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COUNSELLING Among the many recipients of the 2015 Mayor’s Arts Awards are Kidd Pivot founder Crystal Pite (in dance) and singer-songwriter Veda Hille (in music). Braid is being honoured in literary arts. She chose Rob Taylor as her emerging artist. Multimedia artist Cindy Mochizuki is winner of the Mayor’s Arts Award in film and new media. She selected Amanda Strong as her emerging artist. In culinary arts, Les Amis du Fromage cofounder Alice Spurrell is the winner. She chose Jennifer Peters as her emerging artist. Other awards but no cash have gone to several supporters of the arts. Former theatre owner Leonard Schein wins for philanthropy; Jane Westheuser is the arts-board member of the year; Audrey Zaharichuk is honoured for volunteerism; and Goldcorp is named in the business-support category. The Mayor’s Arts Awards were created in 2006 to recognize leading artists’ contributions to the city. > CHARLIE SMITH
MEXICAN ART REPLACES JEFF WALL PHOTOGRAPHS
Vancouver’s art world is buzzing with news that acclaimed photographer Jeff Wall’s work won’t be shown at the opening of the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. Instead, Canada’s newest Class A art museum will feature paintings by Mexican masters Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and JosÊ Clemente Orozco when it opens early next year. The three modernists are known as Los TrÊs Grandes. Rivera, a 20th-century painter and muralist, was married to fellow artist Frida Kahlo. His Man at the Crossroads fresco of Russian Communist Vladimir
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Lenin gained worldwide fame after it was destroyed by the Rockefeller family in 1934. It was prepared for Rockefeller Center in New York City, The 56,000-square-foot Audain Art Museum is scheduled to open in late January. The first exhibition will also include a sculpture by Oaxaca artist Rufino Tamayo. According to a news release issued by the museum, many of Wall’s works “turned out to be unavailable�. Wall, who’s from Vancouver, is travelling and was unavailable to comment. The museum’s chief curator, Darrin Martens, recommended showing the Mexican artists’ paintings. They’re owned by Polygon Homes Ltd. chairman Michael Audain and his wife, Yoshiko Karasawa, who both created the museum.
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a lifetime-achievement award from Mayor Gregor Robertson. Joy Coghill, an actor and former artistic director of the Vancouver Playhouse, is among 21 B.C. artists receiving 2015 Mayor’s Arts Awards at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre next Thursday (November 12). In 1953, Coghill founded Holiday Theatre, which was the first professional theatre group in Canada for children. She was also instrumental in the creation of Western Gold Theatre Company, which was the first professional theatre group for seniors. In addition, Coghill is honorary president of PAL Vancouver, an affordablehousing and theatre project that she cofounded in 2006. Recipients of the 2015 Mayor’s Arts Awards are chosen through peer review. The winners receive a $3,000 cash prize and are tasked with naming an emerging artist in their field, who also receives $3,000. In theatre, the winner is Margo Kane, artistic managing director of Full Circle: First Nations Performance, which puts on the annual Talking Stick Festival. She selected Tai Amy Grauman as her emerging theatre artist. Songwriter and performer Veda Hille is the winner in music and chose Adrian Teacher as her emerging artist. Kidd Pivot founder Crystal Pite has been named winner of the Mayor’s Arts Award in dance. Pite chose choreographer and performer Lesley Telford as her emerging artist. First Nations multidisciplinary artist Brian Jungen is being honoured in visual arts. He named Ron Tran as his emerging artist in this field. In public art, Liz Magor is the winner. Her work includes LightShed at Coal Harbour and Ninth Column in False Creek. She selected Devon Knowles as her emerging artist. Singer and musical director Renae Morriseau is the recipient of the Mayor’s Arts Award for community-engaged art. She chose Lorelei Williams, who’s raised public awareness of missing and murdered women, as her emerging artist. Williams created the Butterflies in Spirit dance troupe to further that objective. In craft and design, a cofounder of the West Coast Clay Sculptors’ Association, Debra Sloan, is the winner. She named Sam Knopp as her emerging artist. Author and poet Kate
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FASHION 2JUST ANNOUNCED FASHION AVANT-GARDE: NOW AND THEN Fashion show juxtaposes cuttingedge, innovative, high-tech, and low-tech fashion trends from the past and today. Nov 14, 7 pm, Museum of Vancouver (1100 Chestnut). Tix $20-25, info www. museumofvancouver.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK DIWALI FEST The Diwali Celebration Society presents Diwali Downtown events held in Surrey and Vancouver, Diwali workshops, storytelling and rangoli making, cooking demonstrations, free performances at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch, and special events around Commercial Drive. To Nov 15, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info www.diwalifest.ca/. VANCOUVER HEALTH SHOW Meet the people behind the products, the health experts, and the fitness leaders who are ready to help you live your most vibrant life. Nov 7-8, 11 am–5 pm, Vancouver Convention Centre East (999 Canada Place). Tix $18/15/12/10, info www.the healthshows.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS MAIN STREET VINYL RECORD FAIR Get deals on records, turntables, vintage audio gear, record storage, and other accessories. Nov 15, 11 am–5 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $4, info www.vinylrecordfair.com/.
KIDS’ STUFF 2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER TRAIN EXPO Model-train show includes operating trains, dioramas, models, Lego, and kids’ activities. Nov 7-8, 10 am–4 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $10/8/5/kids under six free, info www. vancouvertrainexpo.ca/.
SPORTS 2THIS WEEK LIONS VS. STAMPEDERS The B.C. Lions take on the Calgary Stampeders in Canadian Football League action. Nov 7, 4 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $44-129 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
ATTRACTIONS SCIENCE WORLD Highlights include hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, the Centre Stage for live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre. Closed Mondays. 1455 Quebec. Info 604443-7443, www.scienceworld.ca/.
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CORNUCOPIA Whistler’s 11-day fall festival of food and drink features gala tastings, winery dinners, interactive seminars, workshops, and parties. Nov 5-15, various Whistler venues. Info www.whistler.com/ cornucopia/.
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BURNABY BEER FEST Craft-beer tastings from select micro-breweries, paired with food from a popular food-truck company, and live entertainment. Nov 13, 4-7 pm, 8-11 pm, Spacekraft (201–4501 Kingsway, Burnaby). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.eventbrite.ca/.
LE CIRQUE DE LA NUIT: VERADEASI Le Cirque de la Nuit presents high-flying theatrics and awe-inspiring cirque performances. Nov 13, 9 pm–2 am, Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard). Tix $85, info www.cirquenuit.com/.
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European choreographer Stijn Celis works with Ballet BC, including new dancer Brandon Alley. Celis is creating a new piece set to the music of Chor Leoni, which will perform live. Michael Slobodian photos.
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these days—though he certainly had a life of touring as a dancer for companies from Cullberg Ballet to Ballet Zurich. He’s made much-lauded pieces for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal but has never been to Vancouver. It was Molnar who invited him to work here, and Celis who For Ballet BC’s season opener, choreographer Stijn Celis turns the asked to make a new piece. lyrical music of Chor Leoni’s men’s choir into deeply human dance “They are phenomenal dancers; they were so open As the recorded voices of a male choir and so hungry,” he comments. reverberate in the Ballet BC rehearsal hall, 12 danMolnar proposed working with Chor Leoni, BY JANET SM IT H cers move and intertwine in duos and trios across which chose a program that moves from darkness the floor, hoisting each other skyward and embra- through to light, through sacred and secular texts, cing as if their lives depend on it. It’s dance that’s including words and music by both Carl Orff and as poetic as it is earthbound. But don’t be fooled Leonard Cohen. “But with a lot of emphasis on the by its raw grace: it’s so physically taxing that the secular for me—the human, the more concrete,” performers’ chests heave maniacally whenever says Celis, who has staged everything from rethey step off the stage area. imagined story ballets to dance set to Nick Cave. If the new piece by esteemed Belgian choreog“He has such a gravitas, and you really feel the rapher Stijn Celis looks like it has grand sweep human spirit,” Molnar says later, in a separate now, just imagine it backed by the 50 live voices of interview, of her idea to pair Celis with the choir. Vancouver’s top men’s choir, Chor Leoni. “He’s also very musical and very expressive, but Interviewed during a break, the choreographer it’s not gratuitous.…You needed a choreographer explains that the choral group will sing on-stage that could go to these depths, not only underbehind a dark scrim while the dancers move in standing it [the sacred music] as a human being front of it. With this collaboration, cooked up but who can actually translate that on-stage.” by Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar, one Interestingly, Celis, a rarity who is equally wonders if the power of all that male vocal energy trained in and lauded for set design, has chosen has affected the way Celis choreographs his dan- not to plot out an elaborate staging for this precers. It has, as it turns out, but not in ways you’d miere. “I’ve been doing a lot of pieces lately where expect—unless, of course, you’re familiar with his I’m trying to be completely focused on the chornuanced, deeply probing approach to his work. eography, so that I can really have a blank slate,” “All the choir pieces are absolutely not bombastic he explains, “where I can start from the point of or monumental or forceful or expressive of any kind zero, a tabula rasa. It’s vital for me at this moment of masculine cliché,” he says. “They’re more soft and to do that....I think life is so complex, the more you very lyrical. Maybe it’s because I’m a male myself, strip away and the more you work on minimalizI didn’t find it hard to work with. Also some of the ing, the more you get to the physical essence.” men are singing high, in tenor, so there is a sense of On this quick trip across the world, it seems Celis something lyrical and fine and light in there.” has found that essence, and more—not least because As artistic director of ballet at the Saarländisches he’s escaped the day-to-day business of running a Staatstheater in Germany, Celis doesn’t get many successful European company in a state theatre. chances to travel to North America to create work “Before I came here, I had a festival at my theatre,”
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he says with a smile, “so when I came here, it was like…” And he breathes out in a sigh. “It’s nice to work with a different company for a while.” Ballet BC presents Program 1 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from Thursday to Saturday (November 5 to 7).
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Ballet BC marks 30 with works by Pite and Soto When Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar set about programming the opening show for the troupe’s 30th anniversary, she knew she wanted to make an impact. First up was the idea to stage a commission by a celebrated European choreographer working with local men’s choir Chor Leoni. (See story above.) The other step was securing a work by indemand Vancouver choreographic star Crystal Pite, whose Solo Echo was a commission for Nederlands Dans Theater and will be a Canadian premiere when it shows here. “It’s a gem of all the things you know of Crystal, and what she’s working on,” says Molnar of the piece, set to Johannes Brahms’s cello-and-piano sonatas, inspired by the writing of Mark Strand, and exploring themes of loss. “I just think it’s a piece that speaks to her many, many talents and it shows off how musical she is.” The 30th season also launches with a third work that speaks to the company’s past and future. It’s a remounting of Spaniard Cayetano Soto’s haunting Twenty Eight Thousand Waves, which was a hit last season—a piece by a talent who will serve as the troupe’s resident choreographer for the next three years. The show, called Program 1, which debuts Thursday to Saturday (November 5 to 7) at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, will tour to Victoria and Nanaimo, as well as Portland and Banff. > JANET SMITH
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Editor’s choice THE ART OF FUSION Contemporary dance, mesmerizing Persian-inspired music, and interactive real-time video come together in what promises to be a sublime cultural meld in Sunya. The hypnotic work features a dream cross-cultural combo from Montreal: always-arresting Indo-Armenian dance artist Roger Sinha and Kiya Tabassian’s acclaimed Constantinopole ensemble. La Presse has called it “inspired and inspiring”. The Cultch and Diwali Fest present Sunya at the Cultch Historic Theatre next Tuesday to Saturday (November 10 to 14).
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BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II (November 7 and 8 at the Orpheum) You won’t have a more fun night out with the VSO this year.
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NIRBHAYA (To November 14 at the York Theatre) A searing look at assault with women telling real stories.
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FUSE (November 6 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) The VAG’s multimedia party features artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun amid its performing guests.
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BROTHERS IN ARMS (November 11 at West Vancouver and St. Andrew’s-Wesley United churches) Chor Leoni gives voice to Remembrance Day.
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PUSH INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY (November 9 at the Fox Cabaret) Charlie Demers hosts, Veda Hille and others sing at this bash.
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RICH VOS Our guest pick this week is from comedy writer Guy MacPherson, host of radio show/podcast What’s So Funny?. Here’s his choice for a standup show this week: “Vancouver gets lots of visiting club comics up from Los Angeles. But it’s rare that we’re treated to comedians from exotic locales like Joisey. Rich Vos is a comic’s comic, but he never fails to win over audiences—and, truth be told, alienate a few, too, but that’s all part of his charm. He’ll be joined by host Kevin Banner.” Rich Vos is at the Comedy MIX from Thursday to Saturday (November 5 to 7).
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N OV E M B E R 2 0 15 I BRING WHAT I LOVE (FILM) Thu Nov 5, 7:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre in partnership with The Cinematheque The unforgettable musical journey of Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour.
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Presented by the UBC School of Music The UBC Symphony Orchestra performs Shostakovich’s 9th, and selections by Verdi, Haydn, and Hamel. See full UBC School of Music event listings at: chancentre.com/UBCSchoolofMusic
hen Billy Connolly last played Vancouver, in 2010, he was a sprightly 68-year-old, telling jokes and stories for a full three hours on the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage. Since then the Scottish comedy legend has been battling deafness to go along with the Parkinson’s he’s been dealing with for a decade and the prostate cancer he has since beaten. So how will he cope this time around? Two shows in two nights. Anything he doesn’t get to the first night, he can take up the second. Which isn’t to say he won’t go on at length this time, too. He never knows how long he’ll stay out there. The shows vary in length depending on his and the audience’s mood. “I aim for two [hours],” he says over the phone from his home in New York. “Sometimes I look at my watch and think, ‘My God! What am I doing?!’ It’s a kind of organic thing that I do. I just go with the flow.” He recalls doing seven nights at the London Palladium, each different from the one before.
It’s well-documented that Connolly morphed from folksinger into standup when his patter between songs kept getting longer. In reality, though, comedy was always the endgame. “I became a folksinger because I didn’t know how to become a comedian,” he says. “When I was a schoolboy, I wanted to be a comedian.” He’d watch Scottish acts like Chic Murray in local theatres. “But by the time I got around to it, I was hairy and hippie-ish and was considered too risqué for nightclubs.” The comics then, he says, were “dressed in blue mohair suits and had haircuts like Perry Como and were doing jokes about their mother-in-law or Pakistanis or something. So I didn’t fit.” Then he saw Pete Seeger on TV and decided to buy a banjo. And a career in show biz was started. He doesn’t play the instrument much these days because the Parkinson’s Billy Connolly varies his live comedy shows according to the crowd’s mood. disease affects his left hand. Thankfully, he’s still in full Instead of giving a set show, Connolly voice—and full brogue, which reads the crowd. “Everything affects hasn’t diminished even though he’s the audience,” he says, from the news lived abroad for 20-odd years. The to the weather. see page 17
YOUSSOU N’DOUR Sat Nov 10, 8:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre Called “the African voice of the century” and “one of the world’s greatest singers”, N’Dour creates music of exceptional power and relevance, drawing on his griot heritage of sung history and social commentary.
SWITHUN: A MEDIEVAL MIRACLE PLAY Fri Nov 13, 7:30pm
Presented by Early Music Vancouver Dialogos Ensemble, with Katarina Livljanic, director and vocalist. Early medieval polyphony from Winchester is at the origin of this programme.
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CARMINHO AND SARA TAVARES Sat Nov 21, 8:00pm
Presented by the Chan Centre Celebrate the beauty and diversity of Portuguese/Lusophone music with this double bill of captivating fado song and soulful folk-rock.
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Air india exorcises terrorist act through art At SFU Woodward’s, sound, words, and imagery combine in a multimedia work that draws on real memories and even jet noises > B Y A L EX A NDER VAR TY
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he journey begins, like another fateful voyage, with the sound of a jet airliner lumbering from terminal to runway. But while the passengers on Air India Flight 182 were listening to real Pratt & Whitney turbines—engines that would continue to thrum until a bomb shattered them just off the coast of Ireland—those attending the world premiere of air india (redacted) will hear the sonic chicanery of a chamber orchestra about to take flight. “The opening of the piece is a sequence of 23 different chords, which are derived from the sounds of a jet taxiing that I recorded and then used computer analysis to transfer into orchestral sounds,” explains composer Jürgen Simpson, reached at a downtown Vancouver hotel. “You actually hear the sound of the airplane, through the orchestra.” That’s a good example of the kind of imagination the Dublin-born Simpson has brought to his operatic collaboration with the Turning Point Ensemble. But it’s also emblematic of what the project is all about: making art out of unlikely materials, at least in part as an exorcism of the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history. In all, 329 people—268 of them Canadian citizens—died in the Air India incident. The perpetrators are thought to have been Sikh militants, but only the Vancouver Island resident who built the bomb was ever convicted in court. And while the public’s memory of the 1985 event has been dulled by larger and more recent atrocities, those with a personal connection to the disaster are still struggling to make sense of their loss. That, perhaps, is where art can help. Art, and time. For Vancouver poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar, whose Children of Air India: Un/authorized Exhibits and Interjections serves as the basis for air india (redacted)’s libretto, both were necessary for her to process the deaths of her beloved aunt and uncle, passengers in the ill-fated Boeing 747. “Ultimately, sorrow finds its way into language, into images, into sounds,” Saklikar explains from her East Van home. “But I stored
The Turning Point Ensemble will perform air india (redacted), a world premiere by Dublin-born composer Jürgen Simpson. David Cooper photo.
and carried those images and sounds for many, many years. I was 23 when the plane blew up, and I didn’t really talk about it much. My book covers that a lot. My book is a kind of meditation on silence, in many ways—the way we silence trauma in family, and in our lives. I feel that if you silence these things.…they can come up in other ways that are maybe even more problematic.” One small example, she suggests, might be the way that self-censorship once threatened her transition from a career in law to one in literature. It was only through dealing with her private history that she broke through a seemingly insurmountable creative block. “In order to just get writing, I started delving into this kind of like an archivist, going into all the
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many, many records,” she explains. “And that’s when I actually started dealing with it—over 25 years later.” Some 7,000 kilometres away, Simpson had reached his own impasse. An earlier attempt at a Flight 182 opera was going nowhere, but when Turning Point conductor Owen Underhill sent him a copy of Children of Air India, the fog lifted. “My response was ‘This is extraordinary, and if I could start over again, this would be the foundation upon which I would love to build,’ ” he recalls, citing Saklikar’s “docupoetic” collage of heartfelt ref lection, formal complexity, and found text from archival sources. “And then it transpired that there was the opportunity to reboot the project.”
Just how air india (redacted)’s blend of Saklikar’s words, Simpson’s music, and John Galvin’s multimedia design elements will play out remains to be seen, but the poet says she’s impressed by the composer’s respectful use of her text, and by the virtuosic capabilities of the Turning Point musicians. One thing she’s not expecting to find, though, is closure. “Oh, no,” she says. “There’s never, never closure. It’s an open wound, but you go on.” The Turning Point Ensemble presents air india (redacted) at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s from Friday to next Wednesday (November 6 to 11).
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the Chinese university system, she has to repeat them—and face the possibility of failing again. As Siu admits, it’s an obvious play on the inhuman aspects of contemporary piano pedagogy. “That’s the core of the piece, for me,” he says in a separate telephone interview. Beyond that, though, Foxconn Frequency No. 2 also refers to an ongoing epidemic of suicide attempts at the Foxconn City industrial park in Shenzhen, China. “What’s actually underpinning the entire structure is a poem by Xu Lizhi, a Foxconn worker who committed suicide in 2014,” Siu explains. “It speaks quite directly to all the things that he had to endure in his lifetime, and then at the very end the lines are ‘All I swallowed are now gushing out of my throat/Unfurling on the land of my ancestors/Into a disgraceful poem.’ ” Chow recognizes that the torture of trying to perfect Siu’s impossible score is nothing compared to the ongoing misery of being an underpaid assembly-line serf in a toxic, fast-paced environment. Still, she feels a certain empathy for Xu and his coworkers, noting that Foxconn Frequency No. 2’s vertiginous learning curve has pushed her to the point where she feels “really deflated as a human being”. The idea of having to work at such a pace all day, every day, she adds, is unimaginable—although Foxconn’s factory workers don’t have to deal with one extra bit of stress that’s just been dropped on the pianist’s head. “I think my piano teacher’s going to come,” she confides. “So now I’m really feeling nervous!” -
f there’s anything we can deduce from Vicky Chow’s day job—pianist with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York City’s go-to group for new and difficult music—it’s that there’s not a score in the world that could faze her. But that’s not quite true, however, as the former Vancouverite confesses in a telephone interview with the Georgia Straight. New York’s a breeze, but a brief visit to her hometown is proving rather more challenging, if only because one of the things she plans to do while she’s here is play a piece that’s designed to be impossible. The composition in question is Rémy Siu’s Foxconn Frequency No. 2—for single visibly Chinese performer, presented as part of the Western Front’s ongoing 88 Tuned Bongos series of avant-garde piano recitals. There’s a purpose behind Siu’s taxing his interpreter with too much music—and we’ll get to that in a minute—but first Chow just wants to vent. “Working with Rémy, I’ve had to confront the idea of the possibility of failure, and the possibility of not executing things correctly,” she says. “In many ways, the most interesting part of the piece is when I fail, I think. I’ve kind of had to learn that the failure is part of the success of this piece— which is really messed up! “Rémy’s always, like, ‘Oh my gosh, thank you, Vicky, for not hating me right now,’ ” she adds, laughing. “I think he’s afraid that I’m going to combust!” Among other things, Chow is being asked to perform knuckle-busting finger exercises on a cheap electronic piano hooked up to an electronic test- Vicky Chow plays the Western Front ing device. If she doesn’t succeed, ac- on Friday (November 6) as part of the cording to parameters established by 88 Tuned Bongos Piano Series.
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Theatre artist and singer Mark Hellman was a lifelong admirer of Pete Seeger before getting the chance to play the icon in The Incompleat Folksinger.
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United States all the way up to around 1970. The song list was pretty much built straight out of the book. And in between, you get to explore the character of the man as he struggled with his own ideas and his own opinions. He started to challenge his own opinions about the way the world works. The book was the perfect vehicle.” Hellman says the show could have been five hours instead of two. They left so much on the cutting-room floor (including Seeger’s good friend Bob Dylan) that they’re already half joking about a Volume 2 should this production be successful. (It debuted in Victoria in January, and has already played in Port Moody and Nanaimo.) But it might actually come to fruition, given the powerful new wave of civil-rights and social-justice movements, protests, and actions, including Black Lives Matter, Idle No More, and Occupy. “He was very much in favour of the Occupy movement when it started in New York,” Hellman says. “This tremendous difference between rich and poor seems to be getting more intense…and it’s being talked about even by major people running for political office. It’s quite extraordinary.” The ideals and principles Seeger sang about, which have guided Hellman’s own career in the arts, were particularly evident in the recent federal election, Hellman says. He compares the McCarthy hearings and Communist fear-mongering of the ’50s to the “barbaric cultural practices” tip line that may have been the final straw that broke the hold of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. “When the McCarthy hearings were happening, rather than pleading the Fifth Amendment, Pete wanted to meet them head-on, and one of the lines in the book that came home to me that I kept repeating to myself was ‘If one truly loves one’s country, one should try to put the inquisitors out of business,’ ” Hellman says. “Every time we do the show, it becomes more and more important to hear these words being spoken.” -
f music helps make us who we are, it’s fitting that Mark Hellman is finally about to become Pete Seeger. The theatre artist and singer has been a lifelong admirer of the folk icon. The love was a family affair: Hellman’s mom was a huge fan (she saw Seeger perform several times in the ’50s and ’60s), Seeger’s music was always on in their house, and when Hellman took up guitar at 16, his sister gave him his first guitar book: The Folksinger’s Guitar Guide by Pete Seeger. “That book led me to all of his early influences like Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly and all the great songwriters of that period,” Hellman says, over the phone from his home in Victoria. “It sort of instilled in me as well some sense of social responsibility that is embedded in music.” Now, almost two years after Seeger’s death, Hellman is paying tribute the best way he knows how—a musical play adapted from the singer’s own 1972 book, The Incompleat Folksinger. Hellman was commissioned to create the project by Victoria’s Other Guys Theatre Company. They bought him a banjo in June 2014, and Hellman got to work (using Seeger’s banjo guide, of course). Hellman also cowrote the show, whittling the weighty tale down from an 800-page tome to a 40-page script. They found the book by accident, Hellman says. At first they tried to collapse Seeger’s 70-year career into a stage format, but the process was daunting. When he and the producers came across The Incompleat Folksinger, they found not only an appropriate hook but a focus: examining the first half of Seeger’s storied career. “It’s him, in his own words, speaking about the points in his own history, the history of the world, and music in a very personal way,” Hellman says. “Other musicals about people in the business tend to turn into tribute concerts, but they don’t necessarily tell us much more about the person. Throughout the book there are all these wonderful concert The Incompleat Folksinger runs moments from 1940 and touring with at the Firehall Arts Centre until NovWoody Guthrie around the southern ember 14.
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There is no competition for a performer of his stature. Comedy is in no need of downsizing. “There are some other things we have to deal with that are too big before you get to comedy,” he says. “I think conservatism’s too big.” While his infirmities have stopped some of his previous activities, Connolly still acts—he’s made about 50 films, including his turn as a pedophile priest in 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe, filmed here in Vancouver—and draws. The backdrop to his High Horse tour is from his hand. His right hand (see banjo, above). “I don’t know who said it, but growing old is not for sissies,” he says. And he’s no sissy. “No,” he agrees. “Maybe in my quieter moments.” -
reason is simple, he says: “I think I don’t listen. I’m like an old, broken radio—I’m on transmit; I’m not on receive. It’s a terrible feeling, really, but I don’t care.” In the mid-’70s, Connolly was one of the first British comedy acts to play North America. Then, his audience was mostly expats. Today he’s universally known and loved by laypeople and comics alike. He’s known as a generous supporter of young comics, who are growing more numerous by the year with the global comedy explosion. “The desire to be a comedian is a precious thing,” he says. “I’ll always try and treat it nicely. It’s a brave thing to want to do, you know? Because you’re walking onto the stage and saying, ‘I’m the fun- Billy Connolly plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Monday and niest guy in the room.’ ” He’s not worried about competition. Tuesday (November 9 and 10). NOVEMBER 5 – 12 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 17
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Cock is hard—by which I mean the play is difficult. It’s also fun. In Mike Bartlett’s script, a young guy named John is in a relationship with M, an older man. John leaves M, then, to his surprise, he has sex and falls in love with W, a woman. John goes back to M, but continues to declare his devotion to W. Then the characters do what characters in plays often do, and no one ever does in real life: they decide to sort things out over dinner. John is the prize. By the end of the evening, he must decide who gets him. Fearing that John and W will form a common front, M invites his father, F, to bolster his team. On opening night, there was about a 20-minute stretch off the top of Cock in which the theatre was as electric as the site of a highstakes sporting event. John fights for his right to know himself, in all his f luidity, but M and W insist that he choose between living as either gay or straight. And M is an archetypal gay bitch, so the dialogue gets pretty funny—albeit misogynistic. Unable to contain his disdain for female sexuality, M refers to W’s “considerable marshland”. But it’s hard to sustain the idea that two sane, articulate people would stay interested in John. As W tells him, “There’s so much emotional crap that orbits around you. You collect it like space junk.” Because John is unable to set the terms of his own self-exploration, he’s swayed by every argument and will say almost anything to anybody to keep them onside. This passivity makes the role hugely challenging for actor Nadeem Phillip, who is clearly gifted. Off the top, Phillip’s performance is charmingly responsive, but, as the evening progresses, he leans so heavily into a puppydog persona that you can’t help but feel tempted to take John back to the SPCA. Playing M, Shawn Macdonald was mannered off the top on opening night, but he settled into a performance of affecting depth. And Donna Soares finds much of W’s sexiness and savvy. Still, it’s a revelation when Duncan Fraser arrives as F. Fraser plays the part with such effective understatement that I found myself going, “What’s that human being doing on-stage with all of those actors?”
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Still, the play’s discussion of identity is compelling, and the staging—which, in line with the playwright’s directions, involves no set, furniture, or mime—is audacious. There are plenty of successes in this production. So go ahead, take this Cock.
> COLIN THOMAS
TENDER NAPALM By Philip Ridley. Directed by Sabrina Evertt. A Twenty Something Theatre production. At the Havana Theatre on Thursday, October 29. Continues until November 8
Reviews tell us that, in a paruniverse that includes London and New York, Philip Ridley’s Tender Napalm is thrilling. In Vancouver, it’s a snooze. Ridley also writes stories for kids and Tender Napalm is kind of like a children’s book—except that, in this case, the dense, imaginative wordplay features scenes of genital mutilation. Man and Woman are the only human inhabitants of a tropical island: it’s a metaphor for the selfisolating nature of their romantic relationship. On the island, each of them struggles to control the narrative. As they create stories together, they rally armies of monkeys into opposing camps. Like August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Tender Napalm essentializes maleness and femaleness. Man is all about overt aggression. He likes to blow things up. He puts on war paint and “old jack boots that were once used to kick some poor fucker’s face in”. Woman is also aggressive, but her imagery is all about slippery wiliness: in her fantasies, she’s a sea creature—“I’d make a necklace out of sea urchins and pearls”—and she has tentacles, she entraps. It’s all pretty reactionary. And the script’s f lights of fantasy are endless. Early on, Man performs a story in which he does battle with a monster. It feels like it goes on for 10 minutes. But, as he’s going “Hack! Slash! Ba-boom!”, who cares? Often, the play’s language is too perfumed with poetry: “I’d be like a tree full of doves, spreading my cooing branches around you.” And images of hand grenades being shoved up vaginas and anuses are more ridiculous than shocking. Late in the play, the smoke screen clears to reveal an underlying literal story about trauma, and that turn yields some satisfaction. As Man and Woman, Sean Harris Oliver and Claire Hesselgrave do a terrific job of executing contactimprov-style movement. Their lifts are particularly impressive. Under Sabrina Evertt’s direction, how-
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ever, both take such a declamatory approach to the text that, for the most part, they stay on the surface of it. There’s hardly any quiet here, and, even in supposedly tender gestures, there’s scant intimacy—and intimacy, I suspect, is what this play needs to make it work. Throughout, Julie Casselman’s original score is well-integrated. What I really wanted to hear, though, was a compelling exchange between the characters.
> COLIN THOMAS
SNAPSHOTS: A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by David Stern. Directed and choreographed by Max Reimer. A WRS Productions production. At Presentation House Theatre on Wednesday, October 28. Continues until November 8
The songs tell their own stor-
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show tries to tell with them. If you’re a musical-theatre fan, you know who Stephen Schwartz is: his composer and lyricist credits include legendary shows like Godspell and Wicked. Snapshots showcases songs from Schwartz’s nearly half-century career, but instead of a straightforward revue, writer David Stern fits the songs into the tale of a mature couple, Dan and Sue, looking back at photos of their younger selves. This isn’t idle reminiscing: Sue is about to leave the relationship, and as the photos come to life, Dan tries to convince her to stay. Under Max Reimer’s direction, this creaky premise leaves Stephen Aberle and Annabel Kershaw, who play the present-day Dan and Sue, standing around on-stage watching a lot of the time. Two other
sets of actors play the kids, Danny and Susie, and young adults, Daniel and Susan. The scenario also makes for plenty of clunky, tedious exposition, as Dan and Sue remind each other of experiences they’ve shared. Turns out they were friends for years—from childhood, even!— before they finally got together. But who cares? If their relationship is at stake, the important memories start when it does—but that doesn’t happen till the end of the first act. So, does Snapshots feel long? Yes. But there are some things that work. Top of the list is Jocelyn Gauthier, who plays Susan. Gauthier is a powerhouse singer who knows when to pull back, and an actor capable of heartbreaking nuance: we see her dreams and disillusionment coalesce in her moving take on “Lion Tamer”. Steve Maddock also sings beautifully and is an open-hearted Daniel. Georgia Swinton gives the younger Susie a slightly cartoonish feel; she shines in a quick-change portrayal of a clutch of Daniel’s lovers. But at the preview performance I attended, Aberle, Kershaw, and Daniel Johnston as Danny were out of their depth as both actors and singers. The music, by music director and keyboardist Wendy Bross Stuart, along with guitarist Mark Richardson and bassist Monica Sumulong, is pleasant, though there’s a certain sameness to a lot of the songs. Still, Schwartz evokes some powerful emotions: from the exuberance of Godspell’s “All Good Gifts” to the bleak complacency of “Code of Silence”, which will resonate with anyone in a middle-aged relationship. At their best, the songs are powerful. They’d be better showcased without the story.
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Lee Bul searches for utopia VISUAL AR TS LEE BUL At the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 10, 2016
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solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery pulls together diverse aspects of her acclaimed career. It touches on a number of the Korean artist’s interests and expressions over the past 15 years, from early drawings of costumes for street performances to interactive, architectonic sculptures. The last gallery in the exhibition is installed as if it were the artist’s studio, filled with two- and three-dimensional studies for recent installation and sculpture projects. Born in South Korea in 1964, Lee was the daughter of political dissidents opposed to the country’s then-military dictatorship. The art she began producing in the late 1980s and early 1990s was political too, although not in the sense of explicitly opposing a totalitarian form of government. Rather, it critiqued other ideologies and cultural constructs, especially those around gender, sexuality, and desire. Her large coloured drawings of the full-body soft sculptures she wore during her performances are wonderful works in themselves. Through the expressive depiction of bulging flesh and grotesquely dangling appendages—feet,
hands, tentacles—they convey both the monstrous and the seductive and are among the most compelling works in the show. Other drawings are studies for her installations of rotting fish embellished with sequins (again conflating the beautiful and the repellent) and her well-known series of cyborg sculptures (folding sexual allure and art historical representations of female beauty into society’s fearful anticipation of robotic technologies and artificial intelligence). Also on view are 72 works on paper developing ideas for an ambitious grouping of interconnected sculptures, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Again, Lee’s drawings are fluid and articulate. Since the turn of the millennium, Lee’s sculptures have been largely architectural in form and reference, addressing humankind’s aspirations toward a utopian way of life. These works are also informed by the artist’s concerns about the rapid and decidedly nonutopian urbanization and development in her home country—and throughout the world. Her references here include both early modernist and contemporary thinkers, from the German architect Bruno Taut and Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin to French cultural theorist Jean-François Lyotard and American psychologist Julian Jaynes. Pages from Jaynes’s book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown
of the Bicameral Mind, in both English and Korean, are pasted on the exterior of Lee’s walk-through sculpture Via Negativa. Together with the Jaynes text, the mirrored interior of this work, a maze filled with a disorienting succession of reflecting angles, turns, and dead ends, suggests a confrontation with ourselves, of who we are and how we have constructed a sense of self. (A word of warning: for the claustrophobic, navigating Via Negativa can be a panic-inducing experience.) This work also calls up a succession of mirrored rooms and corridors by contemporary artists, from Lucas Samaras to Ken Lum. The untitled, chandelierlike sculpture hanging in the VAG’s rotunda alludes, somewhat obliquely, to Taut’s 1917 proposal for a utopian, mountain-sized glass structure. Lee’s mixedmedia sculpture, with its draped and dangling strands of crystal, glass, and acrylic beads, does not attempt to mimic such a form but does communicate a kind of wonder. (In fact, it is a bit reminiscent of a galleon.) At the same time, the more angular, sharp, and abrupt metal forms within it create an intentional dissonance, suggestive of postmodern skepticism. Within this glittering fantasy resides an acknowledgment of the impossibility of ever achieving the past’s conception of a utopian future.
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dreds of local and visiting writers who took part in the noble experiment that was Vancouver’s Literary Storefront. This grassroots institution, which lasted from 1978 to 1985, was a combination meeting place, workspace, performance hall, library, conference centre, and cafeteria of gossip. It was located at 131 Water Street (where the Vancouver Public Library will soon unveil a commemorative plaque), and later moved to the top floor of 314 West Cordova. Its founder and ringmaster was the poet Mona Fertig. In this mixture of oral history and scrapbook (there are 125 photos, including many of the photogenic Fertig), a wide variety of today’s senior authors express nostalgia for a time when writing and literary publishing were flourishing in the city as never before (or since?). The poet Sharon Thesen writes that whenever she recalls the Storefront she thinks “of Gastown and of the smell of patchouli and dope (a great fragrance combo I miss) and a great caring for poetry. It was where I did my fi rst reading.” Interspersed among such events as hers were appearances by an odd
assortment of famous U.S. and British visitors, not to mention Canadians from Away—Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and their peers. The juxtaposition of the local and the farflung wasn’t accidental. Trevor Carolan has done a fine job of making a text from such a mountain of miscellaneous information. He points out that Fertig’s inspirations were Sylvia Beach’s famous bookshop in Paris and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s in San Francisco. These two influences, when mixed, resulted in literary experimentation and a concern for social justice. The Storefront did much to help gay and lesbian writers, for instance, and worked closely with the Writers’ Union of Canada and other such organizations. So what was the cause of death? One generation eventually grew exhausted and the next had different tastes. Carolan writes: “The university literature students, theatre fans and teachers who were drawn to the higher-calibre events were less likely to have time to dedicate themselves as volunteers…[while still other people] were alienated by what they felt was a more urban, autocratic direction.” The key word there is urban. Modern Vancouver has always struggled with courting urbanism while despising it. That’s why people go to the Orpheum to hear the VSO and applaud between movements. > GEORGE FETHERLING
A launch for The Literary Storefront will be held at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library on November 30.
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This evening presentation will honour Louis Riel, an inspiration for the resilience of the Métis nation, and will celebrate the vitality of contemporary Métis culture. Featuring: Yvonne Chartrand in Eagle Spirit, Louis Riel Métis Dancers, Andrea Menard, Don Amero, JJ Lavallee, Sandy Scofield, Greg Coyes $15 Adults $10 Seniors/Students $5 Children 12 & under Online ticket sales at: www.brownpapertickets.com
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quest for an official Red Ryder carbineaction BB gun. Based on the 1983 film. Nov 5–Dec 27, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
THE AMISH PROJECT Director Evan Frayne’s play explores the strength of community and the power of forgiveness in the face of tragedy. A Bleeding Heart Production. Nov 6-21, 8-10 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $31.50, info www.pacifictheatre.org/.
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Vancouver-based choreographer Crystal Pite, and the return of the critically acclaimed 2014 world premiere of Twenty Eight Thousand Waves by resident choreographer Cayetano Soto. Nov 5-7, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $30-90 (including service charges), info www.balletbc.com/.
RED ROCK DINER Musical captures the excitement and innocence of Vancouver’s burgeoning 1957 rock ‘n’ roll scene. Nov 9-10, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $29-49, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS THE INCOMPLEAT FOLKSINGER The Other Guys Theatre Company presents Mark Hellman in a one-man show that tells the story of folksinger Pete Seeger through the artist’s own words and music. Nov 4-14, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $22-32, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.
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I AM THE BASTARD DAUGHTER OF ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Play about a 10-year-old girl who nurses a secret obsession with Engelbert Humperdinck. Nov 4-8, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/. PEOPLE The United Players present director Adam Henderson’s version of Alan Bennett’s play about a down-on-his-luck aristocrat who is forced to make some unusual decisions. Nov 5-29, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $12-22, info www.unitedplayers.com/. A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a festive musical about a young boy’s
DANCE ALLSORTS: ALEX WELLS The November edition of Dance Allsorts features Alex Wells, a three-time world champion hoop dancer. Nov 8, 2 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Tix $5-15, info www.newworks.ca/.
THE DINING ROOM Western Gold Theatre presents A.R. Gurney’s play, which takes a look at the lives of 50 characters whose most important life decisions centre around the dining-room table. To Nov 8, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $25, info www.western goldtheatre.org/. TENDER NAPALM Twenty Something Theatre presents Philip Ridley’s play that re-examines and redefines the language of love. To Nov 8, 8-10 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $18-28, info www. twentysomethingtheatre.com/. SPRING CAME TO ST. PETERSBURG Director and playwright Alex Lazaridis Ferguson’s creation examines the world through the lens of artists like Margaret Atwood, Beyoncé, and Leonard Cohen. To Nov 7, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www. sfu.ca/sca/events/details/spring-came-tost.-petersburg/.
TRANSFORMER Downtown gets an East Van makeover at this weekend’s edition of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s popular FUSE art party—with help from Cates Park and the Far North. Putting FUSE: TRANSFORM together is grunt gallery trickster Glenn Alteen, who’s enlisted coffee buddy Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun to do live drawing (shot from above and broadcast on a big screen); Yukon storytellers Sharon Shorty and Ivan Coyote; and videographer Krista Lomax, who’ll explore the cultural treasures of Al Neil and Carole Itter’s squatter’s cabin on the shores of Burrard Inlet. Also performing will be dancer Angela Brown, animating Evelyn Roth’s soft sculptures, and David Khang, wearing a butterfly-patterned art tank—that’s a Panzer, not a tank top—of his own design. FUSE: TRANSFORM runs at the VAG from 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday (November 6). Granville Island). Tix $30-10, info www.rumbletheatre.org/.
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NIRBHAYA The Cultch and Diwali Fest present a story based on real-life experiences and a violent incident that shocked Delhi and the world. To Nov 14, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $30, info www.thecultch.com/events/nirbhaya/.
2THIS WEEK BALLET BC PROGRAM 1 Ballet BC presents a world premiere by Belgianborn choreographer Stijn Celis, the Canadian premiere of Solo Echo by
SUNYA The Cultch and Diwali Fest have partnered to present a celebratory and spiritual journey merging contemporary dance, music of Persian inspiration, and interactive real-time video. Nov 10-14, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK MANON UBC Opera presents Jules Massenet’s opera about a man who falls in love with an innocent but lively young lady. In French. Nov 5, 7:30 pm; Nov 6, 7:30 pm; Nov 7, 7:30 pm; Nov 8, 2 pm, Old Auditorium (6344 Memorial Rd., UBC). Tix $15-39, info www.ubcopera.com/. 88 TUNED BONGOS: UNDER THE HOOD | VICKY CHOW & THE SPECTRAL PIANO PROJECT Pianist Vicky Chow performs new works by Adam Basanta and Remy Siu’s world premiere that explores the Disklavier as a cultural object. Nov 6, 8 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Tix $10-20, info www.front.bc.ca/events/88-tunedbongos-piano-series/.
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WARNER BROS. PRESENTS: BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II George Daugherty conducts percussionist Joseph Pusateri, pianist-guitarist Stephanie L. Smith, and the VSO in a program of music accompanied by Looney Tunes animation. Nov 7, 7:30 pm, Nov 8, 2 & 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $29-69, info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. CELEBRATE LIFE! The Vancouver Peace Choir presents music by composers Tomás Victoria, Josef Rheinberger, Jeff Enns, and Vancouver Peace Choir founder Timothy Corlis. Nov 7, 7:30-9 pm, UBC Student Union Building (6138 Student Union Blvd.). The Celebrate Life! concert also runs Nov 8, 2:30 pm, at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Tix $20/15/youth under 18 free, info www.facebook.com/ events/1521545984764289/. BROTHERS IN ARMS In honour of Remembrance Day, Chor Leoni presents a concert that focuses on the calamitous and uniting effects of war on families. Features music by E¯riks Ešenvalds, Carol Orff, Moses Hogan, Lee Hoiby, and Dire Straits. Nov 11, 1 pm, West Vancouver United Church (2062 Esquimalt). The Brothers in Arms concert also runs Nov 11, 8 pm, at St. Andrew’sWesley United Church. Tix $10-40, info www. chorleoni.org/concerts-events/events/ brothers-arms/.
COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard St., Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www.thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm,
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HONOUR IN SONG They say where words fail, music speaks— which will likely be the case at this Wednesday’s (November 11) Brothers in Arms, the 23rd annual Remembrance Day concert by Vancouver’s renowned Chor Leoni Men’s Choir. Presenting powerful performances that will include classical, cabaret, and pop renditions, the 60-voice-strong ensemble will explore war’s catastrophic—and, at times, strengthening—impact on the families of troops. Expect to hear a cappella versions of works by Lee Hoiby, Carl Orff, and Rupert Lang, plus the booming soprano of rising Canadian star Laura Widgett, at the West Vancouver United Church (1 p.m.) and St. Andrew’s– Wesley United Church (8 p.m.). showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2RICH VOS Nov 5-7 2KATE DAVIS Nov 12-14 2PATRICK MALIHA Nov 19-21
YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2WINSTON SPEAR Nov 5-7
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VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed, 7:30 pm; every Fri, 9:30 pm); Throwback TheatreSports (every Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Nov 4-11, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
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2THIS WEEK RUSSELL PETERS Canadian actor and comedian performs on his World Famous tour. Nov 4-6, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). The event also runs Nov 7-9 at the River Rock Casino Resort. Tix $129.50/119.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. hardrockcasinovancouver.com/. BILLY CONNOLLY Scottish comedian, musician, presenter, and actor performs on his High Horse Canadian tour. Nov 9-10, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $59.35-81 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK AN EVENING WITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH An evening with the best-selling author of series like the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street, and the Sunday Philosophy Club. Nov 7, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $35-60 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketfly.com/.
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DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Twelfth annual event celebrates the culture of the Downtown Eastside with music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, processions, spoken word, panels, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibitions, multimedia, art talks, history walking tours, and a diverse array of artists. To Nov 8, various Vancouver venues. Tix free to $25, info www.heartofthecityfestival.com/. KOOZA Cirque du Soleil presents writerdirector David Shiner’s production that uses acrobatics and clowning to tell the story of a loner in search of his place in the world. To Dec 27, Concord Pacific Place (88 Pacific). Tix from $45 at www.cirquedusoleil. com/, info www.cirquedusoleil.com/.
FORGIVENESS UNFURLED It was a harrowing event with an unexpected outcome: in 2006 in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and shot 10 girls. The Amish community responded with instant forgiveness for the murderer, even giving aid to his family. Playwright Jessica Dickey movingly explores the entire incident (through fictional characters so as not to offend the traumatized families) and the idea of radical forgiveness in The Amish Project, which opens Friday (November 6) and runs till November 21 at the Pacific Theatre.
FUSE Highlights include music by Krista Lomax and Mike Schmidt, See Monsters: Bracken Hanuse, and Corlett and Dean Hunt, dance by Angela Brown, performances by Carol Itter and David Khang, drawing by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and storytelling by Sharon Shorty and Ivan Coyote. Nov 6, 8 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby). Tix $20 at the door, info www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. AIR INDIA (REDACTED) Turning Point Ensemble celebrates its 10th anniversary with a theatrical experience of music, voice, poetry,and projections based on the bombing of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985. Nov 6-11, 8 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $29-39, info www.turningpointnsemble.ca/. 2016 PUSH FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will announce its 2016 festival programming. Hosted by local author and comedian Charlie Demers. Nov 9, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main St.). Info www.pushfestival.ca/shows/2016-programlaunch-party/.
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MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver. ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built) to Dec 30
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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouver-based artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 2EMBRACING CANADA: LANDSCAPES FROM KRIEGHOFF TO THE GROUP OF SEVEN (exhibition surveys the history of artistic engagement with the Canadian landscape from c. 1840 to 1940, a period that produced many Canadian artists) to Jan 24
AMY SCHUMER American comic performs a New Year’s Eve show. Dec 31, 8 pm, Key Arena (305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA). Tix US$146/75.50/55.50/40.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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Mike Wiegele (left) is the owner and operator of a resort and helicopter-skiing company in Blue River, B.C., which Outside magazine ranked as one of the top heli-skiing destinations in North America.
Heli-skiing in the high alpine
top 10 heli-skiing destinations in North America in 2012, with six of them local. These included the Bella Coola Valley (Bella Coola Heli Sports), Revelstoke (Bighorn and Revelstoke Mountain Resort), and Blue River, which is the home base of Mike Wiegele and its Boasting six of North America’s top 10 destinations, B.C. is the place 1,200,000 acres of terrain. For newcomers, the to be for lovers of untouched powder and spectacular scenery whole experience can be Heli-skiing offers the kind of alpine experi- daunting at first. But Watson says the top priority ence that the 99 percent typically only get a glimpse of operators and guests alike is staying safe. BY GAIL JOHN SON of through photographs and movies: skiers are “Safety and prevention are what we try and do flown by helicopter to glorious, long, steep slopes of all the time,” says Watson, who’s also president of pure, untouched powder in some of the most spec- the Canadian Society of Mountain Medicine and tacular and remote locations in the world. a member of the International Commission for It may take some cash, but contrary to popular Alpine Rescue. “Let’s go skiing safely.” thinking, you don’t need to be an expert or an exTo do that, everyone is required to attend a safety treme skier to give the sport a go. Rather, people seminar and watch a safety video. Each skier must have to be solidly comfortable on blue runs and in carry a backpack with a probe and a shovel and decent physical shape. And for first-timers in par- know how to use a transceiver. “If something hapticular, it helps to take a few tips from the pros. As pens, we’re all rescuers,” Watson says. Some people the medical director of Mike Wiegele Helicopter choose to use air bags, which are designed to keep Skiing, Dr. Dave Watson has some advice for new- people above moving debris during an avalanche. bies: don’t hit all that fresh, deep powder with a At Wiegele, groups of up to 10 go out with a lead brand-new pair of boots you’ve never worn before. guide and a tail guide. The latter tells skiers when “That’s one of the biggest mistakes first-timers to go, one at a time; they must stay close to the lead make,” says the former emergency-room phys- guide’s tracks. If the lead guide stops, people need ician in an interview with the Georgia Straight in to do the same. North Vancouver. “We’ll have skiers say ‘I’ve got “Always obey your guide,” Watson says. “Never a sore’ here or there will be a skin abrasion there. ski below your guide. If your guide stops, there’s We can fi x them up and help them, but it’s better a reason. Stay close to your guide’s tracks. If you not to have that issue in the first place.” don’t see any tracks, stop.” With more than 18 operators, B.C. is apparently Although serious injuries and fatalities are the place to be when it comes to epic heli-skiing. rare, high-alpine mountain and wilderness backEarlier this year, Forbes picked the world’s five top country skiing come with hazards. Among them heli-skiing trips; two of them were in our very own are avalanches, crevasses, icefalls, rock falls, cliffs, province. (Canadian Mountain Holidays has sever- creek beds, tree stumps, and “tree mushrooms”. al lodges and has hosted Richard Branson; Bighorn “If you get 20 feet of snowfall, mushrooms that are Lodge in Revelstoke is 15,000 square feet of pure eight by 10 feet can form on top of trees,” Watson luxury.) Meanwhile, Outside did a ranking of the explains. “If you’re standing underneath a tree
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and the wind blows, it could be trouble. Stand [on the hill] above the tree.” Tree wells are another, often overlooked, hazard. They’re created when a hole or void forms around the base of a tree while snow accumulates. A snow-immersion-suffocation incident can happen when someone falls, usually headfi rst, into the gap and becomes stuck in the snow. As loose snow packs in, breathing can become difficult, and suffocation can result. Of the injuries that do occur, the most prevalent are those affecting the knees, Watson says. Even though new bindings are cutting-edge, people can still tweak those joints, with damage to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the tibial plateau being common. A back injury that can occur results from a “scorpion”: a fall where people fold their bodies in half the wrong way, their legs coming toward the back of the head like that arachnid’s tail. It hurts, Watson says, but effects are usually temporary. Newbies also need to learn how to be safe around helicopters. They should avoid having anything loose on them, like a hat or goggles, that can come off due to the wind that the blades create; those objects could end up in the rotor or engine intake. “Stay low and go slow” is the mantra, while Watson points out that you can get an electrical shock from touching a hovering chopper due to the buildup of static charge during flight. “Never touch a helicopter unless it’s grounded,” he says. He also suggests that first-timers spend a day skiing hard-packed snow before making the switch to so much magnificent powder. “If you haven’t been on skis that year, get out for a day at Whistler or Sun Peaks to get yourself familiarized again, to get your timing so you’re sharp and ready to go. Then you’ll get more out of it.” And remember, if you do take a minor tumble, falling on powder is a lot gentler than landing on corduroy. “Having untracked powder is by and large easier skiing than hard-packed, rutted crap and the broken-up stuff,” Watson says. “It’s a soft landing. What’s going to happen? A snow enema, that’s about it.” -
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Health checkup JAM OVER THE CITY Snowboarders converge on Grouse
Mountain to perform 50/50s or even bust a three on new park features. Beginning November 27 at 6:30 p.m., Jam Over the City continues every second Friday (except December 25 and February 5, with a special edition on February 6), with cameras catching all the gnarly jibs and stalls. Join the fun, be eligible for prizes, and follow @grousepark on Instagram to check out the images. Here’s hopin’ there are lots of freshies on the hill this winter. For more info, see www.grousemountain.com/. -
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(November 14) Run in Deer Lake Park recalls a fallen police officer and funds Honour House Society.
Federation sponsors a run between the Vancouver Convention Centre and Devonian Harbour Park.
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(December 5) The Salvation Army’s annual fundraiser includes a 5-kilometre Santa shuffle and a 1-kilometre elf walk starting at Lumberman’s Arch.
WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL Filmmaker Todd Haynes enjoyed his greatest popular and critical success in 2002 with the 1950s-set drama Far From Heaven. He returns to the same fertile (and forbidden) ground with Carol, a hotly anticipated Cannes favourite based on Patricia Highsmith’s semi-autobiographical novel The Price of Salt. Starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett as on-the-lam lovers, the film gets its Canadian premiere at this year’s Whistler Film Festival (December 2 to 6). For the full lineup, visit www.straight.com/. NOVEMBER 5 – 12 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 27
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ohn Smart can hold his own on the mountain. He competed in the Olympic Winter Games in 1992 and 1994, placing fifth and seventh in moguls races. And so it’s with some amusement that he recalls the day he realized his sons were better skiers than him. “I was thinking, ‘What year are my kids going to pass me?’ ” he said in a telephone interview. “It was age 11.” Smart and his two boys were skiing Whistler, and his eldest, Luke, volunteered to lead them on a run through the terrain park, a series of sculpted ramps positioned in close succession that skiers and snowboarders use to launch themselves into the air. As Smart watched his preteen son fly, he conceded that he was beat. “It was just the size of the jumps,” he explained. “They were jumping all of the big stuff and I was backing off.” Some people might criticize Smart for allowing his children to take part in an activity that he didn’t feel was safe enough to engage in himself as an adult. After all, parents nowadays can find themselves in trouble for letting their children take a risk as mundane as walking to school unaccompanied. Smart concedes he was nervous when Luke and his younger son, Ky, first started doing aerial tricks on skis. But that changed when he recognized they know what they are doing. “Now that they’ve got the air sense, the acrobatics, and the stability, it’s enjoyable to watch them flying through the air,” he said.
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Youths practise freestyle ski stunts with coaches at Whistler Blackcomb’s Momentum Ski Camps. Michael Overbeck photo.
There is hard data that suggests Smart’s got the right idea. Mariana Brussoni calls it “competence-based decision-making” as opposed to “anxiety-based decisionmaking”, which, she explains, can have benefits for children that last a lifetime. The developmental psychologist and UBC assistant professor of pediatrics was the lead author of a January 2015 aggregate study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that covered 21 papers on children
and dangerous behaviour. Its findings: “The overall positive health effects of increased risky outdoor play provide greater benefit than the health effects associated with avoiding outdoor risky play.” In a telephone interview, Brussoni told the Georgia Straight that most of the quantifiable data pertain to more routine activities such as climbing trees. But she said similar research has been applied to extreme sports. For example, Brussoni said, Norwegian researcher Ellen Sandseter found that groups predisposed to take risks,
such as adolescents, benefit from extreme sports because those activities can fill a need for adrenaline that might otherwise manifest itself in the form of shoplifting or vandalism. Smart, who is head coach at Momentum Ski Camps at Whistler Blackcomb, said that today there are more kids practising freestyle skiing and snowboarding at young ages, which means parents should get coaches involved earlier to ensure risks are taken with precautions. “You’re not going to send them off an XL jump when they’re five, six, or
seven,” he said. “It’s baby-stepping it.” Leo Addington is head coach at Camp of Champions, another program offered at Whistler Blackcomb. He told the Straight the same story, estimating roughly 14 percent of campers are preteens, or “groms”, in snowboarder slang. He added that doesn’t necessarily mean that injuries are more common. Addington reported that kids as young as six or seven years old are going off jumps and already doing tricks as complex as 360- and 540-degree rotations. That’s introductory stuff by professional standards but definitely moves that can end with a bruised tailbone or broken wrist. Inverted aerials come later, but similarly earlier than they used to. “I never put anybody upside down until they were about 10-ish,” Addington said. He recalled that when he was a kid, there were no camps for freestyle skiing or snowboarding. The only way to learn was to watch a video and go off by yourself to try to emulate what the pros were doing in those movies. Children enrolled at both Momentum and Camp of Champions have access to trampolines and foam pits before they hit jumps. Then, on the mountain, skiers and riders can launch off ramps and land on giant airbags. It’s only once they are comfortable with a new trick that they have to give it a try on the relatively hard snow. “Now there is such a more scientific approach to it,” Addington said. “The risk is managed a lot better than it ever was.” -
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out Cliffhanger Vancouver (670 Industrial Avenue) for a great arm and core workout while scaling a 13-metre wall. The company has been offering drop-in sessions for more than 20 years for adults and kids. It’s safe, it’s fun, and it’s a great way to escape miserable winter weather. See www.cliffhangerclimb ing.com/ for details.
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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Some of B.C.’s best cross-country skiing is available at Cypress Provincial Park, which is a half-hour drive from Vancouver. There are more than 19 kilometres of groomed and track-set trails on its Hollyburn Mountain. More than a third are lit up at night for those seeking a good workout after the sun sets. For details, see www.cypressmoun tain.com/. HOLD
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There’s a reason why snowshoeing is one of the fastest-growing winter sports in Canada. It’s easier on the knees than snowboarding and skiing. What’s more, it’s a hell of a lot more peaceful. One of the best spots in the region for snowshoeing is Munday Alpine Park on Grouse Mountain. See www.grousemoun tain.com/snowshoe/. -
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Faux fur to tall boots, winter styles rock ’70s vibe a windblown effect while you’re walking,” she says.
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the classic high-waisted pant can be a rare gem in a sea of sloppy seconds. Look no further, as high-waisted and high-rise pants are both coming back in style, and there’s the democratic option to choose either leg-elongating skinnies or voluminous wide-legged pants. Appelt, who’s styled celebrities like Chantal Kreviazuk, says that
Go wild this season with fur—not in the glam-rock full-fur-coat kind of way, but in a modern wolf-goddess style with a faux-fur stole. According to Liu, “While scarves are great during winter, a stole is a great alternative. It’s a sophisticated version of the scarf.” She finds the stole versatile for styling, suggesting that you drape one around the neck over a coat and place it on one shoulder while wrapping a belt around the entire outfit. A great outerwear layering piece is Zara’s extra-long Maxi stole ($89.90 from Zara [various locations]). The popularity of fur extends to unexpected pieces, including dresses, bags, and even shoes this season. Don’t hesitate to incorporate this trend that adds form, and occasionally function, to outfits.
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high-rise skinny jeans are a must this season: “They look great when worn with a cropped jacket.” Her favourite Citizens of Humanity dark-wash Rocket jeans ($238 from Aritzia) with light whiskering pair perfectly with shearling-and-suede booties. At the other end of the spectrum of pant proportions, premier Canadian designer Kimberley NewportMimran advocates for a wide-legged high-waisted pant. The Pink Tartan cofounder says: “Proportion is very important to signal newness. I love a sweeping statement pant, as it’s been about the dress for a few seasons, and I’m definitely back to power dressing.” A far cry from ’70s flares, beautifully
draped wide-legged pants like Pink Tartan’s cropped crepe high-waisted, pleated ones ($375 from pinktartan. com/) create instant sophistication when paired with a ladylike blouse. MAKE A STATEMENT Forget the perfectly fitted wool coat. This winter, the cocoon coat has morphed into an oversized menswear-inspired statement piece, giving outerwear a tomboy touch. When done right, this dramatic silhouette completely transforms any outfit. Look out for interesting details like puffy sleeves, wide lapels, or faux-fur cuffs. “The most important investment piece, in my opinion, is a statement
coat. It finishes off the outfit, and it’s what people see and read first on the style scale,” Newport-Mimran says. With a contrasting geometric blackand-white design on a boxy silhouette, Pink Tartan’s Windowpane coat ($895, Hudson’s Bay [various locations]) could easily be the pièce de résistance in any ensemble. Von Vogue fashion blogger Claire Liu emphasizes length, especially for a classic razor-sharp coat such as the double-breasted Club Monaco Daylina with oversized lapels ($489 from Club Monaco [various locations]). “A long coat is an eternal, classic staple. It can elongate your body and give you
NEW HEIGHTS While over-theknee boots may conjure images of go-go dancers from the ’60s and ’70s, they don’t have to be overly sexy. Stiletto, riding, and f lat boots all come in the OTK variety. In fact, thigh-high footwear can be quite practical when worn over skinny pants or as a replacement for winter tights. A key styling tip is to pair them with clothes that hit a few inches above the knee. Opt for an oversized sweater dress or a pair of winter shorts in houndstooth. In addition to the Stuart Weitzman Lowland boots Appelt recommends above, try the more affordable equestrianchic over-the-knee leather riding boots by Vince Camuto ($325, Hudson’s Bay or the Bromley by Michael Kors, a staple boot that hits just above the knee ($278, Gravity Pope [2205 West 4th Avenue]). -
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THE WINTER ISSUE
Filmmaker Mike Douglas, known as the “godfather of freeskiing”, has made a movie celebrating Whistler’s golden jubilee. Louise Christie photo.
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hether you count yourself a snow-sport lover or not, there’s no more arresting sight than when November rain clouds lift to reveal the North Shore coated in white. Can’t wait? Then delve into the next-best thing: pristine images of skiers and snowboarders knee-deep in a winter wonderland. Freeskier Mike Douglas knows all about winter. Growing up in Campbell River in the 1980s, he convinced his high-school English teacher to accept a self-produced film for an essay assignment rather than a handwritten text. The result, “Born to Ski”, shot on Super 8, pretty much summed up the trajectory he would take from then on: first as a member of the Canadian freestyle ski team, then as a pioneer of freeskiing in the 1990s, a “new school” approach to skiing inspired by the progression of snowboarding in half-pipe and slopestyle competitions. In 1997, Douglas designed a twin-tip ski, the revolutionary Salomon 1080. Suddenly, skiers could go backwards down a slope and switch up takeoffs and landings with newfound aplomb. For this accomplishment, as well as his aerodynamic creativity, Douglas reigns as “the godfather of freeskiing”. Interviewed at his Whistler production studio, Douglas told the Georgia Straight that he accepts that title without hesitation. “It beats being a nobody,” he said with a grin. Douglas globetrots nonstop. Last year, his film company, Switchback Entertainment, produced 50 snow-sportrelated assignments, from Salomon Freeski TV episodes to a feature-length documentary, Snowman, in which he costarred with high-school friend and Born to Ski coproducer Kevin Fogolin, an avalanche technician. Earlier this year, Whistler Blackcomb approached Switchback to make the just-released “50 Years of Going Beyond” in celebration of Whistler Mountain’s golden jubilee. As a central player in that history, Douglas found himself once again filling dual roles. “It is intimidating,” he admitted. “In the last couple of projects, I’ve been both a character and a director. I definitely felt some weight having lived here half my life and always having looked up to these guys.” By “these guys” he means the original blue-sky thinkers who believed Vancouverites, tired of enduring long lineups on North Shore ski hills, would trek two hours north for something grander; at the same time, the hope was to catch the eye of Winter Olympic Games organizers. Judging by how things turned out, they got that right. Watch “50 Years of Going Beyond” at www.whistlerblackcomb.com/pwdrstash/features/50-anniversary/. SPENDING TIME in the wilderness
is like spending time with someone you love: it’s the experience as
much as the location that counts. That core belief repeatedly draws ski mountaineers John Baldwin and Linda Bily into B.C.’s Coast Mountains for weeks at a time to explore the Switzerland-sized snowfields layered between Vancouver and the Alaska Panhandle. “It’s like the Alps but with no pastry shops,” quipped Bily in conversation with the Straight at a recent Vancouver meeting of the Alpine Club of Canada. She and her husband were there to debut their new book, Soul of Wilderness: Journeys in the Coast Mountains, a collection of photographs and essays amassed during decades of backcountry touring. With three previous titles to his credit, including the seminal Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis, Baldwin enjoys a vaunted reputation in the fastest-growing snow-sport sector: alpine touring. Bily, credited with saving the lives of three North Shore Search and Rescue Team members during a ski-mountaineering trek on Mount Logan (Canada’s highest peak) in 2005, became enamoured of photography at an early age. “My father was a geologist who lived in the Amazon for extended periods of time while I was growing up in Calgary,” she recalled. “I remember poring over his photographs and a National Geographic coffee-table book on the same topic. I always wanted to produce something similar myself, which is why I’m so pleased with what John and I have accomplished. There’s a side of me that wonders why I never became a professional photographer rather than an environmental engineer.” Although photographs in the lavishly illustrated book are individually credited to either Baldwin or Bily, the authors chose to compose the accompanying text with one voice. As they passed the microphone back and forth for commentaries on their treks during the Alpine Club presentation, it was apparent that they view wilderness through the same lens, with a common goal to reintroduce the concept of wilderness as a place of refuge. “Western culture that swept across North America 200 years ago put wilderness in the context of a place where we go to make money from resource extraction,” Baldwin said. “Issues like climate change are forcing us to rethink that notion.” Bily added: “Being in the wilderness is about moving your soul over the landscape and using your imagination to connect with it through your heart.” As part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s fall series, Baldwin and Bily will give a presentation at the Snow Show at the Rio Theatre on November 12. For details, visit www.vimff .org/tickets/. -
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WHISTLER
Nov. 26
2,182 metres (7,160 feet)
1,609 metres (5,280 feet)
$250 + taxes for two days
$1,799 + taxes until Nov. 23; $1,999 + taxes after
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Cornucopia (Nov. 5–15); Whistler Film Festival (Dec. 2–6); Whistler Pride and Ski Festival (Jan. 23–31)
BLACKCOMB
Nov. 26
2,284 metres (7,494 feet)
1,609 metres (5,280 feet)
$250 + taxes for two days
$1,799 + taxes until Nov. 23; $1,999 + taxes after
Yes
Yes
GMC Race Centre opens (Dec. 14); Whistler Blackcomb Foundation 23rd Annual Telus Winter Classic (Jan. 22–23)
SUN PEAKS
Nov. 21
2,152 metres (7,060 feet)
882 metres (2,894 feet)
$86 + taxes
$1,149 + taxes
Yes
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Sun Peaks Kookaburra Cross Country Loppet (Jan. 10); Sun Peaks Winter Okanagan Wine Festival (Jan. 14–24); Garden Rail Jam (Jan. 24)
BIG WHITE
Nov. 28
2,319 metres (7,606 feet)
777 metres (2,550 feet)
$87 + taxes
$1,179 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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SILVER STAR
Nov. 12 (Nordic) Nov. 26 (full)
1,915 metres (6,280 feet)
760 metres (2,500 feet)
$90 + taxes
$1,199 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Silver Star Rail Jam (Jan. 9); Showdown Hoedown Throwdown (Jan. 24–27)
APEX
Dec. 7
2,187 metres (7,175 feet)
610 metres (2,000 feet)
$75 + taxes
$999 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Chasing Shadows movie premiere (Nov. 19); Canadian Selections (Dec. 18–20)
Dec. 11
1,588 metres (5,215 feet)
505 metres (1,657 feet)
$95 + taxes
$1,199+ taxes
Yes
Yes
ViSA’s Snow Festival (Jan. 4–8); Ski for MS (Jan. 24); Women’s Week (Feb. 29–Mar. 4)
CYPRESS MOUNTAIN
Mid to end of November
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610 metres (2,010 feet)
$64 + taxes
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Yes
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MT. SEYMOUR
End of November
1,265 metres (4,150 feet)
330 metres (1,083 feet)
$53 + taxes
$819 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Family First Night (Dec. 31); K2 & Comor Youth Progression Jam (Feb. 6); BCSA Like Me Snowboard Series (Feb. 13–14)
GROUSE MOUNTAIN
End of November
1,250 metres (4,100 feet)
384 metres (1,260 feet)
$58 + taxes
$649 + taxes until Dec. 1; $825 + taxes after
Yes
No
The Peak of Christmas (Nov. 27–Jan. 4); Junior Pond Hockey Tournament (Feb. 3–7)
MANNING PARK RESORT
Nov. 28 (Nordic) Dec. 11 (full)
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437 metres (1,417 feet)
$53 + taxes
$650 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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HEMLOCK VALLEY RESORT
Dec. 5
1,371 metres (4,500 feet)
396 metres (1,300 feet)
$50.48 + taxes
$599 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Check www.hemlockvalleyresort.com/ for updates.
PANORAMA MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
Dec. 11
2,375 metres (7,800 feet)
1,220 metres (4,000 feet)
$44 + taxes
$999 + taxes
Yes
Yes
Nor-Am Cup (Dec. 12–18); Dragon Tail Loppet (Jan. 9)
REVELSTOKE MOUNTAIN RESORT
Nov. 28
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1,713 metres (5,620 feet)
$86 + taxes
$1,149 + taxes
Yes
Yes
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THE WINTER ISSUE
Clockwise from left: Bar Oso offers tapas, such as albacore tuna (Kevin Clark photo); Peaked Pies serves Aussie meat pies with mashed potatoes, peas, and gravy; cheese fondue can be found at Crêpe Montagne.
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HEALTHY SNACKS If you’re looking to detox or Whistler is more than skiing or snowboarding: check out these load up on antioxidants snacking spots to grab a bite before or after hitting those hills between runs, take in the wholesome offerings at Epic terrain is what draws thousands of pow- the Green Moustache. Perhaps a superfood salad der-hungry skiers and snowboarders to Whistler full of seeds and sprouts would do the trick; if not, BY GAIL JOH N SON Blackcomb year after year, but just as important there are smoothies and raw desserts to give you a as magnificent trails on a ski holiday are the meals boost. Freshly made smoothies and pressed juices carved in amid all the outdoor adventure. Men- are available at Naked Sprout, which is also home tion dining and Whistler in the same breath and to organic salads and gourmet wraps, like one chances are a few village standbys will come to with avocado and sustainable tuna, among other mind: Araxi, Bearfoot Bistro, and Rim Rock Café, nutritious nibblies. to name three. Often overlooked, however, are the many spots MOUNTAINSIDE MEXICAN It’s counter serthat offer primo snacking—the kind of food that vice and street-style food at La Cantina, a taquefuels fun on the slopes but doesn’t make you want ria where fi llings range from Mayan-style pulled to fall asleep on the chairlift after lunch or drown pork and slow-cooked brisket to chicken tinga your sorrows by doing a solo shotski when the and poblano pepper. There are tacos at Mexican bill comes. Those seeking small bites before they Corner too, with the gorgeously decorated resto shred or treats after an afternoon above the tree also offering Veracruz-style ceviche and Aztec line can rest assured there’s no shortage of places soup (with pasilla chili and tortilla), among other traditional dishes. they can turn to.
Reopening November 7 after a short break, Crêpe Montagne offers not just crepes of every kind (vegetarian, savoury, sweet, seafood, f lambéed, and even gluten-free) but also a variety of cheese fondues. Have one of the latter with bread or go big and dip cubes of meat and seafood into the melted stuff. The Chalet at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler’s golf
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THINGS TO DO
CHARCUTERIE’S THE THING Check out Top-
table Group’s latest venture, Bar Oso, a Spanishinspired restaurant specializing in house-made charcuterie as well as quintessential tapas like Iberico ham and bocadillos, small plates that are perfect for sharing. Taking its name from the Spanish word for “bear”, it just opened on Halloween, exactly 34 years after its sister restaurant,
Araxi, got started. Flip straight to the meatand-cheese menu at Basalt Wine + Salumeria if you’re looking for something lighter than the three-course chef ’s menu (reasonably priced at $32). Create your own platter with meats such as bresaola, bauernschinken, and Brome Lake duck salami (all of which come with mustard and pickles) and cheeses like Bleu d’Auvergne and B.C. goat’s milk Gouda (accompanied by a seasonal fruit paste and warm bread), or let the chefs select a sampling. FILL YOUR PIEHOLE “Quintessentially Austral-
ian”, Peaked Pies specializes in a down-under staple: meat pie. Chunky steak plays a starring role in some of these flaky wonders, but other versions include Thai chicken satay and vegetable medley. “Peaking” a pie means to top it with mashed potatoes, mushy peas, then gravy. A hearty snack, to be sure—but then, zipping through moguls does build an appetite.
SEVENTH HEAVENLY SWEETS Purebread did,
indeed, start with bread, but this bakery is really geared to those who have a sweet tooth the size of Black Tusk. The salted caramel bar is so insanely delicious it will stop you in your tracks and have you reminiscing about its flavour for hours. One bar is called Crack—’nuff said. There are all sorts of brownies, cookies, cakes, loaves, and squares… as well as some of that aforementioned bread. (There are overly sweet scones, too; I would love to see the company, which also has locations in Function Junction and Gastown in Vancouver, ramp up its selection of savoury stuff across the board.) For something a little more straightforward, take a stroll to the Connection Café at Lost Lake’s PassivHaus. Freshly baked, all-natural goodness comes in the form of $1 cookies, best enjoyed with a cup of organic java from the Pemberton Valley Coffee Company. -
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A slew of environmental docs are coming our
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late November approaches. Rather than remind us again that we’re all doomed, this haunting entry accesses a deeper and much stranger area of inquiry. Most British Columbians will remember when Grant Hadwin felled the planet’s one and only golden spruce on Haida Gwaii in 1997, a devastating and perverse act of ecoterrorism that broke the hearts of the Haida people while leaving others to ponder the former forest technician’s sanity. It’s to filmmaker Sasha Snow’s credit that he refuses to pass any judgment of his own on Hadwin, favouring the notion that his subject’s preternatural empathy for the old growth he was increasingly reluctant to destroy came as a visionary transformation as much as any kind of emotional rupture.
See the forest for the trees
Hadwin’s Judgement explores the vision behind the shocking act of ecoterrorism when Grant Hadwin felled the world’s only Golden Spruce on Haida Gwaii in 1997.
then settled for producing it. Jane is one tough cookie, unburdened by a conscience or romantic subplots. Our multiphobic heroine has been off the circuit for six years Hadwin’s Judgement captures violence against rainforests; when she’s drafted to go the Suffragette depicts the nascent British feminist movement South American way. AnIndeed, among the film’s uniformly captivating thony Mackie and theatre veteran Ann Dowd play talking heads—including John Vaillant, author of less experienced hands who know that their candithe best-selling book The Golden Spruce—a former date, an entitled empty suit in the George Bush vein colleague of Hadwin’s soberly reports on his own (Portugal’s Joaquim de Almeida), is a turkey. Jane’s epiphany. “Today I heard the trees cry,” he would job is to reform his image, quickly. The movie’s twist tell his wife after an orgiastic day of clear-cutting. is that his opponent, clearly the better man, is also By all accounts, along with his mystical bent, being handled by a Yankee, Billy Bob Thornton’s Hadwin was endowed with superhuman survival saturnine but benignly named Pat Candy. These skills. Snow mingles the on-screen testimony with gringos have some sort of tortured history together. American director David Gordon Green has kinetic, breathtaking scenes of stuntman Douglas Chapman, as Hadwin, inside the rainforest he re- made oddball low-budget films and one semi-hit, vered. Sickeningly effective footage of the violence Pineapple Express. He doesn’t seem sure whether to play this as a character comedy or a satire of we do to nature completes the picture. But this film is no polemic. By framing Hadwin’s electoral manipulation. U.K. screenwriter Peter eventual disappearance—he was last seen in ’97 pad- Straughan has done quirkier work, including the dling north by kayak—with the Haida legend of a Cold War–themed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and man who emerges from the sea “with a warning”, the indie-rocking Frank. You can feel the conSnow taps into an ancient current where the liminal straint here, tiptoeing around U.S. interference in human experience has a powerful logic of its own. Latin American politics. And the supporting charThe so-called rational world reared back in horror acters remain curiously undeveloped. Fortunately, at Hadwin’s desperate, megalomaniacal, soulful act. Bullock puts enough oomph on-screen to compenBut his basic question—why weep for one spruce sate for what’s missing from the story. > KEN EISNER while slaughtering all the others?—is a challenge that exposes “rationality” as yet another form of delusion. > ADRIAN MACK THEEB OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton. In English and Spanish, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 44
Starring Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat. In English and Arabic, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 44
In a reverse riff on Lawrence of Arabia, the low-key Theeb sketches in a First World War Like its inspiration, the 2005 documentary of tale as experienced by a boy of that name—“wolf”, the same name, Our Brand Is Crisis is set in in Arabic. This cub (Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat) is the Bolivia and partially shot there, and also in Puerto youngest of three recently orphaned brothers. The Rico and Louisiana. Evo Morales has been turned film’s most appealing scenes show Theeb, a tousleinto a fictional firebrand (Louis Arcella), and Clin- haired boy of about 12, being instructed in ways of tonian political operative James Carville has been the desert by his handsome middle brother (Hussplit into two feisty campaign consultants. sein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen). But those ways are The foreground figure, “Calamity” Jane Bodine, quickly changing, as evidenced by the arrival, in is a much smarter version of Mary Matalin, the 1916, of a British army officer (Jack Fox) reminisbatty right-winger married to Carville in real life. cent of a certain figure played by Peter O’Toole. Sandra Bullock herself campaigned for this role, Writer-director Naji Abu Nowar, the British-born originally written for George Clooney, who son of a Jordanian army general, returned to his
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2 Local heroes BAD KIDS, GOOD TEACHER Jarod Joseph makes a little
bit of history this week, as the first web-series star to score a best actor nomination from UBCP/ACTRA (for Coded). A quick visit to www.codedtheseries.com/ will clarify everything; Joseph is outstanding as Shae, a fresh-out-of-university teacher dealing with a classroom full of asshole 10th-graders with behavioural difficulties, in the multi-episode show, which plays like a cross between Class of 1984 and Degrassi. Winners are announced at the UBCP/ACTRA awards ceremony on Saturday (November 7).-
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MISS YOU ALREADY Starring Drew Barrymore. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 44
Usually, diseases are injected into domestic
2 dramedies to deepen, or sometimes break, ties
between characters and audience. But in Miss You Already—a pet phrase between two lifelong pals— we’re rushed through their bona fides in order to give cancer top billing. This is a rather daring strategy, and one that plays against the otherwise commercial instincts of director Catherine Hardwicke, who made the teen-angst indie 13 before blowing up with Twilight. The script, from veteran Brit-TV actor and writer Morwenna Banks, is short on profound explorations of feelings and events. Hell, she barely sketches in why longtime Londoners Jess and Milly—played as adults by Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette, respectively— even like each other, apart from their shared love of see next page
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father’s homeland to enlist a number of remaining Bedouin (all male) to participate in his first feature. The movie doesn’t tell you much about the expanding conflict, which has Britain helping Arabian tribes sabotage their Ottoman rulers, led by the Turks, allied with Germany. But Theeb knows nothing of this; he’s more intrigued by the upright foreigner’s blond hair and beard, and that mysterious, Lawrenc-ian box he’s carrying. (Hint: it has something to do with the railroad—or, as one character resentfully dubs it, the Iron Donkey Trail.) Bedouin courtesy means they must assist the officer in reaching a distant well, where he’s supposed to meet more soldiers, or something. The middle brother is tasked with guiding the Brit through spooky canyons (recalling John Ford’s Monument Valley for western-movie lovers), despite warning that “that road has more bandits than pilgrims these days.” Theeb tags along, leading to events that, after a slow start, keep shifting like the proverbial you-know-what. Eventually, the boy encounters a darkly threatening stranger (Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh) who explains some of what is happening in the larger world. Overamped sound effects and a slightly pompous musical score occasionally step on the movie’s determined naturalism. But there’s no doubt that this is a potent and timely film debut for all involved.
What to see and where to see it
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MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL Björk’s “Black
Lake” and DFA 1979’s “Virgins” are among the offerings at the Vancouver International Music Video Festival, at Vancity on Friday and Saturday (November 6 and 7). Artist talks and an openingnight set by Wintermitts round out the event.
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Eyre’s acclaimed 1998 debut, Smoke Signals, kicks off a three-week-long series of First Nations– themed films at the Cinematheque on Friday (November 6). Other titles include Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and Rhymes for Young Ghouls.
VANCOUVER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Our city plays itself (very well, it turns out) in Michelle Kim’s impressive debut feature (directed with Rob Leickner), The Tree Inside, screening at International Village as part of this year’s VAFF, running November 5 to 8. Go to Straight.com for our interview with Kim.
HER BRAND IS CLASSY Actor Anthony Mackie had high praise for his Our Brand Is Crisis costar Sandra Bullock. “I’ve never experienced anybody on her level being so normal,” he told the Straight. “The sad thing, I feel, about working in this business is you work with people, the movie ends Friday, and then Saturday you guys are no longer friends, after you’ve built this entire relationship together. I’ve never seen anyone be so over themselves in the way that she is. It’s really, really refreshing.” For more from Mackie, visit Straight.com.NOVEMBER 5 – 12 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 41
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Wuthering Heights. But when the latter gets a surprise diagnosis, the movie is all business about what happens afterward, sparing us few details of the painful indignities Milly must face. These include telling Jess before breaking the horrible news to her devoted, if slightly blocked, husband (Dominic Cooper) and their adorably bratty children (Honor Kneafsey and Ryan Lennon Baker). Jess has fertility and money issues with her construction-worker husband (Paddy Considine)—although they are able to live in a nifty houseboat on the Thames— but these are swept aside by her sick friend’s ever-expanding needs. Ever the wild one, Milly is still rebelling against her faded movie-star mother (a plum role for Jacqueline Bisset), and acts out in shocking ways as her condition worsens. This is where the movie steps away from the usual sickloved-one bromides. It would work even better if Hardwicke didn’t rely so much on handheld close-ups and moody alt-rock songs for expected effects, and the strain to find uplift at the end is apparent. But Miss You Already has the courage to at least suggest frequently hidden realms of friendship and fear. > KEN EISNER
THE SECOND MOTHER Starring Regina Casé. In Portuguese, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 44
The English title of this well-
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should be A Second Mother, suggesting the surrogate role of a livein maid who has essentially raised the only offspring of a wealthy São Paulo family. In a tour-de-force performance by Brazil’s great Regina Casé, light-skinned Val is even more lightly educated. She has essentially hitched her wagon to a vain fashionista (Karine Teles), her semiretired artist husband (Lourenço Mutarelli), and their unambitious princeling (Michel Joelsas), who has floated through life with Val’s indulgence. It turns out that Val wasn’t even a first mother to her own daughter, who has grown up in the remote northeast, with someone else. Now grown, Jéssica (effective newcomer Camila Márdila) suddenly shows up down south, ready to study architecture at a big university—which is free, by the way. Apparently, our girl never got the memo about being anyone’s servant, and immediately disturbs the household’s delicate hierarchy, but not in the heavy-handed ways you might expect. Jéssica refuses to share her mom’s crappy quarters in an otherwise spacious, supermodern house, and of all the reactions to this apparent transgression, Val’s is the most vehement. Writer-director Anna Muylaert has been building a reputation for clever, if slightly lackadaisical, indie efforts such as Durval Records and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. (She also helped script the internationally feted The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.) Here, in her most tightly controlled effort, carefully composed images provide a cool stage set for some hot acting, all of which manages to be amusingly uplifting rather than sociologically bleak, even while raising eyebrows about race, class, and social change. The family at hand is maybe a touch too easy to mock—Brazilians will feel more uncomfortable watching them than will most North Americans—and things are stretched slightly for a feel-good finish. But those good feelings seem largely wellearned, and refreshingly open-ended.
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With everyone from the Taliban to anti–Planned Parenthood Republicans rolling back rights gained by women in the past century, it’s worth looking back at the shockingly long struggle for basic equality. Suffragette was directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan,
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SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE Starring Tye Sheridan. Rated 18A. For showtimes, please see page 44
These days you can barely swing chainsaw without hitting a zombie-based movie or TV show, but Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse doesn’t further the undead cause one iota. It’s a horror-comedy that fails to elicit chuckle one. The prospect of laughs looks good when the flick opens with Blake Anderson from TV’s hilarious Workaholics causing havoc at a bio lab. But it’s established early on that over-thetop gore will be the main focus when his goofball janitor unwittingly forces both his hands into the belly of an infected research subject. Soon after, we’re introduced to a teenage scout group made up of goodhearted Ben (Tye Sheridan), randy troublemaker Carter (Logan Miller), and chubby nerd Augie (Joey Morgan). After a nonsensical scene where Ben hits a zombie deer with his dad’s car and gets a flat tire, he and Carter make plans to leave Augie at a camp-out and sneak off to a secret high-school seniors’ party in search of romance/pussy. But before they can do that, the zombie outbreak occurs, so they team up with a shotgun-toting strip-bar waitress (Sarah Dumont) and use their weaponenhanced scouting skills to try and save the day. Gross-out sight gags ensue. The filmmakers try in vain to inject humour into the proceedings by having 89-year-old Cloris Leachman play a cat-crazed old hag who’s freaky even without the virus. Then there’s the part where Ben is dangling off a roof, hanging on to the penis of a zombie senior that stretches, stretches, and strrrrreeeetches until you get to see in vivid detail what Johnny Knoxville’s character managed > KEN EISNER to avoid in Bad Grandpa. You could call that the highlight, unfortunately.
Starring Carey Mulligan. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 44
Written and directed by SASHA SNOW Inspired by the book THE GOLDEN SPRUCE written by JOHN VAILLANT John Vaillant to attend November 9th and 10th screeening!
who joined forces for Brick Lane. (Morgan also scripted The Iron Lady, the weak-kneed Margaret Thatcher flick.) The term suffragette is itself shamefully condescending, implying that women’s access to democracy is just a miniature version of men’s. Set just before the First World War, the movie gives no sense of the growing labour-union movement and other rebellious impulses that carried nascent feminism across class lines. It seethes with good intentions and bad behaviour. The filmmakers rest the entire story on Carey Mulligan’s fictional Maud Watts, a lifelong laundry worker who almost accidentally steps into the fray. It’s an understandable strategy for gaining audience identification, but means that Maud must bear overwork, underpay, sexual harassment, physical injury, hostile neighbours and coworkers, a reactionary husband (we liked Ben Wishaw better when he was the bear’s voice in Paddington), the loss of parental rights, and torture in prison, among other indignities. Well, she does get to testify before Parliament, but that upbeat moment happens early. There are other people in this strangely inert tale, well-dressed but stifled by too many handheld close-ups and TV-level music, with some based on real activists. Meryl Streep has just one scene as movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst, and Helena Bonham Carter has a few more as a chemist who inspires violent protest—leading to brutal responses from a police inspector played by Brendan Gleeson, who at least appears slightly conflicted. The fact that Bonham Carter’s own greatgrandfather was, in fact, the prime minister in 1912 illustrates our proximity to that fractious time—something the film itself, sadly, fails to convey.
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JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS Starring Aubrey Peeples and Juliette Lewis. Rated G. For showtimes, please see page 44
How can a dress-up party with
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That is the nagging question amid the mixed messages and mountains of sparkle powder in Jem and the Holograms, the bizarre, only intermittently fun adaptation of the 1980s cartoon. Transporting the animated series to the YouTube generation, it follows Jerrica Benton after she videotapes a song she performs as pink-wigged “Jem”. Her sister posts it on the Internet, it goes viral, and a star is born. The instant fame is a situation that Jon M. Chu’s overlong movie can’t quite decide if it wants to deride or celebrate. Jem and her sisters form a band and are immediately granted their own rock-star mansion, makeup and designer-outfit freebies, and sold-out concert halls. It’s not the usual route to music-industry success, but this is not a flick that’s interested in realism—though lead actor Aubrey Peeples does boast some real vocal chops on the generically poppy songs. What’s confusing here is the way the movie glorifies her fame but focuses on her identity crisis. You keep waiting for Jem to reveal her true self to the world, casting off costumes that look like a Party Bazaar explosion. Don’t hold your breath. The movie’s best moments come when it strays off the grid—after a mini robot Jerrica’s late father invented comes to life, or when real YouTube DIYers are spliced in to provide the percussive soundtrack. Other than that, there’s hunky Ryan Guzman to pine after, and the muchmissed Juliette Lewis as a fantastically harsh record-label queen. Alas, a spirited appearance by Molly Ringwald as Jerrica’s beloved Aunt Bailey only serves to remind us how good teen movies used to be— when they weren’t all about being Pretty in Pink Hair. > JANET SMITH
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 5: THE GHOST DIMENSION Starring Chris J. Murray and Brit Shaw. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 44
The makers of the latest (and
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tivity film just don’t get it. The secret to the found-footage series’ success comes from not showing too much, and in some cases showing hardly anything at all. The brainiacs behind The Ghost Dimension decided to give that activity visible form, in the guise of a tenebrous, shape-challenged demon/ghost. And then they basically beat you over the head with it by having the dark apparition suddenly swoop all over the place, accompanied by deafening sound effects. That’s no way to creep people out, folks. After an intro depicting some demonic death-dealing from a previous PA film, we’re plunked into the sprawling Christmas-ready home of Ryan (Chris J. Murray), his wife Emily (Brit Shaw), and their adorbs seven-year-old Leila (Ivy George). Also on the scene are blond yoga babe Skyler (Olivia Taylor Dudley) and Ryan’s just-arriving goofballhipster brother, Mike (Dan Gill). While the guys are putting up decorations, Mike finds a bulky, peculiar camcorder and a bunch of VHS tapes, which include lotsa footage from the previous films, ’cause that’s a cheap way to make a movie. Meanwhile, like previous kids in the series, Leila makes an invisible friend named Toby, who just happens to be the evil presence causing all the commotion in the first place. When Toby’s antics cause Mike and Ryan to holler “What the fuck!” for the umpteenth time and Leila to get weirder by the day, Emily finally calls in a priest so the movie can turn to timeworn exorcism tropes. While the static (or creatively jury-rigged) cameras in the early Paranormal Activity films helped boost the believability factor, The Ghost Dimension opts for absurd handheld shots to document whatever chaotic supernatural shit is going down. The fact that it’s capturing images in 3-D doesn’t heighten the attraction of this bogus production one measly bit. > STEVE NEWTON
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MISS YOU ALREADY Drew Barrymore stars in Red Riding Hood director Catherine Hardwicke’s drama about two friends whose relationship is put to the test. Rated PG. 112 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver and SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas
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SUFFRAGETTE Carey Mulligan, AnneMarie Duff, and Helena Bonham Carter star in Village at the End of the World director Sarah Gavron’s historical drama about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement. Rated PG. 106 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas THE PEANUTS MOVIE The voices of Noah Schnapp, Bill Melendez, and Hadley Belle Miller are featured in director Steve Martino’s animated flick about the misadventures of Charles M. Schulz’s classic characters. Rated G. 86 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Galaxy Cinemas Chilliwack, Hollywood Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas THEEB Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, and Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh star in writer-director Naji Abu Nowar’s drama about a young Bedouin boy who guides a British officer to his secret destination during World War I. 100 mins. Vancity Theatre
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3 Inches of Blood, let’s reflect on some good times for the battle-hardened metal warriors from Vancouver. Singer Cam Pipes never expected to spend the past decade of his life touring the world and knocking things off his list of things to do before dying. In the beginning, the only thing he was looking for was a good time, something that he found faster than he ever dreamed. “For me, it was purely fun,” Pipes says, speaking on his cell during a quick break from his day job as a Lower Mainland delivery driver. “I was living in Victoria before I joined the band and was looking for a reason to get out of there. The guys who were in 3 Inches of Blood at the time called me up and said, ‘Hey, wanna do some guest vocals for some songs?’ ” Pipes not only fit in with 3IOB after joining at the start of the ’00s, but eventually became its creative engine and longest-serving member. And as such, he’s probably hit hardest by the band’s decision to call it a day with a couple of farewell shows at the Commodore this month, even though he’s
A farewell to metal kings
Given all the beards, you might take 3 Inches of Blood for a twee folk-pop act. But Iron & Wine never wrote a song like “Rejoice in the Fires of Man’s Demise”.
After catching the attention of heavyweight metal label Roadrunner, 3 Inches of Blood inked a deal that led to the recordAfter a career packed with bucket-list moments, ing of a 2004 sophomore Vancouver’s 3 Inches of Blood is calling it a day release, Advance and Vanchoosing to focus on the positives. There has been quish. The sudden departure of Froese and Dhak no shortage of them, including touring with icons would, however, throw the future of the band ranging from Metal Church to Satyricon, opening into question. for and getting to meet Iron Maiden, and getting “Even before Roadrunner came around, we repeat invitations to high-wattage metal mega- were taking it a lot more seriously than we infestivals in Europe. itially thought we were going to,” Pipes remem“We played Wacken festival [in Germany] to bers. “When Bob and Sunny left, there was a lot of 50,000 people in 2008,” Pipes says. “That was in- doubt. Everything happened so quickly, we were sane and surreal—people waving Canadian flags like, ‘What the hell?’ At first it was like, ‘Let’s just and singing ‘O Canada’ at the end of our set. We tour for this record and see how it goes.’ ” got to tour with Motörhead. There was a lot of Guitarists Shane Clark and Justin Hagberg were bucket-list stuff that we didn’t necessarily write enlisted to hit the road for Advance and Vanquish. down at the beginning. Definitely, when I was “Our manager, maybe exaggerating a bit, younger I was always like, ‘Man, how rad would said, ‘If you guys don’t tour, then Roadrunner that be to play with Iron Maiden?—they’ve always will come after the money they put into this rebeen my favourite band.’ And then we did.” cord,’ ” Pipes recounts. “I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t 3 Inches of Blood exploded onto the Vancou- want that to happen,’ so maybe it was a bit of ver scene at a time when the White Stripes and fear that kept us going at first. So it was ‘Let’s Strokes were spearheading a rawk-revolution. tour this record, meet our commitment, and Even though metal was considered dead as a that will probably be it.’ That’s how I put it to mainstream force at the time, 3IOB was em- Shane and Justin when I recruited them. But afbraced not only by Scrape Records thrashers, but ter a couple of tours, it was like, ‘All right, this also the city’s hard-core ’00s scenesters. As any- seems to be clicking pretty well.’ ” one who’s ever screamed along to early classics The band barrelled along for three more fulllike “Balls of Ice” and “Destroy the Orcs” will tes- lengths, Fire Up the Blades, Here Waits Thy Doom, tify, 3IOB was fucking devastating right from the and 2012’s Long Live Heavy Metal, which will now start, with the two-guitar attack of Sunny Dhak be remembered as 3 Inches of Blood’s swan song. and Bobby Froese augmented by the Lucifer-in-aPipes quite correctly notes that, over the past leghold-trap shrieking of covocalist Jaime Hoop- half-decade, the music business has changed rader. While unmistakably lo-fi, the band’s 2002 ically. Unless you happen to be U2 or Beyoncé, debut, Battlecry Under a Wintersun, remains one odds are good that you’re making no money from of the greatest records ever to bubble up from the album sales. That means you either grind it out on Vancouver underground. the road tirelessly, hoping to make a little extra “I kind of felt like nothing that we were doing money at the merch table, or accept that maybe it’s was going on on this side of the pond,” Pipes re- time to take a day job. calls. “We all listened to a lot of European metal, “The very last full tour we did, about two years and at that time, metal was still charting really well ago, was in the fall of 2013,” Pipes says. “It was in a lot of European countries. We all loved Iron fun, but we came back with not a lot of cash in our Maiden, so the songs were really gallopy—sort pockets, and that kind of prompted the question of like Maiden worship. The idea was that it was ‘All right—what are we doing with this band? Let’s fun, and that was kind of the point. Going to jam go on a break for a while.’ ” was a new and exciting experience, even when we The longer that break went on, the more the weren’t writing something new. Everything was so members of 3IOB—including drummer Ash fresh, it didn’t matter. It was like meeting a new Pearson—realized they weren’t having the fun girlfriend or boyfriend, where you’ve got butter- they once had. Pipes suggests the extended break flies all the time and always want to see them.” got the band “comfortable not doing anything”.
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been at war with local rapper Snak the Ripper, the latter having dropped a pull-no-punches diss track called “Assisted Suicide”. The joke’s on Snak, mostly because you can’t help kill a career that’s already dead.
BEACH SLANG Take a singer who looks like Ron Howard dressed as Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, and then add a band cribbing from post-Cobain college rock and first-wave emo. The result is Beach Slang, which is not to be confused with Beach Fossils, Blackout Beach, Nude Beach, or Beach House. The Philadelphia group has generated a shit-ton of buzz for its debut EP, Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken?. Frontman James Snyder rasps like a man who’s been smoking Paul Westerberg’s Winstons as he rolls out angsty for-the-kids odes that he calls “sweat prayers”. Amen. Beach Slang plays the Cobalt on Tuesday (November 10).
3 Inches of Blood plays two farewell shows of two sets each at the Commodore Ballroom on Saturday and Sunday (November 7 and 8).
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Cam Pipes sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On the band’s beginnings: “In the early years, it was easier to get tours because we were a baby band getting opening slots for shit money. We had to go out and pay our dues for a long time, but we were fine with that. We made it work.” On making a living: “Really, it’s the T-shirts that the bands survive on. As you get more experience and people know about you more, you get to learn what your fan base’s aesthetic is, merchwise. People will gravitate towards one thing, so we always did the battle thing—warriors and fantasy elements—on our shirts.” On lineup changes: “I’ve always said the spirit has always been there regardless of the album. Even when there’s been a little bit of a personnel change, the overall vibe has always been there on every record.”
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When the idea of jumping on a package tour would come up, getting everyone to sign on was difficult. “I don’t want to get too much into who initiated it all, but it was basically one guy saying, ‘I’m retiring—I’m resigning from the band because I’m kind of tapped out creatively, and I’ve got other endeavours I want to pursue.’ That led to someone else going, ‘If he’s done, I don’t want to do this without him.’ At that point, you’re like, ‘All right, this is almost like beating a dead horse.’ ” And so 3 Inches of Blood has decided to end it. But that doesn’t mean Pipes isn’t proud of everything the group has done. And, perhaps more importantly, he sees no reason to make a black armband a permanent part of his attire. “I wanna do something else, but I don’t know what,” he says. “I don’t want to invest any mental energy into it until these shows are done. Once these are out of the way, then I can focus on something else. I wanna keep playing metal. But it’s not going to be 3 Inches of Blood lite.” -
EXPECT ECSTASY Police in California arrested 500 people at two separate EDM festivals for public intoxication and drug possession. Isn’t that sort of like busting fans at Ozzfest for shotgunning Extra Old Stock in the parking lot? SMELLS LIKE L.A.–based auction house Julien’s Live
will be putting a lock of Kurt Cobain’s hair up for bids, along with a green cardigan he wore for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance. Neither has been washed. Ever.
SUERS GONNA SUE Jesse Braham, who wrote a song called “Haters Gone Hate”, is suing Taylor Swift to the tune of $42 million for using the phrase “haters gonna hate” in her hit “Shake It Off”. Braham also claims to have invented TV, Pop-Tarts, and the Fleshlight.
Fresh and local WAR BABY DEATH SWEATS (BUMMER) Good news! Grunge isn’t dead. Real grunge, that is, not the cleaned-up version that eventually gave rise to the Nickelbacks of the world. War Baby is strictly old-school, and Death Sweats is redolent of unwashed plaid flannel, Rainier-soaked mosh pits, and skateboard decks plastered with Sub Pop and Amphetamine Reptile stickers. Kurt Cobain once said Nirvana sounded “like the Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath”, and that’s a bang-on description of the white-squall noise-pop War Baby offers up on “Spin Forever” and “Swamp Kunt”. -
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FRAME BY FRAME. REFRAMING AFGHANISTAN Screening of the documentary that follows four photojournalists in Afghanistan as they navigate an emerging media landscape, reframing Afghanistan for the world and themselves. Nov 6, 7-10 pm, St. Andrew’s United Church (1044 St. George’s Ave., North Van). Tix $20/15, info www.cw4wafghan.ca/. CATWOMAN Northwest Comedy and VIFF present a screening of Halle Berry feature Catwoman, presented in Hecklevision. Nov 7, 10 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. MARINONI: THE FIRE IN THE FRAME Tony Girardin’s film documents the revered bicycle craftsman. The filmmaker will be in attendance. Nov 8, 6:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
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ac Miller is enjoying an early-afternoon Manhattan, a plate of deepfried hush puppies, and some bad TV in a Wichita, Kansas, bar when the Straight catches up with him on the phone. But as you’d expect from a guy who just dropped an album titled GO:OD AM, his breakfast game is just as on-point. Hell, the special edition of his latest release came housed in its very own cereal box. But as he tells it, an on-tour allnighter just a few hours earlier was capped not with a healthy bowl of granola, but with a gut-churning stop at Waffle House. “Have you ever been in the mood to just eat something horrible?” the rapper asks through his drowsy, East Coast drawl. “They have this bacon burger and I had them put it in between two waffles, and then I poured maple syrup on it, and put an egg on it. It was gross. I mean… it was delicious, but that was at, like, 6 in the morning. I randomly woke up at 7:30 really thirsty and just shotgunned a Blue Ribbon pounder and went back to sleep.” There’s more to the Brooklynbased, Pittsburgh-bred MC’s GO:OD AM than a greasy meal, though. To backtrack, the last couple of years have found the 23-year-old very publicly detailing an addiction to the codeine-based beverage Lean, and an equally unhealthy appetite for mixing prescription drugs with alcohol. Just last year, the drooping, self-deprecating flow on his Faces freelease’s “Malibu” had him noting “I might die before I detox.” He also keeps referring to himself as “a piece of shit” on the track. It’s unsettlingly depressing. Following two full-lengths and 10 mix tapes’ worth of self-described “drugged-up” material, GO:OD AM is an eye-opener. On intro track “Doors”, Miller half sings above sun-smacked xylophone runs that he hasn’t exactly sobered up, but he’s in “a better place”. Elsewhere, the plush and chiming “Rush Hour” has Miller reporting that he’s trying to straighten up, since “the world don’t give a fuck about your loneliness.” The golden soul-sampling back half of “Perfect Circle/God Speed” has him admitting that he’s got a problem, and he offers up in the hopeful finale: “I’m finally awake. Good morning.” As a prolific and dedicated studio rat, he says being on the road right now is helping him get out and connect with friends and family. That said, he notes that he can’t go hard
It’s hard to tell, but we think Mac Miller is wearing a green turtleneck, which is cool, because nothing says “hard-core badass” like a turtleneck.
every night, and opts to stay in the hotel every now and again to catch up on Homeland. Still, he’s trying his best to offset his work ethic with some extracurricular activity. “Instead of just sitting on the bus all day, [I’m] actually going out and doing stuff,” Miller notes. “We heard about a couple of strip clubs. Maybe we’ll do that tonight, you never know. Every day, there’s so much possibility. I love the studio and miss the studio—I still make beats every day. But it’s nice to go out and blow off some steam.” After a series of dark-cloud collections, the MC is amped to be bringing GO:OD AM’s rainbow glow to the fans. While offering that “this rap shit’s for life,” the optimistic “100 Grandkids” has Miller looking forward to dropping progeny sometime in the future for his Grams to spoil. Not too soon, though. He tells the Straight: “I got the girl. I’m not really sure if I’m ready for the child yet.” Miller says that he’s been pleasantly surprised by the response the faithful have been giving his latest baby so far, and he picks out “Weekend” as his current favourite to play. To be clear, there are traces of pain on the track. With a downer swing,
Miller’s verses have him detailing heartbreak, personal demons, and a blur of empty sexual encounters. All’s good by the time R & B artist Miguel arrives, the pair connecting to praise high times with friends. “I love watching emotions change drastically,” the rapper reveals. “A song like ‘Weekend’, it’s a little bit more melancholy in the verses, and then it climbs closer and closer to being something positive. The hook is the big release.” Miller’s current tour wraps up in December, but he says he’s gearing up to push GO:OD AM until next summer. As the conversation winds down, the mike-gripper notes that he does miss his Brooklyn apartment, but tour life is keeping him happy. He’s got a gnarly beard on the go, he’s watching his fans go wild every night, and, despite the occasional beer-andburger bender, he’s got a healthier sense of himself than he’s had in years. As it stands, though, Miller admits that certain habits die hard. “I make about four beats a day. That’s an addiction that stays with me forever.” -
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For Pete Tong, it’s still all about the music Thankfully, hearing Pete Tong
featured everyone from megastars like Daft Punk and Skrillex to more left-field acts like Caribou and Flying Lotus. “What can I say? The fact that they want to do it and they’re excited about doing it, and put TLC into doing it and coming up with interesting stuff—for them the show still moves the needle in their world, which is probably what I’m most proud of.” And if for some inexplicable reason you haven’t heard Tong’s voice cue up an Essential Mix yet, where does he recommend one start? “I would say the most exciting one is the next one,” he replies. “Every week it’s still a thrill to put it together, so my show tonight.”
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only briefly causes me to babble incomprehensibly. Surely you know his voice well too, as his BBC Radio 1 show Essential Mix has been dance music’s most prestigious platform for over 20 years. In addition to his on-air endeavours with the BBC as well as Clear Channel, Tong is also a DJ, a producer, an inspiration for the cockney rhyming slang that became the title of the 2004 film It’s All Gone Pete Tong, and a pioneer who helped shape all of dance-music culture. That’s just the Coles Notes version of his bio, but the point is he’s a busy guy. So the eight-hour-long interview required to adequately delve into his career wasn’t on the table, but the Straight happily settled for 15 minutes as Tong waited to board a flight at LAX. Los Angeles has been home for the 55-year-old member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for a few years now. If his relocating there doesn’t signal Tinseltown is an epicentre for dance music, the billboards emblazoned with Martin Garrix’s face—which are as ubiquitous as ones for studio blockbusters in La La Land these days—surely do. “I guess it was just a case of when,” he says of EDM’s popularity in North America. “It’s well documented that the inspiration came from people like myself coming over in the late ’80s and getting excited going to Paradise Garage in New York and seeing all the pioneers of house and techno from Detroit and Chicago. We took all that back to the U.K. and blew it up and invented the club culture that gets talked about today that’s obviously spread around the rest of the world. “It was always there in key cities bubbling away in the underground, but it took the kind of perfect storm of certain events and festivals growing to a certain size, like EDC and Ultra in particular, and then the music actually
> MICHAEL MANN
Pete Tong plays Celebrities on Friday (November 6).
Cheatahs’ experiments expand shoegaze palette When the Straight catches up
2 with Cheatahs, the U.K. shoe-
Pete Tong is well aware that he looks like a G-man from a 1960s TV show, and as long as it keeps getting him through airport security, he’s okay with it.
finding a voice on the radio and really cutting through to the Top 40.” Aside from bass drops via David Guetta or Avicii on commercial radio, the other big shift since EDM’s unprecedented ascent is how it’s performed in big rooms. On its largest stages, music almost takes the back seat during spectacle-driven sets that put Kiss concerts to shame. “Some people, like deadmau5, it’s almost central to their whole act in terms of what they bring with
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production,” he explains. “If you look at his recording success, it’s not like he’s had loads of hit singles. But his performance and production has kept him at the top of the game.” But for Tong, it’s all about the music, and, fittingly, he plays for a minimum of two hours, a format he champions every week with Essential Mix. “Essential Mix has always been about bringing forward names and taking them to another level,” he says of his show, which over the years has
gaze band is en route to a show in San Diego. It’s a homecoming gig of sorts, since bassist Dean Reid is from America’s Finest City. But the road to San Diego hasn’t been a smooth one. Because the London-headquartered group’s members come from four different countries—guitarist-vocalist James Wignall is the lone Englishman, with drummer Marc Raue hailing from Dresden, Germany, and singer-guitarist Nathan Hewitt from Edmonton—sorting out their visas was a Kafkaesque ordeal of red tape. As a result, Cheatahs had to cancel the first few shows of their current North American tour while things were sorted out. Then, with that mess behind it, the foursome suffered a further setback when its van “imploded” somewhere near Springfield, Illinois.
“It’s been a bit of a nightmare,” Hewitt relates. “We ended up putting four new wheels on it and getting an alignment done. Then we took it somewhere else and they told us that there’s a steering pin that needs to get fixed. We still have to do that when we get to L.A., because we have to take it all the way back to New York.” Local ’gazers should be relieved that, judging by the band’s socialmedia updates, things are now going smoothly, and Cheatahs are on track to play Vancouver this weekend. Fans can expect plenty of the vintagedream-pop sound that marked the quartet’s self-titled 2014 debut. This time around, though, the group has packed a sampler into the tour van to help it pull off quirkier fare like the downtempo-electronica-tinged “Signs to Lorelei” and the motorikgrooved, loop-driven “Su-pra”. Those tracks are among the highlights of the latest Cheatahs fulllength, Mythologies, which Hewitt says was the product of a more experimental approach in the studio. “Some of the songs have about, like, 50 to 100 versions,” he says. “The one that made it on the record is just a version of that. Some of them got redone 50 times, with totally different melodies and ideas and endings and all that kind of stuff. It was kind of more like cut-and-paste-style sometimes—just whatever worked.” The album’s title is taken from the Wignall-penned “Hey, Sen”, and is a nod to Leonard Cohen’s first poetry book, Let Us Compare Mythologies. Nor is that the only literary reference. “Murasaki”, which is partially in Japanese, was inspired both by Reid’s parents (his mom’s from Japan) and Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century novel The Tale of Genji. Hewitt says he and his bandmates put just as much work into the words as into the richly layered sonics, but see next page
he acknowledges that not everyone will appreciate that, and that’s fine with him. “We try to write things that, on the first listen, work musically, and then if you want to dig deeper, there’s stuff to dig at, but you don’t need to if you don’t want to,” he notes. “So you can enjoy it on whatever level you’d like.” That should make this Saturday’s show a feast for both the ears and the mind—provided that damn van doesn’t blow up before Cheatahs can make it past the Peace Arch. > JOHN LUCAS
Cheatahs play the Media Club on Saturday (November 7).
Here We Go Magic goes for a dark-tropical sound Remember the tropical or-
2 chestra of synthesizers, guitar,
Nigel Godrich–produced A Different Ship. Instead of recruiting the famed Radiohead producer a second time, Temple and bandmate Michael Bloch opted to produce the album themselves from a home studio. “You don’t have to answer to anybody when you work alone—you can just go into the rabbit hole. With a producer, you have an objective ear, but it’s easier to get self-indulgent,” says Temple. The album’s title track speaks to his interest in glorifying the humdrum, as he sings “Stay low to the ground/be good in the dark/be small just as you are/in the calm of your sweet surrender.” In “Ordinary Feeling”, lyrics like “Do I wanna please me/something seizes me/this ordinary feeling” seem to describe Temple’s pervasive but comfortable uncertainty. His desire to cut the fat in the band’s music is mirrored in his dayto-day life. He recently moved from Manhattan to upstate New York, and he’s kicked a drinking habit that came to light after the release of his last solo album, Good Mood Fool. “I think I just went through a period where I was feeling more uncomfortable with myself, and booze was something I needed to feel relaxed,” says Temple, admitting that he’ll have the occasional drink every so often, “now that I’ve got a more mature relationship with it. Not drinking helps with my inner demons. I think I wrote just as much music when I was drinking, but I feel happier now.” Temple also notes that, a week into its tour, his band’s small club performances have been going off without a hitch. “We have a much more strippeddown palette for the live show, just two guitars, drums, and a bass guitar, with a little bit of that synth element,” he says. “It’s dense but it can be intimate.”
and strings created by Brian Eno and John Cale on “Spinning Away”, from their 1990 release Wrong Way Up? Now bring yourself back to the auditory pleasures of Robert Wyatt’s 1997 record, Shleep, with its uplifting vocals, quirky phrasing, and airy layers of synth and keyboards. Luke Temple, lead singer of New York– based indie-rock outfit Here We Go Magic, isn’t afraid to say it: the two aforementioned pieces of music were the blueprints for his band’s latest album, Be Small, a blissful yet unsettled blend of yacht rock and future pop. “It has an almost calypso island vibe mixed with some really weird, dark, dissonant synth sounds,” Temple tells the Straight over the phone from a tour stop in Chicago. “Sonically, the album is very indulgent, but the lyrical themes are about minimizing that. We talk a lot about settling for ordinary feelings—because we [the human race] are always so drawn to looking for those ‘extra good’ feel> AMANDA SIEBERT ings and mystical experiences.” For Temple, the phenomenon of everyday life was all he needed to Here We Go Magic plays Fortune write the band’s follow-up to 2012’s Sound Club on Saturday (November 7). The Georgia Straight Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.
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Joni McKervey likes to get butts moving, and she’ll even humour requests from vampires who take the form of nine-year-olds. Brandon Artis photo.
Sir Prancelot dishes on hot tracks, butt parties
J
oni McKervey from the CAN I happened. Sometimes you just want LIVE crew has a prolific num- to hear a tune played really loud, but ber of DJ aliases. Primarily, no one else agrees. I’ve learned to she goes by Sir Prancelot, but check myself when it comes to some there’s also Sir P, Prance-a-velli, Lord heavier kinds of music unless it’s the of the Prance, Forever 31, Trill Murray, right crowd. and our favourite, the Rap Game Murphy Brown. Regardless of what you FAVOURITE VANCOUVER PROchoose to call the local party rocker, DUCER It’s tough to pick, there you are most certainly in for a wild time are so many talented producers in when McKervey and her cohorts are Vancouver—shout-outs to Chapel choosing the score at NITE*MOVES?, Sound, Blondtron & Waspy, Pat Lok, which goes down every Saturday at the and WMNSTUDIES. But my fave is Biltmore Cabaret, or #BOOTYBURG, Kutcorners from the Freshest crew. which happens every other month at Everything he puts out is instantly my jam. He can flip better dives around something super town. At the forSo Many DJs old-school, or mer you’ll hear something really choice rap, R&B, Michael Mann new with a heavy and dance cuts, and at the latter you’ll get that too club vibe, and it’s always just right. It’s while being encouraged to chug kinda weird because I know his girlbeer out of a plastic derrière as the friend and I’m always geeking out on people around you chant “Drink his music like a total fangirl. Awkward. from the butt.” Don’t knock it until WHAT’S UP WITH YOUR BUTTyou try it, prudes. CENTRIC PARTIES? BOOTYBEST GIG EVER We threw a party BURG came about because we one summer in Crab Park called teamed up with Blondtron and CAN I LIVE… By the Sea. It was a Paige Frewer from Man Up to creperfect sunny day, the people were ate a safe and celebratory space for incredible, and we were having so any kind of person to get down much fun we blew our curfew and in—queer, straight, old, young, big were shut down by the cops. Since butt, no butt, whatever. Everyone’s then the parks board has declined to got a butt, no shame in that. give us a permit for another one, but ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER I dunno, maybe it was worth it. RECEIVED Usually, requests are TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW I’m super obvious, like Rihanna or TLC obsessed with this song right now or something. It’s pretty basic becalled “Mere Gully Mein” by Divine. haviour, to be honest. But I DJed a It’s Hindi rap, which I’ve never heard friend’s wedding this summer and before, and I can’t stop listening to. a nine-year-old girl requested Tom I discovered it on this incredible mix Cochrane’s “Life Is a Highway”. by Kindness, who is my hair twin I was like, “Yo, are you a child vamand producer crush. Hey, call me! pire that’s actually 50 years old, or did your dad put you up to this?” A SONG THAT CLEARED THE DANCE FLOOR A remix of “The
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TRIBAL SEEDS California-based reggae band tours in support of latest release Representing, with guests the Steppas and the Skints. Jan 22, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/, info www.mrgconcerts.com/.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED SLUM VILLAGE Michigan hip-hop group, with the X Presidents. Nov 13, 8 pm–2 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $18, info www.facebook.com/ events/609899975816138/. SHELLSHAG New York City punk-rock band, with Poor Form, Dead Soft, and SBDC. Nov 14, 8:30 pm–2 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www.facebook.com/events/501822723324964/. WILD THRONE Bellingham rock ‘n’ roll band tours in support of full-length debut album Harvest of Darkness. Nov 19, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. DISCORDER FUNDRAISER Music by Revered, Mesa Luna, TV Ugly, Late Spring, and DJ Danny Vancouver. Proceeds go to Vancouver music magazine Discorder. Nov 19, 9 pm–1 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix 5-10, info www.facebook. com/events/1657552421187980/. THE MATADORS Canadian psychobilly band, with guests Butch Haller, Devil in the Woodshack, and DJake Noose. Nov 21, 8:30 pm–2 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.facebook. com/events/936898653033387/. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER American musician, composer, and producer performs with James Ferraro. Nov 23, 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Info www.face book.com/events/948157771910635/. WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE BILTMORE Michael Jackson-tribute concert features music by members of Hey Ocean!, Dear Rouge, the Zolas, Bend Sinister, Wanting, the Boom Booms, and Jordan Klassen. Nov 25, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.singitfwd.com/. REEF SHARK Vancouver post garage-pop band performs songs from upcoming EP Mind Race, with guests In Odyssey and Little Wild. Nov 28, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. DEAD GHOSTS Vancouver psychedelicrock band tours in support of new album Love and Death and all the Rest, with guests the Shivas and Strange Things. Nov 28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MYSTERY SKULLS American indie-pop/ electronica act tours in support of upcoming debut album Forever. Dec 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $12 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MIKE KROL California-based garagerock singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Turkey, with guest Rupert Angeleyes. Dec 5, 8 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/, info www.mrgconcerts.com/. L.A. WITCH Los Angeles rock band, with guests Feels. Dec 10, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. MAJID JORDAN Canadian recording producer/singer duo signed to OVO Sound. Dec 10, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $20 (plus service charge) at www.ticketweb.ca/, info www. alexandergastown.com/. EUGENE RIPPER Canadian punk-folk rocker tours in support of latest recordings Fast Folk Underground 4.0 and Hangman. Dec 11, 8 pm, Skinny Fat Jack’s (3475 Main). Admission by donation, info www.face book.com/events/757341377728961/. NYE GLITZ & GLAMOUR GALA New Year’s Eve party features Top 40, Caribbean, old school, funk, and Latin music by DJ Reign, DJ Superfly, Alibaba, Earl da Pearl, DJ El Nino, Latin DJ Soundloco, DJ Kemo, and dinner band Jany & Jorge. Dec 31, 6 pm, Hilton Vancouver Metrotown (6083 McKay Ave., Burnaby). Tix $60-99, info www.meloproductions.net/. SHIGETO American electronica musician tours in support of latest EP Intermission. Jan 22, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
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DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS American pop sensations perform on their Future Now: The Tour. Aug 24, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 7, 10 am, $99.95/59.95/29.95 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
CAR SEAT HEADREST Virginia band, led by Will Toledo, performs in support of latest release Teens of Style. Jan 24, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO Hawaiian multigenre ukulele player tours in support of latest album Travels. Feb 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MATT ANDERSEN Canadian blues guitarist-vocalist performs in support of latest release Weightless. Feb 18, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $42.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. ELLIE GOULDING British pop sensation performs on her Delirium World Tour. Apr 1, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $62.25/47.25/32.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HEDLEY Canadian pop-rock group tours in support of sixth studio album Hello, with guests Carly Rae Jepsen and Francesco Yates. May 20, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 6, 10 am, $75/55/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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HEY ROSETTA! Who, besides Donald Trump and Jimmy Pattison, isn’t looking for every bargain they can get these days? With that mind, get a double-bang for your barista buck at the Vogue Theatre this Friday (November 6) when two of the Great White North’s finest indie-rock acts team up. From the East Coast, Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta! will be showcasing selections from its latest album, Second Sight; get ready to lose yourself in atmospheric and weirdly tropical standouts like “Soft Offering (For the Oft Suffering)”. Representing the West Coast will be Yukon Blonde, whose genre-surfing latest, On Blonde, was great enough to land the band on the cover of the Straight this past summer. Tickets are a mere $32.50, but better to think of that as $16.25 per band, which is roughly the price of a dinner entrée at finer chain restaurants. Can you say bargain? Zulu, Red Cat, Highlife, Beat Merchant, and www.riotheatre.ca/.
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NITE*MOVES WITH DJ YELLA (OF N.W.A) DJ, producer, and founding member of N.W.A. Nov 7, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.biltmore cabaret.com/.
GANG SIGNS Local electro act performs material from latest album Geist, with guests Mesa Luna and Heroshe. Nov 5, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/.
CHEATAHS U.K.-based shoegaze quartet tours in support of latest EP Mythologies, with guests Strange Things. Nov 7, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/.
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3 INCHES OF BLOOD Vancouver metal legends perform their final shows, with guests Bison and Black Wizard (Sat.) and Hookers and Erosion (Sun.). Nov 7-8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Nov 7 SOLD OUT, tix for Nov. 8 $23.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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THE SLOTHS Hollywood garage-rock band from the 1960s. Nov 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE ZOLAS Vancouver indie-rock band tours in support of latest album Swooner, with guest Hannah Epperson. Nov 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. BUCKCHERRY Los Angeles-based hardrock act tours in support of latest release Rock ‘n’ Roll. Nov 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. NIGHTMARES ON WAX Ibiza-based experimental-electronica musician, producer, and DJ. Nov 5, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. RUFUS DU SOL Australian alt-dance trio performs on its You Were Right tour. Nov 5, 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. TINY ISLANDS RCE Presents the West Coast indie-funk band. Nov 5, 8-10:40 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $20/15/10, info www.tinyislands.ca/. BIG SUGAR Canadian blues-rock band (“Diggin’ a Hole”, “Turn the Lights On”) tours in support of new release Yardstyle. Nov 6, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $39.50/me+3 $120 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. HEY ROSETTA! Canadian indie-rock band tours in support of latest release Second Sight, with guests Yukon Blonde. Nov 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE MOTORLEAGUE Rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick, performs with guests the Dying Arts. Nov 6, 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $8 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. SÉAN MCCANN The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk vocalist-guitarist and Great Big Sea member. Nov 6, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $25, info www.seanmccannsings.com/. CAMARO 67 Vancouver Afro-funk band performs with guests Bazooka Picnic and DJ Ollstar. Nov 6, 9:30 pm, Hindenburg (23 W. Cordova). Tix $15/12, info www. camaro67music.com/. CHERUB Nashville electronica duo performs on its So...You DTF? tour, with guests Hippie Sabotage. Nov 7, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $21.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. DAVID GOGO The Canadian Pacific Blues Society presents Nanaimo blues-rocker performing at a release party for new CD Vicksburg Call. Nov 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $20 (plus service charge) at Neptoon,
HERE WE GO MAGIC New York-based indie-rock band. Nov 7, 7-10:30 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. BENT: A SHOWCASE OF CIRCUIT BENDING AT VIVO Experimental electronica by Giorgio Magnanensi, Sara Gold, Emily Thacker, Frederick Brummer, Kiran Bhumber, Norah Lorway, Bella McKee, David Leith, Garnet Hertz, Rob Symmers, Russell Kramer, Johan Thornton, Chris Hixon, and Vincent van Haaff. Nov 7, 7-11:30 pm, VIVO Media Arts (2625 Kaslo). Admission by donation, info www.vivo mediaarts.com/. HARDCORE 2015 Punk music by D.O.A., GOB, and Boids. Nov 7, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees), info www.face book.com/events/918076831597003/. SAINT WKND Music by German indie DJ, with guests starRo, SWIM, and resident DJ wmstudies. Nov 7, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15, info www. alexandergastown.com/. THE REVENGE Scottish electronica musician tours in support of debut album Love That Will Not Die. Nov 7, 10 pm, Open Studios (200-252 E. 1st). Tix $20/15, info www. facebook.com/events/1654554271466744/. TROYBOI London electronica artist performs with Woolymammoth and Quix. Nov 7, 10:30 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Note: moved from original date of Jun 27, info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. THE STRUTS English rock band tours in support of debut EP Have You Heard, with guest Andrew Watt. Nov 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. ODDISEE Rapper tours in support of latest studio album The Good Fight, with guests Good Company. Nov 8, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www. fortunesoundclub.com/. MAC MILLER American rapper tours in support of upcoming release GO:OD AM, with guests Goldlink, Domo Genesis, and Alexander Spit. Nov 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. TORY LANEZ Toronto hip-hop artist performs on his SwaveNation Tour, with guest Boogie. Nov 9, doors 10 pm, show 10:30 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID Portland dance DJs coheadline with guest T-Spoon. Nov 10, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. MR LITTLE JEANS Singer-songwriter tours in support of debut studio album Pocketknife. Nov 10, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. RODRIGUEZ Detroit folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Nov 10-11, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $60 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. HATE ETERNAL Florida death-metal band performs with guests Misery Index, Beyond Creation, Rivers of Nihil, and Tyrants Blood. Nov 10, 6 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $23, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. YOUSSOU N’DOUR Senegalese vocalist performs with his longtime band Le Super Étoile de Dakar. Nov 10, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $60-114, info www.chan centre.com/whats-on/youssou-ndour/. TWIN RIVER Vancouver alt-garage band tours in support of debut LP Should the Light Go Out. Nov 10, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. BAHAMAS Ontario folk musician tours in support of latest release Bahamas Is Afie, with guest John K. Samson. Nov 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $32.50/25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. TIMMY’S ORGANISM American rock band tours in support of latest release Heartless Heathen, with guests Manic Attracts and the John Frum. Nov 11, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/.
ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2NIGHTMARES ON WAX Nov 5 2SAINT WKND Nov 7 2TORY LANEZ Nov 9 2A$AP AFTER-PARTY Nov 10 2RAINER + GRIMM Nov 14 2HOW THE GROUCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: THE GROUCH & ELIGH Nov 19 2JACKLNDN Nov 21 2LOUIS THE CHILD Nov 28 2MAJID JORDAN Dec 10 AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. The Waldorf has been a Vancouver mainstay since the late 1940s with its retro and Polynesian décor. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. Cherryoke Wed, Tank Gyal & guests Thu; live music & dance party Fri; Thomas Maxey & Kalibo Sat. Tiki Bar open 6 pm Wed-Sat. 2TING! Nov 5 2DADDY AND THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, FULL FORCE FUNK Nov 7 2 KALEIDOSCOPE Nov 14 BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Live band karaoke hosted by Sami Ghawi and Reuben Avery Tue at 9:30 pm. 2WORLDBEAT SESSIONS Nov 21 BELMONT BAR 1006 Granville, 604-6054340. Fresh and local fare, craft beer and wine on tap, and live entertainment nightly. Open daily at 5 pm. BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. Resident DJs My!Gay!Husband!, Sincerely Hanna, and Rico Uno Sat; burlesque with Burgundy Brixx & the Purrrfessor Sun; tropical, electro, goth, world, and rudeboy with DJs Peter & Robbie (Humans), DJ Bee, Wobangs, and Basedgoth Tue. 2LUNA Nov 4 2THE MOTORLEAGUE Nov 6 2NITE*MOVES WITH DJ YELLA (OF N.W.A) Nov 7 2KITTY NIGHTS BURLESQUE: PURRRRFECTION Nov 8 2DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID Nov 10 2LAUGH YOUR SEXY ASS OFF - NAUGHTY NOVEMBER Nov 15 2KATE BOY Nov 17 2WILD THRONE Nov 19 2BLITZEN TRAPPER Nov 20 2KITTY NIGHTS BURLESQUE: EAST MEETS WEST Nov 22 2WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE BILTMORE Nov 25 2JON BRYANT Nov 27 2REEF SHARK Nov 28 2WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT Nov 29 2MYSTERY SKULLS Dec 4 2HEALTH Dec 7 2KIASMOS Dec 12 2TRIBAL SEEDS Jan 22 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 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. BLACKBIRD PUBLIC HOUSE & OYSTER BAR 905 Dunsmuir, 604-899-4456. Bistro and public house with oyster bar, barbershop, Scotch bar, and live music Wed-Fri. Open daily at 11 am. Happy hour 3-6 pm.
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BUTCHER & BULLOCK 911 W. Pender, 604-662-8866. Traditional pub and beer hall in downtown business district featuring 28 draft beer taps, craft beers, interesting cocktails, and honest pub food. Open from 11:30 am till late every day. DJ Ray Black Sat.
THE WEEKND Canadian R&B singersongwriter performs on his Madness Fall Tour, with guests Banks Halsey and Travis Scott. Dec 2, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $39.50-99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CHARLES BAR 136 W. Cordova, 604-5688040. Gastown sports bar features nine-foot HD screen and DJs on weekend nights. Wavy Fridays with DJs Seko&Marvel; Back & Forth Saturdays with rap, R&B, and club classics. Open Sun-Thu from 11:30 am to 1 am, Fri-Sat from 11:30 am to 3 am.
MUSE English alt-rock band performs on its Drones World Tour, with guests Phantogram. Dec 10, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $85/65/45/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CINEMA PUBLIC HOUSE 901 Granville, 604-694-0202. Pub featuring craft beer and cocktails, pub food, late-night menu, and weekend brunch. DJs all night Wed-Sun. Happy hour 3-6 pm.
CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL Electronica festival features music by Above & Beyond, Hardwell, Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Andrew Rayel, Oliver Heldens, Klingande, Tchami, 3LAU, Bakermat, Jauz, Mercer, Jai Wolf, Vanic, Wiwek, Snails, Slander, and Nghtmre. Dec 26-27, 5 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $250/175/150 (plus service charges and fees) at www. contact-festival.com/. BLACK SABBATH British heavy-metal legends, featuring vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, and bassist Geezer Butler, perform on their final tour, with guests Rival Sons. Feb 3, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix from $49.50 to $150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
CARNAGE American hip-hop artist, with guests Expendable Youth and Dr. Seiz. Nov 10, doors 9 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.
IRON MAIDEN English heavy-metal legends tour in support of latest release The Book of Souls, with guests the Raven Age. Apr 10, doors 7 pm, show 7:50 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $97.50/69.50/45.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR The Rocky and Tyler tour comes to Vancouver, with guests Danny Brown and Vince Staples. Nov 10, doors 6:30 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $29.50-65 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
SELENA GOMEZ American pop singersongwriter and actor performs on her worldwide Revival Tour. May 14, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $89.50/69.50/49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. Live bands some nights, DJs other nights. Karaoke Mon, classic tunes and free pizza Tue; live painting art raffle Wed. 2THE SLOTHS Nov 5 2NSFW: HIP HOP MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL. 14 Nov 7 2BRONCHO Nov 14 2JOANNA GRUESOME Nov 15 2GARDENS AND VILLA Nov 17 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 19 2NIKKI LANE Nov 21 2KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS Nov 22 2DEAD GHOSTS Nov 28 2BELL WITCH Dec 3 2L.A. WITCH Dec 10 2TACOCAT AND SALLIE FORD Dec 12 2PITY SEX Dec 22 2MAJICAL CLOUDZ Jan 22 2CAR SEAT HEADREST Jan 24 2SAINTSENECA Jan 31 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. General admission venue with 900-person capacity features live performances by touring bands and musicians from across North America and around the world. Tix at www.commodoreball room.ca/. 2BUCKCHERRY Nov 5 2BIG SUGAR Nov 6 23 INCHES OF BLOOD Nov 7 2CARNAGE Nov 10 2EMANCIPATOR ENSEMBLE Nov 12 2TIM HICKS Nov 13 2BLIND GUARDIAN Nov 16 2RIDE Nov 17 2DEAR ROUGE Nov 20 2GOGOL BORDELLO Nov 21 2HALESTORM Nov 25 2RAC Nov 26 2HEADSTONES Nov 27 2ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA Nov 29 2ODESZA Dec 1 2K-OS Dec 9 2FUNK THE HALLS Dec 22 2NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS Jan 21 2CHASE RICE Jan 24 2 CORB LUND Jan 29 2ARKELLS Feb 1 2THE MUSICAL BOX: SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND Feb 17 2CLASSIFIED Feb 27
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THE THREE BRITS 1780 Davie (at Denman), 604-801-6681. The West End’s only craft-beer house, steps away from English Bay. Pub trivia with the Nice Guys Wed at 7 pm; brunch daily till 4 pm.
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2REBELUTION Mar 6 2DISTURBED Mar 11 2THE WAILERS Mar 12 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS Mar 20 2GARY CLARK JR. Apr 12
VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Live performances by international touring acts, local indie rock, electronic artists, and world-class DJs. WTFridays with DJ Johnny Jover and guests playing favourite tracks; resident DJ Darylo and rotating guests playing fave rap, dance, and club anthems Sat. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2RUFUS DU SOL Nov 5 2THE STRUTS Nov 8 2THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Nov 14 2CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Nov 20 2ROBERT DELONG Nov 21 2ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Nov 23 2PRONG Dec 3 2THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 11 2GRAVEYARD Dec 12
DOOLIN’S IRISH PUB 654 Nelson, 604605-4343. Live music Sun-Thu, with acoustic soloist or duo Sun-Wed and live band Thu DJ Fri-Sat. FORTUNE SOUND CLUB 147 E. Pender, 604-569-1758. Located in the heart of Chinatown, Fortune Sound blends high and low by bringing up-from-the-street ambience into a modern setting, complemented by the Funktion One sound system. Featured nights include Happy Ending Fridays, Sup Fu? Saturdays, Hip Hop Karaoke, and live shows covering electronic, rap, hip-hop, dubstep, and metal. 2GANG SIGNS Nov 5 2HERE WE GO MAGIC Nov 7 2TROYBOI Nov 7 2ODDISEE Nov 8 2THE GOOD LIFE Nov 14 2CITIZENS Nov 15 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. Multi-room arts and culture venue in Mount Pleasant showcases live music, DJs, comedy, and performance, including monthlies HEAVEN, Rapp Battlez, and Motown Party. Sunday Service improv comedy Sun; Séance with DJ Darwin Meyers Sun; The Zodiac Club with DJ Magneticring Wed; The Warm Up with DJs Neighbour & Kut Thurs. 2REVERED ALBUM RELEASE SHOW Nov 4 22016 PUSH FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY Nov 9 2TWIN RIVER Nov 10 2TIMMY’S ORGANISM Nov 11 2RICH AUCOIN Nov 13 2GOOD LOVELIES Nov 19 2FLEE Nov 26 FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). 2STEVE KALDESTAD QUARTET Nov 5 2BRAD TURNER QUARTET/TRIO Nov 6 2JENNIFER SCOTT QUARTET Nov 8 2MONK MUSIC Nov 12 2MIKE ALLEN QUARTET Nov 13-14 2RON JOHNSTON TRIO Nov 15 2TRIOLOGY Nov 19 2ANDREA SUPERSTEIN Nov 20 2HUGH FRASER TRIO Nov 29 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. Evil Bastard Karaoke Experience Sun-Thurs; Sunday afternoon blues with Leonard & the Lab Rats 3-7 pm; metal Mondays, football Tuesdays, live punk, metal, and alternative bands Fri-Sat. 2WHEN MINDS DEVELOP, REALITY OF THE LOST, RIFTWALKER, DERANGED DYSTOPIA Nov 6 2MAJOR BUZZ, WAR AMP, TRENCH KNIFE, DARK SUN PROFITS Nov 7 2FUNCTOR, HALLUX, INFECTIOUS DECAY Nov 13 2VACUUS, CRYPTIC ENSLAVEMENT, TERMINAL SEQUENCE, PRECIOUS DUDES Nov 14 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Nov 19 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523-
6888. 2RUSSELL PETERS Nov 4 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 27 2TROOPER Dec 31 2LEWIS BLACK Feb 28 2TRACY MORGAN May 13
THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. Vancouver’s newest midsize music venue features live bands and DJs. 2THE ZOLAS Nov 5 2CHERUB Nov 7 2GOOD FOR GRAPES Nov 12 2THE PAPER KITES Nov 18 2BORN RUFFIANS Nov 21 2FAMILY OF THE YEAR Dec 6 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 8 2SHIGETO Jan 22 2THE KNOCKS Feb 3 2SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 4 2JUNIOR BOYS Mar 10 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. LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2CHEATAHS Nov 7 2MR LITTLE JEANS Nov 10 2JOCELYN ALICE Nov 12 2WILDHONEY Nov 18 2GIRL BAND: CANCELLED Nov 20 2MIKE KROL Dec 5 2REPTAR Dec 11 2HUNNY Dec 11 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604-6653050. Home to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, this 2,700-seat theatre is one of the premiere theatre and music venues in Vancouver. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN HANSARD Nov 12 2VANCE JOY Jan 12
2BLUE RODEO Jan 26 2LEON BRIDGES Mar 15 2RAFFI Apr 23
PAT’S PUB & BREWHOUSE 403 E. Hastings, 604-255-4301. Invitational jazz jam Mon; Disaraygun DJ and live trumpet Tue; Steve Kozak Blues & Brews Wed; No Cover Thu; live bands Fri-Sat at 9 pm; live jazz Sat from 3-7 pm. No cover. QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. Home of Ballet B.C. and the Vancouver Opera, this 2,800-seat multipurpose auditorium is a venue for concerts, Broadway shows, dance performances, and other theatrical events. 2THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM Nov 15 2PUSCIFER Dec 2 2YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Feb 6 2RETURN THE GRACE Mar 22 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 RED ROOM ULTRABAR 398 Richards, 604-687-5007. Trance night Thu; Latin and Top 40 Fri; international and local DJs Sat; alternative and industrial with DJ Pandemonium and friends Sun. 2HERSHE BAR - WHERE THE GIRLS ARE Nov 10 2DESCENT BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS Nov 22 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. Live bands some nights. 2L7 Nov 4 2HARDCORE 2015 Nov 7 2HATE ETERNAL Nov 10 2LILA ROSE Nov 12 2STOMP RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Nov 13 2NERD FEST V Nov 14 2TESSERACT Nov 16 2KMAN AND THE 45S Nov 17 2MOVITS Nov 22 2TEXAS IN JULY Nov 24 2DEATH IN JUNE Nov 26 2THE MAHONES Nov 27 2AUTHORITY ZERO Dec 4 2DIECEMBERFEST 7 Dec 11 2KEITHMAS VI Dec 18 2YOB Dec 31
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. Entertainment venue specializing in all-ages concerts by touring acts from around the world. Tix at www.voguetheatre. com/. 2HEY ROSETTA! Nov 6 2MAC MILLER Nov 8 2RODRIGUEZ Nov 10-11 2MATTHEW GOOD Nov 13-14 2PROTEST THE HERO Nov 15 2X AMBASSADORS Nov 18 2YO LA TENGO Nov 21 2SNARKY PUPPY Nov 23 2KING CRIMSON Nov 26 2BARNEY BENTALL & THE CARIBOO EXPRESS Nov 28 2TALES OF A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Nov 29 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Dec 9 2FRAZEY FORD Dec 10 2DRAGONETTE AND YOUNG EMPIRES Dec 11 2NICK LOWE’S QUALITY HOLIDAY REVUE Dec 19 2THE WOOD BROTHERS Jan 31 2MATT ANDERSEN Feb 18
2UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AND LOWER DENS Jan 28 2ENFORCER AND WARBRINGER Jan 30
RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Thousandseat venue features live performances by touring musicians and comedians from across North America and around the world. Tix for all shows at www. ticketmaster.ca/. 2KENNY G Nov 16 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 28 2BURTON CUMMINGS Dec 30 2ANDRE-PHILIPPE GAGNON Dec 31
WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2DROP IN ROCK CHOIR - EAST VAN Nov 10 2ROCKIN’ FOR A GOOD CAUSE Nov 14 2GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Nov 20
ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. Concert venue and hockey rink. 2A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR Nov 10 2THE WEEKND Dec 2 2MUSE Dec 10 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2ELLIE GOULDING Apr 1 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 2HEDLEY May 20 2DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS Aug 24
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THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. House band Tattoo Alibi Sat & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed-Thu.
DECK THE HALL BALL 2015 Featuring performances by Death Cab for Cutie, Cage the Elephant, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, Alabama Shakes, Nathaniel Rateliff, and X Ambassadors. Dec 8, 3 pm, Key Arena (305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA). Tix US$95/65/60/50/40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 250-seat venue at St. James Community Square features concerts presented by the Rogue Folk Club. 2SÉAN MCCANN Nov 6 2ALLISON CROWE BAND Nov 13 2THE JOCELYN PETTIT BAND Nov 14 2LINDA MCRAE Nov 27
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Since you don’t want to give any more advice to readers stuck in sexually unfulfilling marriages they can’t or don’t want to end, will you allow me to give a little advice from the perspective of the other woman, i.e., the person who makes it possible for them to “stay married and stay sane”? I contacted an old flame when my marriage ended. He was married. His wife refused to have sex with him but also expected him to stay faithful to her. Their kids were still in school. He honestly believed that staying together was the best thing for the kids. I went into it thinking it was going to be a fling, a temporary thing to get me over my husband and back in the game. But the sex was mind-blowingly good. And here’s the thing about amazing sex: it bonds people. We fell in love all over again. He told me our affair made his sexless
marriage bearable. He was happier and a more patient father, he bickered less with his wife. He made me feel beautiful, desirable, known, and accepted—all feelings that had been lacking in my marriage. But I was in the shadows. Every assignation was a risk. I couldn’t introduce him to my friends, my son, or my family. After four years, I couldn’t take it anymore. My ego was shredded. So I ended it. I was tired of the fear, lying, and hiding, and being secondary. My advice to readers stuck in sexless marriages who cheat to “stay sane”: beware of unintended consequences. You can have an affair with the most discreet, careful partner who accepts your circumstances, who makes no demands, who provides you with both a warm body to fuck and the passion that has drained out of your marriage. You can be careful not to get caught. It might be incredible for a while. But the chances of nothing going wrong and of everyone remaining happy over the long term are vanishingly small. It’s a matter of time before someone gets hurt. > RUBY TUESDAY
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people whose partners have checked out of their sex lives is on target. But would you be willing to share a voice from the other side of the bed? Until a year ago, I was always appalled when I would read letters like these. Who would stop having sex?! Who would stay with someone who didn’t want to have sex?! Then I got sick. My illness came on slowly,
> BY DAN SAVAGE but the first noticeable symptom was my sex drive vanishing. My lady parts were drier than a desert. No amount of lube helped. Sex hurt, and I didn’t want it. My journey through the medical system was a battle. Trained medical professionals pooh-poohed me. They told me this is what all perimenopausal women experience and I should just deal with it. I was told to “get started” and then maybe I would enjoy it. I was given lists of supplements to try. Finally, in response to other health problems, my doctor diagnosed me with diabetes. Within weeks of taking medication and changing my diet, my engine started running again. It’s not what it was, but I don’t feel dead below the bellybutton anymore. During this time, my husband was supportive. I did my best to make him happy. I’d like to think that if I had continued to suffer a loss of libido for years, I would be brave enough to give him permission to find satisfaction elsewhere, but it would break my heart. My points, briefly: legitimate things happen to people that make them lose their sex drive. Medical support for people brave enough to say “I’ve lost my mojo and need help to get it back” is not always there, and the solutions aren’t always easy or fast. Too often, people (especially women) are told that losing their sex drive is normal and they should just get used to it. No one should be forced to accept a sexless relationship if that’s not what they want. And if you’ve lost interest in sex and don’t really care to get it back, you don’t have the right to impose celibacy on another person. But in a long
relationship, each partner is going to face challenges—and one of those challenges might be helping your partner fight to regain their libido. > BED DEATH SURVIVOR
I’m the “other man” to a woman
whose husband won’t fuck her. The guy must be gay or asexual, because his wife is beautiful, smart, and great in bed. I’ve never wanted marriage or kids, so this arrangement works well for me. The only time it got awkward was when my girlfriend—this other guy’s wife— broached the subject of monogamy. Asking for a monogamous commitment when you’re married to someone else? Seemed nuts. But I hadn’t slept with anyone else for three years, or even wanted to, so I was already monogamous in practice. > MONOGAMOUS IN THEORY NOW TOO
If my ex-husband wrote to you,
he’d say I didn’t want to have sex with him anymore and he was going crazy. The truth is, I wanted to have sex—but I didn’t want it to be in one of the same three positions we’d been doing it for seven years. I was bored and asked for some variety, and he refused to do it. My boredom turned into frustration, and frustration turned into anger. At a certain point, the idea of having sex with him made me want to beat the living shit out of something. Was I supposed to continue satisfying him when my needs weren’t being met? Our mistake was waiting until
I hit the angry point to get into therapy. We should have gone when I was bored. He wound up having an affair and blamed me because I didn’t want to have sex with him. But there was a good reason why I didn’t want to have sex with him. Maybe before you advise people in “sexless” marriages to have affairs, you could tell them to do some self-examination first? > HUSBAND’S ALWAYS RIGHT
You wrote that you’re sick of
telling people trapped in sexless marriages to do what they need to do “to stay married and stay sane”. I want to thank you for all that repetition. I needed it. But leaving my sexless marriage was what I needed to do to stay sane. My husband of 10 years berated me publicly, telling anyone who would listen that I was a whore. Had I not had your corpus of work on the matter of marital partners who have zero interest in sex but still demand enthusiastic monogamy, the journey through this would have been longer. Four years later, I still get excited that I actually get to have sex—awesome, giving, experimental, fun sex. > GLEEFUL ESCAPEE
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LIBRA
September 23–October 23
Being away from everyone and everything Thursday/Friday allows for a good creative flow, productive study, accomplishment, and/ or peace of mind. As of Saturday/ Sunday, you’ll feel ready to show your face again. Venus into Libra on Sunday launches a social and attraction cycle. Tuesday/Wednesday, you’re sharp, shrewd, interesting, and sexy. Use these days to cash in with folks or to handle money matters.
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SCORPIO
October 23–November 22
The workweek ends on a busy and social note. Even though you’ll have to deal with the crowds and lineups, for the most part it’s a smooth go. You might have plans to chill out/hide out on the weekend, but come Sunday you’ll see or want more action. Tuesday/Wednesday, the takeflight Scorpio new moon is gifting. Right time, right place, you shine!
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SAGITTARIUS
November 22–December 21
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CAPRICORN
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AQUARIUS
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PISCES
December 21–January 20
Places to be, people to see; out of the office and on the go is where we’ll find you on Thursday/ Friday. You might have extras to tend to, but the stars keep it rolling well. As of Sunday, Venus into Libra calls for more cooperation, sharing, and flexibility. Tuesday/Wednesday, something additional or new can lay claim to you. January 20–February 18
Have you been worrying about your finances, a health matter, or a particular someone? Venus into Libra, starting Sunday, begins an improvement trajectory. Your social and love-life prospects will perk up too. Wednesday’s new moon in Scorpio begins a more effective get-itunder-control chapter. It also signals an appropriate time to revamp goals, commitments, banking, and finances. February 18–March 20
Someone may want more from you or you may want more from them. For the next four weeks, Venus into Libra can sweeten your love life and/or boost relationship harmony. Increased spending is to be expected. Tuesday/Wednesday can deliver good news or results. These days are great for making plans or making a favourable and lasting impression. -
Minimize extras and attend to only what’s necessary on Friday. You can do less or say less and get better results. Saturday comes and it goes. Venus into Libra on Sunday sparks a social and talkative mood. Although the week starts on a quiet note, you’ll keep well occupied. Mid week is good for study, reflec- Book a reading with Rose Marcus at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/. tion, and figuring it out.
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