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Pre-op transgender inmate Bianca Sawyer has moved to a B.C. women’s prison. his concerns, the OIPC announced it had begun a review of Vancouver’s access to information practices. OIPC spokesperson Cara McGregor told the Straight it was not initiated in response to a specific complaint. She said it was part of an ongoing “audit and compliance program� started in 2014. > TRAVIS LUPICK
of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. On November 20, people will gather at the Carnegie Community Centre in the Downtown Eastside in memory of transgender people who have died as a result of attacks or suicide. > TRAVIS LUPICK
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On September 30, B.C. Corrections quietly transferred Bianca Sawyer to the Alouette Correctional Centre, a provincial prison for women located in Maple Ridge. As the Straight reported on November 4, Sawyer, born Jaris Lovado, is the first transgender inmate in a pre-op phase of treatment whom the province has allowed to reside in a facility based on gender identity rather than one selected to match physical attributes. “For three days, my face hurt from smiling,� Sawyer wrote in a letter to the Straight. In a telephone interview, B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton described the move as part of formal changes in rules and procedures. “The written policy is still under development, but you can see the application of the policy is already under way,� she said. Sawyer lobbied for the transfer with the assistance of West Coast Prison Justice Society. WCPJ lawyer Jen Metcalfe told the Straight her organization is now turning its attention to Correctional Service Canada (CSC). CSC refused a request for an interview. Sawyer’s transfer came ahead
Trudeau about who he thinks should head a national inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women. Ernie Crey, with the Sto:lo Tribal Council, believes that the inquiry must be led by an aboriginal woman, and he has a name: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. Turpel-Lafond, near the end of her second term as B.C.’s first representative for children and youth, is a judge on leave from the Saskatchewan provincial court. She is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. Crey, who is also president of the ALIVE (Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement) Society, knows TurpelLafond. “We’ve been working with her, and she likes our approach in the Downtown Eastside,� Crey told the Straight by phone on November 10. He said he hasn’t sent his letter yet to Trudeau, but he noted that he will provide copies to two members of his cabinet: Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett and Minister of Justice and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould. Crey’s sister Dawn’s DNA was found on the Port Coquitlam pig farm of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton. > CARLITO PABLO
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The mayor of Vancouver’s right-hand man has been regularly deleting emails, a practice that has engulfed the provincial government in a widening scandal related to how civil servants destroy information in ways that may interfere with the public’s access to information. That city-hall revelation was included in a complaint review by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC) pertaining to Mike Magee, chief of staff for the City of Vancouver. “Mr. Magee has advised that he saves very few of his emails and deletes emails on a weekly basis,� it reads. The OIPC’s decision is dated January 28, 2015, but was not made public until freelance journalist Bob Mackin published it online on November 10. It pertains to a complaint he filed with the OIPC alleging the city failed to meet its obligations under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The OIPC ruled in the city’s favour and dismissed Mackin’s complaint. Magee was not made available for an interview. Deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston told the Straight there are rules that ensure staff comply with record-keeping requirements. He said each staff member is responsible for their own email account, but he argued that storage constraints mean staff can’t retain every digital record. “We do expect people to delete emails from their accounts,� he said. “Most of our staff get hundreds of emails per day.� Mackin told the Straight he published the OIPC review that mentions Magee’s emails because of attention paid to similar practices in an October 22 OIPC report that described how employees in the premier’s office and two ministries regularly deleted emails from their accounts. The OIPC expressed concern for a practice known as “triple deleting�, where civil servants took extra steps to make deleted records difficult to recover. Johnston said he was “not aware of people doing that� at City Hall. “I wouldn’t call it triple deleting,� he added. “But, yes, you can delete emails from your inbox that are transitory.� The same day Mackin published
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arcelo Burlon is no stranger to the limelight. The Argentineborn creative director first came to prominence during his teenage years in Milan, when he became the face of the now-defunct sneaker line Nose. Fastforward two decades, through a stint curating star-studded guest lists for some of the world’s most fashionable parties, a successful DJ career that’s taken him around the globe, and the launch of an edgy, club-inspired streetwear collection under the moniker County of Milan, and Burlon continues to capture the attention of style critics and fashionistas alike. But despite his far-reaching success, the man of many talents remains surprisingly humble. “I’m not an icon, I’m not a superstar,” he tells the Straight during a visit to Vancouver. “I represent a totally new thing.” That thing is a high-end streetwear brand so refreshingly selfaware and accessible, it’s almost impossible to ignore. Emblazoned with enigmatic nods to his native Patagonia and tokens of ’90s club culture, Burlon’s graphic threads tell the story of his own journey while inviting wearers to join in the fun. They began as a way to connect Burlon’s growing circle during his early DJ days—a notion that continues to guide his work. “People didn’t want just a onenight stand,” he explains. “They wanted to belong, to be part of the world we had created. That’s why I decided to launch County of Milan.” Given the rapid expansion of County of Milan from a modest line of men’s T-shirts to an international, multi-category label, it’s clear
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that Burlon has built a loyal tribe. A string of collaborations with the likes of Eastpak, G-Shock, and LeBron James—each of which tends toward the creative director’s signature black-and-white palette—offers his fans plenty of ways to keep in touch with the evolving empire. The same goes for Burlon’s Instagram account, where he regularly releases videos and posts comments for his followers. As he leafs through his new capsule collection, now available exclusively on the men’s racks at Holt Renfrew (737 Dunsmuir Street), he pauses to chat and pose for photos with shoppers. “We don’t do ads in magazines,” he says. “That doesn’t exist anymore—at least, for an independent brand like ours.”
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WHO ARE YOU Ken Beattie, executive director of the B.C. Craft Brewers Guild. I represent the collective voice for our B.C. craft community and our 60-plus members in B.C. My job is to run the day-to-day business on behalf of the 60-plus brewers of B.C.—I am the voice of these women and men. That being said, in Ken Beattie says Scottish-style beer reality, I interrupt brewery owners is in his DNA. Amanda Siebert photo. as they work on growing their own 19, so I was able to “occasionally” business for my own agenda. sneak into the clubhouse after the YOUR DAD’S FAVOURITE BEER games. Molson was a big supporter I will tell you about my mom and of our club, so the older guys and dad’s favourite beer: Carling O’Keefe club executive made sure we knew Black Label. My parents were from who supported the club and who we Glasgow, so they liked to drink room- should support. You did not want to temperature Black Label, often accom- get caught with a Kokanee in your panied on the weekend by a measure of hand by one of the legendary older Scotch—yes, the classic boilermaker. Kats players, believe me. This was definitely the first beer I tried; it was warm and god-awful LIFE-CHANGING BEER I was workto me. I should explain I may have ing for Molson as a sales rep on the been six or seven at the time. My West Side of Vancouver—that brand friend Johnny McCann and I split a loyalty from rugby paid off—around bottle while my parents hosted a Scot- 1990. I was a beer lover and would altish sing-along in our front room with ways try competitors’ beers so I knew a room full of ex-Glaswegians… Think what the attraction was or how to sell So I Married an Axe Murderer and you my beer against them. In one of the get the idea. After that experience, it is pubs I stumbled upon a local brewery from East Vancouver called Shafteamazing I ever drank another beer. bury, and I tried their Cream Ale. It FIRST GO-TO BRAND My first was dark in colour, roasted coffee and go-to beer was Molson Canadian. chocolate in taste, and so different, I While still in high school, I was thought this was some kind of wonlucky enough to play for the Kats derful. As I continued to call in that Rugby Club in Vancouver. I played on territory, I would see more ShafteSaturdays with the men’s team. I have bury taps around Kits. Being a good always looked older than I am, which corporate team player, I made it my is an advantage when you are under mission to check the quality control of
DREAM DESTINATION I have on my bucket list to take a riverboat cruise through Europe, most likely in Belgium, but I am open to suggestions. I found the monastic brewing traditions so intriguing and now have a real desire to experience the stories, history, and beer for myself. I can’t think of a better way to see these medieval cities than from a riverboat or from a bicycle in between stops. What better way to experience a beer culture than to travel through time sampling beer history with a river cruise waiting as your recovery station so you can get up and do it all over again… Groundhog Day! FIRST BEER BREWED Also on my
bucket list is to brew a beer. I have not done that, and the more I surround myself with all these creative and innovative brewers, the more I would like to try giving it a go. I am thinking of trying my hand at some type of Scottish-influenced style, as it is in my DNA. I am thinking a wee heavy, with a shot of single malt.
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ing every day in a job I have trained my whole life for is a great sense of achievement for me. If you would have told me five years ago I would be running the day-to-day business for over two-thirds of the nearly 100 craft breweries in B.C., I would have told you to lay off the barrel-aged barley wines and get back to ISAs. The excitement is not knowing what is around the corner, but whatever it is I will have a B.C. craft beer in hand and be cheering it on—maybe even my own wee heavy! -
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ou’d think that the Glowbal Restaurant robata section, which is dedicated to skewers Group would have things figured out of all sorts cooked on the gas-fired Japaneseby now. With Glowbal, located at Telus style grill. Custom-made for the restaurant, Garden, you’d be right. The gorgeous the beast sits centre-stage in the open kitchspot, which opened at the end of August, is the en and is more than 12 feet long. You’ve got latest and greatest in the group’s collection of your pick of halloumi cheese, beef tongue, Vancouver restaurants. Kurobuta pork cheek, Wagyu, Japanese eggThe wow factor hits well before you even plant, and more, each with its own dipping walk in the front doors, with the magnificent sauce. Tsukune chicken meatballs are accomskeletal wood-and-glass awning. Look up and panied by a cured organic egg yolk afloat in you might think you’re in soy sauce; wild mushrooms the belly of an orca. On the get dipped in dashi thyme expansive patio, soon to be consommé; and baconenclosed for year-round wrapped okra comes with Gail Johnson use, are striking “birdcage” spicy aioli. You can avoid tables that would make Tweety happy. Once decision-making altogether and opt for a platinside, check out the Tiffany-inspired “jewel ter of the chef’s selections ($39). boxes”—four glass display cases mounted atop Elsewhere, the Apple Chopped Salad is a Spanish marble pillars—that hold Japanese crisp, refreshing starter, the Fujis finely sliced, Wagyu beef, USDA prime strip loin, Canadian then mixed with medjool dates, pumpkin prime tenderloin, and a tin of Northern Div- seeds, and blue cheese in a light sherry vinine organic, sustainable Canadian caviar. aigrette. Pretty pieces of ahi tuna carpacThe interior is sophisticated and cozy: cio come with pickled horseradish, a dash of more of that Spanish marble, along with leek oil, black and white sesame seeds, and a elegant copper light fixtures that resemble smidge of chili for a potent hit. If you’re a fan unfurled ribbon, white tablecloths, and of bisque but haven’t ordered a bowl in a while elongated glass-encased fireplaces. You cer- because of too many bad experiences with the tainly don’t feel like you’re in a two-level, stuff, do have the prawn-and-pumpkin version 17,000-square-foot space, several smaller here. Velvety and rich but not overpowering, sections making it feel much more intimate. the flavour of the sea is tempered by fennel If you’re looking to add a little more drama slices and saff ron rouille. It’s crowned with a to your surroundings, order a bottle of wine perfect tiger prawn tempura. Marinated for at and you may get one of the fantastically least 24 hours in miso, flaky sablefish comes shaped glass decanters: made by Riedel, ours with crispy kale in a shiitake consommé that’s looked like a giant Nike swoosh. Others are poured tableside as well as a scallion-studded in the forms of boa constrictors and snails. soba noodle salad on the side—love the comIt’s a lot of eye candy, but Glowbal is hard- bination of cool and hot, crunchy and soft. ly all show. Under the direction of execuComfort comes in the form of casarecce, tive chef Pedro Gonzalez (and, ultimately, the short, scroll-shaped noodles tumbling the group’s corporate chef, Ryan Gauthier), with double-smoked bacon, enoki mushthe offerings are diverse, the f lavours full. rooms, and a dashi beurre blanc. Bison short There’s nothing not to like. ribs are ultra-tender, served with a rumA distinguishing feature of the menu is the chimichurri sauce, avocado purée, and the
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Glowbal’s diverse menu is marked by a robust robata section, featuring everything from skewers of halloumi cheese to beef tongue. For those who can’t decide, there’s also a platter of the chef’s selection.
tastiest mashed potatoes whipped with turmeric. There’s something here for everyone, not just tastewise but budgetwise too: if you want to drop a wad of cash, go for the Wagyu strip loin, priced at $19 per ounce (that’s $152 for an eight-ounce steak) or have a surf ’n’ turf platter for $39 per person. But you can dial it down by sharing standbys like Brussels sprouts (deep-fried and tossed with lemon, Parmesan, and capers), crispy calamari, burrata and beet salad, and the resto’s signature meatballs and truffled spaghetti (which range from $9 to $25).
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his is the second in a four-part series called Buy the Glass, a neighbourhood-focused tour designed to catch up with those behind the wine program at notable Vancouver restaurants and get a recommendation from their bythe-glass wine offerings. This week, we head to Kitsilano. LA QUERCIA (3689 West 4th Avenue) Tyler Dawson has recently wrapped up his long tenure managing the Park Royal location of Liberty Wine Merchants. As he explores new opportunities, he’s continuing various freelance gigs he’s always done on the side, including his role as sommelier consultant at chef Adam Pegg’s muchForadori’s Manzoni Bianco (left) loved La Quercia and sister wine bar and Naramata’s Tightrope Syrah. L’Ufficio next door. Besides advising on the wine pro“One of our favourite dishes right gram of both Italian joints, Dawson now is Mike’s mussels off the shell hosts semiregular evenings called with braised garlic, white-wine fenVivace, where he pops some corks of nel broth, torn bread, and thyme oil,” off-list wines from a particular Ital- Parr said. “And with a dish like that, ian region and offers them by two- or and with much of our food, texture is three-ounce pours, full glasses, flights, very important. One of our favourite or (of course) the full bottle, along with little sippers right now is La Valentina 2014 Pecorino [$10 casual chats about per glass, $50 per their provenance bottle], a white and background. from Abruzzo with The next edition, Kurtis Kolt good acidity, citrus on November 18, focuses on Veneto; we can look for- and floral notes, plus a cool dash of ward to splashes of Valpolicella, Amar- white pepper on the finish.” one, Trebbiano, and more. When I reached him by phone, MAENAM (1938 West 4th Avenue) Dawson not only offered a by-the- Heading back up the hill to Maenam, glass recommendation, he added in a restaurant manager Kristi Linneboe bit of a wish: “Foradori 2012 Manzoni has recently grabbed the reins of the Bianco [$17 per glass, $90 per bottle] wine program from, well, me. (I had from Trentino–Alto Adige is a cross- done a couple years of consulting ing of Riesling and Pinot Bianco, with them.) While chef Angus An’s bringing Pinot Blanc’s tree fruit like inspired Thai cuisine absolutely sings apple and pear to Riesling’s mineral- with Riesling and other aromatic ity and intensity. It’s made honestly, whites, you can slide over to the red both unfined and unfiltered, and it has department, too. “The thing with red wine and Thai so much concentration that it could actually use a good decanting before food is that you can’t go too high on serving. The crossing of the two cool- tannins or alcohol,” Linneboe told me climate grapes works so well, I really by phone as she dashed around Corwould like someone to stick a few vines nucopia, Whistler’s celebration of food in the ground here in the Okanagan or and drink. “Alcohol is the tough one Similkameen and see what happens!” because when there’s too much, it just Dawson views the wine as a perfect accentuates the heat of the food. At the match for Pegg’s cardoon fonduta, a same time, now that it’s getting colder dish made from a vegetable that’s out, people do want to cozy up with a somewhere between an artichoke red when they come in, and I’ve been and a leek that’s cooked down until turning people on to Naramata’s Tightsoft, then topped with warmed, aro- rope Winery and their 2014 Syrah [$12 matic, and nutty Taleggio cheese. per glass, $60 per bottle]. Cofermented I may or may not have drooled on my with a bit of Viognier, it’s more of a lighter, French-styled Syrah with silky, keyboard as I typed that. soft tannins that has a delicate, peppery ANNALENA (1809 West 1st Avenue) character with plum, mocha, and darkVancouver restaurant fans have been berry fruit notes.” When asked what it adoring the modern Canadian comfort pairs well with, she responded: “Definfood from chef Michael Robbins at An- itely with some of our heavier dishes, naLena, so much so that it was crowned like a meaty Penang curry or others, the winner of the people’s choice award like the aromatic curry of lamb shank.” in enRoute magazine’s recent Canada’s Sounds like a fine rainy-evening plan. Best New Restaurants issue. Although You’re set up for some fun Kitsilano the food’s focus is Canadian, when I called co-owner and general manager wandering this week! Enjoy these sips Jeff Parr, he also opted for Italy for his and dishes. In the next edition of Buy the Glass, we’ll head downtown. by-the-glass selection.
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Choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s latest show, barbarians, sees him working with content he never thought he would, such as dancers wearing gold catsuits in tHE bAD. Gabriele Zucca photo.
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his work around London say,” he says with his signature dry humour. (dubbed “Hofest”), a “The idea was these are the skin of the gods that piece at the Royal Opera are allowed to do anything. And these are the House, and now a Broad- kinds of suits that you put them on and everyway musical. “It’s been a thing is allowed.” real learning process for The final, key duet was more about finding a real me—seeing things from energy between the dancers, and accessing a fragildifferent perspectives ity and honesty in contrast to the first two works. and different kinds of “The first two are like a preparation for the main dancers and different art dish: the duet at the end,” he explains. Busier than ever, choreographer Hofesh Shechter challenges forms. It’s all about exAs usual for Shechter, the evening will walk a pansion.” physically explosive line between the dark and not only the international dance scene, but also himself And this amount of light—a feeling you get talking to him, too, as if The cutting-edge choreographer who has work doesn’t stress him out? his humour has an edge to it. stirred up the international contemporary-dance “So much is happening I don’t have time to stress “Th is evening really depends on the mood scene, Hofesh Shechter, working on Broadway? about it,” he says with characteristic candour. “I of the person,” he says. “It can appear like a big BY JANET SM IT H That’s exactly where the Straight reaches him in just put my head down and my brain can work joke or it can appear like a sad, touching event. advance of his show here—and the Israeli-born, overtime. By doing a lot I’m just in action mode.” It plays all the time between the very serious and U.K.–based artist could not be happier to be helpAll this makes it an exciting time to see Shechter’s dark in a way, but there’s a way to look at things ing choreograph a major new production of Fid- work. The former rock-band member made in a highly sarcastic angle.” dler on the Roof that debuts later this month. his debut here with DanceHouse in 2009, However you describe his mix, one “I’m by nature a skeptical person, but I have to say when his company was only a year old thing is clear: Shechter’s creations Check out… I was extremely excited to discover a high-quality and he was starting to make big waves reach audiences and grab them. And STRAIGHT.COM talking about that is when we fi nd production with an amazing cast, both dancers and in Europe with his urban, unsettling, Visit our website actors,” he tells the Straight over the line from New electro-driven choreography. Now we out that Shechter, despite all his acfor morning-after York City. He relates that director Bartlett Sher ap- get to see where he’s gone since then, in complishments this year, still conreviews and local proached him about the project. “I thought I would a show that will be very different from siders himself an outsider—even as arts news never choreograph for Broadway, but when he said his last visit. In fact, he says the threehe debuts on Broadway. how he was going to do it, I immediately said yes! He work barbarians actually started with him “Something about the fact that I don’t wanted me to be myself, the way I choreograph my posing the question “What would I never do?” belong in contemporary dance I think gives own work. It’s been a process of connecting to the For the opening piece, Barbarians in Love, me… I feel lucky or privileged that it gives me some music and story and my past and present,” he adds, he says, “I thought I really hate sci-fi pieces. So perspective,” he says before heading back into the remembering listening to the score as a kid in Israel. I thought, ‘Why wouldn’t I try to do one?’ ” The world of the shtetl, with Tevye and his daughters. The beloved musical is a world away from barbar- result is a pulsing piece where naive, childlike “I feel that I don’t want to speak in the language of ians, the experimental contemporary-dance show characters follow a computer voice that lays out dance. I want to go back to my 10-year-old eyes: a his Hofesh Shechter Dance Company will perform rules—until things slowly fall apart. boy in Jerusalem watching MTV and Back to the here this week as part of the DanceHouse series. But For the second piece, tHE bAD, “I thought, ‘Gold Future and aware of what was happening in Israel. it demonstrates what a blowout year, with a huge catsuits. There is no way I would ever make a piece And I think that opens the door for something variety of ambitious projects, Shechter has taken on. with gold catsuits,’ ” he explains with a small laugh. very direct with the audience.” “It’s been an extremely exciting and challenging So that’s what he did, getting his crack team of danyear,” the affable choreographer says. “The idea was cers to wear the skin-tight outfits from the first day DanceHouse presents the Hofesh Shechter Dance Company’s barbarians at the Vancouver Playhouse to do as many prolific projects as possible,” he adds of in a German studio he likens to a bunker. a period that has included a monthlong showcase of “It was a very surreal experience, I would on Friday and Saturday (November 13 and 14).
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Editor’s choice GOING MEDIEVAL The music will be beyond haunting and otherworldly as the women of Dialogos Ensemble perform polyphony the way you might have heard it around the 11th century in Winchester’s abbeys. And just wait until Swithun: A Medieval Miracle Play, one of the acclaimed vocal group’s showpieces, brings to life the three Furies. You don’t need to be a medieval-music scholar to be transfixed by these voices. Early Music Vancouver presents Dialogos Ensemble’s Swithun on Friday (November 13) at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (November 12 to 28 at Studio 16) Mitch and Murray Productions and playwright Gina Gionfriddo take on gender politics.
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ONCE (November 17 to 22 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre) You loved the movie, so you’ll love the musical—and the real on-stage bar.
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JERRY SEINFELD (November 13 and 14 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre) The man who changed modern comedy, doing what he does best: standup.
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NEW WAVE (November 13 at Ryerson United Church) The Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Focus! Choir reflect the renaissance in choral music.
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TARANTINO, PIANO HERO (November 17 at the Roundhouse) The Modulus Festival’s superfun multimedia night with music inspired by karaoke, film, and video games.
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M/HOTEL Our arts fan this week is Natalie Lefebvre Gnam of the contemporary-dance troupe plastic orchid factory. Here’s her pick: “M/Hotel, because everyone should see a dance show in a hotel room. I saw this work a few years back, and it’s a ‘must experience’, absolutely. Intimate and profoundly touching, the writing alone will tear your heart apart.” Battery opera’s M/Hotel is presented as part of Dance in Vancouver next Wednesday to Friday (November 18 to 20) at the Holiday Inn’s Howe Street location.
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anything, and it’s cold and no one gives a shit about you or wants to listen to you. It seems especially hard now because I’m used to playing theatres to 3,000 people and all of them clapping when we’re done. That does not happen on the street.” Ward has a pretty good idea why people are clapping for the theatrical version of Once, which picked up eight Tony Awards after debuting on Broadway in 2012. And, no, it’s not just because the musical’s on-stage bar is a working one that audience members can step up to both before the show and at intermission. (Said bar also serves as a hangout for the cast members who provide backing musical accompaniment; instead of exiting the stage, they simply grab a chair and plunk themselves down.) Both the film (written by director John Carney) and the play (book by Enda Walsh) make the argument that love can be as inspiring as it is hopelessly complicated. Both Guy and Girl are in other relationships, which doesn’t stop the sparks from flying when they fall for each other, first as songwriters and then as people. Ward notes that the world has changed dramatically since the movie’s release. “No one meets on the street like in Once now,” he says with a laugh. “They meet online on Tinder and apps like that.” What remains the same is that, for most of us, life is no longer the straight path it was for older generations. The message of Once, then, is that no matter where you find yourself, you’re not alone. “It’s a basic story of boy meets girl, except with ours it’s boy meets girl and everything’s complicated,” Ward offers. “And that’s more real. No one just meets in the street and falls in love and doesn’t have baggage anymore. That’s what Disney is, really, and that’s not what we are. Even the fact that they meet on the street is in some ways a fantasy. I think people enjoy that kind of story because they’d still like the world to be a place where you meet someone on the street and fall in love the way you did 20 years ago. Once is a fairy tale—a modern-day fairy tale.” -
ne of the messages of the Academy Award–winning movie Once is that it pays off not only to have a dream, but to never give up on making that dream happen. After all, you never know when the right person will come along and suddenly make the world a better place. In the movie, the character known simply as Guy (played by singer Glen Hansard) is in his 30s and still busking for change on the street. While he’d love to be playing music as a career, he’s stuck fixing vacuum cleaners to pay the bills. Stuart Ward understands Guy’s struggle, and not just because he’s travelling North America playing the character in the hit stage adaptation of the 2007 surprise-smash film. Growing up in small-town England, he loved acting and music but was told by teachers at school that he’d be better off learning a trade. “When you got your career advice it was mostly ‘Become a plumber or an electrician or a builder,’ ” Ward says, speaking long-distance from Calgary, where Once is on a six-day run. “That’s what most people did, so that’s what I thought I should do as well. I actually went and got an apprenticeship as an electrician. And I hated it—I couldn’t stand it. Not that there’s anything wrong with being an electrician, but it just wasn’t for me. So I quit.” After putting down his tool belt and contacting a local college, Ward discovered he had a two-day window to enroll for what he really wanted to do. “I just got in in time for music and drama, theatre studies, and English,” he says. “And when I got to college, I realized there were places called drama schools that I never knew existed, places where you went and learned to be an actor. I found there was a good one in Liverpool, applied, and got straight in.” He’d also do stints on the streets of Manchester and Liverpool as a musician, which helped him understand the initial frustrations of Once’s Guy, who starts out busking in Dublin and then eventually unlocks his inner artist after hooking up with a female Czech musician known simply as Girl (played in the Once plays the Queen Elizabeth film by Markéta Irglová). “Busking is hard—really hard,” Theatre from Tuesday to next Sunday Ward offers. “You don’t make (November 17 to 22). 20 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT NOVEMBER 12 – 19 / 2015
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he 10th biennial Dance in Vancouver doesn’t just offer a one-stop showcase for what’s happening in the art form in this city. It also offers a rare glimpse at how our scene looks to a dance-savvy outsider. Every other year, Dance Centre executive director Mirna Zagar invites a curator for the event who lives outside of Vancouver. And this year, she reached halfway around the world to Finland for an expert to help program the marathon of main-stage productions, studio shows, and performance installations. Pirjetta Mulari, who runs the advocacy and development organization Dance Info Finland, helped choose the troupes who will show their work to presenters from across the country and around the world throughout Dance in Vancouver’s five days. And, admittedly working from video due to her physical distance from the scene, she liked what she saw. “I have to say I was so surprised by the diversity and versatility and vitality of the British Columbian dance scene,” she tells the Straight, speaking from Helsinki on a cold autumn evening. “I have to admit I thought it would be a more mainstream, American-influenced scene. But I could connect it much more closely to the European scene in many ways. I guess it’s quite small, but it’s a very diverse scene.” Mulari was particularly interested in some of the Asian influences at play here, pointing to well-established Wen Wei Dance, which has a free studio showing at the event next Saturday (November 21). She also remarked on our scene’s strong dancetheatre movement—especially the work of Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. “If you think of central Europe, mainstream work at the moment
Dance in Vancouver brought in Pirjetta Mulari to curate the event.
“Martha Carter’s Speaking in Ligeti, I felt, had a very atypical use of the musicians on the stage, changing positions with the dancers, and was a very dramaturgically mature work,” she says of the show that sees a remount next Sunday (November 22), with Marta Marta Productions joining the Microcosmos String Quartet. “And Mascall Dance’s Three-Cornered Hat: it really stood out as being different use of the text and a very lively performance.” The latter takes place next Friday (November 20). Elsewhere on the roster: Shay Kuebler Radical System Art’s videocharged, action-film-awed GLORY contrasts Starrwind Dance Projects and Raven Spirit Dance’s Spine of the Mother next Wednesday night (November 18); dumb instrument dance’s surreal, gender-playing a slow awkward joins with the Biting School’s new The Righteous Floater—a Cain and Abel story performed by brothers Aryo and Arash Khakpour next Thursday (November 19); and battery opera productions’ M/Hotel runs Wednesday to Friday (November 18 to 20) in various rooms at the Holiday Inn’s Howe Street location. And don’t forget to check out “This Is a Full Length”—a series of five-minute choreographic works taking place behind the Dance Centre’s art-deco (and generally unused) Granville Street doors. Each showing precedes or follows a main-stage performance at the facility. Look for artists like Anne Cooper, Kelly McInnes, and Naomi Brand and Ben Brown to take part in work that explores everything from dirt to drumming to plastic bags. Behind those doors, in other words, you might find the beating heart of all that diversity Mulari talks about. -
is extremely contextual and really lacking movement,” says Mulari, who travels to all the major European festivals. “So I think, not to generalize, but it was interesting to see that Tara or some other choreographers work with theatre without totally forgetting the movement.” Among the emerging artists she selected for the event, she was especially excited about the work of Vanessa Goodman, of Action at a Distance, whose Wells Hill pairs with MACHiNENOiSY’s multimedia plaything next Saturday (November 21), and Thoenn Glover, who will have a studio showing next Friday (NovemDance in Vancouver runs at the Scober 20) at 12:30 p.m. But she also praised some of the tiabank Dance Centre next Wednesday to Sunday (November 18 to 22). well-known veterans.
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here are many good reasons to check out Music on Main’s annual Modulus Festival, but one in particular stands out: by attending any of singer and violinist Caroline Shaw’s several performances, you’ll be just two degrees of separation from Kanye West. In an unprecedented display of good taste, the hip-hop producer recently had Shaw open his set at a Democratic Party fundraiser, and then went on to feature her voice on a remixed version of “Say You Will”, from his 2008 release 808s & Heartbreak. This, understandably, has given Music on Main’s composer in residence considerably more exposure than winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. And Shaw’s not the only major draw that MoM’s artistic director David Pay has booked for the sixday event. In addition to presenting an assortment of iconic works—including Alvin Curran’s Inner Cities, Terry Riley’s In C, and Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel—Modulus will feature cellist Ariel Barnes, duetting with Shaw on Limestone & Felt, and flutist Mark McGregor, presenting the North American premiere of Montreal-based Nicole Lizée’s Tarantino Etudes. Lizée is another name you’ll be hearing more from soon, even if West doesn’t add her to his roster of collaborators. “Do you want a scoop?” says Pay, in a telephone interview from Music on Main’s downtown office. “Nicole Lizée will become Music on Main’s composer in residence in the 2016-2017
and 2017-2018 seasons. Many people in the city already adore her music, so we’re absolutely thrilled that we’ve set the course for her to be coming to Vancouver more often.” The Modulus Festival’s real star, however, is Pay’s curatorial vision, which is both innovative and expansive. This year’s offerings include collaborations with musica intima, Dances for a Small Stage producers MovEnt, and the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, suggesting that while Pay begins by looking at music he personally admires, he’s more than happy to accept outside input. “There’s a practical side and a poetic side to putting it all together,” he says. “Yes, there’s a lot of ‘What do I love?’ But there’s also a lot of ‘What makes sense, in terms of how we want to share music?’ ” For this year’s festival, Pay began by thinking about how to best showcase his outgoing composer in residence. “Caroline Shaw’s temperament is one of not just exceptional ability, but also magical kindness,” he explains. “So what’s the right kind of stuff to be doing when you have an artist like that as one of your real focal points? “There’s also the analogy of when you go to the market and find a couple of things where you go, ‘Oh my God, that is so beautiful. That’s what I want to cook with this weekend,’ ” he continues. “And you plan a couple of meals thinking about those beautiful ingredients that you found. That can work for curatorial practice as well. I don’t know that any curator has a single way of curating every time, but with this one,
I had pieces in mind, and I wanted to flesh out an experience for the artists and for the audience through music and collaboration.” Building that experience isn’t as easy as booking the performers, discussing repertoire, and assembling a program. Pay says that he’s also concerned with how his work will affect the artistic growth of the community—and in terms of Modulus 2015, he’s got one other major consideration to take into account. “In 2017 we’re hosting the International Society for Contemporary Music’s World New Music Days,” he reveals. “That November, there’ll be about 25 concerts in about eight days, and 20 of those concerts will be presented by other artists—by Turning Point Ensemble, by the Vancouver Symphony, by musica intima. So there’s this purely strategic side of wanting to seek out collaborations now, so that we don’t go from zero to 25 in one year and fuck it up!” Pay modestly admits to having produced his share of “abject failures”, but there’s little chance of this year’s Modulus Festival being one of them. “It finally has a voice,” he says. “With this Modulus Festival, you can look at it and go, ‘Oh, I get who that guy is as a programmer—and what he’s wanting to share.’ ” -
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Nirbhaya brings dignity to real-life horrors TH E AT RE NIRBHAYA Written and directed by Yaël Farber. Produced by Assembly, Riverside Studios, and Poorna Jagannathan. Presented by the Cultch in partnership with Diwali Fest. At the York Theatre on Tuesday, November 3. Continues until November 14
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terial in the silence that preceded the ovation on the opening night of the show’s run at the York. The creation of Nirbhaya was triggered by the gang rape and torture on a South Delhi bus of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who died two weeks later of her injuries. This crime, which took place in 2012, unleashed a fury that brought people to the streets in India, and prompted other women to break through socially imposed shame and speak of their own experiences of gender-based violence. In the version of Nirbhaya that’s playing the York, we see Pandey’s story. We also bear witness as four other women relate the reallife horrors they have endured. Priyanka Bose was raped repeatedly as a child. Rukhsar Kabir’s father beat her and her husband routinely raped her. Sneha Jawale’s husband and in-laws attempted murder by throwing kerosene on her and setting her on fire. In writer and director Yaël Farber’s staging, all of this is handled with enough restraint to make it bearable. As Jawale speaks of her five-year-old son, who was stolen from her, the burn victim holds a child’s blue shirt to her chest. The script doesn’t let westerners off the hook; Pamela Mala Sinha was raped in Montreal when she was a student at the National Theatre School. And, considering the pervasiveness of crimes against women, it’s impossible not to think about Canada’s murdered and missing aboriginal women. Everyone in the cast—the five women and one man (Ankur Vikal, who plays a variety of roles)—deserves our thanks for bringing these stories to us with dignity and skill. Perhaps it’s a testament to the show that it also made me hunger for expanded terms. In the theatre, I’ve never been present for such powerful personal sharing. That said, the facts of this kind of violence and the concentration on victimization are familiar. The script doesn’t explore how the four actors who are sharing their stories survived. And although it acknowledges that the men who attacked Pandey and her boyfriend were poor, frustrated, and enraged, it doesn’t go further in placing the attack in a workable context of class and gender politics.
Ankur Vikal (left) and Priyanka Bose in the searing Nirbhaya (William Burdett-Coutts photo); Susie Coodin in the tragic The Amish Project (Emily Cooper photo).
Artistically, Nirbhaya is excellent but not perfect. The ending goes on too long. An image of flower petals feels over-the-top. But none of these caveats amount to much. Nirbhaya means “fearless”: it’s the name that journalists called Pandey before her identity became public. And it’s the right title for this show, which is fearless on its own terms. > COLIN THOMAS
THE AMISH PROJECT By Jessica Dickey. Directed by Evan Frayne. A Bleeding Heart Theatre production presented in association with Pacific Theatre. At Pacific Theatre on Friday, November 6. Continues until November 21
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Playwright Jessica Dickey took her inspiration from a real-life school shooting. In 2006, a man walked into an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and shot 10 girls, then himself. The Amish community shocked many by responding with forgiveness; they offered support to everyone affected, including the killer’s widow and children. Dickey has not made a piece of documentary theatre, however. In fact, when she was writing, she was so intent on maintaining her artistic licence that she didn’t interview anyone touched by the tragedy. Oddly, she has used some of their names, but she has made up her own story. In The Amish Project, one performer plays all seven characters: two girls, Anna and Velda, who are killed; the dead shooter; the shooter’s widow; an outraged local woman; a pregnant 16-year-old; and an academic
who is an expert on the Amish. Some of the writing is evocative. The killer, who planned to molest the girls, describes them, in their modest clothing and bonnets, as being “like a clean secret”. And his widow, who is struggling to hold herself together as she puts cereal on the table for her two young boys, says, “Suddenly, I am painfully aware of how alive they are.” Too often, though, the script is pedantic. Bill, the academic, flat-out lectures about Amish culture until he finally reveals why he is personally attracted to it. And America, the pregnant teen, is worse: she delivers a series of on-the-nose thematic statements. America played Titania in a school reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and interprets one of the fairy queen’s speeches for us: “It’s from all of this fighting that the world is messed up.” America is also interested in St. Francis, who has taught her that “It is in giving that we receive.” Offering her own insight, she observes, “Everybody’s got problems.” In early productions of The Amish Project, the playwright was also the actor, and the script is clearly designed to showcase a bravura performance. Under Evan Frayne’s direction, Susie Coodin doesn’t deliver one. Thanks in part, no doubt, to movement consultant Wendy Gorling, Coodin’s physical characterizations are sharply defined: the gunman’s hunch; the way his wife puts her hand, protectively, across her chest. But Frayne has set such a fast pace that it almost always feels like Coodin is skipping across the surface of the material instead of settling into its potentially heart-wrenching details.
Compassion is what goodness is “a politician pretending to be a all about. Other playwrights have musician”, there is always joy at the found more effective ways to say so. heart of Seeger’s enterprise. “We > COLIN THOMAS can get drunk on music,” he says early in the show. THE INCOMPLEAT So how does such an eventful FOLKSINGER and inspiring life—Seeger passed By Pete Seeger. Adapted for the stage away at age 94 in 2014—make for such a dull show? In adapting by Ross Desprez and Mark Hellman. Seeger’s text, Desprez and HellDirected by Ross Desprez. An Other man have failed to make it theatGuys Theatre Company production. rical: instead, we get songs interA Firehall Arts Centre presentation. spersed with chunks of text that At the F irehall Arts Centre on feel writerly rather than conversaWednesday, November 4. Continues tional. Because they’re cramming until November 14 40 years into two hours, we get the The play’s not the thing; the highlights of Seeger’s experiences, music is. but rarely explore them deeply. It When American folk-music icon doesn’t help that Hellman, who’s Pete Seeger wrote his book The In- playing Seeger, has a declamatory compleat Folksinger in 1972, he al- delivery style—he’s reciting paraready had nearly four decades of graphs, after all—that doesn’t feel musical activism under his belt, and intimate. That’s unfortunate, given there were another four to come. that Seeger was known for his reThis show, adapted by Ross Desprez markable ability to connect with and Mark Hellman from Seeger’s audiences. book, touches on the highlights of Hellman shines as a musician, the musician’s career: travelling though, playing a five-string banjo across Depression-era America with and a 12-string guitar, and getting Woody Guthrie, providing inspira- the audience to sing along with tion for labour unions; being pelted classics like “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, by rocks after playing an outdoor “Guantanamera”, and “We Shall concert with the legendary Paul Overcome”. Seeger fans and folk Robeson; enjoying commercial suc- music die-hards will love the songs, cess with the Weavers; and being the most successful aspect of The sentenced to a year’s imprisonment Incompleat Folksinger. I grew up when called before the House Un- with Seeger’s music, and I can’t reAmerican Activities Committee. member a play that had me singing And that’s all before intermission! along so much. The through line here is his As theatre, The Incompleat Folkcommitment to liberation through singer isn’t quite satisfying. But if song. Early on, he sings “Which you’re looking for a quick history Side Are You On?”, and that chorus lesson on the social-justice movebecomes a refrain as Seeger repeat- ments of mid-20th-century Ameredly chooses the side that resists ica and a subdued hootenanny, it oppression and fights injustice. just might do. > KATHLEEN OLIVER But while others might label him
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In prolific artist Gathie Falk’s The Things in My Head, glossy, colourful fruit piles reaffirm life. Site Photography photo.
Dazzling show a fit ode to Falk VISUAL ARTS GATHIE FALK: THE THINGS IN MY HEAD At the Equinox Gallery until December 12
If we were to identify a few figures in Canadian culture as national treasures, Gathie Falk would be high among them. The Things in My Head, a mini-retrospective at the Equinox Gallery, attests to this Vancouver artist’s enduring accomplishment, energy, and vision. It also highlights recurring themes, images, and motifs through selective juxtapositions of new work and old. Still-life paintings from 1962, at the beginning of Falk’s career, converse with those created in 2009 and 2015. Wooden cases of ceramic men’s shoes from 1970 take part in a dialogue with a row of men’s shirts, newly created out of polymerized gypsum. And a video projection of Falk’s 1972 performance Red Angel calls out, in an unsettling way, to her 2011 papier-mâché sculpture The Problem With Wedding Veils. The show also demonstrates the richly multivalent nature of Falk’s practice, not only in medium but in style. Her art consolidates a number of art movements, from naturalism to surrealism, and from expressionism to pop. Although initially it seems odd that many of the works on display in this commercial gallery are not offered for sale (they’ve been borrowed from private collectors who
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clearly want them back after the show), the strategy is ultimately a shrewd one. The show honours Falk’s long and prolific career, reminds us of powerful thematic continuities, and, frankly, tantalizes us. And the installation, overseen by Equinox director Andy Sylvester, is inspired. For instance, the two major exhibition spaces, on either side of the entrance hall, demonstrate different yet complementary aspects of Falk’s art-making. In their vibrant colours and glossy glazes, the fruit piles in the west gallery are luscious and life-affirming, while the many black or white sculptures of clothing in the east gallery function as ghostly markers of absent individuals. I’ve written before about Falk’s use of clothing as a metaphor for the human body. Her sculpted dresses and men’s shirts probe aspects of gendered identity, yes, but at the same time, I’ve observed, they register a number of oppositions, including presence and absence, corporeality and spirituality, love and loss. Again, the black patina of the bronze sculptures, such as Reclining Figure (After Henry Moore), and the subtly inf lected white acrylic paint of the papier-mâché works, such as Dress With Boy, amplify the spectral nature of these forms. And Falk’s new oil painting, Andy’s Suit, which depicts a man’s jacket, shirt, and tie posed as if on an invisible being, is as spooky (but also as humorous) as the legend of the Headless Horseman. Despite all their sensuous beauty
and voluptuousness, the piles of ceramic apples, oranges, and grapefruit are also haunted by death and decay. In our ancient past, pyramids were royal tombs or temples of bloody sacrifice. Their shape and mass symbolize sacred mountains where heaven and earth meet, where human beings commune with the divine and petition the gods for a place in the afterlife. Along with Falk’s much-acclaimed sourcing of forms and images from prosaic experience (the series of ceramic-fruit piles was inspired by corner-grocery displays), the cycle of life and death is also evoked. In 196 Apples, the hues of the fruit shift moodily downward, from brilliant cadmium red to magenta shaded with charcoal grey. Throughout Falk’s work, even the cheeriest subjects—picnics, baskets of cherries and plums, a silvery canoe adorned with coloured ribbons and f loating in the air like a celestial body—seem to meditate on the ways mortality informs the bountiful everyday. And in Arsenal, her recent piles of bronze snowballs, powder-coated in brilliant white, the suggestion is of weapons, of piles of cannonballs, and of the way children’s games foretell adult aggression—war, murder, and destruction. Still, Falk’s devotion to and keen observation of her subjects invest them with the promise of rebirth. This is a dazzling show—smartly curated, brilliantly installed, and a fitting tribute to one of our most treasured artists. > ROBIN LAURENCE
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Halfway through River of the second volume in Indo-American author Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, I began to experience an odd feeling of déjà vu. But it wasn’t until finishing Ghosh’s latest, Flood of Fire, that I realized why his writing seemed so familiar: his seaborne fictions, set in the time of the Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars of the mid-1800s, offer a parallel-universe exploration of topics that are also central to Patrick O’Brian’s massive Aubrey-Maturin cycle. Yes, O’Brian’s 21 novels take place decades earlier, being set
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during the Napoleonic Wars. The English author also works from the point of view of the colonial upper-middle class—doctors, military officers, and sea captains— whereas Ghosh’s shipwrecked subjects are indigent deckhands, Parsi merchants, and Sikh soldiers of fortune. But however perverse the comparison might seem on the surface, the underlying similarities are striking. Both use huge canvases to paint big pictures: Ghosh’s trilogy alone stretches to over 1,600 pages. Both are obsessed with language: O’Brian with the maritime terminology of topgallant and futAmitav Ghosh completes his trilogy tock and spanker; Ghosh with the with a cracking historical yarn. Anglo-Indian patois of koortee and pootli and tamancha. (Sadly, Fire one of his characters takes 15 Ghosh stumbles when he treads minutes to row two fathoms, or on O’Brian’s turf: late in Flood of about the distance the average tar
could spit.) Both mix literary merit with cracking good yarns; Flood of Fire is a literal bodice-ripper, at least during the section in which his morally compromised mulatto antihero, Zachary Reid, conducts a secret affair with a plutocrat’s buxom wife. And neither Ghosh nor O’Brian can write a fully realized woman: their wives and adventuresses and renegade widows serve to advance the plot, but never come to life as effectively as their havildars and translators and gentleman scientists do. These two series aren’t about
psychological nuance, however: they’re about the epic sweep of history. And if O’Brian conveys much useful information about how the world as we know it was formed, Ghosh goes further, subtly insinuating that the same forces of greed, pious hypocrisy, and opportunism that shaped the 19th century are still at play today. It’s a bitter truth to swallow, but one helped down here— and in Flood of Fire’s two predecessors— by Ghosh’s dashing sense of pace, vivid language, and exhaustive research.
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young, athletic, and energized in its season opener. The company hired a host of expressive dancers last year, adding two fresh talentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Brandon Alley and Brett Perryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this season. And the program opener, Cayetano Sotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s haunting yet hyperspeed Twenty Eight Thousand Waves, showed the strong new troupe off to a teeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fitting, because the piece is so much about rebirth. The atmospheric, physically pummelling work by the new resident choreographer is even better honed now than when it debuted to excitement in April 2014. James Proudfootâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surreal racks of rising and lowering lights set the tone for the urgent, flickering rush of offbeat partnering and breathtaking lifts. The women seem weightless as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoisted in the dim light, their legs scissoring upward, crisscrossing in the air. Sotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnering is unparalleledâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but this time out, the dancers really owned the power of the piece, with
performers like Christoph von Riedemann, Scott Fowler, Livona Ellis, Rachel Meyer, and Alexis Fletcher projecting a fierce inner strength. Driven urgently by hypnotic vocals and angular strings, this was awe-inducingly difficult dance. It was a risk opening the program with such a supercharged work. Belgian choreographer Stijn Celisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere, Awe, might have fared better as the openerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a meditative buildup. As it was, it was a mesmerizing showcase for the 50-member menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir Chor Leoni, which sang a range of sacred and secular music from behind a black scrimâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but which could not help dominating the performance even in its most nuanced moments. Celis created an earnest reflection of the music, with the dancers, bathed in dim light and dressed in workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clothes, reaching, supporting each other, and struggling in deeply humanistic tableaux. The choreography was at its strongest when it became more impressionistic toward the end, and the harmonies of Ä&#x2019;riks EĹĄenvaldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transcendent arrangement of Leonard Cohen texts unfolded. Dancers appeared and disappeared, crossing the stage in repeated patterns, their bodies crouching in and then exploding out, arms stretched forth. Couples would come together and then separate in fleeting
moments. It was like a fever dream, or life flashing before your eyes. Solo Echo wrapped the evening in an ethereal mood with a work by local dance star Crystal Piteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one created not for her own troupe, Kidd Pivot, but for a top European contemporary company. She crafted the work for Nederlands Dans Theater during a winter there, and it takes place under gently falling snowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a highly metaphorical snow, as it turns out, if you read the achingly moving poem on mortality by Mark Strand, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lines for Winterâ&#x20AC;?, that inspired it. The brilliance here is Piteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept of seven bodies moving as a single being, finding moments when they stand in a line, arms bent to attach to the next person, coiling like a caterpillar. Set to Johannes Brahmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sobbing cello and piano pieces, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subtle and poetic, showing a deeply musical side to the choreographer. The final momentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give away only as a stunning image of how alone we must all be in â&#x20AC;&#x153;that final flowing of cold through your limbsâ&#x20AC;?, as Strand puts itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is so poignant it left the audience in silence for several moments before it broke into applause. Life, struggle, deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hey, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in an eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work for a company whose emotional range seems to match its youthful vigour. > JANET SMITH
Air india goes too abstract M U S IC AIR INDIA [REDACTED] Music by JĂźrgen Simpson. Libretto by RenĂŠe Sarojini Saklikar. A Turning Point Ensemble presentation. At the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Saturday, November 7. No remaining performances
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tragedy. Sobriety and respect are difficult to theatricalize, however, and this conceptually brilliant undertaking is less than overwhelming on-stage. Talking to the Straight a week before his workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere, composer JĂźrgen Simpson was excited about the chamber operaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overture, in which the Turning Point musicians would be asked to play chords derived from the computeranalyzed sounds of a taxiing airliner. But, as realized, it failed. The chords, when they came, were delivered singly and sounded like, well, chords. Lush, interesting chords, but utterly removed from their source and drained of the very real tension and sense of occasion actual travel entails. Liftoff fell flat. And from there on, air india [REDACTED] took every chance it had to lower the emotional stakes and to divorce the audience from the real life-and-death drama that inspired its creation. The facts are these: on June 23, 1985, a bomb exploded on an Air India jumbo jet en route from Montreal to London, killing all 329 passengers and crew. A botched investigation
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and trial followed, resulting in only a single conviction. Vancouver author RenĂŠe Sarojini Saklikar lost her maternal aunt and uncle in the blast, and her 2013 book, Children of Air India: Un/authorized Exhibits and Interjections, was her response. An edited and resequenced version of her poetic text provides air india [REDACTED] with its libretto, and even in this truncated form itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fascinating document, taking us into our flawed criminal-justice system, into the minds of the bereaved, and into the woods on the outskirts of the Vancouver Island. But in this production, that text is impossible to follow. Visual alienation is guaranteed by director Tom Creedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staging, in which soprano Zorana Sadiq, countertenor Daniel Cabena, and baritone Alexander Dobson sit at a long boardroom table, rising to deliver their individual statements (and the occasional duet). Who they are supposed to represent is profoundly unclear. To further abstract that text by using operatic singers has to be questioned, however. Why insist on using voices devised in the palaces and basilicas of 16th-century Florence and Mantua to deliver multicultural, Canadian stories? All three soloists are gifted (and Cabena could fairly be described as extraordinary), but their training forces them to prioritize manner over meaning. The Turning Point players, under Owen Underhill, were magnificent, rendering Simpsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intricate score with warm precisionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but much more than beautiful sound could have been wrung from air india [REDACTED]. > ALEXANDER VARTY
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FLAMENCO FRENZY Prepare for a fiery night of entertainment with roots that stretch back centuries as ¡FlamenCubana!, a celebration of Spanish and Latin American music and dance, makes its Vancouver stop at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts this Saturday (November 14). Flamenco performances from renowned names like Spanish bailaora Pastora Galván, guitarist Antón Jimenez, and pianist Rosario Montoya will mix it up with the infectious rhythms of Cuba’s El Grupo Cubano Brisas del Palmar. young woman who convinces a Dublin street musician to not give up his dreams. Nov 17-22, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.broad wayacrosscanada.ca/.
LISTEN TO ME Presentation House Theatre presents a story about a father and daughter who disagree on the definition of music. Nov 17-28, Presentation House Theatre (333
Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Info 604-9903474, www.phtheatre.org/.
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME Ruby Slippers Theatre presents a deeply personal and moving new play about family and memory from François Archambault. Nov 17-28, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Info www.thecultch.com/ events/you-will-remember-me/. BECKETT 15 Fundraiser features work by Samuel Beckett, the Theatre Alumni Group, and professor emeritus Norman Young. Proceeds go to Theatre UBC. Nov 18-21, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (6354 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $10/5, info theatrefilm.ubc.ca/.
2ONGOING 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/. 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. To Nov 14, Firehall Arts Centre
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DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING Beverley Elliott’s one-woman show takes audience members from small-town Ontario to Vancouver’s gay bars and red carpets. Nov 12-21, 8-9:30 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $20-35, info www.gatewaytheatre.com/didnt-seethat-coming/. RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Mitch and Murray Productions presents Gian Gionfriddo’s comedy about two women who choose opposite paths after grad school. Nov 12-28, 8-10:15 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $12-29, info www.mitch andmurrayproductions.com/. 52 PICK UP TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi’s play tells a heartbreaking love story through a random selection of 52 cards. Nov 13-29, 8 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $18-28, info www.twentysomething theatre.com/. DRESSING FOR A WEDDING Aaron Bushkowsky’s dark comedy explores a mother’s desperate attempts to run her daughter’s wedding rehearsal while keeping dark family secrets from exposing themselves. Nov 13-29, 8-9:30 pm, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $25/20, info www.solocollective.ca/. ONCE Broadway Across Canada presents the Tony Award-winning musical about a
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A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a festive musical about a young boy’s quest for an official Red Ryder BB gun. Based on the 1983 film. To Dec 27, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. BAD JEWS Famous Artists Limited presents the Vancouver premiere of Joshua Harmon’s story about three Jewish cousins who are drawn together in New York after the death of the family’s favourite grandfather. To Nov 21, 8 pm, Norman Rothstein Theatre (950 W. 41st). Info www.ticketstonight.ca/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK 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. To Nov 14, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/.
GIT HAYETSK The Dance Centre presents the Discover Dance! noon series, featuring a performance by First Nations dance troupe Git Hayetsk. Nov 12, 12 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $14/12, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/discover_dance2/.
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MUSIC 2THIS WEEK NEW WAVE: THE LATEST IN CHAMBER MUSIC The Vancouver Chamber Choir presents recent pieces by composers from Estonia, Norway, Sweden, U.K., U.S., and Canada. Nov 13, 8 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $10-32, info www.vancouverchamberchoir.com/. SENSATIONAL MELODIES Bramwell Tovey leads pianist Stephen Hough and the VSO in works by Wagner, Schumann, and Bartók. Nov 14, 8 pm; Nov 15, 2 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604-8763434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/. ARCANTO QUARTET The Vancouver Recital Society presents the classical foursome performing works by Purcell, Britten, and Beethoven. Nov 18, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info 604-602-0363, www.vanrecital.com/.
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2ONGOING LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-5252262, www.lafflines.com/. 2SCOTT WHITE Nov 13-14 2JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS Nov 19 2TRACEY MACDONALD Nov 20-21 THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with
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to consider the underlying motives when Danielle McTaggart reveals one of her big dreams for the future. Along with Drew McTaggart—her husband and bandmate in Vancouver synth-pop darlings Dear Rouge—Danielle would love something that any creative person can appreciate: widespread recognition. One might suggest that, on some level, her mission is well on its way to being accomplished. In the past three years Dear Rouge has gone from a labour-of-love DIY bedroom project to a headliner at venues like Vancouver’s mighty Commodore. Tune in to forward-thinking radio stations and chances are you’ll hear singles like “I Heard I Had” and “Best Look Lately”. There have been awards: favourite new artist at the 2014 CASBYs, most dynamic duo at the 2013 CBC Buckys. And, best of all, there’s the sense that Dear Rouge is just getting started. Coming on the heels of two well-received EPs (Heads Up! Watch Out! and Kids Wanna Know), the band’s debut album, Black to Gold, has already yielded three Top 20 singles since its release this past spring. Still, reached with Drew in a tour van headed from Toronto to Hamilton, Danielle says Dear Rouge still has no shortage of goals. Asked to name one, the singer fires back: “For me, it would be to win some sort of substantial award of some kind. That would be really cool.” Her motivation? It’s not so Dear Rouge can buy its own Jay-Z–style personal jet, or set up a stateof-the-art recording facility like Bryan Adams’s Warehouse Studio in Gastown. Instead, speaking volumes about how Danielle and Drew McTaggart have chosen to conduct the business of being in a band, her dream is to have a high-profile platform.
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If you think Dear Rouge’s Danielle McTaggart has a lot of sequins on her shirt, you should see her husband and bandmate Drew’s bespangled boxer shorts.
than an Rdio playlist spot between Bat for Lashes and Florence + the MaDear Rouge’s Danielle and Drew McTaggart appear chine. “Best Look Lately” mixes hard-crunch guito be on the verge of realizing their lofty ambitions tars with dream-swirled “I really want to give a speech,” Danielle says shoegaze textures, while “Nostalgia” hits the simply, “to thank all the people who’ve helped us sweet spot between buzzing death disco and night-terrors new wave. get to this place. You know what I mean?” Little touches abound, with Tropicália six-string Laughing, she adds: “And I’d also like to wear a throwing warm splashes of colour onto “Wanna sweet outfit and walk down a red carpet.” Drew McTaggart isn’t without dreams of his Wanna”, “October Second” fading to black with own. Proving that some people are wired to aim soft church-service organ, and “Colours” blasted high, he chimes in: “I would say one of them would with the kind of fantastically echo-treated drums that made ’80s Phil Collins a megastar. be to play Coachella.” “Sometimes I get an album these days and it If Dear Rouge shoots big with things it’d love to accomplish, that somehow makes sense. Ambition seems like very much the same straight through,” is never a bad thing, and Danielle and Drew Mc- Drew notes. “It’s all singles, and they are hard to listen to all together. We wanted to make an alTaggart have had it right from the start. “We’ve always wanted to set our sights for bum that you could listen to that would take you everywhere,” Danielle offers. “You can just be suc- on a journey. Obviously, some of our songs are cessful at home, for sure, but it’s a smaller world accessible for radio, but we don’t want a whole albecause of social media and other things. We bum to be just those songs.” The bandmates have no trouble pinpointing when don’t want to be stuck in one area—we want to go and experience the world and, hopefully, have our Dear Rouge became a full-time job, as opposed to something to be worked on after the 9-to-5 grind. music heard around the world.” Before committing full-time to the group, DEAR ROUGE HAS taken a big step toward Drew worked in marketing for a Vancouver achieving its goals with Black to Gold. The Mc- printing press, with Danielle doing PR for the Taggarts built their name on beautifully detailed Cactus Club restaurant chain. Life changed afsynth pop, and there’s no shortage of that on the ter they entered the PEAK Performance Project, record, from the icy, slow-drift title track to the a showcase sponsored by local radio station luscious darkwave of “Kids Wanna Know”. But 102.7 the PEAK. Dear Rouge walked away with Black to Gold finds the duo gunning for more a $102,700 first prize in November 2012.
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LILA ROSE The Internet can be a funny place. Punch in the name Lila Rose, for example, and you might end up thinking the Rickshaw is about to host one of the biggest right-wing zealots in America. But Lila Rose also happens to be the name of the Canadian-born, San Francisco–based chanteuse responsible for We. Animals., which fuses dreamy glitch pop with darkly ethereal techno. The goal of the singer—whose live shows are grippingly theatrical—is a simple one: to save the world. So take that, Lila Rose (not Lila Rose). Lila Rose plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Thursday (November 12).
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Suddenly, playing music for a job didn’t seem like dooming themselves to a lifetime of Kraft Dinner and Top Ramen. “We’re both 31 now, and so I think we were realistic in terms of not succeeding, because a lot of people don’t succeed at music,” Danielle says. “So when we got in that contest—and we actually said this—we went, ‘If we win first place, we have no excuse.’ ” Drew adds: “The PEAK was definitely why we were able to quit our jobs. I remember that, at the beginning of 2012, Danielle was setting goals for the year, and we were setting goals together as a couple. Danielle was like, ‘I’m going to take one day off from work each week and focus on music. We’re going to work hard at this now that we’re starting our life together.’ She said, ‘By the end of the year, we’ll both quit our jobs and be doing music full-time.’ I was like, ‘That’s a little bit ridiculous,’ but she said, ‘Goals are good, even if you don’t achieve them.’ ” Both had experience making music before Dear Rouge. Born and raised in Langley as the youngest of three kids, Drew is the son of a music-teacher father and a piano-teacher mom. “My dad had bands growing up,” he recalls. “He was a trumpet player in a band called Special Edition. He was into Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears.” Despite getting a jazz scholarship for Capilano College, Drew chose a different path with his schooling. “My parents were really good,” he remembers. “My dad, being a music teacher, was like, ‘What do
SWITCHING TEAMS Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos recently ended a marriage to a wife he desperately loves because he’s accepted he’s gay. We now know what he was really trying to say in songs like “Little Secrets”, “Where We Belong”, and “Cuddle Fuddle”. BACK TO THE FUTURE Napster is back. The once-
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Fresh and local WE ARE THE CITY ABOVE CLUB (BOOMPA) Vancouver’s own (by way of Kelowna) premier purveyors of progressive pop are back with exactly the sort of album you’d expect them to deliver— which is to say, a totally unexpected one. Tracks like “Heavy as a Brick” and “Cheque Room”, all electronically treated textures and processed drums, find the trio diving deeper into the experimental end of the pool. Despite their titles, “Club Music” and “Keep on Dancing” aren’t floor-filling foot fodder in a conventional sense, although the latter has a sufficiently steady beat and a strong enough melody to win over many doubters. NOVEMBER 12 – 19 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33
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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 11-18, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK KATE DAVIS Canadian standup comedian and five-time nominee at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Nov 12-14, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa). Tix $20/18/15, info www.thecomedymix.com/. THROWBACK THEATRESPORTS The Vancouver TheatreSports League celebrates all things 1980s with a comedic trip down memory lane. Nov 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 7:30-9 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl.com/show/throwbacktheatresports/. JERRY SEINFELD Just for Laughs presents the American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his starring role on the popular sitcom Seinfeld. Nov 13, 7 pm, 9:30 pm, Nov 14, 7 pm, 9:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $79-125 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. BOBBY LEE Standup comedian and actor performs a solo show. Nov 13, 7 pm; Nov 13, 9:30 pm; Nov 14, 7 pm; Nov 14, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $30, info www.yukyuks.com/.
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BAD TO THE BONE Local and national favourite Jay Brazeau directs what should be a riotously entertaining production of Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon’s savagely hilarious story of three 20-something Jewish cousins drawn together in New York after the death of their favourite grandfather. The old guy’s most treasured possession is up for grabs, and the question is, which of his three grandchildren is the most deserving? When it debuted in the Big Apple a couple years back, the New York Times said it “crackles with energy”, while the Telegraph called its London debut “scaldingly funny”. Famous Artists presents the show (photo by Len Grinke) until November 21 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS The WWE Hall of Fame member unleashes his road stories and pranks he played on his opponents. Nov 16, 8 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $30, info www.yukyuks.com/. TOP TALENT SHOWCASE Check out Vancouver’s next top comics as they develop their craft. Nov 17, 24, 8 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $10, info www.yukyuks.com/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK HANAN AL-CINEMA: AFFECTIONS FOR THE MOVING IMAGE BY LAURA U. MARKS Launch of Laura Marks’s book that examines film and video works from the Arabic-speaking world. Includes a selection of short experimental films. Nov 12, 7 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/~lmarks/styled/.
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Full details at BIG-DAY LAUGHS There’s something about weddings that can bring out the best—and not-sobest—in people, or so goes the story in Aaron Bushkowsky’s Dressing for a Wedding, which follows one mother-of-the-bride as she fights to keep the family’s darkest secrets from being revealed on the big day. Solo Collective’s black comedy, which runs nightly at Performance Works from this Friday (November 13) to November 29, explores oft-ignored issues of mental health without losing Bushkowsky’s signature wit.
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. To Nov 11, 8 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $29-39, info www.turningpointnsemble.ca/. WE KNOW NOTHING: MONOLOGUES OF ICE & FIRE Evening of comedic monologues inspired by TV show Game of Thrones and the book series that inspired it. Nov 13-15, 7-9 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $15/12, info www.facebook.com/events/1069056279784650/. FLAMENCUBANA Evening of music and dance features 12 performers drawn from contemporary Spanish Flamenco and one of Cuba’s top music groups. Nov 14, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing
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Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Info www. flamencubana.com/. 2015 MODULUS FESTIVAL Music on Main presents a musical adventure featuring concerts, dancing, film, and cocktails. Nov 15-20, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). The event also runs at Heritage Hall, The Post at 750, and Gene Cafe., info 604-879-9888, www.musiconmain.ca/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2THE GUND COLLECTION: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST (exhibition features a group of historical and contemporary First Nations artwork from the Northwest Coast, drawn from the Collection of George Gund III) to Jan 31 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
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-822-5087, www.moa. ubc.ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built) to Dec 30
OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS AMY SCHUMER American superstar comic and actor performs a New Year’s Eve comedy 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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you want to do with your music?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be a teacher, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be a jazz musician. If I were to be in the music industry, it would be being in a band.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So I went to study business rather than music.â&#x20AC;? Growing up, Drew played in a series of groups, eventually fronting a guitar-oriented unit called Maclean. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My parents were realistic,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They knew it was really hard to make a living at music, but they also knew that music wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something you can just stop doing. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it no matter what. So they also said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Keep it as a strong hobby, and if you ever have the chance to really do it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That was really good advice for a young kid. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t getting all hung up on my dreams getting crushed. My expectation was to not be doing music full-time, but instead to be doing it because I loved it.â&#x20AC;?
Danielle, meanwhile, had almost soured on the industry before Dear Rouge. The Red Deerâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;raised singer was born to a dad who toiled in the oil fields and a mom who worked for a CDâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;distribution company. The Carpenters received massive play around the house, and church on Sunday was a big part of family life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dad, oddly, really liked The Phantom of the Opera a lot,â&#x20AC;? Danielle says with a big laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He also liked Johnny Cash and, as I grew up, Pink Floyd, even though my parents never told me that.â&#x20AC;? After playing in high-school bands, Danielle bounced from project to project, sometimes pushed in directions that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel right. After hooking up with Drew, she was ready to start from the ground up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even say that I was jadedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I was just worn out by the whole process,â&#x20AC;? she remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In any industry youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find bad and good people, but I felt like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d experienced a really bad side of the industry. Starting Dear Rouge with none
of that, and having it be fun, really made me enjoy music again.â&#x20AC;? It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt that, rather than desperately chasing a dream, the couple has seen things unfold on an organic level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In both our cases, in our early 20s we were pushing and pushing and pushing to be in the Canadian music industry,â&#x20AC;? Drew says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we started Dear Rouge, we felt pulled into it. And it just happened at a sort of natural pace.â&#x20AC;? With Dear Rouge now becoming a thing, the best part is that it all continues to be fun. In conversation, both musicians come across as genuinely happy, and not just with the band. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny, considering it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t totally thunderbolts and electrical sparks at first sight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really like each other that much,â&#x20AC;? Danielle says bluntly, with a laugh. Drew elaborates: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we were both really competitive. We had strong centres and networks of friends, Danielle in Red Deer and
me in Langley. When we met each other we were a little bit tough on each other. But also we had this great connection where we were always drawn back to each other.â&#x20AC;? With that connection a big part of Dear Rouge, the two are on the same page as far as making things happenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; among them joining Kanye West, AC/ DC, and Paul McCartney as folks whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve landed a spot at a certain festival with a really big stage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coachella is a festival that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone to a lot and would love to be a part of,â&#x20AC;? Drew says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just sneak onto the billâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you really have to have something going on.â&#x20AC;? Like, for example, taking the songs of Black to Gold around the world, winning a major award, and then using the post-red-carpetwalk acceptance speech to thank everyone who has ever helped. Dare to dream. -
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ccording to the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook, a chaotic neutral is “an individualist who follows his or her own heart, and generally shirks rules and traditions, promoting the ideal of freedom”. For Matt Good, it’s simply a way to describe his latest record. “I went with that title because the album is kind of all over the place. It’s a little schizophrenic in that sense,” says Good, interviewed by the Straight while sipping tea at Warehouse Studio in Gastown. “I came up with the title long before I wrote anything. It just sounds cool.” Chaotic Neutral, Good’s seventh solo studio album, was recorded with the help of long-time producer Warren Livesey. While Good was responsible for all of the writing, he diverted from his habit of hovering at the soundboard and left everything up to Livesey. “I actually mentally did it. I laid on the damn couch and played fucking solitaire. I let him do his thing, and it turned out fantastically,” Good says, laughing. “I just kind of chilled out and left it in his hands, which is funny considering we’ve been working together for 20 years.” In conjunction with the album title’s reference to Dungeons & Dragons, Good, a man who has no problem identifying as a geek, has created hand-drawn maps for fans who play the game. They’re currently on his website. “I’m huge into cartography and the mapping thing—it drives my wife nuts,” notes Good. “I kind of did it for fun, because it has this connection to the record title. I’m going to release it for gaming purposes. It’s cool. Or it might be totally geeky; I don’t care.” If that’s not enough, he’s running the Chaotic Neutral Tour Challenge, a contest in which fans are asked to photograph themselves in a specific location based on a “castle” coordinate in their town. Prizes include everything from VIP album packages to D&D starter kits. One would assume that the album art might reflect all this talk of maps and games, but in keeping with shirking rules and traditions, Good went in a different direction. Instead, Chaotic Neutral’s cover alludes to the inspiration for the album’s first single, the melancholy, guitar-driven “All You Sons and Daughters”. “My wife was going through some photographs and there happened to be one at the beach on a really crappy day. I saw the photo of my son and I said, ‘Stop. That’s the cover,’ ” says Good of the image, which depicts his son covered in dirt while digging for Matthew Good plays the Vogue crabs in the rain. In the single, Good stacks his chil- Theatre on Friday and Saturday dren’s take on life against his own (November 13 and 14).
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beautiful music,” but it was adversity that quite literally lit the fire under her ass and set her career as a DJ in motion. Askew, who performs as DJ O Show, was in her North Van home early one morning in 2012 when she woke to a fire that had spread from her neighbour’s apartment. “The first things I grabbed were my MacBook and my Traktor S4 controller—the most important things in my life. I didn’t even have to think about it,” Askew recalls over a cup of tea at a downtown coffee shop on Granville Street. The life-altering event could have halted her progression as a DJ, but instead, it motivated her to work towards running her own business. Askew towers over me at six foot one, and her height only magnifies her larger-than-life personality. She’s half African-Canadian and half First Nations, and her roots play a large part in her roles both on- and off-stage. As a member of the Squamish Nation, she says the aboriginal community was instrumental in helping her get on her feet, publicizing her gigs and connecting her with important contacts. Since the fire, highlight gigs have included Rogers Arena’s annual youth conference, WE Day; a start-of-the-year pep rally at UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium; and a red-carpet event during Vancouver Fashion Week. Her skills at the table have taken her to countless gigs across the country. In between shows, Askew is training to become a facilitator with Aboriginal Business & Entrepreneurship Skills Training (BEST). She’s a graduate of the program herself, and the role gives her opportunities to travel to reserves and speak to aboriginal youth who are interested in starting their own businesses. Some follow in Askew’s footsteps, and pursue DJ companies of their own. “I give them the lowdown on the industry—I’m honest with them, because it’s not the easiest thing to do, but I always say that it’s the best thing you’ll ever do in your life,” she says. “Some of my younger students are already out there playing their own shows, and it’s an amazing feeling to be able to give back like that.” It was her work in the community that caught the eye of School of Remix owner Tyler Hazelwood when he was looking to add to the faculty at the audio-production institute. Askew was brought onboard as the facility’s first female instructor. “I bring my students to gigs, they help me set up, and I show them the ropes,” Askew says. “I know what it’s like to want it so badly, but not too many people are willing to take the time to help up-and-comers, so I’m glad to show them the way.” Her efforts as a DJ and a speaker with Aboriginal BEST haven’t gone unnoticed: earlier this year, Askew won a B.C. Aboriginal Business Award, and she was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award by the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce. She looks to acts like A Tribe Called Red for inspiration. “Right now is a pivotal time for aboriginal music, and their message comes at the perfect point. Our traditional music is incredible. I tell all my aboriginal students, ‘We’ve been DJs for years, keeping the beat with a drum,’ ” she says. When it comes to her live sets, Askew says they’re always changing, due to the amount of new music she’s exposed to at School of Remix, but her loyalties have always been with hip-hop and R&B. “There’s nothing like playing an old-school favourite and watching the crowd react,” she says. “With DJing, you have so much power. We’re like emotion controllers for an event, and when I see someone’s face light
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DJ Orene “O Show” Askew had this custom-made hat produced in 17 different colours. Amanda Siebert photo.
up when I play a song they haven’t gerties, what sounds like a feisty heard in a while, it’s a crazy feeling. tomcat begins meowing insistently in the background. “A little cat just I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” > AMANDA SIEBERT walked up to me,” the tunesmith says, laughing. “Hello, cat! You’re DJ O Show plays Studio Records on very friendly. He’s got a tag that says, Friday (November 13). ‘I’m Queed, and I love you.’ ” Images of Hamilton as Snow White serenading animals in a meadow emerge. She adds, “It does sound sort of hippie, but having a natural enWhile the musical zeitgeist vironment is important to me as marches further into the digital a musician and a human. It made realm, Widowspeak flies Old Glory for sense to return to our roots for this classic folk-rock and dream pop. But record. We wanted to symbolically the New York duo is far from stuck in come full circle.” the past. Rather than suggesting faded The kernel of inspiration that grew sepia, its latest album, All Yours, offers to become Widowspeak was nura Technicolor sound that the band has tured by Thomas and Hamilton’s dubbed “dream country” and “cow- love of outlaw country, retro folk, boy grunge”. And now Widowspeak and ’90s grunge and dream pop. is taking its distinct vision on the Willie Nelson and the Carter Family road, where singer and guitarist Molly spin as often on the duo’s turntable Hamilton is finally hitting her stride. as the Cranberries and the Sundays. “I used to have awful stage fright,” Still, modern icons Cat Power, Elsays Hamilton, on the line from liott Smith, and Bill Callahan hold Portland while gearing up for the Hamilton’s heart strongest. The trinWest Coast tour. “I would cry before ity taught her how to craft songs with every show. It’s weird because you’re emotional gravity without sinking sharing something that’s really per- too deep into dourness, a lesson that sonal, and everybody’s eyes are on has stayed with her. you. That can be empowering, but “I love music as catharsis,” she it can also be terrifying. I’m start- says. “Like when fans tell us that they ing to see how fun and exciting listened to our record while they performing can be now, though. It were going through something and it keeps you on your toes.” helped them. I’d like to be able to do Widowspeak, composed of Ham- that more, travel and connect with ilton and lead guitarist Robert Earl people in different places. I want to Thomas, has done a lot of growing up keep making records, and if people since coming alive in 2010. During like them, then we’ll make more. the making of All Yours, the duo flew Or maybe in 20 years we’ll have a its Brooklyn coop for a rural house in reunion tour, because randomly in Saugerties, seeking literally greener South Africa somebody played our pastures in the little Catskills town. record. You never know.” > VIVIAN PENCZ The move away from their community of friends and musical peers had a critical effect on how the band’s third Widowspeak plays the Fox Cabaret on Saturday (November 14). full-length turned out. The album’s intoxicating melodies and rolling rhythms are anchored by the general theme of moving on, outlined by Hamilton’s soft, smoky voice. On “Girls”, she reflects on feelEveryone loves Scott Amendola’s ing kinder to girls as she gets older, first symphony, with the poswhile a sinewy guitar lick gallops along with a campfire harmonica. sible exception of his married friends. Fade to Orange was commisAnd on “Narrows”, she dreams of driving off in a red highway glow, sioned by California’s Oakland East as a ’90s-nostalgic riff weeps over Bay Symphony, but it’s dedicated to Amendola’s wife, Ari. That’s someblooming strings. “Our band exists because we had thing the accomplished drummer is so many opportunities in Brooklyn, not shy to exploit. “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Hey, I wrote but I wanted to live in a quiet small town at this point,” she explains. “It you a symphony! Come on!’ ” he says wasn’t so much that I wanted to get with a laugh, reached at home in away from Brooklyn, but I can play Berkeley. “The other funny thing is music in my living room now. I feel that sometimes people I know who calmer and I’m writing a lot more. are in relationships are like, ‘You With All Yours, we wanted to take wrote your wife a symphony? Ah, a break from the more cinematic thanks. I got my partner flowers.’ ” Amendola jokes that it was simsound of our past records and keep ply Ari’s turn to be honoured: he’d it down-to-earth.” While Hamilton speaks of Sau- already written music dedicated to
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Keeps is flawless, the band seemingly having no trouble coming up with sugar-dipped hooks and candy-coated melodies. Reached in a tour van headed to Oshawa, drummer Travis Stokl suggests there are good reasons the Newmarket, Ontario, quartet sounds like it lives on Pixy Stix and Sunshine Punch Kool-Aid. Being friends since high school helps. “This is the only band that I’ve really been in,” Stokl says. “Our name might have been different back in high school, but we started then, even if what we were doing was nothing serious. It started with a sort of a Flaming Lips obsession, but now it’s more of a career thing. It’s still really easy doing this, because we genuinely like it.” That’s obvious on Play for Keeps. The 2015 record starts with the Elwins throwing a stupidly infectious party with the keyboard-sparkled “Bubble” and then recapturing the playful side of mid-’90s indie rock—hello, Tripping Daisy—with “So Down Low”. Making great pop songs even greater are myriad clever sonic touches, from oscillating synths in “Show Me How to Move” to the echobathed backing vocals in “Bringing Out the Shoulders”. It makes for a dramatic leap forward from the Elwins’ 2012 debut, And I Thank You, something that Stokl partly attributes to the guidance of producer Derek Hoffman. “It was almost like having a fifth member,” the drummer says. “It ended up being really crazy but in a really good way. The framework for songs would be there. But then we’d try stuff that, even when we weren’t sure about it, we’d go leave it alone and then think about it for a few days, and then come back to it again.” Deciding on the running order of the songs would lead to plenty of interband debate between Stokl, singer Matthew Sweeney, mono-named guitarist Feurd, and bassist Frankie Figliomeni. The top half of Play for Keeps finds the Elwins sounding like they’re riding the crest of a 10 a.m. four-can beer buzz. Things eventually downshift, though. By the time the band hits the final stretch with “Backing Up” and “Sexual Intellectual”, the party’s still going, but the neighbours no longer have reason to bang on the walls while speed-dialling the cops. “We tried everything with the sequencing,” Stokl says. “And I think it’s kind of cool to describe it as eventually steering off into a little bit darker territory. After ‘Backing Up’ and ‘Sexual Intellectual’, it ends with ‘Shining Star’, which is almost like you’re in space or something.” As for the Elwins, they’re in a good place, having almost as much fun in real life as they seem to be having on “Bubble”. Some bands toil for years with little reward. The past 12 months have seen the group tour Europe, North America, and Japan as well as having the Top 20 single “So Down Low” placed in an ad for Fido. “It’s been cool,” Stokl says. “I feel like I’m in a business where I get to travel while learning something new every day.”
their two kids, and she was tired of waiting for her present. But the commission actually grew out of an Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) initiative called New Visions/New Vistas, aimed at generating homegrown repertoire for the Bay Area orchestra. Amendola was a left-field choice: known primarily for his work with the Nels Cline Singers and other avant-jazz bands, he’d played orchestral music but had never written it. Learning this new craft took some effort, but the hardest part of the commission, he says, was determining what to leave out. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get to write anything like this again, but the last thing I wanted to do was throw the kitchen sink at it,” Amendola says of his alternately turbulent and transcendental score. “I feel like I was really true to that, in letting it move in a direction that felt really organic to me—and I’m really happy with how it came out.” He’s also pleased with what he’s been doing for the past few weeks: revising Fade to Orange so that it can be performed by his touring quintet, which includes guitarists Nels Cline and Jeff Parker (of Wilco and Tortoise fame, respectively), violinist Jenny Scheinman (who regularly partners with Bruce Cockburn and Bill Frisell), and bassist John Shifflett (who’s played with everyone from Frankie Avalon to John Zorn). The task was simplified by the fact that Fade to Orange was written as much for Cline as for Ari or the OEBS; he was the soloist when the work premiered and is also featured on the recorded version of the score. Still, compressing several dozen instruments into five presented its own challenges. “What I did was I went through the entire piece and wrote very specific notes as to what I wanted the five of us to do,” Amendola says. “Arranging it for the quintet, it was really about letting these melodies come out, letting certain parts come out. And also there’s not going to be a conductor, so one of the things I thought about was how to get the music to really flow.” And flow it should, especially by the time Amendola and band have most of their tour under their belts. “The cool thing about Vancouver is that you’re going to get the last show, after six nights of us playing it and exploring the possibilities and seeing what we can open up,” the drummer explains. “When you’re dealing with Nels Cline and Jeff > MIKE USINGER Parker and Jenny Scheinman and John Shifflett and myself you have five really strong personalities, and The Elwins open for Rich Aucoin I want those people to put their per- a t t h e F o x C a b a r e t o n F r i d a y sonalities into their playing. They’re (November 13). see page 39 going to have to play the notes, but NOVEMBER 12 – 19 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 37
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ood for Grapes is having a hell of a year. Following a late-2014 win at the PEAK Performance Project, which landed it a whopping $102,700 in prize money, the Surrey-bred outfit managed to book a couple months at Bryan Adams’s Gastown recording studio, the Warehouse, this spring to lay down its most recent folk-fried venture, The Ropes. The group is also touring more than ever before, and currently undertaking a Canadian trek that caps in December. It hasn’t all been good for Grapes, though, as vocalist-guitarist Daniel McBurnie reports that just one week into the trip, the group has already burned through three different vehicles. “We’ve had some pretty extraordinary vehicle troubles. You wouldn’t believe it,” he tells the Straight from a cellphone inside the Looking to make their chosen moniker a business model, the members band’s rental van, which is pulled of Good for Grapes have been out scouting land suitable for a vineyard. over on a stretch of highway by Rosetown, Saskatchewan. As the rest band’s older material, as well as the of mind. He’s similarly bothered in of the combo takes a smoke break, new, expansive sounds of The Ropes. “Nightmares”, a melancholy diversion McBurnie explains that their reguThe new record still delivers in which he’s “trapped by a handle of lar ride is parked at a repair shop in plenty of anthems big on stomping fear” every night. The singer explains Revelstoke. beats, bold acoustic guitar, and mel- that there’s a very real root to this noc“We just put eight grand into our odic gang “whoas” that compare fa- turnal problem. vehicle, right, and we got it back the vourably to the likes of Mumford & “I have always suffered from insomday before tour. Sons. And like that nia and night terrors,” he says. “I do the Four hours into U.K. act, Good craziest things in my sleep. Every partthe tour, it breaks for Grapes lets its ner I’ve ever had has told me things down,” he notes imagination run like ‘You sat up in bed last night and Gregory Adams with frustration. wild on its latest were flailing around and talking.’ ” “One tiny little inspection mistake LP. The album centrepiece, “GethOf the tune’s theme of finding screwed up our entire vehicle.” semane Blues”, for instance, is an solace with an understanding bedThough it was forced to cancel the eight-minute epic that jumps from mate, he continues: “It’s always been first concert of the tour, the group— emerald-hued folk to Godspeed a thing, and that song is about a girl McBurnie, guitarist Graham Gomez, You! Black Emperor–grade postrock that I was with for a long time. She pianist Alexa Unwin, bassist Robert grandeur and into a back end of Bud- would be there when I woke up from Hardie, cellist Alex Hauka, and drum- spillin’ rock riffs. whatever fucked-up nightmare I was mer Will Watson—put its best foot Elsewhere, the record mixes Gaelic having, and I talked to her about it.” forward and booked an alternative rhythms with sweat-slicked DeltaWhile Good for Grapes is getting way to cross the Rockies. As it turns blues slide guitar (“Stung”) and traffics used to not being at home, the act out, that didn’t work out so hot either. in banjo-pluckin’ shuffles tailor-made is still dedicated to its community. “We had to take the most expen- for a Tennessee barn dance (“Waiting Ahead of its most recent tour, the sive cab ride: Revelstoke to Calgary… on a Ghost”). McBurnie also suggests band’s members used the industry Seven hundred bucks! And on the that the folkies are unafraid to work know-how they’ve picked up over way, the cab popped a tire,” McBurnie in “the elements of a screamo break- the last few years to guide a bunch of says, with more than a hint of in- down”, should it fit the song. aspiring young musicians during a credulity creeping into his voice. “We “We’re all frickin’ metalheads,” workshop at the Surrey Arts Centre, just rented a 15-passenger for a week the guitarist says with a laugh. advising them on how to book their until we can figure out our shit.” While fans may not have to worry own shows and survive on the road. But the band won’t let this re- about getting caught in a mosh at a In the latter case, it would seem that cent comedy of errors beat it down. Good for Grapes gig, the band offers a positive outlook and a cab company Good for Grapes’ stock is on the rise, some unsettling themes on The Ropes. on speed-dial are a good start. and the frontman notes that crowds Opener “Cursed by the Wind” has have been eager to celebrate the self- McBurnie hanging his head low and Good for Grapes plays the Imperial described “folk stomp” flavour of the desperately “searching for some peace on Thursday (November 12).
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on larger issues; the title track looks at social inequity in the U.S., while “Revolution” is an all-hands-on-deck call for a movement to save “this burning earth”. The connecting thread is a deep empathy for the downtrodden and the marginalized. The main criticism that has been lodged against Raury is that his vision is inchoate, and that he points out societal problems without offering solutions. To the artist himself, such critics are totally missing the point. “They don’t see that this music is being heard by an 11-year-old somewhere,” Raury suggests. “The young kids are hearing this, and they’re embodying this music, and they’re embodying the values and whatnot that this music carries. This culture is going to shift, and who knows, 30 years from now the politicians in office might be Raury fans, people that listened to Raury growing up. And they may see things differently. They may have a lot more compassion for the world. And things may be less corrupt.” Of his naysayers, the impassioned tunesmith says, “These are people that only see music as an outlet of entertainment and not as an outlet of inspiration that really affects how someone sees the world, how somebody wants to interact with the world. And all these interviews—this is my solution. This is my contribution, putting out that kind of thought into the world for kids to digest and to grow into.”
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Want to have every negative about millennials shattered in the space of 20 minutes? Have a conversation with Raury. Because that’s not really an option for everyone—the 19-year-old hip-hop/ folk artist only has so much free time on his hands—the Straight’s recent telephone interview with him will have to suffice. When we connect with the Atlanta-based performer, he’s at Toronto’s Analogue Gallery, doing a day of interviews. Boomers and Gen Xers may have his generation pegged as a bunch of lazy, apathetic narcissists, but Raury is clearly anything but. Back in September, he made his national-TV debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, on an episode that also featured the host’s interview with Donald Trump. Raury silently took a shot at the Republican presidential-nom hopeful, who has promised that when he’s sitting in the Oval Office, he’ll round up some 11 million illegal immigrants, many of them from Latin America, and deport them. For a performance of his gospel-tinged stomper “Devil’s Whisper”, Raury wore a green jersey with “Mexico” on the front. He turned around to reveal the name Trump on the back, with a big red X over it.
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The singer and rapper tells the Straight that he had no personal interaction with the Donald, but adds that he wouldn’t have had anything to say to him regardless. “He is who he is,” the artist born Raury Deshawn Tullis says. “No angry or snarky comment, or whatever I could say, would make the situation better. But what I could do is stand up for an oppressed people. Colbert couldn’t be as active as he wanted to be. I know Colbert wanted to tear him apart even more but, you know, I’m the young 19-year-old kid that’s going to get up there and make my statement about how I feel about him, because nobody else can. It’s up to young kids to go up there and let it be known that, like, ‘Yo, we’re not with this.’ ” Clearly, Raury has something to say, and he says plenty on All We Need, his major-label debut. Coming on the heels of last year’s independently released mix tape Indigo Child, the record is impossible to slot into any single category; it touches on ATL trap, aftermidnight R&B, coffeehouse folk, and guitar rock—sometimes all within the space of a single song. All We Need is a true product of the Internet generation, a snapshot of a teenager whose tastes were shaped by the type of boundary-free discovery that can only happen by online serendipity. Sometimes Raury keeps things personal, as on “Mama”, which has him promising his mother that he won’t turn out like his dad, and “Woodcrest Manor II”, a lament for a childhood friend lost to the world of gangs and drugs. At other times, he has his eyes
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Inside Carolyn Mark’s fridge WHO ARE YOU I am Carolyn Mark:
Queen of Vancouver Island, adviser to many realms, boozy chanteuse, rogue double free agent, lady pirate. Today I start mixing my latest album, Come! Back! Special!, to be released July 2016.
FIRST CONCERT My first concert was the Headpins. I had the cassette tape and listened to it over and over again. “Don’t It Make You Feel” was the big hit, I think. Darby Mills, the chick lead singer, had huge hair and wore high-cut spandex. My Austrian father drove me from Sicamous to Vernon to see them and outside the arena, to my horror, I realized that he was parking the car and coming in with me!!! I had kind of thought he would drop me off. Inside, hundreds of headbangers with feathered hair were smoking joints. We took our seats and halfway through the first number, “Turn It Loud”, my father leans over with his fingers in his ears saying, “I do not care for zis music.” Man, was I pissed. I slumped down in my seat and muttered, teeth clenched, “That’s because it’s not for you!” LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT Ndidi
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When her makeup is done just right and her outfit matches, Carolyn Mark sometimes feels so pretty she can’t even stand to look at herself in the mirror.
Halloween, Valentine’s Day. It is the perfect soundtrack. Period. White Chocolate Space Egg Liz Phair A very lady record. I have tried but I just can’t get sick of it. Caution: if you put this record on at a party, you’ll have every bitch over 30 yowling along for the duration. Picking three is hard! (I want to use my last wish to wish for three more wishes!) I have to mention that I have driven over 10,000 miles to the Sadies (Favourite Colours, Darker Circles) and Joel Plaskett (Ashtray Rock, Three) and definitely couldn’t have done it without them. ALL-TIME FAVOURITE VIDEO I remember coming home after school and watching Video Hits religiously every day. With Samantha Taylor. “Thriller”’s still pretty good. The aha one with all the paint. “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse—her skin is luminescent! But best video ever, according to this reporter, is “Oasis” by Amanda Palmer. So delightfully literal! WHAT’S IN YOUR FRIDGE One half
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Ontario, sugar bush. They live in a former train station and let musicians stay with them from time to time. My roommates know not to lay a finger on my precious nectar. Best morning snack: black coffee with granola and yogurt with sliced banana, lemon zest, and just a whisper of maple syrup. Tides you over to second breakfast. A blue bowl It’s filled with bits of ginger, garlic cloves, lemon halves, jalapeños, et cetera that would normally be on the counter but I live in an old speakeasy in Chinatown and so I am trying this—not a morsel of food left out anywhere in the kitchen—to deter the mice. It seems to be working. The remnants of some $17 feta in oil Cindy Emch (Feral, Vagabondage) bought me this after our show at the Epicurean Connection in Sonoma, California, last April. We were drunk on wine, and we thought it was so funny that it was so expensive. Cindy surprised me with it back at our host family’s place. This is a condensed version of What’s in Your Fridge. For the full, riotously entertaining version, go to www. straight.com/music/whats-yourfridge on Friday.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD ORCHESTRA Victoria folk band tours in support of latest release LOVE, with guests Jack Garton and the Demon Squadron and Buckman Coe. Nov 19-20, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/10, info www.face book.com/events/1653967578195158/. WORLDBEAT SESSIONS Join DJ Michael Laycock (Electropical), guest DJ Hubbz (The Payback), and percussionist Yoro Noukoussi for a night of danceable global grooves. Nov 21, 10 pm, Backstage Lounge (Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $10, info www.electropical.ca/. POINTED STICKS Canadian punk band tours in support of latest self-titled LP, with guests Vampire Bats, Polly, and Nervous Talk. Nov 28, 10 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info www.rickshaw theatre.com/. REID JAMIESON VANCOUVER PRESLEY SESSIONS Reid Jamieson presents a musical love letter to 1950s musicians like Elvis, Roy Orbison, the Platters, and the Flamingos. Nov 29, 7 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $20, info www.facebook.com/ events/1195484360468858/1227384423945518/. LEGS Vancouver-based experimental-folk band performs with Savvie, Youngblood, and DJ Christa Belle. Dec 3, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $8, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. THE MINT RECORDS RIDICULOUSLY EARLY XMAS PARTY Annual holiday party features music by Faith Healer, Renny Wilson, Monomyth, Fake Tears, Energy Slime, Supermoon, and Uptights. Dec 5, 8:30 pm, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.facebook. com/events/1100914933260591/. DADA PLAN Vancouver art-rock ensemble, with guests Freak Heat Waves and Gal Gracen. Dec 5, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $8, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. NASHVILLE PUSSY Rowdy guitar-rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, performs with In the Whale. Dec 8, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. DEVOTCHKA Denver multi-instrumental rock ensemble. Jan 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. #SINGITFWDFINALE Benefit for the Saint James Music Academy features a lineup of artists that remains secret until the day of each show. Jan 14-15, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix at www.ticketfly.com/. THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Americana band from Santa Cruz, California, tours in support of latest release I’m a Stranger Here. Jan 19-20, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $23.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS Los Angeles-based indie-gospel group tours in support of debut album Heavenly Fire. Jan 30, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOHNNY REID Scottish-born country artist tours in support of upcoming album What Love Is All About. Feb 1, 7 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, at www.ticketmaster.ca/. THE SHEEPDOGS Saskatchewan guitarrockers tour in support of latest studio release Future Nostalgia. Feb 19, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ST. LUCIA South African-born, Brooklynbased electronica musician tours in support of latest album Matter, with guest Grace Mitchell. Mar 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. FRANK TURNER AND THE SLEEPING SOULS U.K. folk-punk artist and his band tour in support of latest release Positive Songs for Negative People, with guests Northcote and Mo Kenney. Mar 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am,
DELHI 2 DUBLIN Canadian world-fusion group tours in support of latest studio release We’re All Desi. Mar 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $30/27.50/20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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KENNY G Adult contemporary/smoothjazz saxophonist from the States. Nov 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix $79.50/69.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketmaster.ca/.
HEART Rockers from the ’70s (“Barracuda”, “Magic Man”), featuring sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, with guests Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Mar 8, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Nov. 13, 10 am, $135/85 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. DAUGHTER Indie-folk band from London, England, plays tunes from new album Not to Disappear. Mar 18, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/. MARIANAS TRENCH Vancouver poprock band tours in support of latest studio release Astoria with guests Walk Off the Earth. Apr 8, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $65, $49.50, and $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. AN EVENING WITH ST. GERMAIN French jazz-house musician tours in support of latest self-titled release. Apr 18, doors 7 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $59.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. IL DIVO U.K. classical-crossover group tours in support of latest release Amor & Pasion. Nov 6, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Nov 13, 10 am, $149.50/89/59 (plus service charges and fees).
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2THIS WEEK GLEN HANSARD The Georgia Straight presents Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter touring in support of upcoming solo release Didn’t He Ramble, with guest Aoife O’Donovan. Nov 12, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $25-49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOCELYN ALICE Canadian indie-soulpop musician tours in support of debut release Summer Life. Nov 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GOOD FOR GRAPES Vancouver-based indie-folk band tours in support of latest album The Ropes. Nov 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. LILA ROSE Toronto-born, Californiabased singer-songwriter, with guests Selina Koop. Nov 12, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. EMANCIPATOR ENSEMBLE American electronica artist, with guests Blockhead, Manatee Commune, and Dubconscious. Nov 12, 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $39.25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/, info www.bplive.ca/ events/emancipator-ensemble/. HALSEY New Jersey-born indie-pop singer-songwriter performs on her Badlands tour. Nov 13, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. RICH AUCOIN Canadian indie-rock musician tours in support of latest release Ephemeral, with guests the Elwins. Nov 13, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrg concerts.com/. TIM HICKS Canadian country artist headlines the 2015 Get a Little Crazy Tour, with guests Cold Creek County and Jason Benoit. Nov 13, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. MATTHEW GOOD The Georgia Straight presents Canadian rock singer-songwriter performing on his Chaotic Neutral fall tour, with guest Scott Helman. Nov 13-14, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $55/39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. LUIGI BONAFEDE QUINTET Italian jazz group, with North Delta vocalist Leora Cashe. Nov 13, 7:30 pm, Italian Cultural Centre (3075 Slocan). Tix $40/35/20, info www.italianculturalcentre.ca/. ALLISON CROWE BAND Nanaimo-born, Newfoundland-based folk artist. Nov 13, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $25/20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.brownpapertick ets.com/, info music.allisoncrowe.com/. STOMP RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW The Canadian record label’s 20th anniversary show features Canadian ska and punk bands the Real McKenzies, the
Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
BLIND GUARDIAN German power-metal band tours in support of latest release Beyond the Red Mirror, with guests Grave Digger. Nov 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $36.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.
RICHARD THOMPSON With a career spanning nearly 50 years in the folk-rock scene, it would be easy for Richard Thompson to settle for playing his greatest hits on the casino circuit. But the English singer-songwriter remains a defiantly adventurous musician, as demonstrated by his searing live sets and his latest album, Still, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. Catch a legend who’s been named one of the top 20 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone performing in an intimate setting when the Richard Thompson Trio comes to the Rio Theatre this Saturday (November 14). Brains, the Isotopes, Rude City Riot, and Los Kung-Fu Monkeys. Nov 13, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $17.50, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
SLUM VILLAGE Michigan hip-hop group, with guests the X Presidents. Nov 13-14, 8 pm–2 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $18, info www.facebook.com/ events/609899975816138/. WAKA FLOCKA FLAME AND DJ WHOO KID American rapper and American hiphop DJ coheadline. Nov 13, 10 pm, Harbour Event Center. Tix from $$30, info www. facebook.com/events/1008266979193386/. FUNK & OLD SCHOOL DANCE PARTY 1970s-themed funk and old-school dance party features music spun by DJ Daddy Mikey and Earl da Pearl. Nov 14, Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial). Tix $15, info www.meloproductions.net/. BRONCHO Oklahoma City rock band tours in support of latest release Just Enough Hip to Be Woman, with guests the Shelters and Pearl Charles. Nov 14, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE RICHARD THOMPSON TRIO The Georgia Straight presents British folk-rock vocalist-guitarist and his band. Nov 14, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Texas-based choral-rock band performs on its 15thanniversary tour. Nov 14, 7-10:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $22 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/, info www. bplive.ca/events/the-polyphonic-spree/.
CITIZENS London indie-pop band tours in support of latest release European Soul. Nov 15, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM British hard-rock group coheadlines with Scottish alt-rock band. Nov 15, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $35-79.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOANNA GRUESOME Welsh noise-pop band tours in support of latest release Peanut Butter. Nov 15, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. SCOTT AMENDOLA BAND Coastal Jazz presents American jazz drummer and his band, consisting of violinist Jenny Scheinman, guitarists Nels Cline and Jeff Parker, and bassist John Shifflett. Nov 15, 7 pm, Studio Records. Tix $39-45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly. com/, info www.coastaljazz.ca/. MÁRCIO FARACO Brazilian-born musician performs original compositions. Nov 15-16, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Info www.kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/2122/. TESSERACT U.K. prog outfit tours in support of upcoming LP POLARIS, with guests the Contortionist, Erra, and Skyharbor. Nov 16, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rickshaw
RIDE British shoegaze band from the ’90s. Nov 17, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $42.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. KATE BOY Stockholm-based electropop band. Nov 17, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. GARDENS AND VILLA California indierock band tours in support of latest release Music for Dogs. Nov 17, doors 8 pm, show 8:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. KMAN AND THE 45S Montreal ska band, with guests Caracas and the Brass Action. Nov 17, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.rickshaw theatre.com/. WILDHONEY Baltimore dream-pop band tours in support of latest EP Your Face Sideways, with Other Jesus and TV Ugly. Nov 18, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www. mrgconcerts.com/. THE PAPER KITES Australian indie-rock quintet tours in support of second album twelvefour, with guests Old Man Canyon. Nov 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. X AMBASSADORS Alt-rock band from Ithaca, New York, tours in support of upcoming debut album VHS. Nov 18, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Note: moved from original venue of Fortune Sound Club. Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS THE WEEKND Canadian R&B singersongwriter performs on his Madness Fall Tour, with guests Banks Halsey and Travis
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THE GOOD LIFE Blueprint Live presents indie-rock band from Nebraska, with guests Big Harp. Nov 14, 7-10:30 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. THE JOCELYN PETTIT BAND The Rogue Folk Club presents B.C. folk fiddler, singer, and composer. Nov 14, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15111420/. PONDEROSA ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS: LET’S BUILD A HOUSE! Music by Gay Nineties, Mark Mills, Kutapira, Andrew Judah, DIRTY SPELLS, LIO, and La Groovalucion. Proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. Nov 14, 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Admission by donation ($20 suggested), info www.ponderosafestival.com/. JUSTIN JAY Los Angeles musician performs on his Mom, I Graduated World Tour, with guests Ryan Wells and Jessica G. Nov 14, 10 pm–3 am, M.I.A. (350 Water St.). Tix $15, info bit.ly/1JLmUyy. SOBER BECKY B.C. folk-punk rockers, with guests Jeff Andrew, Farnsworth, and the Alkemist. Nov 14, 8-11 pm, WISE Club (1882 Adanac ). Tix $10 at the door, info www. facebook.com/events/1107534462589938/. SHELLSHAG New York City punk-rock band, with Poor Form, Dead Soft, and SBDC. Nov 14-15, 8:30 pm–2 am, Astoria Pub (769 E. Hastings). Tix $10, info www. facebook.com/events/501822723324964/. QUIET CITY #19 Experimental, electronica, and improvised music by Byron Westbrook, Soledad Muñoz & Aileen Bryant, and 1080p Collection DJs. Nov 14, 9 pm, The Lido (518 E. Broadway). Info www. facebook.com/events/1536102713347166/. KALEIDOSCOPE Psychedelic-trance music by Vudderhutz, Sytantris, Bez, Party Monster, Hasselhoff, Dr. Thrillhaus, Raghunath Khe, and EMOG. Nov 14-15, 9:30 pm–3 am, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info www.liquidsun.ca/. RAINER + GRIMM Electronic duo from Toronto, with guests Momantix, Vortoozo, and resident DJ wmnstudies. Nov 14, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $15, info www.alexandergastown.com/. PROTEST THE HERO Canadian progressive-metal band celebrates the 10-year anniversary of debut full-length album Kezia. Nov 15, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Scrape Records, and www. ticketfly.com/.
Scan to confess No us in I phone. I used to have no issues meeting women but I can’t compete with iPhones anymore. I understand that people have priorities and constantly need outside affirmation that the world hasn’t fallen apart so any advice on how to become more important than a piece of plastic would be great? I too would love to have a woman gaze into me like that screen and hold me tight while pushing my apps but I am only a human model 1.8.1.6.9.
I will love her. I will love her until the day I die. Probably after that. Because she loves me when I can’t possibly love myself. And she still chose me, in spite of my flaws. I told her about them all, and of course she’s seen them. She must really love me. I just wanted to thank her. Until I can really thank her. :)
Deadlines This offer is only ever open for a limited time, and it’s later than you think. Without reciprocity I can only care for so long before I check out. It obviously can’t be any other way. There is no room for half-measures; go all in, or go home. To choose not, is still a choice, and if you do not choose soon then I will do so for you.
wedding rings Men - why don’t you wear them? I developed a big crush on this man who I was taking a class with and who was very chatty and flirty with me (and only me) for several weeks. I’m single and I found myself daydreaming about him between classes. Then he mentioned he was going to a family event - with his wife! I didn’t see that coming as he was so friendly and wore no ring. Now I have to try to stop liking him and that won’t be easy, sigh.
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THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-8680494. 2GOOD FOR GRAPES Nov 12 2PONDEROSA ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS: LET’S BUILD A HOUSE! Nov 14 2THE PAPER KITES Nov 18 2BORN RUFFIANS Nov 21 2IN FOCUS VANCOUVER Nov 26 2FAMILY OF THE YEAR Dec 6 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 8 2SHIGETO Jan 22 2THE KNOCKS Feb 3 2SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 4 2YOUNG GALAXY Feb 10 2JUNIOR BOYS Mar 10
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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/.
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/. 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, 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/. 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 $62.25/47.25/32.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.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/. 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/.
CLUBS & VENUES ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 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, 604-253-7141. The Waldorf has been a Vancouver mainstay since the late 1940s with its retro and Polynesian décor. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room,
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. 268 LIPS Nov 13 2CHRIS NEWTON BAND Nov 14 2SONS OF THE HOE Nov 15 2RHYTHM ST. Nov 20 2CHRISTINE & THE KISSELTONES Nov 21
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. 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. 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 2DEVOTCHKA Jan 8 2TRIBAL SEEDS Jan 22 2THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR Jan 30 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
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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. 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. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 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 2THE GARDEN Dec 13 2PITY SEX Dec 22 2MAJICAL CLOUDZ Jan 22 2CAR SEAT HEADREST Jan 24 2SAINTSENECA Jan 31 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. Tix at www.commodoreballroom.ca/. 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 2THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Jan 19 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 2THE SHEEPDOGS Feb 19 2CLASSIFIED Feb 27 2FRANK TURNER AND THE SLEEPING SOULS Mar 3 2DELHI 2 DUBLIN Mar 5 2REBELUTION Mar 6 2DISTURBED Mar
11 2THE WAILERS Mar 12 2AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS Mar 20
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. 2KODE 9 Nov 12 2THE GOOD LIFE Nov 14 2CITIZENS Nov 15 2FRACTURED LAND MEDIA PARTY Nov 18 2JAZZ CARTIER Dec 5 2MIKE STUD Mar 3 FOX CABARET 2321 Main. Multi-room arts and culture venue in Mount Pleasant showcases live music, DJs, comedy, and performance. 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). 2MONK MUSIC Nov 12 2MIKE ALLEN QUARTET Nov 13 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. 2FUNCTOR, HALLUX, INFECTIOUS DECAY Nov 13 2VACUUS, CRYPTIC ENSLAVEMENT, TERMINAL SEQUENCE, PRECIOUS DUDES Nov 14 2THAT FILTHY SHOW Nov 19 2SLAUGHTERHAUSER, MASSIVE SCAR ERA, SMASH ALLEY Nov 20 2OBSCENE BEING, AWKWARD A/C, APESHIT Nov 21 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-523-6888. 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 27 2TROOPER Dec 31 2LEWIS BLACK Feb 28 2TRACY MORGAN May 13
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. M.I.A. 350 Water St., 604-408-4321. Gastown’s newest intimate nightclub and special-event space, equipped with an industry-leading Funktion-One Soundsystem, hosting local & touring electronic, live, & club events weekly. 2JUSTIN JAY Nov 14 2MOUNTAIN MADNESS MONDAYS 10TH SEASON OPENER Nov 16 MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2JOCELYN ALICE Nov 12 2WILDHONEY Nov 18 2GIRL BAND: CANCELLED Nov 20 2MIKE KROL Dec 5 2REPTAR Dec 11 2HUNNY Dec 11 2THE EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS Jan 30 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN HANSARD Nov 12 2VANCE JOY Jan 12 2BLUE RODEO Jan 26 2HEART Mar 8 2LEON BRIDGES Mar 15 2RAFFI Apr 23 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM Nov 15 2PUSCIFER Dec 2 2MILEY CYRUS & HER DEAD PETZ Dec 14 2JOHNNY REID Feb 1 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20 2IL DIVO Nov 6 REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am.
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MOVIES REVIEWS SPECTRE Starring Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 47
We are now in a run of spy movies that
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standard of comparison is the Bond movie, an international brand for five decades. Like the vodka martinis he is constantly swilling, James Bond makes a virtue of repetition. All the elements are preordained. He is perpetually a fit middle-aged alcoholic, a retired commander in the British navy who’s fond of callous one-liners, the Walther PPK, and promiscuity. He travels around the world to exotic sites that he then causes to explode, while looking good in a tux and an Aston Martin. Spectre gives us these essential ingredients in a reasonably well-paced global adventure that reintroduces the Bondian-gadget element (and a signature character, whose name is SPOILER) missing from the Daniel Craig run to date. The evident desire was to please Bond fans with numerous winks to canon while also summing up the Craig era by suggesting that a master villain was pulling the strings from Casino Royale onward. Sam Mendes returns to direct the resultant assemblage of explosions and highly competent
Of spectacles and spectres
Daniel Craig reprises his role as Agent 007 in Spectre with all the classic James Bond ingredients in place: explosions, tuxedos, promiscuity, and vodka martinis.
Roebuck “Pops” Staples, the tremolo-tinged guitarist who held the family band together until his death in 2000. This gospel outfit was the first (beating out Peter, Paul Spectre‘s required elements aren’t quite Bondian enough; and Mary) to cover Bob The 33 focuses on making heroes out of everyday people Dylan, so enamoured of the cast, which includes Léa Seydoux as the daughter Staples sound—especially their breakthrough hit, of one of Bond’s enemies and Dave Bautista as a “Uncloudy Day”—and of young Mavis’s disarming dimples, he shyly asked her to marry him. well-dressed henchman—hatless, alas. There’s no knockout visual scene to rival the (This was when they were both on the folk-festival neon skyscraper battle in Skyfall. Nor does the circuit, alongside people like Pete Seeger, Odetmovie, for better or worse, indulge in the goofy ta, and Joan Baez.) She declined, but they had a and sometimes surreal slapstick of the Roger fairly chaste romance. Here, a relaxed and stillMoore ’70s. It makes some jokes but mostly strives admiring Dylan joins Bonnie Raitt, Marty Stuart, for intensity. To that end, Mendes pulls some real Prince, the late Levon Helm, and others to talk about her wide-ranging influence. (Notably abtension out of a torture scene. In terms of mere spectacle, Spectre has some sent is Aretha Franklin, apparently most threatwonderful driving stunts, a tremendous introduc- ened by Mavis out of all her contemporaries.) Enthusiastically on hand is Wilco’s Jeff tion for the character played by Christoph Waltz, and a production lavish in glass architecture and Tweedy, the fellow Chicagoan who helped oversupercars. Novelties are all well and good, but see her startling comeback. Exciting new material, sometimes in wonderfully unpolished sometimes you want an actual Bond movie. > RON YAMAUCHI form, alternates with old performance footage (including clips from Wattstax and The Last MAVIS! Waltz), all imbued with inspiring vitality. Don’t hesitate; come go with her! A documentary by Jessica Edwards. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 47
If you don’t know Mavis Staples, or can only
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Staple Singers’ deep catalogue, Mavis! will change that right quick. Always the most visible Staple(s), the soulful contralto—front and centre on enduring hits like “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There”—is having a phenomenal career resurgence at 76, and this uplifting doc helps. It doesn’t really tackle why her solo career never took off before. And first-time feature-maker Jessica Edwards shows scant interest in Mavis’s private life, even regarding her singing siblings. But it does convey the intense creative relationship with her deceptively gentle father, guitarist
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English—in a wide variety of Spanish accents, including one tinged with a brogue (see above). The actors illustrate director Patricia Riggen’s broad, formulaic approach to the well-known story. That means we get shallow representations of a few of the characters who made it through the 70-day ordeal: the heroic optimist Mario “Super Mario” Sepúlveda (Antonio Banderas), who rations out food and makes grand speeches, as well as the local Don Juan, an Elvis impersonator, an old man on the eve of his retirement, and the town drunk. There are clunky lines (“That’s my job: to keep these men safe!”) to contend with, not to mention some forced “eureka” moments in the rescue mission. Still, The 33 delivers on other fronts. Smartly, Riggen integrates the worldwide media coverage we all saw as the crisis unfolded, and the visuals are strong, with aerial shots of the Atacama Desert’s meringuelike gold dunes, colourful evocations of the makeshift family camp at the mine site, and sometimes harrowing effects that put you underneath the gold mine’s collapse. A brief hallucination where the starving men are served giant meals by their spouses hints tantalizingly at the creativity she could have mined here. Just don’t look for too many damning indictments of the larger economic evils that caused > KEN EISNER the collapse. The 33, produced with the cooperation of the real survivors, is about making THE 33 heroes out of everyday people—miners and empanada sellers. Someone else will have to take Starring Antonio Banderas. Rated PG. For on the mining industry. showtimes, please see page 47
The 33 re-creates the Chilean mining disaster of five years ago in a way that celebrates the human spirit while showing you what it’s like to sit, trapped, 700 metres below ground. It also stars ethereal French icon Juliette Binoche as a poor empanada street vendor and Irish brooder Gabriel Byrne as a Latin-American engineer. And herein lies the main problem with The 33, for all its on-location attempts to evoke an authentic Chile: most of the action takes place in
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TRACES THAT RESEMBLE US Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Myfanwy MacLeod are among the 12 Vancouver artists who programmed a favourite movie for this amazing Cinematheque series, running from Thursday (November 12) to December 17 in conjunction with an art exhibition at the Monte Clark Gallery. “It really is an incredible feat,” said Karin Bubaš, who chose Charles Laughton’s disquieting 1955 masterpiece, The Night of the Hunter. “I think fundamentally everyone agrees how much film has influenced their practice and how important venues like the Cinematheque are.” Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (courtesy of Ian Wallace) kicks things off on Thursday. Read more at Straight.com. -
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DOG BY DOG This Oprah-approved doc
looks at puppy mills and the barriers to effective dog-welfare laws (clue: it’s the $$$). Director Chris Grimes will attend a screening at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Thursday (November 12), benefiting the Paws for Hope Animal Foundation.
AMERICAN LEAFBLOWER Mahler’s
Symphony No. 2 is matched with shots of leafblowing (what’s more pointlessly polluting than a leaf blower?) and Machiavellian “memos” from Dick Cheney to George W. Bush. Bill Jeffries’s weirdly compelling, darkly humorous film is at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (November 14).
AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 CONCERTS The Modulus Festival unites
with DOXA for a screening of the acclaimed doc about the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam at the Roundhouse on Monday (November 16). A performance by Music on Main composer in residence Caroline Shaw follows.
MOUNTAIN MOVIES We very much liked Jumbo Wild when it screened at this year’s VIFF. Nick Waggoner’s doc—about the not-so-very-much-liked Jumbo Glacier Resort project in the Kootenays—gets another screening at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (November 12), as part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s fall series. The three-day fest continues with screenings and guests, plus a fundraiser for survivors of April’s earthquake in Nepal at the Centennial Theatre on Saturday (November 14). More info is at www.vimff.org/. NOVEMBER 12 – 19 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 43
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the bullet bath that was Omaha Beach, the new D-Day: Normandy 1944 charts out the manoeuvre that changed the course of World War II in meticulous detail. We’re talking animated maps, archival photos, computer-generated and dramatic re-enactments, and aerial shots of the territory in question—all spread over the Omnimax Theatre’s giant screen. Yes, it’s a military-strategy nut’s dream. The multifaceted film is meant to deconstruct the momentous Allied attack, illuminating it for a new generation. And it does. It’s
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show goes wonkily awry and the Red Baron keeps roaring out of nowhere in his vintage plane. About the closest the film gets to Schulz’s wise, if somewhat dated, genius is a sequence where Charlie Brown has to do a book report on War and Peace. Several dozen recipe cards, balls of string, and exploding-ink incidents later, you’ll have a new respect for the beleaguered character—and for an animated film that would dare to make an extended Tolstoy joke in this hyperactive day and age.
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. 2ADAM BRISCOE, STEPHEN SPENDER, KARMIC CIRCLE Nov 12 2THE BASEMENT SWEETS, MELLT Nov 13 2STATIC CREED, ZEEROWE Nov 14 2JOE BAILY, AJAYE JARDINE, ANDREW CHRISTOPHER, BLAKE HAVARD Nov 15 2GOODBYE TERRA FIRMA, THE DEADSET Nov 18 2JODY BLACK Nov 19 2WEST OF MEMPHIS, IN BLISS Nov 21 2DAVE HARTNEY, MEGAN TWIST, RACHEL LAYNE, THE HEELS Nov 22 2ANGIE FAITH Nov
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MARCIO FARACO Brazilian songwriter and guitarist Márcio Faraco is an acoustic musician in the same mould as his great compatriots João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, and Milton Nascimento. Gifted like them with a gently sensuous voice and a fine poetic imagination, Faraco pens original pieces in a variety of Brazilian styles, from choro to samba and bossa nova. He performs on Sunday and Monday (November 15 and 16) in the cabaret-style setting of West Vancouver’s Kay Meek Studio Theatre, accompanied by Lionel Suarez on accordion, Gerson Saeki on bass, and Julio Gonçalves on percussion. STADIUM CLUB Edgewater Casino, 760 Pacific Blvd. S., 604-687-3343. Entertainment stage at Edgewater Casino features live music on weekends. 2HEROES OF ROCK TRIBUTE Nov 20 2BLUES FOR PAWS BCSPCA BENEFIT Nov 28 VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Nov 14 2CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Nov 20 2ROBERT DELONG Nov 21 2ONEOHTRIX POINT
just that director Pascal Vuong’s multipronged approach, though it certainly looks good, can seem herky-jerky as it bounces between ideas. For instance, you might just be getting a feel for why it was urgent to attack Adolf Hitler’s army on the western front while he was tied up with Russia, when there’s a sudden cut to the intermittent animated pop-up book that highlights the five “keys to victory” (the jeep and the two-and-a-half-ton truck ,for instance). For something that tries so hard to jazz up dry material, it’s funny the film chose solemnvoiced Tom Brokaw to narrate. The London Symphony Orchestra provides the music. Still, few films have detailed the logistics behind the complex, elaborately plotted-out mission better than this. So it should make a captivating history lesson for a younger generation (with “sand animation”—literally crafted from grains—depicting battlefield violence in nongory ways), but will also reveal intricacies for adults who know the story (including the fact that it had to be timed perfectly to both the tide and moonlight). With an eye to edu-tainment, DDay has made an event with massive scope into something tangible and yet moving, to the point the aerial shots late in the film over “row on row” of crosses in Normandy have real meaning.
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OUT OF TOWN 2JUST ANNOUNCED MAROON 5 American pop superstars, featuring frontman Adam Levine, with guests Tove Lo and Phases. Oct 11, 7:30 pm, Key Arena (305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA). Tix on sale Nov 14, 10 am, from US$26.50 to US$122 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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avis Staples keeps breaking into song when she calls the Straight from Rhode Island to discuss Mavis!, director Jessica Edwards’s new documentary about her life and career (opening Friday [November 13]). It means we’re getting a private performance from the woman Stax Records founder Al Bell, right on camera, puts ahead of Aretha Franklin in the greatest-voice-ever stakes. There are no words to adequately describe the feeling for us, but what does she have to say about Mr. Bell’s statement? “Oh, my goodness,” tuts the 76-year-old gospel-soul legend, with a low laugh. “He’s trying to get me in trouble, ’cause Aretha, she’s a mean young lady. She don’t like that at all. Thanks a lot, Al Bell!” Staples started performing with her family at the age of 8 and quickly became the focal point of the Staple Singers, who were otherwise led by her father, Roebuck Staples—or “Pops”, to the world at large. Their Stax years were massive, with a string of hits that included “I’ll Take You There”, but the group had decades of performance behind them, and an enduring gift for crossing the none-too-porous race line that kept black and white listeners separated. It was at the Newport Folk Festival in the early ’60s that Mavis crossed another line, embarking on a romance with Bob Dylan that only recently came to light. They both talk about it in Mavis!. “I’ve never forgotten Bobby,” she says. “You know, it was really like puppy love. He was so cute. I loved his curly hair. I used to mess with his curly hair.” She laughs broadly. “Yes, when I see Bobby my heart pitterpatters, and I think about where we would be, today, had I married him.
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We probably woulda had us some little children, and they would be singing now.” Dylan, among others, was no less infatuated with the sound of this musical family from Chicago’s South Side, in large part due to Pops’s sulphurous guitar style. “I think Pops had a big influence on the guitar,” says Mavis, having cheerfully steered the subject away from Bobby. (“You’re getting me fired up here, talking about my ex! You better go to another question!”) “All the while we were singing gospel, Pops was playing the blues on his guitar,” she continues. “We didn’t know it! But he learned from Charley Patton, you know? So he was playin’ the blues all the time and I guess that’s what they were hearing along with his voice.” The Staples’ subsequent influence on rock is mammoth (their spinetingling version of “The Weight”, as performed with the Band in the film
The Last Waltz, remains definitive), and Mavis reels off a mind-boggling list of acolytes, including the Stones, Eric Clapton, the Who, David Byrne, even the Bee Gees. She figures that Prince is probably the greatest artist she ever worked with. (“People think he’s the worst person in the world, but Prince is a really, really good guy,” she says.) Staples just as casually mentions Pops’s group of friends: Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, B.B. King (who was amazed that Pops could “sing and play your guitar at the same time”). Indeed, while Mavis! celebrates the life of a singular voice, it’s no less of a tribute to a man who steered his family through the hottest decades of the record business without ever sacrificing his grace and humility. Mavis clearly remains in awe. “My father taught me so much, so much, and how to be,” she says, softly. “And I’m so grateful.” -
h, you think your workplace is tough? “We actually shot in mines in Bogotá, Colombia,” begins Lou Diamond Phillips, calling the Straight from L.A. to discuss his role in The 33, a big-budget retelling, opening Friday (November 13), of the story of the 32 Chileans (and one Bolivian) trapped underground for 69 days when the San José copper-gold mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2010. “There were two salt mines, and both of them were in excess of 500 years old, so the threat of them collapsing was, you know…” Phillips emits a dark laugh, “fairly pervasive. That’s real rock and crystal that you’re seeing in there. And then the other one we worked in was also a salt mine, but one that we could drive transport trucks into, and were a good mile or two into that mine. The air was absolutely noxious. It was an incredibly oppressive environment, and a lot of our cast and crew had respiratory issues.” Naturally, the actor continues, these conditions enhanced the finished product. “That desperation, that claustrophobia,” he says, “we were really feeling it.” But that didn’t compare to the other location Phillips and his costars had to lower themselves into. “Then we went down to film the exteriors in the Atacama Desert,” he says, obviously savouring what comes next: “And the entrance to the mine we filmed was literally a mile or so away from where the event actually happened. And maybe it’s my own psyche, maybe I’m projecting, but going into the entrance of those mines, I felt this sort of surreal malevolence, and I was just really, really happy that we weren’t actually doing the interiors down there.”
Lou Diamond Phillips plays one of the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine.
Panic attacks, silicosis, and surreal malevolencies aside, Phillips—probably still best known for his back-toback performances in La Bamba and Stand and Deliver in the late ’80s—is obviously delighted with the work he put into The 33. He lobbied for the role of Luis “Don Lucho” Urzúa, the reallife company supervisor who knew better than any of the other men that a rescue wasn’t just unlikely; it was nighon technically impossible. Besides the meatiness of the role, Phillips wanted to work beside Antonio Banderas, who had signed on to play the best known of the miners, “Super” Mario Sepúlveda. “What you see is what you get,” he says of his costar. “He’s charming, he’s warm, he’s magnanimous; just everything in his personality made him the guy to play Mario Sepúlveda.” Indeed, Sepúlveda himself agreed, remarking (as conveyed by Phillips): “It will be very good for Antonio Banderas’s career to play me.” “That’s Sepúlveda, man,” snorts the actor, who not only worked on-set with Sepúlveda and Don Lucho, but accompanied 32 of the 33 survivors when the film premiered in its most important market—Santiago. “Don Lucho was all smiles, and gave me the big thumbs up, and was very proud of the film,” Phillips reports. “That means a lot when you’re doing a true story.” After a knowing pause, he adds: “And I’ve done a few of those.” 1181 SEYMOUR ST. 604.683.FILM \ VIFF.ORG
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TRACES THAT RESEMBLE US The intersections between visual art in Vancouver and cinema are explored in this special screening series and art exhibition, presented in collaboration with Monte Clark Gallery. Nov 12–Dec 17, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info 604688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca/.
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NEW THIS WEEK D-DAY: NORMANDY 1944 Writerdirector Pascal Vuong’s documentary chronicles the largest Allied operation of World War II. 43 mins. OMNIMAX Theatre LOVE THE COOPERS Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, and Marisa Tomei star in I Am Sam director Jessie Nelson’s comedy about four generations who come together for an annual Christmas Eve celebration. Rated PG. 106 mins. Hollywood Cinemas Caprice, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey and Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver MAVIS! Mavis Staples, Adam Ayres, and Gene Barge are featured in writer-director Jessica Edwards’s documentary about legendary singer Staples and her family band. 80 mins. Vancity Theatre THE 33 Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, and Juliette Binoche star in Girl in Progress director Patricia Riggen’s drama about 33 miners who are trapped underground for 69 days. Rated PG. 125 mins. Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster and Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade North Vancouver
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THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinema theque.ca 2KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE Mon 6:30 2KISSED BY LIGHTNING Fri 8:20 2PLANET OF THE APES Sun 1:00 2PLAYTIME Thu 8:30 2RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS Fri 6:30 2SPEEDY Thu 6:30 2THE SALT OF THE EARTH Sat-Sun 6:30 2TRUDELL Mon 8:50 2WINGS OF DESIRE Sat 8:40; Sun 7:00 VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., 604683-3456, www.viff.org/theatre 220 FEET FROM STARDOM Mon 8:15 2AMERICAN LEAFBLOWER Sat 1:30 2MAVIS! Fri-Sat 4:00; Sun 5:30; Mon 6:30; Thu 1:00, 9:00 2REFLECTING THE CITY (REDUX): MOVIES FROM THE CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES Sun 7:15 2VANCOUVER: A DISTANT MIRROR Sun 3:00
SPECIAL EVENTS VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The longest-running Jewish film festival in Canada encourages multicultural interaction while presenting comedies, feature dramas, thrillers, documentaries, and shorts. To Nov 12, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas (2110 Burrard St.). Info www.vjff.org/. THEEB Writer-director Naji Abu Nowar’s drama sees a young Bedouin boy guide a British officer to his secret destination during World War I. To Nov 12, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. HADWIN’S JUDGEMENT Director Sasha Snow’s documentary tells the story of ecoterrorist Grant Hadwin. To Nov 12, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/.
celebrates the best in contemporary South Asian cinema from around the world. Includes over seven feature films, almost 20 shorts and documentaries, an opening gala, a festival workshop with Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap, and panel discussion. Nov 27-29, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $8-15, info www.visaff.ca/.
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FIRST-RUN SHOWTIMES MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL FALL SERIES Highlights include local alpine skiers-authors Linda Bily and John Baldwin, Times are current as of Friday, November 13 climber Will Stanhope, a film screening of Please note: Cineplex movies and Jumbo Wild, and a Nepal fundraiser night. showtimes unavailable at press time, see Nov 12-14, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). straight.com for online listings. Tix $17-39, info www.vimff.org/. LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 NEW AMERICAN LEAFBLOWER Experimental WESTMINSTER 390-800 Carnarvon St., feature from Vancouver-based curator Bill New Westminster, 604-549-9292, www. Jeffries examines leafblowing as a parallandmarkcinemas.ca 2THE 33 Fri-Thu 12:10, lel to the Bush/Cheney era. Nov 14, 1:30 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 2THE HUNGER GAMES: pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 Thu 7:00, 7:20, 10:15, $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www. 10:30 2LOVE THE COOPERS Fri, Mon-Thu viff.org/theatre/. 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Sat-Sun 10:15, 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 2THE MARTIAN Fri-Thu 12:20, PLANET OF THE APES The 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 2THE PEANUTS MOVIE FriCinematheque’s family-friendly film Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 2SICARIO Fri-Tue program presents Frank J. Shchaffner’s 12:10, 3:00, 6:20, 9:20; Wed-Thu 12:10, 3:00 1968 film starring Charlton Heston as an 2SPECTRE Fri-Mon 12:00, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, American astronaut who crashes on an 8:00, 10:15; Tue 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, unknown planet populated by apes. Nov 8:00, 10:15; Wed 11:30, 12:00, 3:00, 3:30, 7:00, 15, 1 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 8:00, 10:15; Thu 11:30, 12:00, 3:30, 3:30, 7:00, 8:00, Howe Street). Tix $9/6, info 604-688-3456, 10:15 2SUFFRAGETTE Fri, Mon-Thu 12:30, www.thecinematheque.ca/. 3:10, 6:40, 9:25; Sat-Sun 10:00, 12:30, 3:10, 6:40, 9:25 2WRECKER Fri-Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50; Tue 4:20, 7:30, 9:50; Thu 1:20, 4:20
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VANCOUVER: A DISTANT MIRROR (FROM THE CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES) The latest screening from the City of Vancouver Archives features newly digitized films that focus on the city’s transportation, landmarks, industry, and domestic and public spheres. Nov 15, 29, 3-5 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9, info www.viff.org/theatre/films/ fc8615-vancouver-a-distant-mirror-fromthe-city-of-vancouver-archives/.
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You’re going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I’m about to give you— and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals. And not just any gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals, but the kind of Broadway-musical-obsessed gay dude who has good taste. (Look through his record collection: if Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn’t, he does not have good taste.) Okay, here’s my advice: listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music—music and lyrics, in all three cases, by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him). Yes, you can get all three recordings on iTunes, NGAA, but you need to listen to them on vinyl, and you need to discuss these shows, and three songs in particular, with someone who already knows them by heart. Hence the need for a gay dude with good taste in Broadway musicals and an extensive collection of original Broadway cast recordings—on vinyl. As any Broadway-musical-obsessed gay man will tell you: epiphanies, insights, and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, i.e., when you have to flip the record over. Here are the songs you need to pay close attention to: “Sorry-Grateful” from Company, “The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies, and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music. (You might be a little too fragile for “Too Many Mornings” and “Losing My Mind”, both from Fol> NO GOOD AT ACRONYMS lies.) Listen over and over again—until
you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart. Discuss what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you’ll know what to do.
A friend of mine talks about his sex life almost constantly. Not quite like bragging, more matter-of-fact. For instance, out of the blue he will come out with this: “I was sitting in a bar and this broad looks at me and asks if I want to fuck. She had the tightest pussy I’ve ever had.” It just seems like conversation for him. I’m baffled by this. What’s going on with him?
never once did he complain about the lube. I attempted to follow through, but all my old techniques didn’t work. I asked him to show me how, what he likes, and he said just do the same as I’ve always done. The sliding, gliding, twisting motions that I usually use, all with a reasonable amount of squeezing, just DO NOT WORK without lube. My hand stuck to the dampish skin and would not slide. He says I am making a big deal out of nothing, but I am upset. One of the best tools in my sexual toolbox has just been rendered unusable.
> NOT SO TALKY
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I want to say something like this: “The amount of pussy and/or cock a man is actually getting exists in inverse proportion to the amount of pussy and/or cock a man brags about getting.” But it ain’t necessarily so. (“It Ain’t Necessarily So”, Porgy and Bess, music by George Gershwin [PBUH], lyrics by Ira Gershwin [PBUH].) I’ve known plenty of guys who bragged constantly about getting tons of ass, and they weren’t all liars. Almost every one of them, however, was deeply insecure— they bragged about the ass they were getting because they feared people saw them as guys who couldn’t get ass in a donkey storm.
You need to listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Wicked, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (PBUH). When Idina Menzel sings “Defying Gravity”, pretend she’s singing “defying aridity”. Apparently, that’s your boyfriend’s superpower, or his cock’s superpower: aridity—“being without moisture, extremely dry, parched”—is no impediment to pleasure. And it’s not an uncommon superpower, SLOW. Lots of guys prefer lubeless handjobs. So have your boyfriend jack himself off while you listen to Wicked, see what works for him, and then try not to make a big deal—try not to make I was stroking my partner any sort of deal—out of his handjob and went for the lube, when he in- preferences going forward. formed me that he prefers to have his handjobs sans lube. He says that lube I usually like your advice, is messy. For the past three years, he Dan, but I was dismayed when both has raved about my handjobs and said you and Peter Staley got it wrong my skills are professional-level, and in your response to STATUS, the
woman who was preparing to divorce her HIV+ husband after the revelation of another aff air. You both seemed to think she was trying to get her husband sent to prison. I think she was trying to avoid that outcome! She wants her husband to tell the truth in therapy, but she’s concerned doing so will land him in prison. Here’s something else you both missed: when someone tells a therapist what they have already done, the reporting requirements are far less stringent than when a patient tells what they plan on doing. If a therapist believes a patient is likely to harm themselves or others in the future, the therapist may have to act. Patient confidentiality carries a lot of weight when it comes to past actions. > REALLY REGULAR READER
You weren’t the only reader who came to STATUS’s defence. It’s possible Peter and I got it wrong—our familiarity with cases where vengeful exes abused reporting laws to go after HIV+ people may have coloured our response. On the off chance I got it wrong, RRR, I’m going to need to be punished. It should be something that really hurts. Oh, I know: I’ll listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Twice. On the Lovecast, Salon writer Debra Soh on the tricky subject of pedophiles. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter. com/fakedansavage/.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Carepoint Medical Clinic 1175 Denman. I was walking out of the Carepoint Medical Clinic on Denman, and you were walking in. We said hi to each other, and looked at each other like two people who had been in love together in another lifetime. I can’t stop thinking about you. I was there for an ear infection by the way... nothing serious. I hope your visit was routine as well.
DRACULA AT PARADE OF LOST SOULS
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HALLOWEEN AT THE POLICE MUSEUM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 31, 2015 WHERE: Vancouver Police Museum
I got on the bus at Naniamo, sat in front of you. As I got off we stared each other down and continued as the bus drove away. Figured it's worth a shot.
I was the over enthusiast girl who jumped at the chance to head into the autopsy. You were the cute “pathologist” who lead the tour. Drinks?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Backdoor
I wonder if you ever think of our brief encounter at Not So Vanilla, all the way back in Feb 2014 - a bit of a flop sadly, but always fancied trying again; often wonder how you are; know I can email at anytime to just ask, but this seemed like so much more fun. If you know it’s you on my mind, get in touch if only to say hello.
To that stunning red head woman always on her bike in colourful dresses. You brighten my day everyday while I have coffee on the drive as you tread down the hill on your bike, the Lazer - omg I think I’m in love - I heard your name is Maddie, stop on your bike the next time I wave.
You were a Bronze Statue and I a Sad Clown; The line for the bathroom, the longest in town. The goal in the end was to have a great wee, though the outcome was better when we both got to pee. When our turn came to go, we saved them some time by sharing our toilet, could have been sublime. I wish I was more forward and taken a chance, had been upfront, and asked you to dance. I end with a hope or maybe more of a wish, to see you again and make you my dish.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 6, 2015 WHERE: Cartems Donuts on Main St.
You: cute ginger man with a nice beard, glasses and tons of tattoos, with a brown hat and white longer shirt. Me: short blonde girl with leather jacket and black and cheetah print hat. I seen you at BK, I was with two loud friends and you were with a friend sitting across from us. You had bike tires in hand when you left. I was hung over and looked like trash so I didn’t approach you. You were very handsome and interesting looking. If your single let's chill, I’d like to see what your about... And I swear I clean up 100% better!!!
RED HEAD GODDESS I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 1, 2015 WHERE: Commercial Drive
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 8, 2015 WHERE: Burger King, Highgate in Burnaby on Kingsway
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DONUT GO BREAKING MY HEART
BK, SUNDAY, HIGHGATE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 22, 2014 WHERE: Vancouver
You are the beautiful brunette that works most days when I visit. You are always super friendly and ask how my day’s going. You don’t know how much this brightens my day and I think about you constantly. I hope to have the courage one day to tell you in person.
I GOT IN ON MAIN STREET, GOT OFF ON METROTOWN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 4, 2015 WHERE: Main Street U had me with your smile. I was with a friend and u were alone, and u were wearing headphones. We smiled at each other. And when I was leaving the train u have followed me with your eyes. U were wearing red Ralph Lauren sweater. It’s such a small chance that I will find u. But still...
VERY CUTE BUILDING CLEANER IN LANGLEY,BC
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 2, 2015 WHERE: Langley I know this is a long shot but hoping you actually see this and respond... you were cleaning my building in Langley. We exchanged a few hellos and a lot of eye contact especially when the other one wasn't looking. So many things came to my mind. You are very cute and I wanted to ask your name and your number but chickened out
JAIL GUARD OFFICER WHO BOOKED ME!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 1, 2015 WHERE: Main Street You booked me in to the jail on November 1st (the millions of fingerprints etc) & were ridiculously cute. I was in for something really dumb but you were very sweet about it, you asked me about my Halloween (which I said was blurry) & you said you just slept -- if you don’t think I’m too crazy, we should grab a beer sometime.
CAMBIE AND CORDOVA-ISH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 25, 2015 WHERE: Gastown You were in a hat and on the phone, I was hoofing it down Cambie with my headphones in -- but when we made eye contact your gaze left a mark on my subconscious. I probably won’t stop thinking about you until I run into you in Gastown again, this time with the courage to say hi.
SUFFRAGETTE SEEKING HATTED GENTLEMAN IN NEW WEST
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 19, 2015 WHERE: Bus Loop at a SkyTrain Station in New Westminster On election night we crossed paths at a SkyTrain station - you were dashing in your coat and hat, and wanted to know why I was dressed as a suffragette... I remain impressed you recognized me as a suffragette, and am wondering if you’d like to step out in style for a coffee?
SHERIFF AT GRANVILLE STATION
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Granville Street near The Bay SkyTrain Entrance Some random took a pic of my sheriff’s badge and you asked me what that was all about. I turned to enter Granville Station and when I looked back you had vanished. Thanks for making a rainy Vancouver night a less dreary place. Will I see you in these parts again?
LIQUOR STORE ON HASTINGS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Liquor Store on Hastings I’m really not sure what it is but I’m just some what fascinated by you. You work there. Maybe you have or had green hair. Can’t remember because mostly I fail at looking your way directly because I’m stupidly shy.
HANDSOME FELLA IN RADIOLOGY
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 2, 2015 WHERE: St. Paul's Hospital Radiology Dept. I felt myself flush as soon as I saw you this morning. You were very kind and very handsome. I didn’t feel it was appropriate for me to say anything at the time... I figured that I would give this a shot :)
CLEOPATRA SEEKS RUSSIAN/ NORWEGIAN HALLOWEEN NEOPHYTE PARTY CRASHER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 31, 2015 WHERE: Halloween Party Above Bangtown It was a dark and rainy Halloween. We got to the party above Bangtown late and had the brief but happy experience of meeting you. I was Cleopatra. Queen of the Nile. You were costumeless but very excited about Halloween, something you said you hadn’t much experience with. I said Halloween should be a week long and you replied I should take it to Justin Trudeau! I am Cleopatra! I petition NO man! However I should have asked for your name. You were fun! Lets hang out!
BLACK AND BLUE SISTERS!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Black and Blue Restaurant Us, one an Abercrombie and Fitch model look-alike, the other, a generally hot dude about town. You ladies, obviously sisters, were sitting behind us at dinner. Many looks and smiles, however we had to leave due to business. Interested in a chat and coffee?
KAILEY AT THE BILTMORE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 28, 2015 WHERE: The Biltmore It was brief and complex, but I have thought about you ever since.
BEERS, BABES AND BROS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 30, 2015 WHERE: Portland Craft I’ve seen you several times in the last few months but never said hi. Yesterday you helped me scare off the bros and choose a beer, but seemed disappointed when my male BFF showed up. My friend and I had lots of catching up to do but you still held my attention. I’ll be back for another drink and I’m sure I’ll need another recommendation :).
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straight stars November 12 to 18, 2015
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enus has recently advanced into Libra and as of Thursday, Mars does the same. Befitting this time of year, both planets make for a more lively social go. The appealing and the trendy now claim even more of our attention—and more from our wallets, too. Venus continues in Libra through November, Mars through the start of January. Together they raise the game on matters to do with cooperation, collaboration, alliances, diplomacy, social causes, and social justice. Friday can prove to be a full-swing yet smooth go of it. Saturday/Sunday is good for carrying on as usual. Monday’s connect-the-dots stars set a productive launch to the workweek. Mercury, the messenger planet, transitions from morning visibility to evening sky on Tuesday. It’s an opportune day to uncover, discover, and decipher. Stay on watch for signals, hints, messages, and news and for the pace to pick up. More digging, study, talk, planning, or negotiating will prove fruitful. On Wednesday morning, Neptune ends its five-month retrograde cycle. It’s a subtle yet significant tidechanger. The building undercurrents and ripening potentials will now move to a next phase. You may feel as if an internal “now” button has just been pushed. Thanks to a recent switch track, Neptune and Mercury transits now
drive the karmic agenda in more deliberate and specific ways. Whether it’s a relive or fruition experience, expect to stay engaged with a specific life circumstance and/or a key someone for the next 18 months.
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March 20–April 20
Thanks to Mars on the move, expect all facets of life to get busier. Whether it lasts or not, a new passion or love interest can strike it hot. Friday is full but easy to manage. If Saturday/Sunday puts a lid on it, it won’t be for long. Monday and Tuesday are your best days for connecting, talks, sales, and getting a jump-start.
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April 20–May 21
Now is the time to get at it. As of Thursday, Mars joins Venus in your work, health, and improvement sector. It’s to your advantage to participate, pool resources, join forces, and/or get onboard. A second opinion or second try can be advantageous. Tuesday is optimal for a talk, a meet-up, or getting it sorted out.
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May 21–June 21
Strike while the iron’s hot. Mars in Libra is one of your best social and moneymaking transits. A particular relationship or initiative now gains a good wind. A new love or passion can keep you in glow mode too. Thursday/Friday, you’ve
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got it going on. Monday through thinking or a quick decision. Listen Wednesday gives you a monopoly on to your instincts; go with your first synchronicity. Your timing is right hit or impulse. on the money. LIBRA CANCER September 23–October 23 June 21–July 22 Want more attention? As of Thursday, Mars puts You’ll get it now. As of Thursday, family, home, and real-estate matters Mars in Libra boosts you with even on the upswing. Thursday and Friday more spark and sass. Venus in Libra can be productive work or work-it-out will continue to gift you and give you days. Economize on effort and output good feedback through November, Saturday/Sunday. Monday begins a while hot-stuff Mars keeps you rockproductive week. On Tuesday, you are ing it through the start of January. sharp, articulate, and reading them Friday, Monday, and Tuesday are well. Mercury/Sun helps you cut to great get-it-going days. the chase and stay on target. Your best SCORPIO option should present itself.
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July 22–August 23
Spending is sure to increase, but when it provides pleasure or fun, you won’t let anyone talk you out of it! Consider Mars into Libra the official launch of office-party season. Start to finish, you’re in for a good go of it on Friday. Duty calls for the weekend. Monday/Tuesday a conversation, an introduction, or a look/see could spark something good.
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VIRGO
August 23–September 23
The end of the workweek buys you an easy go of it. Dine out and indulge on Friday night—you deserve it! Saturday/Sunday, a steady pace gets you there just as fast. If it isn’t necessary, don’t take it on. Monday/Tuesday can call for on-the-spot
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AQUARIUS
December 21–January 20
Thursday/Friday, out of sight is where/how you’ll get the most value out of your time. Saturday through Monday, you’re in charge and you prefer it that way. Tuesday’s a newsworthy day. You’ll bump into or hear from folks you know. The shopping, sharing, or inspiration is great. You’re on a roll; take it as far as you can. January 20–February 18
Mars into Libra makes for a lighter and brighter feel. Along with Venus also being in an upbeat and social mood, the next few weeks are sure to get you smiling more. Saturday through Monday helps you to stay practical and on track. Tuesday is your best day to scoop a bargain or cut a deal.
Mars exits your social sector and reduces your visibility, but it won’t slow you down. The sun and Mercury in Scorpio keep you motoring right along. The stars will keep you going strong from now through PISCES the start of the new year. Monday/ February 18–March 20 Tuesday can be newsworthy. A fresh Mars and Venus in Libidea, conversation, or spontaneous ra can put money in your pocket. whim can strike great flint. Of course, given the time of year, SAGITTARIUS they can see you spend more, too. November 22–December 21 This duo could do you great jusCome Friday, you’re likely tice in the romance and intimacy to feel as if someone has opened a department too. Choose quality window and let you out. Take the over quantity this weekend. Monball and run with it. The weekend day through Wednesday can spark is for keeping it on track. Monday/ something good. Stay alert, seize Tuesday lights a fresh spark. These the now. are lucrative days to have a conversation, scout around, shop, introduce Book a reading with Rose Marcus at yourself, or take on something new. www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/.
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