exorcism Part moves in; the place has been closed II, which is not far off.) for a quarter-century and they don’t Australia’s Abbie Cornish strug- even shake out the sheets! Of course, gles with her accent as Jane, a it’s obvious why they must end up in woman in an unnamed Midwestern that damned house—because where town (actually rural Ontario). A ter- else would the funding be found? > KEN EISNER rible car accident doesn’t change her
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MUSIC Linking up with Tyler Blake, one half of electronic outfit Classixx, the Straight is surprised to learn that the group’s unique brand of feel-good nu-disco stems from Paul Simon, T-Pain, and— most bizarrely of all—the Smiths. “There’s no one direct reference,” Blake says with a laugh. “But they’re all in the mix somewhere.” Spending their childhoods playing together in various groups, Blake and bandmate Michael David grew up analyzing popular songs from past decades. As they hit their early 20s, however, the duo gravitated toward the world of production. Teaming up to form Classixx in 2007, Blake and David were quick to realize that their strengths lay in creating quirky, summery beats based on their eclectic influences. “Our sound was pretty different from the music that was big at that point,” Blake says, on the line from a tour stop in Burlington, Vermont. “Around the time we were breaking out, there were really popular groups like Justice and MSTRKRFT who wrote tracks that were much more aggressive than
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Michael David and Tyler Blake of Classixx refuse to be labelled a lounge act, even though they spend most of their time lounging around in lounges.
more interested in having fans draw their own conclusions on his debut record, Everything. This much we do know: at some point, a significant relationship imploded, leaving the producer, rapper, beatmaker, and composer in a dark place. Rather than immediately vomiting up the details in song, Lido—who’s worked with artists like Chance the Rapper, Halsey, and Ariana Grande— chose a different path. After things calmed down, he made a record about the emotions that are triggered by a breakup: regret, sadness, anger, confusion, and, eventually, happiness. What exactly happened, however, is up to the listener to pull from the heavily textured songs, which are rooted in synth-blazed EDM, but are as likely to incorporate cheeba-dazed jazz (“Catharsis”) and 808s & Heartbreak hip-pop (“Angel”). “The record is written in a way that’s meant to be vague,” the multitalented Norwegian says, on the line from his adopted home of Los Angeles. “There’s not a lot of lyrics on it—it’s very much from an emotional standpoint, rather than being about the gossipy-facts part of the story.” Everything is a complex piece of art, swinging wildly from moments of dark chaos to moments of uplifting beauty, often in the same song. If you’ve ever sat raging with your own thoughts, desperately hoping for a ray of light, you’ll relate to lines like “Depression is infectious,” from “Tell Me How to Feel”. “Crazy”, meanwhile, cleverly acknowledges there are two sides to every story, the track starting out with stuttering walls of synth and Lido singing “If you take the love away from me I’d go crazy,” and ending with delicate piano and a female voice offering a more delicate version of the same line. “There’s a lot of duality in the story that I’m telling and also a lot of contrasts and juxtapositions,” Lido says. “I wanted to display that through the textural side of the album. When people write a sad song, it’s usually just slow and sappy: ‘Someone broke up with me,’ or ‘I broke up with her,’ or whatever. That moment is usually described in a very simple way. But there are so many weird nuances to these feelings, so I wanted to capture that. No one told me, ‘You’re going to be sad, but at the same time, there’s going to be a sort of happiness to that sadness.’ And that was a big thing for me in terms of the therapy that this record was. I dived into my own emotions and started dissecting them. And
Tyler Blake and Michael David of Classixx realized they were better off not trying to be electro-bangers ours. We actually tried pretty hard to copy them, but we discovered that we weren’t good at it. It’s difficult trying to emulate genres that aren’t natural to you. There’s metal that I like, for example, but if I actually tried to write that stuff, it would sound weak as fuck. Rather than deliberately marketing ourselves as the answer to electro-bangers, I think we realized that we were just better at making more subtle music.” Subtlety, as it turned out, was exactly what the big clubs were looking for. Working their way up to remixing tracks for artists like Major Lazer, Groove Armada, and Ladyhawke, Classixx quickly had a number of songs on rotation in mainstream DJ sets. Not to be restricted to reworking others’ music, however, the group soon capitalized on its success by launching a full-length album in 2013, following up its debut with the acclaimed sophomore LP Faraway Reach in June. Classixx’s masterful blend of disco, funk, house, and indie gives a nod to the group’s multiple inspirations. “A full-length album allows you that freedom to adopt different styles,” says Blake. “There are totally songs on the new record where if we were only putting out singles, it just wouldn’t make sense. Faraway Reach is a very upbeat and funky record for the most part, but the last track is essentially a ballad—and that would be a strange thing to put out as a standalone song in a dance-music landscape. “Our band has always been a slow progression,” the producer continues. “We’ve never had a breakout hit where we became famous overnight. We’re getting better and better, and as we continue to grow, I think we’ll be comfortable with taking on collaborations with more famous artists to develop our songs. For now, we’re happy making the sounds that we love to make. There are a lot of genres yet to explore.” > KATE WILSON
Classixx plays the Imperial on Friday (November 4).
Lido’s Everything leaves traumatic details up to listeners’ imaginations As traumas go, it was a bad one, so bad that
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WISH YOU WEREN’T HERE Roger Waters—whose involvement with Pink Floyd’s The Wall makes him more qualified than most to judge—has suggested Donald Trump is as dangerous as Adolf Hitler. With that he, ahem, trumped previous description of the U.S. presidential hopeful as “pig-ignorant” and “sexist”.
SHOVELS & ROPE Normally, popping out a kid mellows folks out; see how much energy you have for raging against the machine when life is soiled diapers and three hours of sleep per night. Against the grain, Shovels & Rope ramps up the distortion on its just-released Little Seeds. The first record from bandmates and spouses Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent since they gave birth to a daughter marks a major shift in songwriting. The Americana two-piece trafficked in rootsy fiction on past records, but Little Seeds is a punk-flavoured raver inspired by real life, dealing with parental illness, relationship drama, and the fact no one in America seems to get along. The result is one of the year’s great records. Shovels & Rope—at the Commodore on Wednesday (November 9)—should pump out the kids more often. -
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Lido plays the Rio Theatre on Monday (November 7).
Club Habana to hip Vancouver to what’s happening in Cuban jazz Club Habana: An Evening of Cuban Jazz is
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of the best Cuban musicians in Canada: it’s also a chance to help the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre achieve its ultimate goal—a space that immigrants from Mexico, South and Central America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean can call their own. At least that’s what VLACC artistic director Danais Yera hopes for her organization, which provides services for Vancouver’s small but growing Hispanic population. This might take some time— “Land is really expensive in Vancouver,” she notes— but things are beginning to head in that direction, thanks to a recent agreement with Commercial Drive’s Britannia Community Centre that will give VLACC a physical presence in one of our city’s most multicultural neighbourhoods. “This partnership means that we can use some of the space that Britannia has at the moment,” Yera says, on the line from her East Van home. see next page
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that’s when I regained control over them.” And now that he’s come through the other side, he’s determined to showcase the journey that led to Everything in settings where fans can actually think about the record. “It was very important for me to establish the fact that I’m not a DJ,” he says. “Because of my love of remixing, and me being so associated with electronic music, I think a lot of people get confused and think, ‘He’s going to do a DJ set, so I can go to the club, do a lot of drugs, and jump around, get sweaty, then go home.’ Choosing venues where people actually have to sit down and listen for once was very important. We just did some shows with the same mentality in Europe two months ago—one of them was in this beautiful, and packed, old church that was turned into a venue. We played the whole record and I didn’t see a single phone for an entire hour and a half. It was amazing, because I’m so sick of playing shows to iPhone cameras in the air. I love it when people react and become part of the experience.”
PUKE-INDUCING Adele told Rolling Stone that while she no longer suffers from stage fright, having to play live used to make her projectile-vomit at the beginning of her career. Her fans, meanwhile, haven’t stopped projectile-vomiting ever since the singer confessed in July she sometimes sucks the snot out of her son’s nose. THE OTHER SIDE How charismatic is Barack Obama? Well, after meeting the outgoing POTUS at a Florida airport, Aerosmith guitarist and staunch Republican Joe Perry described him as “pretty amazing”. He left out “badass”, but you know he was thinking it. LET’S (NOT) DANCE Spiders From Mars drummer Mick “Woody” Woodmansey has revealed that he was asked to take part in Lady Gaga’s David Bowie tribute at the Grammys. His response? “No. Fuck off, that’s stupid.”
Fresh and local ASHES HATRED MOST PRECIOUS Part of the reason why we cover so little underground black metal is that those who make it aren’t keen to step into the spotlight. Case in point: Vancouver’s own Ashes, which has zero online presence apart from its Bandcamp page, where someone named Qzzleth is given credit for everything. (Google “Qzzleth” and see what you get.) Ashes released this five-song EP the day before Halloween, which seems appropriate. The tinny, distorted vocals and barely audible drums of most of the tracks only add to an oppressively mournful aesthetic, which is perhaps best captured in the funereal drone of the instrumental “Requiem for N”—possibly the saddest piece of music we’ve heard all year. NOVEMBER 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 35
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“For example, at the beginning of October we presented an event that focused on literature called To Write Is to Resist, to Write Is to ReCreate, and it was a free event for the whole community. “The kind of events we produce are not just for our community,” she stresses. “They’re for the community as a whole, because we also strongly believe that Canada is our home right now, and it’s our responsibility to keep developing and building what we have here. It’s good that people know about our culture and our art and keep learning about what we have here.” Club Habana, she adds, is a chance for local listeners to discover what’s happening in Cuban jazz right now— in part thanks to saxophonist Alfred Thompson, a former member of the pioneering band Irakere who’s flying in from Havana for the event—as well as for older émigrés to enjoy a reunion with the sounds of their youth. “Mostly we’ll hear original compositions from Alfred Thompson and from [Victoria-based trumpeter] Miguelito Valdés,” Yera explains. “But we are also going to revisit some of the classics from Cuba and other pieces from Latin America—classics like ‘Bésame Mucho’, but with a jazz flavour.” She adds that although the musicians hail from Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, and Cuba itself, this is no pickup band: most of them have played together before. Thompson and Valdés are particularly close friends and collaborators, as long-time members of Buena Vista Social Club star Omara Portuondo’s ensemble. The event also features tangible evidence of Cuban music’s impact on Canadian culture in the form of local piano prodigy Ilhan Saferali. Despite having been born in Canada to parents of African descent, the 14-yearold performer has chosen Latin jazz as his life’s work and has already impressed artists such as veteran pianist and five-time Grammy winner Chucho Valdés.
“He’s a very talented young musician, and we are really looking forward to see how his career develops,” says Yera, adding that the emergence of artists such as Saferali is a sure sign that Cuban culture has really taken root in this new and colder climate. “It’s really pretty amazing to have people like Ilhan who, even if they were born in Canada, can play Cuban music the way they do.” > ALEXANDER VARTY
The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presents Club Habana: An Evening of Cuban Jazz at the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday (November 4).
Lane 8 hopes to re-create club experience of old
vastly different from what we always thought we were striving for. We took some time to consider how we could try to change that, and to give people the experience we all had when we started going out.” Launching his 18-date road trip in tandem with his new label, Lane 8 set out to spread his message and music across the continent. Playing a selection of songs from his own discography, including early melody-driven house tracks released on pivotal U.K. label Anjunadeep, upbeat collaborative vocal records like “Without You”, and his darker-vibed self-released solo work, Goldstein serves up a range of sounds and atmospheres— none of which will be captured on video by concertgoers. “When people arrive at the venue,” Goldstein says, “the security guys tape over their phone with a little sticker that has our logo on it. It goes all the way around, so it covers both the cameras. They then get a little notecard that has our mission statement on it, which tells people to enjoy the moment. And we also have extra security inside to make sure people are honouring the idea. “Somewhat surprisingly, we haven’t had any issues at all,” Goldstein continues. “We’ve done a handful of shows now, and we’ve only had to kick one girl out. She just wouldn’t stop taking pictures, but everyone else has been really cool. What’s been especially great for us is the positive feedback that we’ve got, which has been so much better than any other show we’ve done before. People either say things like ‘Oh man, this reminds me of 10 years ago when I first started going out,’ or young partiers tell me things like ‘Wow, I didn’t even know this was possible; you’ve opened our eyes.’ It sounds kind of cheesy and self-involved, but it’s really how people have reacted. Just that one little thing has completely changed the energy.”
Few people are able to forthe footage of minimal techno DJ Richie Hawtin pushing a huge stage monitor onto a girl who wouldn’t stop filming herself or his set—because, he claims, she refused to put her phone away. Luckily, seminal house producer Lane 8 has come up with a better solution. On his This Never Happened tour, which started in September, Lane 8—Daniel Goldstein to his friends—is eliminating cellphones from the dance floor by asking people nicely. “After I put out my album Rise last year, we did a tour across North America,” Goldstein tells the Straight from his home in Denver, Colorado. “We noticed on the road that whenever I played ‘Diamonds’ or one of my better-known tracks, the venue would have a terrible atmosphere. Instead of creating a great energy in the crowd, the popular songs always fell really flat because everybody was just recording on their smartphones the whole time. “My team and I were super frustrated,” he continues, “because it’s so hard to reconcile that with our experience of clubbing. When we were young, we > KATE WILSON all fell in love with electronic music, going out with our friends, meeting like-minded people, and dancing. The Lane 8 plays M.I.A. on Saturday current atmosphere in clubs is just so (November 5).
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR PROJECT The Rogue Folk Club presents acoustic-guitar music by Michael Averill, Sadie Campbell, Kristina Lao, Joline Baylis, and Chicken-Like Birds. Nov 17, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16111720/. NEW YEAR’S EVE 2017 GLITZ AND GLAMOUR GALA Ring in the new year with music by DJs Alibaba, Earl da Pearl, Daddy Mikey, El-Nino, Kemo, Rexx, Redemption Sound, and Chile Palmer, as well as saxophonist Paul Choisil and Jany and Jorge. Dinner optional. Formal dress required. Dec 31, doors 6 pm, dinner 7 pm, dance 9:30 pm, Hilton Vancouver Metrotown (6083 McKay Ave., Burnaby). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am, $99/60 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. GREAT GOOD FINE OK New York Citybased indie-pop duo tours in support of latest EP release III. Jan 16, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix on sale Nov 4, 8 am, $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. CHERRY GLAZERR Los Angeles rock band tours in support of latest release Apocalipstick. Feb 7, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. RUN THE JEWELS American hip-hop duo tours in support of upcoming new release RTJ3, with guests the Gaslamp Killer and Spark Master Tape. Feb 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am,
THE STAVES English acoustic folk-rock trio tours in support of latest EP release Sleeping in a Car. Feb 17, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am, $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HIPPO CAMPUS American rock band tours in support of debut full-length release landmark. Feb 23, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. TENNIS Denver-based indie-pop duo tours in support of upcoming new release. Mar 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Nov 4, 9 am, $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MOON DUO Portland psychedelic-rock band tours in support of latest release Occult Architecture Vol. 1. Mar 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am, $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE WEEKND Canadian alt-R&B singersongwriter performs on his Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour. Apr 25, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 4, 10 am, $175/99/79/59/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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2THIS WEEK THE NYLONS Toronto-based a cappella group performs on its Farewell Tour. Nov 3, 7:30 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $45.50/39.50, info www.nvrc.ca/centennial-theatre/ whats-on/nylons-farewell-tour/. KIN KANYON Vancouver folk-rock band, with guests Sh-Shakes and the Dead Zones. Nov 3, 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main).
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DUOTANG Canadian postpunk duo composed of bassist Rob Slaughter and drummer Sean Allum, with guests Uptights. Nov 3, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. WAVE EQUATION: MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA European-American electronica trio composed of Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski. Nov 3, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $1025, info www.front.bc.ca/events/waveequation-series/. GRYFFIN New York City-based house multi-instrumentalist and producer. Nov 3, 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/. CLASSIXX L.A. dance-music duo performs on its Faraway Reach Tour, with guest Harriet Brown. Nov 4, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. 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.rickshaw theatre.com/. PWR BTTM American queer-punk duo, with guests Bellows and Lisa Prank. Nov 4, 8 pm, The 333. Tix $12-15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/, info www. facebook.com/events/1226212357397390/. BLUE MOON MARQUEE Canadian Gypsy-blues band, with guests OQO and Rossi Gang. Nov 4, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15, info bluemoon marqueeoqorossigang.bpt.me/. WAVE EQUATION Inventive music series features performances by Marguerite Witvoet, Mási + marina, and Sarah Davachi. Nov 4, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $10-20, info www.front.bc.ca/ events/wave-equation-series/. ROKIA TRAORÉ The Cap Global Roots Series presents Malian singer-songwriter. Nov 4, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Tix $45/42/29, info kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/2343/.
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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/. NOFX American punk-rock band tours in support of upcoming album First Ditch Effort, with guests Pears, Useless ID, and Modern Terror. Nov 4-5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $37.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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A$AP FERG American rapper tours in support of sophomore album Always Strive and Prosper, with guests Playboi Carti and Rob $tone. Nov 5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. QW4RTZ All-male a cappella quartet performs as part of the 22nd Coup de cœur francophone de Vancouver. Nov 5, 8 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Tix $15/10, info www.lecentreculturel.com/ en-event-47/.
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KIIARA Chicago electropop singer-songwriter tours in support of latest EP release low kii savage, with guests Cruel Youth and Lil Aaron. Nov 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
TRADING PLACES Vancouver musicians Peggy Lee, Stefan Smulovitz, and Ben Brown perform new works by Charuest and Lima. Nov 6, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $10-20, info www.front. bc.ca/events/trading-places-un-echangedimprovisateurs-montreal-vancouver/.
SHOVELS & ROPE American country-folk duo tours in support of upcoming release Little Seeds, with guests Indianola. Nov 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticket master.ca/.
MAC MILLER American rapper tours in support of upcoming release The Divine Feminine. Nov 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
THE STRUTS U.K. rock ‘n’ roll band tours in support of premiere studio album Everybody Wants. Nov 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
METHOD MAN AND REDMAN American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member coheadlines with American hip-hop artist. Nov 6, 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $250/100/65 (plus service charges and fees) at www.bplive.ca/. CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE American horn-driven rock band coheadlines with American R&B-soul group on their Heart and Soul Tour 3.0. Nov 7, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $125/99.50/65/45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.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/.
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MS. LAURYN HILL American rapper, record producer, actor, and former Fugees member. Nov 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $125/75/55 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ELEPHANT STONE Montreal psychedelic rockers tour in support of latest release Ship of Fools, with guests the Velveteins. Nov 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
TAMBURA RASA Local world-groove band, led by Ivan Tucakov. Nov 9, 9-11:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $30, info www.tamburarasa.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES BACKSTAGE LOUNGE 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-687-1354. 2CRAZY DIAMONDS Nov 18 2IN THE EVENING Nov 26 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2DUOTANG Nov 3 2BUSTY AND THE BASS Nov 9 2BULLY Nov 11 2DUNE RATS AND DZ DEATHRAYS Nov 12 2THE SUFFERS Nov 13 2JENNY HVAL Nov 16 2WATERSTRIDER Nov 18 2MR LITTLE JEANS Nov 22 2PAPER LIONS Nov 26 2CRX Nov 30 2THE CAVE SINGERS Dec 2 2THE DEAD SOUTH Dec 3 2FLOR AND LOSTBOYCROW Dec 4 2WILD CHILD Dec 6 2LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS Dec 7 2ROONEY Dec 10 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. Live jazz, soul, and blues. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2KIN KANYON Nov 3 2MANGCHI Nov 5
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* GALACTIC PEGASUS * SHARK INFESTED DAUGHTERS [CGY] * CORVUS THE CROW [EDM] * THE WANING LIGHT * FRI NOV 4
* VANCOUVER METAL PRESENTS A FUNDRAISER AND RAFFLE FOR EILEEN * THE MOUNTAIN MAN * HASHTEROID * KILLING MACHINE [JUDAS PRIEST] * HALLUX * SAT NOV 5
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HOUSING QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604665-3050. 2IL DIVO Nov 6 2MS. LAURYN HILL Nov 8 2DAUGHTER Nov 25
2DAUGHTERS Nov 12 2PUP Nov 21 2THE JAPANESE HOUSE Dec 1 2PERE UBU Dec 2
COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-7394550. 2HANNAH GEORGAS Nov 2 2NOFX Nov 4 2SHOVELS & ROPE Nov 9 2LAPSLEY Nov 11 2THE TREWS Nov 12 2YELAWOLF Nov 13 2ANIMALS AS LEADERS Nov 16 2PORTUGAL. THE MAN Nov 17 2A TRIBE CALLED RED Nov 18 2WINTERSLEEP Nov 19 2GORD BAMFORD Nov 22 2JULY TALK Nov 23 2JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Nov 24 2BROTHERS OSBORNE Nov 30 2THE DANDY WARHOLS Dec 6 2MICHAEL KIWANUKA Dec 7 2ANDRA DAY Dec 12 2IN FLAMES AND HELL YEAH Dec 14 2FUNK THE HALLS Dec 21
REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hiphop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-6818915. 2VANGIV’ER II Nov 4 2DESORDEN PUBLICO Nov 11 2EPICA Nov 15 2AGENT ORANGE Nov 15 2OFF! Nov 18 2OM Nov 19 2PUSSY RIOT: A CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIA’S CONTROVERSIAL PUNK ROCK BAND Nov 21 2DARK TRANQUILLITY Nov 25 2THEE OH SEES Nov 26 2REVOCATION, ABORTED Nov 29 2THE BALCONIES Dec 1 2ANCIIENTS, AUROCH Dec 2 2THE SLACKERS Dec 3 2COUSIN HARLEY Dec 9 2DOUSE Dec 10 2THE ALBUM LEAF Dec 13 2KEITHMAS VII: A FOOD BANK FUNDRAGER Dec 16 2HED PE Dec 18 2BLACK WIZARD, BLACK BREATH Dec 31
DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604-605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. 2GRYFFIN Nov 3 2METHOD MAN AND REDMAN Nov 6 2THE VEILS Nov 11 2TIMEFLIES Nov 12 2CHRIS WEBBY Nov 13 2THE GOTOBEDS Nov 16 2LEMAITRE Nov 17 2BRASSTRONAUT Nov 25 2THE PACK A.D. Nov 26 2MERCHANDISE Dec 2 2MARC E. BASSY Dec 4 2MACHINEDRUM Dec 29
RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE 8811 River Rd., 604-247-8900. 2THE TEMPTATIONS REVUE Nov 19 2DONNY & MARIE Dec 20-22 2KIM MITCHELL Dec 30 2BURTON CUMMINGS Dec 31 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604-899-7400. 2CHICAGO AND EARTH, WIND & FIRE Nov 7 2FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Nov 12 2CANUCKS VS. STARS Nov 13 2AMY SCHUMER Dec 2 2STEVIE NICKS Dec 9
FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 8 2DONOVAN WOODS Nov 11 2MAX FROST Nov 12 2THE ORCHID CLUB: GIRLS ON FILM Nov 15 2HANNAH EPPERSON Nov 18 2TEEN ANGST NIGHT Nov 19
THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. 2AMBERWOOD Nov 2 2THE SHEEPDOGS Nov 3 2MODERN DAY POETS, THE BLACKWOOD RENEGADES Nov 4 2THE ESCAPES, HONEST AND THE CROW Nov 5 2THE HEELS Nov 6 2RED BIRD ORCHESTRA, RACHAEL SCHROEDER, JARON CHIDIAC Nov 7 2ADAM BRISCOE Nov 9
FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-7647865. 2GALACTIC PEGASUS, SHARK INFESTED DAUGHTERS, CORVUS THE CROW, THE WANING LIGHT Nov 3 2THE MOUNTAIN MAN, HASTEROID, KILLING MACHINE (JUDAS PRIEST TRIBUTE), HALLUX Nov 4 2LEGION OF GOONS, REDS, BEAVERETTE, THE GAGGED, AUSTRINGER Nov 5
ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604-736-3022. 2WENDY MACISAAC, MAIRI RANKIN, AND MAC MORIN Nov 6 2JADEA KELLY AND SWEET ALIBI Nov 10 2TEN STRINGS AND A GOAT SKIN Nov 11 2STARRING MARCUS MOSELY Nov 13 2THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR PROJECT Nov 17
THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2WET Nov 2 2CLASSIXX Nov 4 2KIIARA Nov 8 2THE STRUTS Nov 9 2AUTOGRAF & GOLDROOM Nov 11 2THE BOOM BOOMS Nov 12 2THE JEZABELS Nov 13 2DRAGONETTE Nov 23 2RÜFÜS DU SOL Nov 24 2ROY WOODS Dec 15
VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. 2ME & MAE Nov 5 2COLEMAN HELL Nov 10 2JAI WOLF Nov 16 2NICK CARTER Nov 23 2SONATA ARCTICA Nov 28 2AESOP ROCK Dec 19 2NEUROSIS Dec 20
IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover.
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-569-1144. 2A$AP FERG Nov 5 2MAC MILLER Nov 6 2LUKAS GRAHAM Nov 10 2TERRI CLARK Nov 12 2TORY LANEZ Nov 14 2IHOPE BENEFIT CONCERT Nov 17 2THE LIFE AQUATIC: A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE Nov 20 2YG Nov 21 2MØ Nov 23 2AURORA Dec 3
LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-6874424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. MOLSON CANADIAN THEATRE AT HARD ROCK 2080 United Blvd., 604-523-6888. 1,000-seat entertainment venue showcases leading Canadian and international acts. 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 25
WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2ECHO PAINTING Nov 3 2PETUNIA AND THE VIPERS Nov 7, 14 & 21 2RUEBEN DEGROOT Nov 8 2BELVEDERE/ CONTRA CODE/ JESSE LEBOURDAIS Nov 11 2BALKAN ROOTS Nov 19 2RAYGUN COWBOYS Nov 24
ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-665-3050. 2THE HEAD AND THE HEART Dec 5 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 16 PRINCETON PUB & GRILL 1901 Powell, 604-253-6645. 2THE PALOMARS Nov 3 2NU BRAINEATER Nov 4 2AIR STRANGER Nov 5 2HONKY TONK DILLETANTES Nov 10 2THE BUZZCATS, ONE TRICK PONY Nov 11 2BIG COAST Nov 12 2SICK BOSS WITH CHAD MACQUARRIE Nov 17 2COACH STROBCAM Nov 18
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lans are moving ahead for the redevelopment of a prominent heritage building that stands on the northeast corner of the intersection of East Hastings Street and Gore Avenue. Constructed in 1950 in the art-deco tradition, the concrete structure long served as a Vancouver headquarters for the Salvation Army. In recent years, its ownership passed to Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), which left it looking derelict and only used it for storage. Now, VIA Architecture has been tasked to redevelop the site in a partnership with VCH and B.C. Housing. In a telephone interview, Peg MacDonald, an architect with the firm, said it’s still early days for the project and there are few details to provide. However, she noted that the site’s address, 301 East Hastings, falls within the Oppenheimer District of the Downtown Eastside local area plan, so there are specific provisions that the development must adhere to. To start, any new building must not exceed 120 feet in height. Also, its residential component must consist entirely of rental units and include social-housing units that account for no less than 60 percent of the total. MacDonald told the Straight the site will be developed to the maximum density allowed under those constraints. She said there will also be a sizable health-care component. She maintained that it is too early to provide an estimate of the number of housing units that will be constructed. A comparable development under construction at 288 East Hastings will stand 12 storeys tall and contain 162 residential units, 104 of those to be rented at below-market rates. The building that has stood at 301 East Hastings since 1950 is well known for its concrete façade. It’s listed in the city’s heritage register with a “C” designation, meaning it can still be redeveloped and even demolished, though either option requires the City of Vancouver’s official approval. “We have to talk to the city about that and we haven’t yet had an introductory meeting with the city as far as how much, if any, of that
building needs to be preserved,” MacDonald said. “So I can’t tell you if we’re going to tear it all down or keep a piece of it.”
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loon artists at an East Vancouver community social about the Safeway site at Commercial Drive and Broadway. Civic watchdog Jak King said that he will be there, adding with a hearty laugh that he’ll try to avoid the face-painting part. What interests King is the public space that will be on the site when the property is redeveloped with condo buildings of 12 to 24 storeys, offices, storefronts, and a new Safeway. Landowner Crombie REIT has partnered with Westbank Projects Corp. for the project. “Part of the deal on Commercial and Broadway was that there would be some form of public space there in order to make up for the large buildings that are going in there,” King told the Straight by phone. According to King, the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood, where the Safeway is located, lacks green space with grass and “trees and nature, that sort of thing”. “What we need is a lot more green space,” King said. City hall has a different idea. The new Grandview-Woodland community plan approved by city council in July this year envisions a “hard-surfaced plaza” at the site. Planners are eyeing a plaza for cultural programs, markets, outdoor theatre, and children’s festivals, not the green space for which King hopes. Project designer Bing Thom Architects will host the November 9 community social at nearby Federico’s Supper Club (1728 Commercial Drive). Part of the architectural firm’s invitation to the event reads: “We are brainstorming a new urban typology for the city and for family living—an innovative communitybased approach that leverages outdoor green space, neighbourliness, and connectivity to the surrounding area.”
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in Pisces can unleash an ocean of Through mid-December, Mars keeps emotion, but we may not see all of it, you on a fast spin. or perhaps not all of it right away. CANCER ARIES June 21–July 22 March 20–April 20 Go with the moment. It Get started; try it on for could be great for you. A new job, size; you’ll be pleased to see where it project, or health initiative is well leads. Reward yourself Thursday/Fri- timed. When faced with a choice, go day. Venus/Uranus keeps conversa- with something innovative, unique, tion, inspiration, and serendipity on a liberating, freeing, outside of your lively track. Mars in Aquarius, starting usual. Mars in Aquarius can stimulate Tuesday, is also good for a fresh late a new financial opportunity or infusion. Rely on instincts and intui- a fresh perspective on who, what, tion. A fresh impulse, lead, or interest where, why, and how. It can also is worth exploring. You’ll now hit a boost your sex life. creative, social, and/or financial sprint. LEO TAURUS July 22–August 23 April 20–May 21 The workweek begins the Ready for something fresh weekend on a good upswing. At work and new? Friday’s Venus/Uranus says or at play, you should find your days it’s ready for you, too. It’s a break- and your intentions piece together through, a natural progression, a mat- easily and well. You’ll feel a noticeable ter of timing: the stars put opportunity shift once Mars enters Aquarius mid on your side from here on in. Hit re- next week. Busier days, more socializfresh or reinvent. As of midweek, Mars ing and running around are to be exinto Aquarius sets you/it onto full pected. A new interest, goal, or person steam ahead. Something unexpected could stir up added excitement. or spontaneous could prove to be a gift. VIRGO GEMINI August 23–September 23 May 21–June 21 Home matters and family Your entertainment fill is life move along nicely, especially on ready dial Friday night. Venus/ through the weekend. Best of all, Uranus keeps the connection, conver- Venus/Uranus helps you to hit the sation, and spark well lit. You’ll find refresh button where it does you the enough good fuel in the tank to see you greatest good. You are beginning to see through the weekend and through the with new eyes and to feel with a new week ahead, too. There’s never a dull heart. Look to Mars to keep you busy moment and always something to do, but also to help you problem-solve, imsomeplace to go, something to discuss. prove, heal, or cope better.
riday’s Venus/Uranus launches the weekend onto a lively and social upbeat. It also keeps the political action stirred up, which is not surprising, noting there’s only a few days to go before the USA elects its first female commanderin-chief. Keep your aim straight through Saturday and substantial gain can be made. The Capricorn moon sets a good backdrop for getting it under control and/or for putting your hands on good reward. Daylight-saving time sets the clock back at the zero hour Sunday, but the stars take little notice as the moon treks into Aquarius for Sunday/Monday. Don’t expect the first day back to work to be a slow go; Monday’s stars strike good fl int from the get-go. Take advantage of good timing to make the pitch or play. USA election Tuesday begins on a void-of-course Aquarius moon. This suggests that the outcome of the vote has already been technically decided. Watering it down, the moon slips into Pisces midday, suggesting some confusion, diff usion, or hidden elements at play. The collective response is likely one of both hope and disillusionment. While the election of the U.S.’s first female president writes an iconic piece of history, Chiron, the wounded-healer archetype, puts added wear and tear on the event. Several hours after the polls close, Mars advances into Aquarius, which can increase the potential for a backlash. Wednesday’s moon continuing
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Don’t you just love it when it runs so smooth? At work or on your own time, Thursday through Saturday keeps you making the most of it and feeling mighty pleased about it, too. Sunday/Monday, take it one step at a time. As of midweek, Mars revs up matters to do with home, family, self-employment, creative projects, legal steps, work, and health upgrades.
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Thursday through Saturday, you’ll have it under good control. The Capricorn moon puts you in charge while Venus/Uranus keeps you quick on the ball. Take time out Friday night for romance, relaxation, or a kick back with friends. As of midweek, Mars boosts your energy and gives you something fresh to shoot for.
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AQUARIUS
January 20–February 18
One way or another, one thing after another. Let the moment dictate the play. Spontaneity delivers your best picks. Uranus, your ruler, keeps it interesting Thursday through Saturday. The Aquarius moon in Aquarius keeps it upbeat Sunday through Tuesday. Late Tuesday through mid-December, Mars in Aquarius keeps life in the fast lane.
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PISCES
February 18–March 20
The workweek fi nishes with relationships, fi nances, business matters, and personal plans on a smooth move-along. Friday, you’ll get your money’s worth; satisfaction is readily found. Share and socialize or go off to do your own thing this weekend. It’s all good. Sunday/ Monday, you’re on a wind-up. By Tuesday/Wednesday, you’ll hit full steam ahead. -
Venus in Sagittarius keeps both you and opportunity in full swing through the end of next week. Seek attention, feedback, or favour. Make the most of it, especially now through Monday while Venus/Uranus is in a gift ing mood. Keeping you good to go through the middle of December, Mars in Aquarius boosts Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s your energy, intuition, social life, free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. and special brand of genius.
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male who looks like the tall, strong, professional, alpha-male type on the outside. On the inside, though, I would like to find a strong, confident woman who wants a cuckolding relationship— she sleeps with other men, while I am faithful and submissive to her. There must be women out there who would love to have a loving, doting boyfriend or husband waiting at home while they go out with other men, but I tend to attract women who want the alpha-male type. What can I do to find—or attract—the kind of woman I’m interested in? Or should I go in for vanilla dating and then have a discussion about cuckolding after we’ve started having sex? > ANOTHER LAD PURSUING HUMILIATING ACTION
“Most women, even dominant women, are still looking for guys who look like they ‘kick ass and take names’ in every other aspect of their lives,” said FleeMarket (u/flee_market), one of the moderators of r/cuckold on Reddit. “As for how to find dominant women, I see a lot of submissive guys on various websites—OkCupid, Reddit, Tinder, FetLife—and something they don’t understand is that women looking for sex or love online tend to get buried in unsolicited PMs from thirsty guys. That makes it hard to find that one respectful PM from a guy like our letter writer here. The signal gets lost in the noise.” Before we get to some practical advice for ALPHA, a quick word about the term cuck. While it has long been an affectionate/horny term embraced by self-identified cuckold fetishists,
the alt-right has attempted to turn cuck into a term of abuse, hurling it at any straight white man who gives a shit about racial justice, police brutality, and the plight of undocumented immigrants. In an effort to wrest cuck back from the bigots, and to mark the waning days of the Trump campaign, I’m dedicating this week’s column to cuck as properly understood: a guy who wants his partner to sleep with other men. So, ALPHA, how can you attract a woman who wants a cuck? “What’s worked for me is using the Internet not to find people but to find kinky events where dominant women gather in real life,” said FleeMarket. “I’m on my second openly dominant female partner in four years, both of whom I met at kinky parties. The events are usually listed on FetLife, and you usually have to attend a munch first to demonstrate that you’re not a dingus who can’t follow the rules or a psycho who doesn’t care about them.” You will find a lot of advice for wannabe cucks on r/cuckold, most offered in response to men trying to talk their vanilla wives or girlfriends into cuckolding them. But you’re as likely to read stories of failure (she said no, absolutely not, never) as you are to read success stories (she’s fucking other guys, and here, with her okay, is the video). “As much effort and time as getting into the kinky community takes, it’s still easier than trying to turn a vanilla woman kinky,” said FleeMarket. “He shouldn’t ‘lead with his kink’. If a woman asks him what
> BY DAN SAVAGE his interests are, mention it, but dial down the excitement level. These ladies deal with a lot of creeps, and it’s easy to scare them off. Basically: Be in the right place, treat the women there with respect, and get to know them as people first.”
My ex-three-exes-ago was a
cuckold. I swore I would never date another cuckold after he blew up at me for not cheating on him juuuuuust right. I was just a prop, and I came to hate him. I also hated you, Dan, because he raised the subject by giving me some of your columns to read. Fastforward five years, and my brand-new boyfriend tells me being cuckolded is his ultimate fantasy. I literally started to cry. He held me, he apologized on behalf of all cuckolds everywhere, we laughed, and then he dropped it. He didn’t pressure me, and about a year later, we gave it a try on his birthday. It turns out my boyfriend—fiancé now—is much better at this kink than my ex was. He’s open and honest, he communicates constructively, and he was willing to step outside his comfort zone to accommodate my needs. (He wanted the other guys to be strangers, but I need to know someone before letting him in my body.) I have a regular thing with an ex-FWB, and sex with my cuck is frequent and hot. Things couldn’t be better. So I’m not mad at you anymore, Dan! All is forgiven! > CHEATING HAPPILY EVER AFTER, THANKS!
Congrats on your upcoming wedding, CHEAT! And ALPHA? It would appear some vanilla women can be turned.
> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < HANDSOME MIX
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 31, 2016 WHERE: 20 to Victoria Hastings/Delta Hotel
20 from downtown headed east. It’s the second time I’ve seen you in recent weeks. You kept your head up, keenly observing your surroundings which was a nice addition to my music at the time. I noticed you help a woman on my side of the isle as her bag fell open and things started to roll away from her. Shortly after, an interesting gentleman got on and sat next to you, but not before swaying strangely into the seat. We both noticed, caught eyes and smiled. I caught your eye again and we shared another smile before you got off at Princess Ave.. So what do you think?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 29, 2016 WHERE: Commodore Ballroom You asked if the bar had white tequila but it only had gold. We both agreed that it was better than Cuervo. Wish I’d asked for your number after we exchanged names. Maybe take you up on that drink offer?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2016 WHERE: Granville Island We gazed while walking past each other. You were with your parents(?), and I was behind my group. Let’s take a walk together and gaze over coffee.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2016 WHERE: 2nd Ave Vancouver You were walking your adorable Pug. I asked you about him and we chatted for a minute or two, and then I continued on my way. You had a very nice smile and kindness to you. Would you be up for a walk and a coffee sometime?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 28, 2016 WHERE: The Fox Cabaret You were dressed up as a hipster (I think), and I was a black cat. You were with your pal who was in from Pemberton, and I was giving you the eyes all night. We shimmy shaked towards the end of the night, and were meant to meet outside, but you weren’t anywhere to be found when I popped out. I thought you were a babe (obviously) and would love to see you again. Tell me where you were before the Fox so I know it’s you..?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 28, 2016 WHERE: VCC We meet briefly at VCC while we were at work. I was working breaking down a doctor’s gathering. We exchanged a few smiles .You where gonna hook me up with coffee. Talked about how I don’t drink milk. Looked for you afterward but could not find you anywhere. This could be a long shot.
YOU DATED MY FRIEND
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 28, 2016 WHERE: Davie Street
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 28, 2016 WHERE: East Van
You were waiting for a bus on Davie Street. You were smiling at my dog and then I said hi. You are so beautiful! Shortish brown hair with a beautiful and kind round face. I would really like to take you out for a coffee or drink! Let me know what my puppy looks like so I know it's you.
We’ve been spending a lot time talking at social gatherings with our mutual friend... and you recently (drunkenly) gave me your number. We’re both attached, but I think we have a real connection? If I’m right... send me a text saying “Hey, I haven’t heard from you in a while”.
UNAPPETIZING CHEESES
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This is certainly a long shot, but we met last year at that Portraits of Brief Encounters art show. We started off talking about the stories in the show and then for whatever reason the conversation turned to cheese. You told me your favourite (Brie?), I told you mine (bonus points if you remember), then you explained to me what good ol’ Albertan head cheese is (dear god) and I argued that it technically isn’t even really cheese. I saw on Instagram that there’s another one of those shows coming up, and we never did come to a conclusion in our debate. Maybe you’ll be there and you can finally try and prove me wrong?
BLUE EYE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 25, 2016 WHERE: SkyTrain You, dark blond with clean comb to one side, Harry Potter glasses, hopped on Expo Line at Chinatown Station heading to Surrey. Your intoxicating, deep blue eyes met with mine a few times. You were in suit with brown shoes, golden necklace, You and I are both 5’7”. I’m hoping you can see this and maybe contact me for a drink?
GOJASUNA KAKUDOSTANLEY PARK ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY POPCORN BOOTH
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and a few drinks with this other guy before taking both men up to your room.” Whatever you decide, OHWOW, FleeMarket recommends having a plan in place in case things/feels/ dicks go wrong. “Use the traffic-light system,” said FleeMarket. “Things getting too intense? Say ‘yellow’ to slow the play down. Someone getting upset? Say ‘red’ to stop the play and all three of you can talk. It’s always better if everyone understands it’s okay to > ON HIM WATCHING OR WAITING call a stop to play if you need to.” P.S. It’ll be more than kissing either I just came across the word way! wittol. It means “a man who knows, “Everybody’s different,” said Flee- condones, and even encourages Market. “There are guys who love be- his wife’s enjoyment of coitus ing left at home while she goes out on with another man or men; a cona ‘date’, there are guys who love being tented cuckold”. Considering the in the house/hotel but not in the room, frequency with which cuckolding there are guys who want to be in the comes up and your inf luence on room watching or participating. But language, I thought you might as far as whether you should dip your want to know. > HE’S EXPANDING LEXICON toe in or jump in with both feet, there PERPETUALLY is no ‘right way’, only what’s right for you two.” That said, OHWOW, the reality of Discontent is a big part of the cucka partner sleeping with someone else olding kink, HELP, as cuckolds get for the first time—in front of you or off on feeling humiliated and jealous. not—can be a lot more intense than So I’m not sure wittol quite works. the fantasy, and you should definitely But if the alt-right white supremacists succeed in making cuck syntake things slow the fi rst time. “There’s the ‘baby steps approach’, onymous with “race traitor”, maybe i.e., just flirting with or kissing the cucks will switch to wittol. But don’t other guy (whether in front of him or give up without a fight, cucks! not) and then seeing how he reacts,” said FleeMarket. “Or telling him that On the Lovecast, when fathers come you slept with the other guy, when out to their daughters: savagelove you really didn’t—just to see how he cast.com. Email: mail@savagelove. takes it. Then there’s jumping in with net . Follow Dan on Twitter @fake both feet and getting a hotel room dansavage.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 22, 2015 WHERE: Portraits of Brief Encounters
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I’m a straight woman who’s about to cuck my man. We’re trying to figure out if my fi rst sexual encounter with another guy should be in front of him or not. He says he doesn’t care; he’s excited either way. I am so nervous, but it’s a good nervous. We have been monogamous until now. I know you say to take it slow. But when it comes to cuckolding, does slow mean “Only kiss the other guy in front of him the fi rst time” or “Tell him about the other guy I kissed”?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 26, 2016 WHERE: Stanley Park Ghost Train- SPES Popcorn Booth Wednesday night at the popcorn booth for the Ghost Train; you’re an absolutely STUNNING Asian girl with a beyond-words smile and a gaze that I couldn’t release myself from. You kept offering me free popcorn- I chatted with you and your coworkers about job opportunities at the Park Board. You really should let me take you out for something more than beer and popcorn...
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 23, 2016 WHERE: Burnaby You came to our Halloween party. And asked me a question no one's asked in a while. I had to ask “why” and we both just agreed that it’s because 2016. I knew you came in with your GF. But I wanted to tell you “I’ll be whatever you want me to be”. You laid your head on my shoulder. And I looked at your (assumed) gf uneasily. She just smiled back at me. Your taxi came. But then you started throwing up. If it doesn’t work out for you and that other girl, you know where I live (if you were a little bit aware) or get in touch with me. I’d love to go for a tea, or coffee. Chat for a bit.
COLIN FIRTH LOOK ALIKE AT AGAINST ME! SHOW
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 25, 2016 WHERE: The Commodore Ballroom I was giving you the eyes from a distance in between the sets of Dave Haus and Against Me! on the Commodore Ballroom dance floor. You - handsome as ever wearing sneakers, black jeans and a blue bomber jacket. Also glasses. Me black dress with polka dot sleeves and a bun. Only at the very end of the Against Me! set did I realize you were watching the entire thing right behind me! What a fail! Wanna go to a show?
YES TO SALTY NUTS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 22, 2016 WHERE: Steveston docks or on Top of a Container We talk at work and I really like your style. Your flirtatious smile and attitude makes my day. Talking with you is easy and the lookin your eyes screams take me now. There are always so many people around when we talk. I’m not sure of the etiquette of at work dating but I would really like to see you after work. I would like to give you my outlook about Salty Nuts btw. I couldn’t take my eyes off you on the container on Tuesday.
Scan to confess I love reading music/musician biographies But when I finish I always feel depressed. I chose the easy route in life instead of the harder, but artistically creative and more fun route. Feels too late to give it a go now. Getting old sucks.
Gotta tell someone... I have been dating my girl for three months and I want to marry her. Never believed in soul mates till now... but I’m going to wait a year until I ask her.
Sinking I can feel myself sinking into a pit of despair & depression but I can’t seem to stop it. I’ve used exercise to help stave off the depression in the last 5 years but life has become a little out of control lately and I haven’t been able to exercise. It’s effecting me badly. I don’t know what to do to pull out. What responsibility do I drop to be able to take control again?
Green monster I hate this feeling and find it to be a really unattractive trait in people but I’m jealous of an old friend. She used to be overweight and now she’s extremely fit/slim. She posted pictures of herself and boyfriend on a trip to Mexico in her bikini and I got super jealous and annoyed. This is so not like me and I feel like a shitty person for not being able to be happy for her but she kind of turned into a bitch when she lost weight (stuck up) and tried to sleep with my boyfriend hence the “old” friend part. We were best friends. I wish I could forgive her, move on and be happy for her but I just can’t.
Underneath it all People seem to think I’m quite demure. Behind closed doors I tend to get a lot of surprised reactions. It’s sort of nice to crush someone’s assumptions of you into dust especially if they react positively to it. I guess I should feel thankful I’ve been able to contain the freak in me this well...
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