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environment.” Reimer denied that the actions described in Zak’s email are about moving vendors off the block. The third factor is the demolition of a building that previously occupied 41 East Hastings, at the centre of the block. According to a staff report that went before city council in September 2013, that site—previously a threestorey building housing a groundfloor bottle depot—will soon host a 14-storey social-housing project operated by Atira Development Society. VPD constable Brian Montague said the construction project will not leave room for vendors. “There is going to be scaffolding there,” the force spokesperson told the Straight. “They are just not going to be able to be there anymore. So we are using it as an opportunity to encourage people to go to one of these three sites rather than making it a habit to go to that specific block.” As the Straight went to press on November 17, city officials were still in the meeting with vendors and community members convened to discuss the project. There, city communications manager Tobin Postma said there are now enough official locations for vending and so no longer any reason for unsanctioned vendors to line the block. VPD district commander Howard Chow confirmed that the force has increased patrols in the area. Addressing community concerns, Chow claimed that ticketing will not be used as a tactic for moving people along. In a telephone interview, Roland Clarke, a coordinator for the Downtown Eastside Street Market Society, recounted watching the first day of the initiative unfold. “There were at least five or six police officers visible on the block,” he said. Clarke added that they remained there for some time and their presence dissuaded people from stopping to sell goods. “The city is rolling out a policy to really try and prevent the unsanctioned vending,” he concluded. Sarah Blyth is a member of the street market society’s board of directors and a former Vision Vancouver parks commissioner. She said the nonprofit—which has more than 800 registered vendors—is trying to make the best of a bad situation. “I think it is a push to get rid of the vendors on Hastings Street and to get them into 62 and 501 Powell,” she said. “The thing is, there is not enough space. So it’s really going to be difficult to do.” -
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City University of Seattle in Canada principal Arden Henley and aboriginal scholar Carolyn Kenny are bringing residential-school survivors’ stories into classrooms.
an initiative to ensure that the TRC’s recommendations were embedded in City University’s master’s programs in counselling and education. He asked Carolyn Kenny, a former professor of First Nations education at Simon Fraser University, to work with students and faculty on developing a four-hour module. Kenny told the Straight that they asked a researcher to read many survivors’ stories in the TRC files. Eventually, they agreed on 20 that
would be included in the program. “The faculty here has been wonderful to make spaces in their classes that they had already designed,” she said. “It’s a team effort.” Kenny’s mother was Choctaw. She was adopted into the Haida Nation many years ago and has focused much of her academic career on music therapy. Most recently, she served as a professor of human development and indigenous studies
in the PhD in leadership and change program at Antioch University. Kenny said students will be assigned to read first-person stories from residential-school survivors, then make oral presentations outlining their action plans for responding to the TRC recommendations. “That creates a layer of accountability to their classmates and instructors,” Kenny stated. She said it’s important for counselling and education programs to help students feel comfortable interacting with aboriginal people even if they’ve never had any dealings with them. In her view, students should be encouraged to attend powwows, participate in round dances, and not be shy about asking questions. Kenny acknowledged that some First Nations scholars are critical of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. “Lee Maracle and [Gerald] Taiaiake Alfred have said the only answer is complete restitution of land,” she said. “There are many different positions.” She pointed out that some aboriginal people, including former dayschool students, didn’t have access to the TRC as a result of an agreement
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East Side provides a pretty solid argument that Palestinian is your new favourite cuisine. Served warm and drizzled with olive oil, Tamam’s hummus is the city’s best, hands down. You can probably say the same for other starters, including the sumac-infused mutabal (eggplant dip). Signature dish mujaddrah—rice, lentils, and caramelized onion—goes down best with a portion of slow-cooked chicken.
Vietnamese subs (bánh mì), in flavours like Sweet & Sour Fish and Crispy Pork Belly, or the November-warming vermicelli bowls. The cocktails are inventive too, including the hibiscus-teaand-Thai-basil-rocking Pham Fatale. Don’t forget there’s a creative brunch if you want to fortify yourself early for a full day of art gawking: think breakfast bánh mì with double-smoked bacon and eggs.
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LE DO (2292 East Hastings Street) About a soccer field’s length outside the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood on the Crawl side, this small (maybe a dozen tables) family-run eatery shares that ’hood with at least a half-dozen other Vietnamese restaurants within a few blocks. Le Do’s bánh mì rules, lots of veggie options round out the phở and spring- and salad-roll choices, and a house-special congee awaits blustery-weather refugees. A huge specialty-beverage/dessert menu beckons the adventurous. Green-bean shake, anyone? Note: cash only.
(2280 Commercial Drive) The sense of community fostered throughout the Crawl extends comfortably to Jamjar—a comfy nook serving up home-style Lebanese dishes that’s a short distance from a number of artist studios dotted along the Drive. Communal tables seat an eclectic bunch of diners in the farmhousechic space, where you can dive family-style into a rotating list of mezze like chili- and walnutstuffed eggplant; marinated Pacific cod tossed with garlic, tomatoes, and black pepper; and crispy, deepfried caulif lower.
THE MACKENZIE ROOM (415 Powell Street) Cozy up to the salvagedwood bar or grab a table in this warm, retro-rustic cool eatery opposite Oppenheimer Park—located between the smattering of smaller Crawl studios in Railtown, the Downtown Eastside, and Strathcona. If you’ve got the time, order up locally sourced, seasonal West Coast food from a chalkboard menu, or pair a quick plate with the daily cocktail or THE UNION (219 Union Street) Here’s artfully served, Asian-inspired food something from the Punchbowl. for a break from nearby Strathcona TAMAM (2616 East Hastings Street) studios. Chances are other Crawlers At the risk of creating a never-ending will be sharing the communal tables lineup, this very modest, family-run with you—and, presumably, their best operation on the outer fringe of the art finds. We heartily recommend the
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The Eastside Culture Crawl offers a chance to check out East Van eateries like the Union’s Asian-influenced menu and its creative brunch offerings.
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SUNDAY PIG ROAST SERIES (Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar [845 Burrard Street], to November 29) Family-style pig in a private room.
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UGLY DUCKLING DINNER SERIES (Royal Dinette [905 Dunsmuir Street], November 24) Food castoffs transform into a five-course menu.
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OYAMA’S FAMOUS CASSOULET FEST (Oyama Sausage Co. [Granville Island], November 19 to 22) Beans with duck confit, sausages, and more.
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SLOW FOOD RESTAURANT SERIES (Latab Wine Bar [983 Helmcken Street], November 26) Learn more about West Coast foraged food at a six-course dinner with drink pairings.
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Composer Nico Muhly (below) depicts the moral ambiguities of Mormon polygamy in his Dark Sisters (seen above, photo courtesy of Philadelphia Opera), which debuts locally in a Vancouver Opera production.
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the aftermath of a U.S. gov- of stage-managed, in colour-coordinated dresses ernment raid on the com- and a V formation,” he says. “And one of them said, pound where its five fe- early on, ‘You’re speaking from a state where you male protagonists live. The allow men to marry other men, and they can have children they’ve borne for kids. How is that different from what we’re doing?’ their stern preacher hus“It’s a complicated argument,” he continues. “And band—an obvious stand- it relates, I think, to the boundary of liberalism, on in for FLDS patriarch War- the other side of which exist things like whaling or ren Jeffs—have been taken female genital mutilation. You’ve got all these things into custody, and the sister- that are just on that edge—things that you have to wives are in mourning. But kind of contort yourself into a real position on.” Dark Sisters composer Nico Muhly found opera the perfect one has plans to escape. In dealing with these issues Muhly has found medium for exploring the multifaceted world of polygamy The plot, Muhly ex- himself walking a kind of moral tightrope. As a plains, was inspired by his 21st-century human, he opposes forms of social It might seem strange to describe an opera lifelong interest in Mormon history—a Vercontrol that oppress women, but as a gay about Mormon polygamy as feminist, especially as mont native, he entered the world a few man he resists the notion that government has the power to enforce limits BY AL EX ANDER VAR T Y it’s a word that its composer, Nico Muhly, tends not miles from the birthplace of the foundCheck out… to use. But Dark Sisters is not about the more eas- er of Mormonism, Joseph Smith—but on sexual expression. STRAIGHT.COM ily sensationalized aspects of the Fundamentalist also by recent historical fact. “You run up against a lot of walls of Visit our website Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), “Maybe about seven years ago there your own making when you start thinkfor morning-after not about its child brides and harem-keeping was a big, sudden influx of these storing about this,” he confesses. “That’s why reviews and local elders and remote, fortresslike desert commun- ies of women who had escaped from I like opera. In music and theatre, you arts news ities. And it’s certainly not a case of urban, opera- the various polygamous communities can simultaneously hold on to a couple of going sophisticates, such as Muhly and librettist in southern Utah and in Arizona,” he says. different viewpoints, which I think we tried to Stephen Karam, mocking the rural faithful. “And there was a sense that this was a really indo in the opera pretty explicitly.” “It was key for us to not feel like a bunch of teresting thing, because it existed at the intersection The artist’s role, he adds, is not to provide anNew Yorkers making fun of people who look of a lot of things we’re obsessed with, as Americans swers, but to ask questions—and to frame those different and act different,” says the composer, and as people. It’s political, it’s sexual, and it has to questions so that the audience remains engaged in a telephone interview from his New York do with the relationship the government has to the enough to do its own thinking. “This is an opera City studio. “It was really important to us to bedroom and to the family—what defines a family.” that takes real events and stylizes them, but what really get inside the story, rather than say ‘Oh, Moral ambiguities abound, some of which have I want to do is make sure that we’re telling a great those wacky people!’ And I think that one of gained currency after a Utah judge ordered that a story at all times,” he says. “It doesn’t want to feel like the things that let us do that was starting out nine-month-old girl be removed from the care of I’m making you think about the government in your by saying ‘Okay, a polygamous community is her lesbian foster parents. Progressives rallied to the bedroom all the time. You know what I mean? It’s by necessity more women than men, right?’ couple’s cause—many of them the same people who about having those thoughts as a kind of counterAnd so once you know that, you begin to real- applauded government intervention in the 2008 raid point to the story that we’re telling.” ize that it’s the women’s stories which are the on an FLDS community that inspired Dark Sisters. most important ones, which is easy to forget.” Muhly cites a CNN broadcast in which Larry Vancouver Opera presents Dark Sisters at the Dark Sisters, which makes its Canadian debut in King interviewed FLDS women, as helping to clarify Vancouver Playhouse Theatre from next Thursday a Vancouver Opera production next week, opens in Dark Sisters’ plot and staging. “The women were sort (November 26) to December 6.
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Editor’s choice PEACEFUL REQUIEM Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem has been called a lullaby of death—an idea that resonates given all the life lost this week in the late French composer’s home country. The choral work offers a sense of peace in these violent times. It’s beautiful to experience live, as it will be when the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, under maestro Bramwell Tovey, plays it. The Phoenix Chamber Choir, the University Singers, soprano Nathalie Paulin, and baritone David John Pike add their vocal power to the mix. The VSO performs Fauré’s Requiem at the Orpheum on Saturday and Monday (November 21 and 23).
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL (until December 27 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage) A boy, a BB gun, and all the movie’s retro fun.
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BAD JEWS (until November 21 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre) Wicked humour, a crack cast, and provocative questions about religion and identity.
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PLAYTHING AND WELLS HILL (November 21 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre) MACHiNENOiSY and Vanessa Goodman deliver at Dance in Vancouver.
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YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (until November 28 at the Cultch) Kevin McNulty and Patti Allan tackle family, memory, and dementia.
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AN-MY LÊ (until January 10, 2016, at the Charles H. Scott Gallery) Stunning photographs of sweeping landscapes transformed by military exercises and re-enacted wars.
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RAPP BATTLEZ: WEZT COAZT Our arts fan this week is Chris Bentzen, art buff, graphic designer, and owner of indie gallery Hot Art Wet City. Here’s one of the events he won’t be missing this week: “Saturday night, I’ll take a break from the Eastside Culture Crawl to check out monthly comedy show Rapp Battlez at the Fox Cabaret. Pairs of comedians fake battle-rapping each other in this weird and funny show.” Rapp Battlez: Wezt Coazt, hosted by Ryan Beil and Taz VanRassel, is at the Fox Cabaret on Saturday night (November 21).
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tunate enough to be in Munich when Bayern Munich won a championship years ago, and it was quite a scene. My wife, Antonella, and I were in the middle of a huge celebration and had to join the crowds at the famous Hofbräuhaus for a tankard or two of traditional German beer. I would like to go back next year, ride a bike, visit some smaller breweries, and end up in Munich for Oktoberfest. Maybe have some bratwurst. We have friends who are from North Van and summer every year in the Czech Republic and we are planning to someday visit, see the sights, and test the beer culture there. Any holiday would do, really. The first all-grain beer I brewed was a Czechstyle pilsner…because I love them and I had some extra Mt. Hood from
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land—would be something, but he’s not available. A real pioneer, and I hear a philanthropist, to boot. Our head brewer, Mike Evans, and I invited John Mitchell—the godfather of microbreweries—to the brewery a few months ago and had some fun and interesting conversation. He’s a pioneer himself and a very nice man. Apparently, our ESB needs more B, though. I admire Gary Lohin—brewmaster extraordinaire of Central City Brewing—and love what he can do with beer. Gary spent some time with me prior to us opening the brewery to give me some brewery setup ideas and equipment essentials I would need. I had some much-appreciated advice from knowledgeable people. -
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ome instrument-makers scour the world for the raw materials of their art: exotic rosewood from Brazil, paua shell from New Zealand, fossilized mammoth ivory from Alaska. In an abstract sense, the goods that Paul Snider works with are no less precious, but they come from considerably closer to hand. The alleyways of Kitsilano, the wrecking yards of Mitchell Island, and the crevices of Craigslist are where Snider sources what he’s used to build his garbage-can cello, car-hood timpani, and wheelbarrow bass—all of which can be heard in his upcoming production The Music of Junk!. “I can’t even drive by something sitting on the side of the road without having a really close look at it, just in case there’s something in there that I could build an instrument with,” the actor, songwriter, and former software engineer explains, on the line from his Vancouver home. “One of my favourites, I’d say, is the Sleeping Harp, which is an old bed frame that I strung with strings,” he continues, adding that he found its skeleton in the hoarder’s free-for-all that is Tsawwassen’s springtime “big garbage day”. “I knew that I wanted to make some sort of a bed-frame harp; I thought that the concept would be really nice, especially if the sound was soft and sleepy. So this one was just sitting there, calling out to me. I brought it home and put a little cross-brace in so that the strings could be shorter for the different notes—and then as I tightened the strings the whole thing started to collapse. So I added some wooden supports, but it wouldn’t stay in tune until I added two metal braces and got it to the point to where I could tune it and have it stay in tune.” Masterpieces of the luthier’s art, Snider’s instruments are not. Still, that’s hardly the point. In The Music of Junk!, he wants to show that what we’d normally call junk can make beautiful music—and that the throwaway ethos of the modern world is destructive to both the environment and the human spirit. He’d been toying with the idea of recycled art for some time, but the sonic dimension didn’t really kick in until he found himself teaching music, as a volunteer, in Kenya.
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“The kids were beating on their desks with their hands, and there was this percussive sound from the old wooden desks that they were using,” he relates. “So it was on that trip that I thought ‘Wow, I wonder whether I could get serious about trying to put together an orchestra of instruments built from nonmusical sources?’ They’re big recyclers there as well, so I thought ‘How about using junk, things that have been discarded? That would be a great technological challenge—and a great reminder to people, when they see all this stuff onstage, that recycling’s important.’ “As well,” he adds, “it would be a way for me to get some of my music out there and be able to tailor the music to these sounds, as opposed to
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writing it for traditional orchestra or something like that.” An earlier iteration of The Music of Junk! was a hit at the 2014 Fringe, but for this version Snider says he’s scaled back the narrative element to focus instead on his bouncy yet somewhat ramshackle show tunes, as delivered by a cast of 12. Rather than present a lecture with musical accompaniment, he’s decided to let the songs speak for themselves while listeners’ imaginations fill in the rest. “If you can imagine a better world,” he says, “that’s the first step to getting there.” -
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I’m back in Winnipeg in my mom’s house feeling not so amazing—and then here he is, and it’s just like, ‘Well, you can really never complain about anything, you know?’ Like, he’s had a way worse time of things.” In Social Studies, which is only very loosely inspired by real life, Cooper plays up a quasi-sibling rivalry, but she says there was never any real competition, even as she admits, with a laugh, to feeling pretty sorry for herself at first. “Someone who’s been through that, you can never be annoyed with them, you know? Like, even if they do the annoying things that, you know, ‘roommates’ do?” she says. “He called us all ‘sister’ and ‘mother’ and he was like a kid that was living in my mom’s house Social Studies runs at the Firehall Arts and taking the car and expecting to get Centre from Saturday (November 21) cleaned up after and—you know, like to December 5.
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rish Cooper never quite got the break she was hoping for in Toronto. So, almost 10 years ago, the mostly out-ofwork actor, whose agent had just fired her, moved back home to Winnipeg at the age of 33. The Manitoba theatre scene was thriving and she figured she could hole up with her mom for a few months—but it wasn’t quite the homecoming she expected. “She said, ‘Sure, you can come and stay, but I’ve given your room to Thon,’ ” Cooper recalls, laughing over the phone from her Winnipeg home. Thon is a South Sudanese refugee, one of the “Lost Boys”, a name given to the more than 20,000 young boys who had been orphaned or displaced and were fleeing the genocide of the second Sudanese civil war. Cooper’s mother welcomed him into her home in the mid-2000s and the ensuing culture clash inspired Cooper’s breakthrough full-length debut, Social Studies, which has its Vancouver premiere at the Firehall Arts Centre next week. Cooper remembers being “moved and shocked” by Thon’s horrific experiences. His life put hers in stark perspective: Thon was a 22-year-old survivor, while Cooper sometimes felt like a 33-year-old failure, but that made the funny stuff stand out in sharp relief. “I was unemployed, I had this longdistance relationship and I didn’t know what was happening with it, I didn’t have any acting work, and
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all those things that a lot of young men and young women do. But he obviously had such a different situation, because he was… He never had parents to sort of teach him that this is the way you do things.” Cooper says she tried to be conscientious about the trauma and tragedy at the root of Thon’s refugee experience, but she knew that there was plenty of comedy to be mined from the Canadian side. “The last thing I would ever want to do is make fun of someone who has been through a genocide, you know?” she notes. “The joke is on us, the sort of middle-class Canadians— on this family, or me. It’s not at his expense. I cope with comedy myself but I also think there is a fine line.” The refugee experience is particularly present in Cooper’s mind right now as Canada opens its borders to displaced Syrians. Cooper hopes the Liberal government will make it easier on Syrians than Canada did on their Sudanese counterparts. In an itwould-almost-be-funny-if-it-weren’tso-terrible twist, Thon and his fellow Africans began the difficult process of starting over while saddled with a bill for their transportation. “After a year, they were paying interest on a couple of thousand dollars of plane fare!” Cooper says. “Surely, we can do better than that.” -
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he songs of Lisbon-born and -based artist Sara Tavarès reflect the city’s increasingly multicultural identity, with strong communities from lands that until 1974 were colonies of Portugal—such as Cape Verde, off the coast of northwest Africa. Ironically, Tavarès’s ability to absorb a wide range of different rhythms and styles to be found in Lisbon today may come down to her family roots in the small and rocky archipelago. “My mum and dad came here in the mid-’70s after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and the independence of Cape Verde,” says Tavarès, reached at her Lisbon home. “There was a big exodus of people then, many from the ex-colonies in Africa, and there’s a large population now of Cape Verdeans, going back four generations. A characteristic of Cape Verdeans is that they always speak the language, eat the food, and play the music of the neighbourhoods into which they move.” For centuries Cape Verde served as an important Atlantic hub for Portugal’s worldwide trading. Sailors and travellers from many lands brought their different styles of music to its bars and dance halls, later blending the resulting hybrids with western jazz, rock, pop, and more. “All of the great ships during the time of the voyages of discovery and the slave trade came. Some men stayed and had families, and more slaves were brought from the coast of Africa, mainly Guinea-Bissau. We’ve always been international, I guess. You can see it in the racial mix, and find it culturally, too—like a really African guy who lives in the remote mountains but plays violin or accordion very well. All this is a heritage from those times. I first went there when I was 15 years old, and I’ve been going ever since, every year or two, including for long periods. I’m intimate with the other former colonies, too—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau in particular.” Before she started exploring black music directly from Africa, however, Tavarès was already absorbing it via
North America. “I was a big fan of Motown, and artists like the Jackson 5, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston,” she says. “Then it was Cuban music, and all the Afro-Brazilian music like samba and Carnaval music. In Portugal we watch a lot of Brazilian soap operas on TV and their soundtracks are really good—with music by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, João Gilberto, Gal Costa, and top people like that. It’s a strange mix. Corny stories, poor acting, and great songs.” Tavarès—who sings in Portuguese, Cape Verdean Crioulu, and occasionally English—has a voice that’s light, agile, and full of colour. Her first major release, Balancè (2006), is an intelligent blend of global rhythms and folk-pop with a touch of jazz. She followed it up impressively with the self-produced Xinti (2009), an album brimming with warmth and soul. Tavarès wrote all the songs, arranged them for a small combo, and played guitar, bass, and percussion throughout. Then near disaster struck. “I got really sick,” she reveals. “I had a brain tumour. I was very lucky and blessed, and got through it. I have good health now, and lead a more down-tempo life, more relaxed—before that I was touring for two or three years almost nonstop. Now I stay home for longer periods of time.” When she returns to Vancouver with her band after a nine-year absence, Tavarès will draw on the percolating world-music and pop songs of Balancè and Xinti as well as more recent material, earmarked for a new album she’ll be releasing in 2016. It promises to have some fresh local flavours. “I’m very much a Lisbon musician, and we have new influences in the past 10 years with people coming from central and eastern Europe. It’s a blast. In Lisbon today you can eat any food, listen to any music. You experience that and it can become a part of your identity and your own music—and it’s changing all the time.” S a ra Ta va rè s j o i n s f a d o s i n ge r Carminho at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Saturday (November 21).
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hen the Georgia Straight reaches pianist Leif Ove Andsnes at his home in Bergen, Norway, he’s taking a respite from packing his bags for the North American tour that will bring him to Vancouver this weekend. Life on the road never ends for even the most elevated performers, it seems. But at least one of Andsnes’s voyages has come to a happy conclusion: his Beethoven Journey, which found him recording all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos and performing them with Berlin’s Mahler Chamber Orchestra in cities around the globe. “It felt very strange, in a way, to end it, especially to say farewell to the wonderful musicians that I’d played so much with,” he says of the project, which had its finale in London, England, earlier this year. “But I have to say it was also a little bit liberating, to feel that I could play any music I wanted.” Beethoven’s not done with him yet, though. On the program for Andsnes’s upcoming Vancouver Recital Society matinee is the German maestro’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, which he describes as his “comfort” after concluding his four-year-long Beethoven intensive. “That’s a new piece for me,” he says, “so I knew that I had one sonata to study and look forward to—and to keep me in Beethoven’s company in the months to come.” Asked what he learned during his Beethoven immersion, Andsnes contends that it was more about gaining a deeper appreciation of what he— and the world—already knew. “I just sensed, more and more, the diversity of the music, the emotions and the magic of that music,” he says. “And there’s so much different music. I mean, this sonata, which
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is a quite sunny and playful sonata, is so alive, with so many characters, that it’s fun to both work on and play in performance.…We often think of Beethoven as this very stern-looking figure, with his bad health and his handicap, being deaf, on his shoulders, and with the gravity of all that serious music. But there is also so much joyful and uplifting music from him, and this sonata is a very good example.” Beethoven’s 18th sonata will end the first part of Andsnes’s recital, to be followed after intermission by a selection of brilliant miniatures from Claude Debussy and Frédéric Chopin. Opening the show, however, will be some music that’s rarely performed in Vancouver: six short nature sketches by the Finnish master of symphonic form, Jean Sibelius. “For me, he’s by far the greatest Nordic composer we have, and I’ve loved his orchestral music for many years,” Andsnes notes. “I will, at the same time, be the first
person to admit that the piano music is probably the most uneven part of his output. Sibelius would often make quite satirical remarks about his piano pieces, saying that he didn’t really understand the piano and that he wrote these pieces to make money and so on. And maybe that’s partly true! He’s certainly not a pianist-composer; his music doesn’t lend itself naturally to the hand. This doesn’t hide the fact that he was a great composer, and if one selects carefully between all his pieces, there are really some jewels—and I think I’m doing that with the works in this program. I think they’re wonderful.” Wonderful enough, he adds, that they’ll be the next works he’ll record—but Sunday’s concert is a chance to say you heard them first. -
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AT THE CRAWL High five
Eastside Eats NEW CRAWL COOKBOOK As if the hundreds of artists, designers, and craftspeople that make up the annual Eastside Culture Crawl weren’t already talented enough, you can now find a handful of them flexing their kitchen skills in a limited-edition cookbook. Titled Eastside Eats, the fundraiser cookbook for the Crawl’s parent society combines recipes and artworks from 19 original Crawl artists, including furniture maker Judson Beaumont, painter Leonard Brett, and ceramic artist Georgina Lohan. The locally designed book is priced at $25 and available in limited quantities online (www.culturecrawl. ca/eastside-eats) and at the studios of Richard Tetrault (800 Keefer Street) and Connie Sabo (150 McLean Street) this weekend. -
Five Eastside Culture Crawl events that get hands-on
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CHAINSAW CARVING DEMOS (3 to 4 p.m. on November 21 and 22 outside Studio #101, 1000 Parker Street) Artist Jesse Toso transforms stumps.
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CRAWLING FOR KIDS (Noon to 3 p.m. on November 21 and 22 at Melk Art & Design, 936 Clark Drive) Have the tots tap into their creative sides.
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MOVING ART 2015 (Noon to 11 p.m. November 19 to 22 at Strange Fellows Brewing, 1345 Clark Drive) Take five with short films about memory.
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JACQUARD LOOM DEMOS (5 to 6 p.m. November 19 to 22 at the Big Green House, 450 Heatley Drive) The Textile Art Department loops you in.
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Getting There
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At left, one of Heather Talbot’s “drawings with thread” celebrates bees; Leanne Christie stands amid her canvases (Amanda Siebert photo). Below left, a figure embodies a hydro dam in Desirée Patterson’s work.
Reconnecting with nature
an ode to the bees’ timeconsuming process of building a working hive. “Someone said they’re kind of like prayers,” she says of her artworks. “That makes sense to me: they’re kind of like a devotional practice.” Her small multimedia works on honeybees will Artists who care about environmental issues in our city express be on display at CoLab their concerns with paint, cameras, and even needle and thread during the Crawl, as well as a few new pieces devotWhen you think about the tools of the ed to the native bees of B.C.—critters she can often average environmentally aware Vancouverite, you be found following around with a camera. But as much as her pieces are small-scale, celeBY JANET S M IT H probably picture a mixture of blue boxes and bicycles, shovels and garden implements. brating a tiny but integral part of our food chain But what about a paintbrush, a camera, or an and ecosystem, Talbot, like so many of the other embroidery needle—just some of the instruments environmentally conscious artists at this year’s artists at this year’s Eastside Culture Crawl are Crawl, has bigger goals. using to express their passion for our environment? “I want my work to be in service not just to the When you head out to the studios of Strathcona, bees but the world as a whole,” she stresses. “That’s Grandview, the Downtown Eastside, and elsewhere the purpose for me: work that’s in the service of this Thursday night to Sunday (November 19 to 22), a world that doesn’t have a voice of its own.” it won’t take long for you to find imagery and artworks that celebrate the natural environment here, WHEREAS TALBOT CAME to her current art explore our precarious urban balance with it, or re- practice through beekeeping, you could say painter Leanne Christie got there through bicycling. mind us about our dependence on it. When the South African–born artist started “I feel sad that our relationship with nature has become so detached,” says artist Heather Tal- riding her bike in to her Downtown Eastside stubot, sitting in the JJ Bean around the corner dio at 233 Main Street from Coquitlam each day, from her studio, Vancouver Community Lab— it opened up an entirely new point of view to her. “The most incredible thing happened. I learned “CoLab”—at Victoria and Triumph. “Through my art, my intention is to help people see the the city and I started to understand it a lot better,” the affable artist says, sitting amid her urban landworld differently and reconnect again.” Talbot’s focus, in life and art, is bees. The scapes—vividly brushstroked canvases that play East Van beekeeper creates embroidered the grey-blue light of Vancouver off its unique mix textures on her close-up shots of the insects of buildings and natural forms. The working waterfront, East Van alleyways using what she calls “drawing with thread”. From a distance, the artworks look like crisscrossed with wires and tree branches, cycle photographs, but closer inspection reveals paths on roads that open to mountain views: put intricate, painstaking stitchwork that re- together, her work here, on dozens of small canvases hung along one wall, and giant ones piled creates the fuzz on the insects’ bodies. “By playing with photographs in this against another, is the sum of this place that fasway I’m encouraging people to look differ- cinates her so much. Christie, who has lived in major cities like Lonently at what’s already there,” she says, gesturing to a small, framed piece, and pointing out don and Sydney, has become deeply interested the unexpected thread colours she’s had to use. in Vancouver’s quest for sustainability—in its “That was one of the coolest things I discovered urban design, architecture, and other initiatives doing drawing with thread: you would think you like those bike lanes, of course. And it’s developed would only use yellows and browns but there are a sense of hope in her that Vancouver could be a model for the rest of the world. greens and purples and pinks.” “If you truly care about the global environment, Studying the bees for her artworks has given Talbot an unusually close relationship with a crea- the truth is when you’re in a city you can share ture many people still fear. “I just appreciate them things, like car share. You don’t need to own more and more,” she explains. “There’s a kind of a car anymore,” she suggests, adding she loves an intimacy that’s come with doing the work and the fact Vancouver has been designed to mainmaking them the focus of my art. And that has tain view corridors. “A city is often seen as evil, translated into how I work with them in the hive. for pollution, but it is actually an eco-friendly I really love my bees. I joke that it’s to the point of environment, especially one designed correctly.” Christie’s expressive canvases capture those being weird: it’s like having 50,000 children!” Talbot’s painstaking embroidery process, which ideas in a visceral way, in scenes that seem to move, she tries not to do for more than four hours, is like as if caught while she was pedalling by. That may be
because she works from video she takes while out. In her space at Hungry Thumbs studios, she centres her operation at a table that holds a palette piled with mini-mountains of rich oil paints. But you’d be wrong to assume the hues she uses the most are those West Coast greys. “The thing I play with most is colour mixing,” she says. “I’m always relying on the viewer to do the work. Yes, I use blues and greys a lot, but look close and there are pinks through purples and oranges. And the whites are the secret of the paintings.” Not surprisingly, her views of the city, which capture the feel of what it’s like to live here as much as the sights, resonate with art-loving Vancouverites. She recounts a recent example of someone stopping on his bike to look down a West Side street slope to the waterfront and mountains and remarking that it reminded him of her paintings—life imitating art imitating life. “There’s nothing better than when people say, ‘I had a Christie morning,’” she says. LOCAL LANDSCAPES, BOTH preserved and de-
stroyed, take a much different form in the hands of Desirée Patterson. The artist’s latest body of work, which debuts at the Crawl, melds outdoor scenes with figurative portraits. The results can be thoughtprovoking: one shot, mounted in a hand-built light box, depicts the trees of an untouched forest within the torso of a naked woman; another finds a photograph of a hydro dam in winter framed by the body of a woman, bent over, holding her head in pain. “My interest has always been the beauty of nature, and now it has become how to protect it,” Patterson explains, taking a break away from her CoLab studio and speaking to the Straight at her booth at the Circle Craft Christmas Market. “With the human form I’m asking, ‘How do our inner selves connect with the environment?’ It’s about how every one of us embodies the connection to the environment, and the figure being more deflated with the more devastated landscapes,” referring to everything from shots of Vancouver’s industrial waterfront along Burrard Inlet to clearcuts and oil refineries. Like those of the other eco-focused artists at this year’s Culture Crawl, Patterson’s creations spring from a real-life passion. She regularly participates in beach cleanups and sends out environmental news to her Facebook friends. She became interested in the issues when she spent seven years travelling. “I was really into different cultures and landscapes,” she says. “On a trip to Southeast Asia I saw a lot of devastated landscapes—like, seeing them take a bulldozer and push garbage from the dump right into the ocean.…From there, it kind of evolved.” Visitors to the Crawl will see her resulting figurative landscapes illuminated in lightboxes, along with her latest artistic venture: large-scale metal sculptures that incorporate her photography. Patterson’s ultimate goal is to build public art, to take the discussion of these issues to an even wider population. “Making visual art is probably my strongest tool for advocating for the environment,” she says. “It’s the strongest voice I have.” -
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This year’s Eastside Culture Crawl will feature functional art pieces including (clockwise from top left) an Arnt Arntzen coffee table made with helicopter rotor blades, Marty McLennan’s cedar-burl side table, minimalist wood clocks by Pistol Bespoke, Upholstery Couture’s refurbished-vintage seating, and streamlined chairs of many colours from Ben Barber Studio.
Design finds put a little Crawl in your crib From space-age furniture to embellished upholstery, these studios’ pieces will help inject some creativity into your home décor > BY LUCY LAU
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hat’s better than a oneof-a-kind art piece? A one-of-a-kind art piece that does double duty as a striking coffee table, a slick timepiece, or a place to cozy up in front of the TV. These are just some of the handcrafted homewares you can expect to find among an impressive array of art and design works at the 19th annual Eastside Culture Crawl, happening this Thursday to Sunday (November 19 to 22). Whether you fancy your décor style more classic or contemporary, take to the myriad of artist studios with an open mind and you might just leave with the ingredients for a unique— and fully furnished—space. Here’s a sneak peek at some of our favourite furniture and homeware designers at this year’s show and the standout pieces that deserve a spot in your own crib. ARNT ARNTZEN (Paneficio Studios
[800 Keefer Street]) Designer Arnt Arntzen’s space-age furnishings may look suspiciously like the missing components of a UFO, but they actually borrow from two slightly more common modes of air transport. “When I was first starting out, I was doing a lot of metal furniture,” Arntzen tells the Straight. “I would go to local scrap yards for materials and when I was there, I noticed a lot of unusual pieces of metal. That’s when I found my first helicopter rotor blades.” That fateful find made its way into a bench design, where it was repurposed as a surprisingly comfortable seat. Next, he transformed a pair of airplane propellers into a matching, industrial-style bar set. “I was attracted to these pieces due to their high-tech nature, but they also had this very organic shape to them,” the designer says of the teardropshaped parts. Expect similar furnishings at Arntzen’s 19th Crawl showcase, including a coffee table that boasts rotorblade parts as legs and a hall table made from sections of a large airplane propeller. Each piece also incorporates salvaged wood, which the
designer hand-cuts from fallen trees also come in more neutral shades like black, white, and grey. around the city. Barber’s commitment to crafting BEN BARBER STUDIO (Parker strong silhouettes that can stand Street Studios [1000 Parker Street]) up to an array of wood, colour, and Coated in shades of cotton-candy fabric customizations will be clear pink, robin-egg blue, and soft lemon throughout his display at the Crawl, yellow, Ben Barber’s streamlined which will include a number of new homewares stand out in a sea of neu- prototypes and old favourites like tral, cautiously quiet tones. “Colour the designer’s solid-copper bowls. is always a strong point in my work,” he shares. “It’s exciting. It can affect UPHOLSTERY COUTURE (Parker your emotions a lot stronger than Street Studios [1000 Parker Street]) These days, anyone can refresh a tatmuted coatings can.” The designer’s minimalist col- tered thrift-store find with a little lection of tables, chairs, and ac- TLC and some elbow grease. But accessories has garnered quite the cording to Martina Voss, it’s upholfan base—a reality made possible sterers who are the original masters in part by sharp attention to ac- of upcycling. “I’ve always been a recessibility. “I’m always working on cycler because that’s what upholstery how I can use different materials to is,” she says. “It keeps things out of bring down costs, but that can still the landfill.” Voss’s haute pieces borrow techproduce a product that could last niques from her experience in fashion forever,” he says. Luxury hardwoods and steel— design, such as embellishment, appowder-coated in a rainbow of pliqué, and the marrying of different lively hues—make up the bulk of stitching and fabric types. Embroidhis studio collection, though his ered silk cloth, pearl buttons, and modest dining tables and chairs creative cross-stitching—all applied
meticulously by hand—breathe new life into discarded furnishings. “I like to use dressmaking details in my furniture as much as possible,” she shares. In this sense, pieces like her velvet-wrapped vintage chrome sofa and her Gatsby-era armchair finished with grosgrain trim resemble fashionforward runway garb more than stationary décor. Pop into her studio this weekend and you’ll also find a selection of student upholstery projects (Voss runs her own how-to classes on evenings and weekends), plus a new line of luxe vegan-leather chairs inspired by the medieval armour on Game of Thrones. PISTOL BESPOKE (240 Northern
takes cues from his partner, Lauren, who is an interior designer, and brother, Jason, an environmentaldesign grad. Together, the trio has turned a passion project into a full-f ledged business that has come to be known for its refreshingly clean take on a variety of wood works—many of which have chic, metallic accents. Pielak’s Crawl debut will include an assortment of minimalist wood clocks that feature brass, copper, and coloured frames; marquetry coasters and serving trays with modern, geometric designs; and wine openers cut from rosewood, brass, and deer antler into a shape resembling a T-shirt. “It kind of looks like a little man in a suit,” the designer notes. You can also expect to find some equally scaled-back furnishings, like a white-oak table with natural grain detailing and bent plywood barstools.
Street) Crawl newcomer Jared Pielak’s décor objects are inspired by an unmistakable West Coast aesthetic. His clocks, trays, and bottle openers are handcrafted from warm, natural woods accentuated by sleek, under- MARTY MCLENNAN (Vancouver Community Laboratory [1907 Tristated designs. The full-time construction worker umph Street]) Each one of Marty McLennan’s contemporary wood wares tells a story of its past. “As you make furniture, you have to acknow> BY STAFF HEADING OFF THE WELL-CRAWLED TRACK ledge or give a wink to those who’ve come before you,” he says. “You have to be aware of the history of it.” If you’ve ever tackled the Eastside Culture Crawl, chances are you’ve headed It’s safe to assume, then, that a straight for the highly concentrated area of 1000 Parker Street, with its 145 fair amount of research goes into artists, and the Mergatroid Building around the corner, with 57 more. McLennan’s work—a practice But this year, challenge yourself to seek out some of the lower-profile that the former photojournalist haunts. Here are a few of our faves: is well attuned to. Take his twolegged walnut seat, for example, 1. WILLIAM CLARK STUDIOS (1310 William Street) More than two which draws from midcentury dozen artists hole up in this nondescript structure, including a bunch of woodworker George Nakashima’s strong painters—Jen Brisson, Lauren Morris, and Sherri Rogers (whose iconic conoid chair, or his maplework is shown here), to name a few. walnut-stitched “Franken-table”, a modern spin on the same designer’s 2. RAILTOWN STUDIOS (321 Railway Street) A trio of artists show butterfly rivets. fascinating work, including Brandon Stephenson’s pink-powered paintings “It’s got the same angles that and assemblage pieces, which explore animals and trophy hunting. Nakashima used but it doesn’t use exactly his style at all, actually,” 3. OLD FOUNDRY BUILDING (1790 Vernon Drive) Atmospheric explains McLennan. “It’s much industrial digs house a wild array of mixed-media artists, sculptors, and more. Most eclectic of all: Jacquie more contemporary.” Rolston’s delicate paper lanterns and ornate Ukrainian Easter eggs. Other works from the designer include a midcentury-style oak 4. OCTOPUS STUDIOS (393 Powell Street) A treasure trove of cool jewellery artists hold court amid other artsofa bed, complete with mechanists in these digs near Oppenheimer Park. Check out Verena Strigler’s winged pendants or Dana Reed’s collection ical back, and a tongue-in-cheek of nature etchings in copper and silver. wood-burning stove—made from a Douglas fir stump that McLennan 5. MAKERLABS (780 East Cordova Street) Hip finds await here, from Jeremie Laguette’s awesome light signs rescued from being wrecked by (we want the one that blares “BACON”) to Julie Van Oyen’s vintage-look wood-burning on raw-wood rounds. fire—both of which will be on view at this year’s Crawl. NOVEMBER 19 – 26 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33
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Carminho and Sara Tavares Two women of Portuguese roots bring us an evening of captivating fado song and soulful folk-pop
Comedian Robert Kelly says fatherhood has made him think twice about what he says in his act, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone family-friendly.
Kelly’s dick jokes now come from the heart > B Y GUY M A C PHER SO N
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hen Robert Kelly opened for Dane Cook at what was then GM Place in 2009, he was crude, rude, and lewd, with lots of farting and sex jokes. Since that time, he’s had a kid and it has changed his life—and his act. Kinda. “You can’t help but be vulnerable when you made a life,” he tells the Straight on the phone from his home in Westchester, New York. “A woman’s body you thought was for you your whole life, all of a sudden you realize a woman’s body is for a child. Everything is made for the baby. You think twice about what you say because there’s going to be a kid one day who’s, ‘You said this?! You wrote that joke, Dad?’ ‘Aw, yeah, I messed up.’ It makes you more honest as a comic. You don’t just say stuff to say stuff. Stuff comes from the heart a little more, I think.” Does that mean he’s purged all the dick jokes and gone family-friendly? Not by a long shot. “Oh, no, there’s plenty of dick jokes,” he says. “They’re just more honest dick jokes.” No kidding. His Netflix special, Live at the Village Underground (directed by Bobcat Goldthwait), has him talking about farting in a baby’s face, getting his asshole waxed by his wife, and blowjobs, among other topics. But they actually do seem to come from the heart. “There is a difference, believe it or not,” he says. “When somebody says something that is undeniably true or relatable, it doesn’t matter what it’s about. But if somebody’s up there just trying to be dirty, you can see right through that.” He describes his early material as “terrible—I think I had 10 minutes on having sex with a stool”—but blames it on his blue-collar upbringing in rough-and-tumble Boston. “My whole life was about looking good and meeting girls,” he says. “But then your hair falls out and you get a gut and fall in love and your toenail dies and all of a sudden you start writing about honest stuff.”
A Taste of Empire Written and Performed by Jovanni Sy
As an actor, Kelly has been on a bit of a roll lately. This year alone he has appeared on Nurse Jackie, Maron, and three episodes of Louie, and in the movie Trainwreck. He was also cast as one of the regulars on Dennis Leary’s FX show, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, which just got picked up for its second season. With his time off set, he’s back with the Just for Laughs folks, touring theatres across Canada. The roving gala features Kelly with Gerry Dee, Cristela Alonzo, and Graham Chittenden. “Comedy’s evolved a little bit, where there are more pauses and quiet time, but in Boston it was joke-joke-joke-joke-joke-joke-jokejoke-joke,” the 45-year-old standup says. “You wanted people not to breathe. You wanted them buckled over. You wanted tears coming out of people’s eyes. Punch them in the gut and don’t stop.” That’s the way he’s wired, evolution be damned. Kelly started out in his hometown playing clubs with the likes of Cook, Bill Burr, Patrice O’Neal, and Bob Marley in the mid’90s and he remains a club comic through and through. His Netflix special, in fact, was filmed in a club rather than an expansive theatre. “I believe comedy is 200 people or less,” he says. “I think small comedy clubs are where comedy exists. Comedy’s jazz. That’s why I shot my special at a small place. Everybody wanted me to do a big place. In a club you can be a little more subtle. The stage is usually the size of a Triscuit, so you have no choice but to stand there.” And yet Kelly has only played theatres in Canada. But they have their pluses, too. “Doing a theatre show is exhilarating,” he says. “Making that many people laugh is crazy. It’s like a wave of laughter that goes up and comes back down and hits you in the face.” So it’s a reciprocal arrangement. He punches us in the gut with jokes and we hit him in the face with laughter. -
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Plot lies in the cards in 52 Pick-Up > BY GUY M A C PHERSON
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n improv theatre, each performance is, naturally, different. A scripted play, however, has got to be the same or damn near the same night after night, right? Wrong. In the case of 52 Pick-Up, a play by TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi, the randomizing gimmick is a deck of cards. On each card is written a scene title. The two actors, as the title implies, throw the deck in the air. Over the next hour, the story unravels in whatever order the actors pick up the cards. It’s hard enough memorizing lines in sequential order. The odds of any two performances being the same are one in… A lot. “It’s kind of a hard show to play,” says Dan Willows, who stars with Sarah Andrina Brown in the upcoming Twenty Something Theatre production at the Havana Theatre. “You have that chronological character change and now you’re trying to play that change but in different moments, and trying to play off what was said already and what the audience knows as opposed to what is going to come and they haven’t seen yet. It is kinda neat to not think of it in any chronological order, that it could come at any card at a time. Any scene could happen and you have to be ready to go with it and be in the right spot.” While there’s no improvisation in it, Willows’s improv training comes in handy. After arriving in Vancouver from Saskatchewan in 2011, Willows took up with Instant Theatre, which performs at the Havana on Sunday nights. He’s also in Sin Peaks, the improvised soap opera at the Railway Club every Wednesday night (except, of course, during the run of 52 Pick-Up). Sitting at a Main Street café between classes at Langara, Willows says of the training, “It definitely is helpful—just being able to roll with something and stay in a moment.” Director Brian Cochrane, whom Willows first met in Saskatchewan, put the cards in the order that made most sense for him to give the actors a starting point. Throughout the rehearsal period, which started on October 26, Willows and Brown have played it in everything but that order. And what Willows has found is that it’s all good. “It’s always a compelling story no matter what the order,” he says. “It’s fun, it’s engaging. It’s kind of nice that every moment can exist on its own.” Willows grew up an air-force brat, moving from Halifax to Germany to Ottawa to Moose Jaw to Regina. At 6 foot 3 and 300 pounds, he looks like he just stepped off the combine. He claims to be a big-city boy at heart. But helpful. “So many people were like, ‘Oh, can you come help with harvest?’ ” he says. “I’ve never done it, but yeah, I’ll be there for sure.” While he does standup and sketch in addition to improv, acting is his first love. He got his degree in theatre performance from the University of Regina and landed parts in the holy trinity of Saskatchewan TV: Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and InSecurity. And then the province lost its film-tax credits. Hello, Vancouver! Now he goes out on auditions for bodyguards, policemen, and security guards because film and television love typecasting. “It’s fun to see all the big guys in the city in one room,” he says with a laugh. He enrolled at Langara before getting the part in 52 Pick-Up, so things are a little hectic. But he wouldn’t have it any other way. “This is just like university was for me,” he says, “taking three classes and doing a play at the same time. It’s right in my wheelhouse. I did it for four years.” 52 Pick-Up runs at the Havana from Thursday (November 19) to November 29.
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A Firehall Arts Centre production
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Kayla Dunbar (left) and Goldie Hoffman work up the wicked laughs in the irreverent Bad Jews. Len Grinke photo.
Boffo cast bites into Bad Jews
There are serious questions at the heart of Bad Jews, but they’re wrapped in some wicked comedy. That’s a winning package. Joshua Harmon’s play takes place after a funeral, as the dead man’s grandchildren argue over who should inherit the gold chai pendant that their Poppy managed to hang on to for two years in a concentration camp. Jonah doesn’t want it; his cousin, Daphna, does—and she feels she deserves it more than Jonah’s brother, Liam, who missed the funeral for a skiing trip. When Liam shows up with his girlfriend, Melody, the situation is ripe for conflict. Bad Jews has been one of the most produced plays in American theatre in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. The characters, particularly the women, are terrific creations. Daphna is a heat-seeking missile trained on the vulnerabilities of others; her tactics range from passive-aggressiveness to open warfare as she relentlessly insists that she, as the most observant Jew, is entitled to Poppy’s pendant. She flaunts her piety with her new Hebrew name (she used to be Diana) and a boyfriend in Israel. Liam is far more secular—this is not the first time he’s dating outside the faith—but he’s the oldest son, and he has a tradition of his own to follow. Director Jay Brazeau’s casting is note-perfect, and the acting is consistently excellent. Goldie Hoffman’s Daphna is a force of nature, marking her territory in the studio apartment the cousins are sharing and finding the fear beneath the character’s selfrighteous poses. Alex Rose’s Liam simmers until he boils over; his fury is at once genuine and comically satisfying. Amitai Marmorstein doesn’t have a lot to do as the passive Jonah, but his loose-limbed self-erasure suits the character beautifully. And Kayla Dunbar strikes comic gold as the well-intentioned but clueless Melody: just wait until Daphna draws her out on her passion for opera. Harmon’s script is loaded with nasty, irreverent humour: “Do not Holocaust me,” warns Liam when Daphna’s lecturing becomes too earnest for him. But it also asks provocative questions about the value of religious commitment and cultural tradition. “Now when it’s easiest and safest to be Jewish,” Daphna asks, “we should all stop?” Bad Jews isn’t perfect—too often, the brothers tend to stand around and let Daphna yammer on for longer than is plausible, and most of the action is placed curiously far upstage—but it’s never boring. What’s not to like?
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It’s a bit academic. In Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, a feminist professor named Catherine has made her name by writing books about pornography and the rise of degradation as entertainment—and for looking hot while flogging them. When her mother, Alice, has a heart attack, Catherine rushes to Alice’s college town to take care of her. While there, she picks up with old pals from grad school. Catherine was in love with Don, who is now a dean, but Don dumped her and married her roommate, Gwen, who promptly dropped out of university and became a mother to their two kids. This is all a setup for an examination of feminism and its counterarguments. Catherine and Gwen envy one another’s lives. Stuck in a marriage with pot-smoking, pornusing Don, and with limited career prospects of her own, Gwen feels unfulfilled. She wants Catherine’s career. But feminism hasn’t made Catherine happy: she notes that conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly warned that feminists would be lonely—and, in her case, Schlafly was right. Catherine wants a family— and, possibly, Gwen’s husband. There’s some juice here, but for long stretches, the script’s debate is dry. In an arch convention, Catherine teaches a feminist course called The Fall of American Civilization, and the only students who show up for it are Gwen and Avery, who used to baby-sit Gwen’s kids. Very conveniently, Avery provides a youthful point of view, and the classes take place in Alice’s house, so Alice chimes in—also conveniently—to speak for an older generation. Lots of the ideas that the characters discuss in class are interesting: are slasher movies antifeminist because women are getting carved up, or are they feminist because the female survivor in them doesn’t need a man to save her? And there are plenty of terrific jokes throughout the play: Avery gets off a really good one about porn and Google maps. Still, the script leans heavily into theory, and while its wit is surprising, its two main plot shifts are predictable. Under Aaron Craven’s direction, Moya O’Connell delivers a smart and touchingly vulnerable interpretation of Catherine, and Anna Hagan is icily on the money as Alice. I’m not convinced that Gwen needs to be quite the eager puppy that Lori Triolo makes her, although I never doubted the emotional integrity of Triolo’s performance. Avery is a joke machine and Courtney Shields nails every laugh, but both the script and this production present Avery as a caricature of youth. Robert Moloney saunters his way through the role of Don, which
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DRESSING FOR A WEDDING
NOV 21 DEC 5
By Aaron Bushkowsky. Directed by Sarah Rodgers. A Solo Collective Theatre production. At Performance Works on Friday, November 13. Continues until November 29
Have you ever bored yourself with a dream? If not, and you want to find out what it’s like, try watching Aaron Bushkowsky’s Dressing for a Wedding. In the local playwright’s latest script, Carolyn, who is directing the rehearsal for her daughter Dee-Dee’s wedding, quickly establishes herself as the mother from hell, saying to Dee-Dee, “You will have the wedding I never had or I will kill somebody.” The trope of the overbearing mom is tired and most of the jokes in this comedy are insults. The best comes—and keep in mind that this is the best—when Carolyn complains about Dee-Dee’s dress: “Since your waist is the same size as your shoulders, you look like toothpaste.” Most of the time, the meanness isn’t fancied up with anything like wit. “Don’t touch me,” Carolyn says to her hapless husband, Bob. “Your hands feel like salad tongs.” Eventually, a story about Dee-Dee’s absent older sister Carly emerges. That story, which I won’t give away, is tragic. Since it’s told with little specificity, it’s also generic. The base line for the current reality in the script is never clear: the characters just wander around and freeassociate scenes with one another. They reenact a family vacation in Mexico, for instance, and we see a date in which Carolyn and Bob went skating when they were young. Are we inside Carolyn’s head? One thing’s for certain: nobody does any of the things you do at a real wedding rehearsal. In this production, Carolyn wastes time arranging and rearranging chairs for no apparent reason. Wherever we are, a catharsis eventually arrives, but it has been preceded by so little meaningful development that it feels unearned. Under Sarah Rodgers’s direction, Deborah Williams delivers a nicely timed, heartfelt performance as Carolyn. Playing Seth, the groom, Josh Drebit gets stuck in musclebound automaton shtick that isolates him in his own stylistic world. Fortunately, the physical production is winning. The resourceful set designer Yvan Morissette delivers a vision made out of white paper that ends up being part chapel, part wedding dress, and a whole lot frothy wedding cake. Emily Cooper pours gorgeous projections over it, especially in the final cue, in which giant purple flowers spread and bloom.
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“It’s hilarious and heart-breaking all at once” The Winnipeg Review
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CHELSEA HOTEL Anvil Centre Theatre presents a Firehall Arts Centre production
The Songs of
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Tracey Power
Musical Direction by Steve
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By Joshua Harmon. Directed by Jay Brazeau. A Famous Artists Limited production. At the Norman Rothstein Theatre on Thursday, November 12. Continues until November 21
By Gina Gionfriddo. Directed by Aaron Craven. Presented by Mitch and Murray Productions. At Studio 16 on Thursday, November 12. Continues until November 28
is all the script really asks of him. Rapture, Blister, Burn is entertaining—but more in the manner of an amusing lecture than an engaging play.
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DANCE HOFESH SHECHTER A DanceHouse presentation. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday, November 13. No remaining performances
Seeing the ushers handing out
2 earplugs in the aisles was an
early warning that we were in for a show more hard-core than Vancouver is used to. And sure enough, Hofesh Shechter proceeded to reaffirm his status as the bad boy of contemporary dance, assaulting our ears and eyes. At the same time, he blasted our brains with a lightning pastiche of forms—snatched from nightclubs, ballet barres, bedrooms, folk-dance festivals, hip-hop battles, concert halls—and self-reflective ideas about love, life, and chaos. It was provocative, pummelling, raw, and urban—unlike anything else out there, clearly dividing the audience into haters and fans, the latter jumping to their feet for an ovation at the end. In an interview before the show, the Israeli-born, U.K.–based Shechter hinted to the Straight the first two pieces were meant to “disrupt” the audience in preparation for the main dish, the final duet—titled, not so romantically, two completely different angles of the same fucking thing. That “preparation” amounted to throwing us into anarchic sensory overload. The first piece, the barbarians in love, began with searchlights madly tracing the stage, and a female robotic voice issuing commands to the dancers. At first, their all-white costumes seem to look like uniforms from a sci-fi movie, but by the end, they seem more like asylum pyjamas. That’s because, while the piece starts out like a world working, Big Brother– like, toward some strict utopia, it spirals into existential chaos—presumably, the chaos of Shechter’s own mind. He’s summoned by the robot and, in voice-over, begins to talk about looking for a thrill and turning 40. Set to a mix of ear-splitting electro and orderly baroque, it’s a disorienting and highly atmospheric work that questions, in the most metaphorical way possible, our ability to exist within structures as humans—specifically, the structure of monogamous love, a theme that recurs in the other pieces as well. So it’s a bombardment, deadpanfunny and yet deeply questioning—a strange mix that somehow only the scarily smart, angst-ridden Shechter can pull off. Tying in with the soul-baring going on, the
In tHE bAD, dancers wear form-fitting gold suits. Gabriele Zucca photo.
dancers even doff their clothes. It’s fair to presume most people were grateful for the intermission. That’s because the second work was arguably even more in-your-face. tHE bAD was inspired by Shechter’s use of gold lamé bodysuits, and it’s a work where he explores the almost animal outrageousness that the lewd, liquid attire allows. Again set to skittering house beats with baroque interludes, it’s a relentless, rapid-fire release of movement, from concert-style fists in the air to pelvic grinding and twerky hump-bumping to Shechter’s trademark chugging grooves. At one point, a man lifts a woman and her legs flail and kick in the air. From this mayhem the work transforms into a duet between Bruno Guillore and Winifred Burnet-Smith (the former decked out surreally, and somewhat randomly, in lederhosen) shuffling to a clichéd jazz-piano riff. But their pairing works into something much more loaded and provocative—a dance of love and hate and infidelity and destruction that gets at issues uncomfortably raw and confessional. At one moment, BurnetSmith gnaws hungrily at Guillore’s chest; at another, she leaps right up onto his shoulders, curling around his face as he tries to speak, like some kind of sinister human hood. There may have been a few people who left Shechter’s show feeling screwed around. But here’s arguing that he can get away with it because, ultimately, he’s screwing with himself. And because his dance mashup, pulled off by a gifted, committed group of charismatic young artists, is so dizzyingly, discombobulatingly, exhaustingly fascinating to watch—with or without earplugs. > JANET SMITH
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Book of Love photo by Jay Hirabayashi
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LILIAN BROCA Heroine of a Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca IN VANCOUVER
November 12, 2015 – March 31, 2016 Il Museo at The Italian Cultural Centre 3075 Slocan Street, Vancouver BC V5M 3E4
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Judith Seducing Holofernes, detail. Diptych, 73 x 96" (185.5 x 244cm)
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ide the knives. Lock up the guns. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flush those antidepressants down the toiletâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you might need them once youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve finished reading Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future, the latest book from Toronto-based social critic and novelist Hal Niedzviecki. The authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premise is simple: as a culture, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so distracted by the promise of a bright, shiny technological future that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ignoring the factors that will soon produce our dark, miserable collective demise. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not exactly an enticing thought, driven home as it is by almost 300 pages of carefully researched argument, and Niedzviecki doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even give us the palliative comfort of what he calls the obligatory â&#x20AC;&#x153;default hopeâ&#x20AC;? conclusion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d written that chapter,â&#x20AC;? he writes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have been lying to myself and to you.â&#x20AC;? Instead, he continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tide will rise, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be swept out to sea, and we will have to figure out if we want to sink like our smartphones or swim to nowhere in particular.â&#x20AC;? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all doomed, in short. So how does that make him feel? The answer, it seems, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not that bad.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As time goes by and I start to get out into the world and talk about this with people, I really feel more content with how I end the book and what I ultimately conclude,â&#x20AC;? Niedzviecki reports, on the line from his home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe part of what we need to do as a species is accept that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not meant to be here forever, and start to think about how we can tell the story of human life and leave that behind for other people or creatures or whatever comes next. So I feel a little bit more accepting and content, within my bouts of rage and despair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does that make sense?â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sense of bittersweet resignation to Niedzvieckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, perhaps exaggerated by the fact that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just
Hal Niedzviecki says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come to terms with humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bleak prospects.
gotten back from battling Bloor Street traffic in order to drop his two young children off at school. Knowing that your kids will suffer canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They go to school, and they come back with these sort of things like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recycle! Save the planet! Litterless lunch!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? he says, both fondly and ironically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing inherent wrong with that, except that it is part of an overall failed narrative that says if we all kind of recycle and are just slightly more conscious of the environment, we can keep on doing exactly what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to do. Which is nonsense, of course. Recycling is, by and large, a giant joke. What we need is massive doses of deconsumptionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is not a word, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think. But if you were going to teach kids in school that they need to stop consuming things, that they should actively try to convince their parents to not upgrade their phones, there would be outrage. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to happen. So all you can do is try to impart what you know and understand to your kids. A lot of this is reality: they have to be prepared for whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming, not the fantasy that we try to sell.â&#x20AC;? That fantasy, he explains, is a scifi vision of living forever, thanks to cybernetics. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the notion that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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a technological solution to every problem. And, most of all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the crazy-making ideology that the future is one of endless progress, despite the massive social disruptionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;drowning islands, displaced populations, endless warâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already experiencing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of that gets turned into selfhate, because the rhetoric of our society right now is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What can you do to change the future? How can you be the next Mark Zuckerberg?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Niedzviecki comments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And so people look at this rhetoric, and they say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, jeez, in this context Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a failure.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And they blame themselves. The kind of sophisticated thinking that one needs to really see how the system operates to devalue human life is not always at the forefront of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughts. Instead, they think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I, personally, am so far from Bill Gates I might as well drink myself to death. I have no value; I am left behind.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the heart of it, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re leaving a lot of things on the table around certainty and continuity,â&#x20AC;? he continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when I look at my children and what I can do for them, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think sitting them down and saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look, the planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ending. The infinite cycle of technological progress is a mirageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is useful. But showing them the ways in which you can still provide a certain level of social continuity in your culture, your neighbourhood, your familyâ&#x20AC;Ś That really needs to be the goal of humanity, at least in order to ameliorate some of these problems. So we sort of carry on and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all turn off our phones and sit down to dinner.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Life goes on, then, at least for now. Hal Niedzviecki reads from Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver next Wednesday (November 25), as part of the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival.
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PEOPLE The United Players present director Adam Henderson’s version of Alan Bennett’s play about a down-on-his-luck aristocrat who is forced to make some unusual decisions. To Nov 29, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $12-22, info www.unitedplayers.com/.
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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/. 12 ANGRY JURORS Theatre in the Raw presents Sherman L. Sergel’s adaptation of Reginald Rose’s classic drama about a young man who faces the death penalty for murder. Nov 18-21, 8-10 pm; Nov 22, 2-4 pm; Nov 25-28, 8-10 pm; Nov 29, 2-4 pm, Interurban: Gallery & Community Art Space (1 E. Hastings). Tix $20/17, info www.theatreintheraw.ca/4-upcomingproductions/upcoming-productions.html. THE DROWNING GIRLS Stone’s Throw Productions presents Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic’s play about three dead women who were married to the same man. Nov 18-20, 9:3010:30 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Info www.pacifictheatre.org/involvement/ stonesthrow/. SANGJA (BOXES) Pangaea Arts and ArtStage SAN present the story of a young Korean boy who struggles to adjust to life in Canada. Nov 19-21, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $10, info www.pangaea-arts.com/. AGNES OF GOD Alchemy Theatre presents John Pielmeier’s play about a psychiatrist who is tasked with assessing the sanity of a novice nun accused of murdering her newborn. Nov 19-29, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $20, info www.alchemytheatre.ca/.
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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/. ...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. To Nov 21, 8-9:30 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $20-35, info www.gatewaytheatre.com/didnt-see-thatcoming/. RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN Mitch and Murray Productions presents Gian Gionfriddo’s comedy about two women who choose opposite paths after grad school. To Nov 28, 8-10:15 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $12-29, info www.mitch andmurrayproductions.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 being exposed. To Nov 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 young woman who convinces a Dublin street musician not to give up his dreams. To Nov 22, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.broadwayacrosscanada.ca/.
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SOCIAL STUDIES Donna Spencer directs playwright Trish Cooper’s story about a South Sudanese boy who is adopted by a well-intentioned Winnipeg family. Nov 21– Dec 5, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME Ruby Slippers Theatre presents a deeply personal and moving new play about family and memory from François Archambault. To Nov 28, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Info www.thecultch.com/ events/you-will-remember-me/.
FAWLTY TOWERS: 3 MORE EPISODES Metro Theatre presents adaptations of Fawlty Towers episodes “The Hotel Inspectors”, “Waldorf Salad”, and “The Germans”. To Nov 28, 8-10 pm, Metro
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LISTEN TO ME Presentation House Theatre presents a story about a father and daughter who disagree on the definition of music. To Nov 28, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Info 604-990-3474, www.phtheatre.org/.
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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 carbine-action BB gun. Based on the 1983 film. To Dec 27, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
LOVERS OF ZEPPELIN The Lovers Cabaret presents the story of the women behind the band, featuring a full score by Led Zeppelin. Nov 19-21, 7:30-11 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $30, info www.theloverscabaret.com/.
TRACKS & MY FRIEND ANDREA TJ Dawe’s Tracks is an adaptation of Jack London’s The Road. Writer-performer Raïna Von Waldenburg’s My Friend Andrea examines what it means to forgive. Nov 24-29, 7:30 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $25/15, info www.michaelbean.ca/.
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THE NORTH PLAN Play about a U.S. bureaucrat who goes on the run from the government. Nov 19-29 (no show Nov 23), Secret location (near 211 E. Georgia). Tix $20/14, info www.upintheairtheatre.com/.
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LAUGH-OUT-LOUD ART Art and comedy, together at last! Stop Podcasting Yourself is celebrating its 400th episode with an exhibit at Hot Art Wet City (2206 Main Street), featuring a roster of local artists and comedians that will only do the laugh-out-loud ramblings of hosts Graham Clark and Dave Shumka justice. Expect a range of wacky works from artists like MW Bowen, Andrea Hooge, and Exploding Haggis, plus art by past podcast guests Alicia Tobin, Emmett Hall, Nima Gholamipour, and more. Beard paintings by funny man Clark will also be on view because, well, why not? The literally yet-tobe-titled show runs from Thursday (November 19) to December 5. System Art, Ziyian Kwan | dumb instrument Dance, MascallDance, MACHiNENOiSY, and Marta Marta Productions. Nov 18-22, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/22, info www.thedancecentre.ca/.
WRITTEN ON THE BODY Multidisciplinary collaboration between McBride Fieldhouse artists-in-residence Elisa Thorn (harp) and Dayna Szyndrowski (percussive dance). Nov 20, 7:30 pm, West Point Grey Community Centre (4397 W. 2nd). Tix $10, info www.writtenonthebody.ca/. SPEAKING IN LIGETI Marta Marta Productions presents a dialogue of movement, sound, and rhythm set to Ligeti’s Quartet No. 1. Nov 22, 4 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/22, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/dance_in_vancouver2/. BOOK OF LOVE Kokoro Dance celebrates its 30th season with a new, viscerally engaging work for four dancers. Nov 25– Dec 5, 8 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $25-30, info www.kokoro.ca/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK MUSIC IN THE MORNING PRESENTS RUSH>HOUR: JUILLIARD415 Juilliard’s principal period-instrument ensemble, along with four vocalists and guest conductor Nicholas McGegan, will perform a collection of secular cantatas of early music. Nov 19, 5:45-6:45 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Free admission, info www.musicinthemorning.org/. UBC CONCERT WINDS: TRADITION MEETS INNOVATION The UBC Concert Winds and the Greater Vancouver Youth Music Academy Symphonic Wind Ensemble perform works by Stamp, Grainger, Copland, Holst, and Sousa. Nov 19, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/. STRINGFEST: UBC CHAMBER STRINGS The UBC Chamber Strings and the UBC Centennial Quartet present the world
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the record industry declared it was dying? That no one buys music? That Internet streaming and peer-to-peer file-sharing reserved you a spot in the seventh circle of hell? It’s time you heard of Monstercat. The Vancouver-based dance label is only four years old, but already boasts well over one million paid downloads and 15 No. 1 chart-toppers on iTunes. Initially founded in 2011 as a YouTube channel, Monstercat has, from the outset, challenged record-industry practices. Staunchly dedicated to streaming its tracks for free alongside digital downloads, Monstercat defies the music business’s fears of piracy. Four million followers later, the label continues to revolutionize the record industry—and it’s all happening from our city. Lacking the cachet of club hubs like Toronto and Montreal, Vancouver seems an incongruous place for founders Mike Darlington (CEO) and Ari Paunonen (COO) to take on the major players of the dance business. The Economist, if you’ll recall, recently branded Vancouver “mindnumbingly boring”. But the city is central to the company’s ethos. “Vancouver definitely has a very vibrant arts and cultural scene, and there’s a lot of creative people pushing to do things differently,” Darlington declares, on the phone from Monstercat’s Railtown headquarters. “For us as a company, the move from Ontario was just as much of a business decision as a lifestyle decision. We wanted to experience something different, to do things outdoors. It’s so much more important to us to be in a place that inspires creativity.” Creative is exactly the right word for the company. Rather than funnel money into promoting an artist, Monstercat markets itself as the brand and signs bands for single tracks only. With an energetic schedule of three new releases a week, Monstercat has created a solid community of international fans whose devotion is to the label. Alongside conventional downloads, Monstercat offers subscriptions to its catalogue. This licence allows individuals on YouTube and Twitch to use the label’s songs in their videos without breaching copyright laws—meaning that subscribers can monetize their content, and Mon-
Monstercat is here to stay
Mike Darlington with the Monstercat logo, now available on tote bags, umbrellas, glow-in-the-dark condoms, and infant onesies. Amanda Siebert photo.
Uncaged touching down in job, but there’s just less people in the city than just Toronto and Ottawa. somewhere like Toronto. Less people go to shows Nonetheless, Darling- regularly, especially in the nightclub scene. ton is keen to point out Which makes it a bit more limited.” that Monstercat is not But Monstercat is set to shake things up. Vancouver might not have the nightlife of a bigger just a global brand, but “Obviously, Vancouver is a city we’re going to city, but label CEO Mike Darlington is looking ahead a resolutely Canadian be paying really close attention to, because this stercat has a stable revenue stream. A win-win for company. “I definitely want to do more Canadian is our hometown. It’s something that I want Monstercat and its supporters—and a loss for the dates in the future. We could have moved the to develop—a strong community of people major labels, whose market share evaporates as company a long time ago to L.A. or New right here.” more companies adopt Monstercat’s innovations. York, where everyone was egging us to Darlington has a clear vision for Van“It’s about shifting the model,” Darlington says. go. We stayed in Canada because we’re couver. “I’m not going to be a proCheck out… But while Monstercat’s groundbreaking formu- proud of our country, we’re proud of moter and start putting on shows, STRAIGHT.COM la is great for digital revenue, touring is tougher. A what we’re developing on a national but I’m definitely looking to do more Make our website large percentage of the label’s audience is under- scale. I want to keep growing it up collaborative work with people like your source for age. Its online community is scattered all over the and see where we can take it.” [local EDM and rock promoters] concert reviews globe, and its devotees invest in a roster of tracks And that spirit extends to VancouBlueprint,” he says. “We’re going to and local music rather than artists. ver. As Monstercat’s influence concontinue to work closely with them in A tricky situation, especially for a dance label. tinues to swell, the city takes centre stage. 2016. Doing one-off shows is great for our Never one to shy from a challenge, Monstercat Not only is Vancouver swiftly becoming the epiartists. We curate the night for a particular perlaunched an ambitious 23-date flagship North centre of an industry overhaul, Monstercat is out former, and showcase a lot of our different guys as American tour last year. The Uncaged showcase to help reshape Lotusland’s live-music scene. they start to develop their careers.” featured Euro-circuit electronica darlings Pegboard “Make sure I’m not quoted saying the nightAs Monstercat’s brand blossoms on the interNerds and relied on a democratic vote to deter- life here is bad! It’s not bad—there’s just not as national stage, gathering new global followers mine which cities would play host. Ticket sales many people actively going out to nightclubs in every day, Darlington refuses to leave Vancouwere hot, with midsize venues packed, but Can- Vancouver,” Darlington says with a laugh. “The ver behind. adian shows were few and far between, with people that do the shows here do an incredible “There’s more to come here,” he promises. -
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MUSIC Let’s talk about I LIKE THE SONGS On Monday, Barry Manilow tweeted that he really likes Justin Bieber’s new album, Purpose. The Biebs responded with a simple “Thanks Barry”, and then he presumably Googled “Who is Barry Manilow?”
ADELE UNDERSTANDS Do you spend two hours a day
You gotta see KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS We’re such suckers for dreamy chillwave that this one has been marked on our calendar for months. Keep Shelly in Athens (which is actually from its namesake city, unlike Of Montreal, which is from Athens—the one in Georgia) is arguably a bit lacking in the personality department; heck, the duo changed singers last year and still somehow sounds exactly the same. We’re not complaining, though. That faceless quality only makes it easier to get lost inside the pasteltinted whorls of synthesizer-steeped sound. Keep Shelly in Athens plays the Cobalt on Sunday (November 22).
in front of a mirror obsessing over every flaw? If so, put things in perspective with Adele’s quote of the week: “There’s bigger issues going on in the world than how I might feel about myself.”
DEAD TECH Microsoft has announced that Zune owners will no longer be able to stream or download music directly to the device, which hasn’t been manufactured since 2012. The sad-sack Zune was supposed to be the “iPod killer” but was more like the Betamax of mp3 players. BOOGNISH REBIRTH Five years ago in Vancouver, Ween staged one of the most famous shows of its chemically altered career, singer Aaron Freeman subsequently quitting the band as a way of getting sober. Ween reunited this week. Is it wrong to want to fire up a Boognish-shaped bong and get bombed?
Fresh and local WILLIE THRASHER SPIRIT CHILD (LIGHT IN THE ATTIC) We’re slightly guilty of false advertising this week. Because he lives in Nanaimo, it’s perhaps stretching things to call Willie Thrasher local. And as for the “fresh” part of the equation, Spirit Child was first released in 1981. What matters is that Thrasher’s gold-star debut release continues to get the attention that somehow escaped it for years. The Inuit songwriter first resurfaced last year on The Native North America Vol. 1 compilation, a must-have collection curated by ace archivist Kevin “Sipreano” Howes. That prompted Light in the Attic Records to reissue Spirit Child, which mixes folk with unvarnished country and Crazy Horse–lite rock. Check out “Eskimo Named Johnny”, which sounds just as fresh as the year it was recorded. -
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premiere of Eileen V. Padgett’s Ocean Fanfare. Nov 20, 7:30 pm, Telus Studio Theatre (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $8 , info www.music.ubc.ca/.
ELECTROACOUSTIC FESTIVAL Vancouver Pro Musica presents an expert panel moderated by Philipe Pasquier (Nov 20) and an electroacoustic concert of new works by B.C. composers (Nov 21). Nov 20-21, 7:30 pm, Western Front (303 E. 8th). Info www.vancouverpromusica.ca/. UBC SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE: PEACE OF MIND The UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble and saxophonist Julia Nolan perform works by Koh, Lang, Bryant, and Korsrud. Nov 20, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/. MARY AND KATHLEEN TIERNEY MEMORIAL CONCERT As part of UBC StringFest, the UBC Centennial String Quartet performs the world premiere of Adam Hill’s A Springboard Not a Tombstone. Nov 21, 7:30 pm, Telus Studio Theatre (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/. FAURÉ REQUIEM, A CHORAL MASTERPIECE Bramwell Tovey and Graeme Langager lead soprano Nathalie Paulin, baritone David John Pike, the Phoenix Chamber Choir, the UBC University Singers, and the VSO in a performance of works by Stravinsky, Haydn, and Fauré. Nov 21 & 23, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604-876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/. LEIF OVE ANDSNES The Vancouver Recital Society presents the Norwegian classical pianist in a performance of music by Sibelius, Beethoven, Debussy, and Chopin. Nov 22, 3 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital. com/concert/leif-ove-andsnes/.
COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2PATRICK MALIHA Nov 19-21 2ILIZA SCHLESINGER Jan 14-16 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy
club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2DEREK SEGUIN Nov 19-21 2J.J. WHITEHEAD Nov 26-28 2GODFREY Dec 4-5
LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-525-2262, www.laff lines.com/. 2JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS Nov 19 2TRACEY MACDONALD Nov 20-21
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HOLIDAY CLASSIC What’s a surefire sign that the holidays have arrived? The glittering tinsel that’s miraculously sprung up in every shopping mall, but even more so, the sounds of peppy carolling blasting from the same sites’ speakers. But in case you prefer your festive tunes to lean a little more to the classic, a seat at The Genius of Tchaikovsky should get you right into the spirit. Presented by the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra this Sunday (November 22) at the Orpheum Theatre, the concert features performances of the Russian composer’s most beloved works, including the holiday favourite Nutcracker suite and the powerful Piano Concerto No. 1. Watch out for celebrated pianist Amanda Chan and 15-year-old cello prodigy Olivia Cho among the talented group of musicians, who will be led by conductor Kathleen Allan. 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 and Sat, 9:30 pm); Throwback TheatreSports (every Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm). Nov 18-25, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS The WWE Hall of Fame member unleashes his road stories and pranks he played on his opponents. Nov 19, 8-10 pm, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $30, info www.lafflines.com/.
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL Explore the culture of Vancouver’s East Side through workshops and demonstrations in areas like glass blowing, wood carving, and Jacquard loom weaving. Nov 19-22, various Vancouver venues. Free admission, info www.culturecrawl.ca/.
PATRICK MALIHA Vancouver standup comedian and impressionist. Nov 19-21, 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 19-21, 7:30-9 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl. com/show/throwback-theatresports/. DEREK SEGUIN Canadian standup comedian performs a solo show. Nov 19, 8 pm; Nov 20, 8 pm; Nov 21, 7 pm; Nov 21, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $20, info www. yukyuks.com/. JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Gerry Dee hosts comedy by Cristela Alonzo, Robert Kelly, and Graham Chittenden. Nov 20, 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/. TRACEY MACDONALD Standup comedian performs a solo show. Nov 20, 9:30-11 pm; Nov 21, 8-9:30 pm; Nov 21, 10-11:30 pm, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $20/18, info www.lafflines.com/. CHRISTMAS QUEEN 2: YOU BETTER WATCH OUT The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents a holidaythemed improv-comedy show that sees a larger-than-life fairy-tale character create chaos in Santa’s workshop on Christmas Eve. Nov 25–Dec 20, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK
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CHERIE SMITH JCC JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL Annual celebration of Jewish literature includes feature authors Sean Michaels, Ayelet Tsabari, Dan Ephron, Stuart Rojstaczer, Sigal Samuel, Alejandro Frid, Leah Goldstein, and Dan Bar-El. Nov 21-26, Jewish Community Centre (950 W. 41st). Tix free to $24, info 604-257-5111, www.jewishbookfestival.ca/.
RALPHIE MAY American funnyman performs a standup comedy show. Nov 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix $39.50/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www. hardrockcasinovancouver.com/.
VANCOUVER VANISHES Caroline Adderson hosts the launch of Vancouver Vanishes, a book about Vancouver’s vanishing heritage buildings. Nov 23, 7 pm, Book Warehouse (4118 Main St.). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ events/1695789677309833/.
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To Nov 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/.
PORNO DEATH CULT Mix of interactive comedy, dance, and art explores faith and faithlessness, life and death. Nov 25-28, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
GALLERIES STORYVILLE A popular Pick of the 2014 Vancouver Fringe Festival, …didn’t see that coming is a must-see for fans of Beverley Elliott (probably best known for her turn in the hit Mom’s the Word and her role in Once Upon a Time). In it, the charismatic comedic actor brings to life a candid string of personal anecdotes, from tales about Internet dating to experiences performing in bars. It’s also an opportunity to listen to her rich singing voice. The one-woman show runs at the Gateway Theatre until Saturday (November 21). YOUTH POETRY SLAM FEATURING RACHEL ROSE Poets between 13 and 20 years of age are encouraged to come out and compete for points to try and qualify for the youth slam team playoffs in March 2016. Nov 23, 8 pm, Café Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial). Tix $4-10, info www.vanslam.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK KOOZA Cirque du Soleil presents writerdirector David Shiner’s production that uses acrobatics and clowning to tell the story of a loner in search of his place in the world. To Dec 27, Concord Pacific Place (88 Pacific). Tix from $45 at www.cirquedusoleil. com/, info www.cirquedusoleil.com/. 2015 MODULUS FESTIVAL Music on Main presents a musical adventure featuring concerts, dancing, film, and cocktails.
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouver-based artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 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
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, star of TV’s Inside Amy Schumer, 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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Lane aims for the badass side of country Making one wonder if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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dustry, buckshot-country dynamo Nikki Lane confesses to major selfdoubt near the end of an extended interview with the Straight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was wondering near the beginning of this conversation if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a narcissist,â&#x20AC;? the endlessly entertaining singer says, on the line from Chicago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Am I on the phone because I like talking to you or because I like spreading the word?â&#x20AC;? Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of both. This much is clear: Lane is great at interviews, giving answers that are as thoughtful as they are uncompromising and hilarious. By the time things wrap, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have weighed in on everything from why staunch Christians absolutely need to have premarital sex (â&#x20AC;&#x153;You test the merchandise before you fully investâ&#x20AC;?) to what kind of up-and-coming rebel star (hello, Chris Stapleton!) would use his CMA Awards comingout party as an excuse to perform with Justin Timberlake. Refreshingly, Lane doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t duck the questions that pull back the curtain on her private life. Consider â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sleep With a Strangerâ&#x20AC;? off her twangtastic, no-bullshit sophomore album, All or Nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. All space-cowboy guitars and tough-swagger vocals, the track has her hunkering down in a bar determined not to go home until sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found someone to screw. Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s country-music establishment, she suggests, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite know what to make of a female singer who sounds like she means it when rattling off lines like â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can tell me anything you want to/Just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call me after tonight.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not trying to write a hit recordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to evoke a little emotion in people by talking about things that they really do,â&#x20AC;? Lane offers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sleep With a Strangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what do you think about me being a girl and writing that song? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been hearing lately: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Girls donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write songs like that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t girls sleep with strangers? If they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, then how does one stranger end up sleeping with another stranger?â&#x20AC;? If folks can relate to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sleep With a Strangerâ&#x20AC;?, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perhaps because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in Laneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoes, even if they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t willing to admit it in the recording booth. The South Carolinaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;born, Nashville based singer wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shy about mining her personal life for inspiration on All or Nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, to the point where you just know a song like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Manâ&#x20AC;? is about a partner who was anything but. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was married, and I was bent out of shape about it and digging up old songs where I was crying for him to pay attention to my needsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Good Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is about,â&#x20AC;? Lane says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I got divorced. And what happens after you get divorced? You go out dressed up to get drunk and hook up with somebody, which is what â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sleep With a Strangerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is about. Every person I know does that, and if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, then â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wow!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;?
Helping focus her musically on All or Nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach. At the risk of alienating a country audience that expects every modern singer to sound like Shania Twain crossed with early Taylor Swift, the two went into the session open to all ideas. That anything-goes spirit makes All or Nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; a country album in the most rebellious sense of the term, the songs ricocheting from the 80-proof Americana of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Fireâ&#x20AC;? to the creeping swamp blues of the title track. Whether intentionally or by osmosis, Auerbachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gritty but tasteful production draws on everything from Scottish twee pop (â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Talk to Me Like Thatâ&#x20AC;?) to southern-fried â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s garage rock (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Careâ&#x20AC;?). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this Instagram account called We Hate Pop Country,â&#x20AC;? Lane says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The other day the guy who runs it said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Country music isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been hidden from you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And then he had 40 really badass country singers laid out on a map: Sturgill Simpson, Tommy Ash, and Whitey Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; real country singers. I wanna be on that side of the fence.â&#x20AC;? In some ways, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already there, with All or Nothinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; having been hailed as pure gold by a long list of publications that starts with the Guardian and Rolling Stone. That the singer has also toured with acts as varied as Social Distortion, Spiritualized, and Loretta Lynn also speaks volumes about what sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing, mostly because if those veterans have anything in common, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that their bullshit meters are set pretty high. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last thing I want people to say about me is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;That girl can really sing,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Lane says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In country, and even in pop music, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I get it. You can singâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you just ran that note up and down and backwards around the wall, but did you listen to your fucking lyrics?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; A lot of it is so strategic and dumbed-down so that it can be marketed to everyone.â&#x20AC;? The same canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be said of Nikki Lane. > MIKE USINGER
Nikki Lane plays the Cobalt on Saturday (November 21).
King Crimson bassist Levin is drawn to the dark side Whether heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing concert
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Peter Gabriel or jazz rooms with his pianist brother Pete, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one accessory that Tony Levin likes to keep close at hand: a camera. Although the 69-year-old musician is primarily known as one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most inventive bassists, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also got a keen eye, as the images he posts to his blog (www.papabear.com/) readily prove. He does, however, find himself drawn to the dark side. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Always keep in mind that photographs, or at least mine, reflect my mood, not the way the place really is,â&#x20AC;? he explains, on the telephone from his
Nikki Lane unashamedly takes her fashion cues from Johnny Cash.
home in upstate New York. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play in a beautiful sunlit city and someone will say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, I saw your pictures and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dark and foreboding and they look scary.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, yeah, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way I saw it, even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the way it is.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;With my friend Jakko Jakszyk, the singer and guitar player in King Crimson, I usually stay at his house for rehearsals, and he has a beautiful view of pleasant fields and beautiful clouds,â&#x20AC;? Levin continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, I can make it look like a Hieronymus Bosch paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;really scary. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentioned to me: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the way it looks!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And I say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, yeah. This is art!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; When I take a picture, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just how I feel about a thing.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to surmise, then, that the bassist feels exceptionally good about reuniting with guitarist-composer Robert Fripp in King Crimson. (The lineup also includes Jakszyk, Mel Collins on flute and saxophone, and three drummers: Gavin Harrison, Bill Reiflin, and Pat Mastelotto.) The images that Levin has posted from tour stops in Birmingham and Manchester make those industrial English cities look like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been sprinkled with fairy dust, and his road diary is similarly sunnyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a mood, Levin explains, that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enjoyed ever since he picked up the phone to find Fripp at the other end, proposing the return of one of the most progressive of all progressive rock bands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Are you interested?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and mentioned some of his basic ideas for the lineup,â&#x20AC;? Levin relates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not that he needed to: I would have been more than interested no matter who the lineup was. Even as a fan, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad that Crimson is active and doing
something and changing things up, not to mention how pleased I am that this time Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a part of it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honour and a pleasureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, as always with King Crimson, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a challenge, a musical challenge. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of what the band represents to me, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a guy who likes to be challenged, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice combination.â&#x20AC;? Levin has been an occasional member of King Crimson since helping form the classic quartet lineup with Fripp, drummer Bill Bruford, and singer-guitarist Adrian Belew in 1981. His remit, this tour, is to play sets that span everything from the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1969 debut to pieces so new that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being composed in real time, on-stageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; all while staying out of the way of those three drummers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If this was for a bass magazine, I would say that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m playing with less low end and more mid, and a lot more growl,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which happens to be the sound that John Wetton had in the early Crimson, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not why Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing it because the bass-drum factor is big and heavy and thick, in a wonderful way, and my modern bass sound, which is big and heavy and thickâ&#x20AC;Ś I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I need to finish that sentence! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to work out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me also add,â&#x20AC;? he continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different kind of challenge involved, which is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m playing classic Crimson material from before I was in the band, which has classic King Crimson bass partsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; which are great bass parts, by and large. And so part of my challenge is to stay true to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great about those partsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but also to add myself to it, because I really wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be happy being in a King Crimson cover band!â&#x20AC;?
> ALEXANDER VARTY
King Crimson plays the Vogue Theatre next Thursday and Friday (November 26 and 27).
Stone connects the dots with his Lomax Project Most artists think that their latest
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lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, and in the case of Jayme Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new CD thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no hyperbole in that self-assessment. Jayme Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lomax Project is a deep and delicious re-imagining of 19 songs originally captured in the field by pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, and while it was several years in the making, it had also been simmering in the back of Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mind since the day he first decided to become a musician. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The seed of it was planted 20 years ago, when I took up the banjo and started listening to field recordings, read one of Alan Lomaxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early books, and began my interest in folk traditions and folk culture,â&#x20AC;? the Torontoborn Stone explains in a telephone conversation from his Longmont, Colorado, home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And the seeds kept sowing all the years that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done other projects. Field recording has
always been a touchstone in my work in different ways. When I was in Mali, preparing to make the Africa to Appalachia record, I made my own recordings of traditional musicians, and when I made the record called Room of Wonders, many of the songs came from old recordings that I reworked, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a common thread. But then a few years ago I read John Szwedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredible biography, Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World, and all the lights lit up. It connected all these dots that had been present in my music and my musical imagination.â&#x20AC;? After trawling through a good chunk of the more than 30,000 recordings in the Lomax archives, Stone settled on approximately a hundred that he wanted to develop. And then, true to the socialist Lomaxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief that music is the expression of community, he set about assembling a flexible cast of collaborators that eventually included West Virginia roots scholar Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, bluegrass fiddler Brittany Haas, and jazz-guitar wunderkind Julian Lage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like-minded musicians who really have one foot in folk tradition and the other in a more contemporary approachâ&#x20AC;?, he calls them, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borne out by the Lomax Project recording, an uncategorizable blend of lilting Caribbean melodies, deep African grooves, and jazz-informed harmonies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the songs were left practically untouched, especially the a cappella songs from the [Georgia] Sea Islands,â&#x20AC;? Stone explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing needed to be added; you just need to sing the living daylights out of the music. And then others we radically transformed.â&#x20AC;? The transformations continue. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economically and logistically impossible to take a cast of 20 on the road, so Stone has assembled a stripped-down quartet to perform a selection of Lomax Project numbers, along with new arrangements of a further dozen tunes culled from Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s musical wish list. Joining him will be accordion player Moira Smiley, fiddler Sumaia Jackson, and cellist Tristan Clarridge, of roots experimentalists Crooked Still. Smileyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the de facto frontperson, but everybody singsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Stone himself, marking a departure from his formerly exclusive role of banjo virtuoso. And now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotten comfortable with the microphone, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even thinking about writing his own songsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the grand folk tradition, of course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like there are songs in my future, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not particularly in a rush to find them,â&#x20AC;? he says, although he notes that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already been working â&#x20AC;&#x153;slowly and furtivelyâ&#x20AC;? on a few. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll seeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but at the moment Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just revelling in getting to sing and getting to work with all these amazing traditional songs.â&#x20AC;? > ALEXANDER VARTY
Jayme Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lomax Project plays the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam on Thursday and CBC Studio 700 on Friday (November 19 and 20).
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Js who attempt to educate audiences with their erudite musical knowledge tend to end up lecturing to empty dance floors, followed by them losing their tenure at the club. Yes, “Not everyone understands house music,” according to the classic 1998 Eddie Amador track. But it is 2015, so you probably get it a little, as house has been around since the ’80s and its foundation, the four-on-the-floor beat, is the most ubiquitous in all of music. Lila Bujold (aka DJ Beaubien) is someone who understands the important balance of sharing one’s vast, passionate knowledge of the music Lila Bujold, aka DJ Beaubien, has come to realize that even though you while being dance-floor-friendly. You can’t always get what you want, sometimes you get what you need. can catch her every other Friday at the Distillery Bar (1131 Mainland Street) the way this track chops up the vocals Madison Square Garden. Mad props to spinning jazz and soul. Then every in the intro and outro. It makes it great the man who grew up in Port Moody. Saturday at 7 p.m., you can hear the to mix long and slow, and once you influence of those genres on house get into it, the dub-house melodies of WHAT’S UP WITH TWEETING TO music during her radio show, Carte the keys and the soulful, stabby vocals GET A RADIO SHOW? I made a runmake me happy. If ning mix for the Vancouver Sun Run, Blanche Radio, at a song makes me which I was tweeting about and hoping spinzfm.com/. Do So Many DJs dance at home and the Vancouver Sun would repost and either and she’ll gives me chills, as promote. Instead I got a tweet from take you on a Michael Mann this one does, then SPiNZFM, an Internet radio station musical field trip that’ll—gasp—induce the sensation it also becomes one of my top tracks of based in New York, that asked if I had commonly referred to as “fun” while the moment. I think DJs should never a radio show. I tweeted back, “No, but I’d like one!” and that’s literally how stop dancing! helping you stay woke. I got my weekly show, Carte Blanche BEST GIG EVER I honestly think my A SONG THAT CLEARED THE Radio. The Vancouver Sun never did best gig is yet to come and look for- DANCE FLOOR “Spinnin’ ” by Soul- tweet about my mix, but I learned that ward to the opportunities the com- dynamic. It’s a funky house track that sometimes the universe doesn’t give ing year will bring. That being said, samples its melody from the instru- you what you want, it gives you somethis summer I was getting chills over mental of one-hit wonder Skee-Lo’s thing even better that you didn’t even and over while DJing at Chicas in the summertime jam “I Wish”. I love think to ask for. Afternoon, a Pride party. What made everything about this track and still it so special was that it was a private do, but it just cleared the floor and ODDEST REQUEST YOU’VE EVER garden party set outside the Sheraton I had to work hard to win them back. RECEIVED This summer, I was DJing at Prohibition at the Hotel Georgia, Wall Centre in the middle of downtown on a blazing-hot Pride weekend, FAVOURITE VANCOUVER PRODU- and a man in his 50s approached the and I was DJing to a few hundred CER Pomo. His tracks are always up- DJ booth and said that his friend was a beautiful women who were loving my lifting, happy, and really modern. While world-renowned auctioneer and asked many producers today emulate ’90s if I had a mike so his friend could jump soulful house sounds. house and garage sounds, which I do on and “do his thing” for a couple TOP TRACK RIGHT NOW Sebb Jun- have a soft spot for, I find Pomo’s sounds minutes. I didn’t even have to make up ior’s remix of “Leaving Me Again” by are truly unique and of our time. That, something polite—there was no mike. Todd Terry and Stuart Ojelay. I love and he just opened up for Disclosure at Problem solved! -
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE FORD PIER VENGEANCE TRIO Local indie group performs with guests Himalayan Bear and Ida Nilsen. Nov 27, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10 at the door, info www.facebook.com/ events/970979122945353/. HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA Vancouver big band led by John Korsrud tours in support of CD Crush. Nov 28, 8:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $20/15, info www.hardrubber.com/. EWB PRESENTS: JAM FOR A CAUSE Fundraiser features live music by the Poolsharks, Peach Pit, and Class Act. Proceeds go to VOTO Mobile, a Ghanabased tech startup and social enterprise. Dec 3, 7:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees), info www.votomobile.org/. THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR PROJECT The Rogue Folk Club presents acoustic-guitar music by Shari Ulrich, Buckman Coe, Lydia Hol, Itamar Erez, and Wes Mackey. Dec 3, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev15121120/. XXYYXX Electronic musician and producer from Orlando, Florida, with guests Cam Jennings, Cherchez, and Mikey J. Blige. Dec 3, 10 pm–2 am, M.I.A. (350 Water St.). Tix $25, info www.areyoumia.com/. GHOST SHIP OCTAVIUS New York City heavy-metal band with guests OmnisighT and Avoid the Void. Dec 5, 7-10:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $20/15, info www.venuelive.ca/. THE BREAKTHROUGH COUNTRY MUSIC PROJECT Music by country acts Shylo Sharity, Jennifer Zeke, Alex Harrison, Backstage Whiskey, and Peter James Band. Dec 6, 7 pm, The Roxy (932 Granville). Tix $7, info www.facebook. com/events/429066340631037/. SARAH JANE SCOUTEN & THE HONKY TONK WINGMEN The Rogue Folk Club presents Bowen Island country artist and her band. Dec 8, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www.rogue folk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15121720/. MUSHROOMHEAD Cleveland heavy-metal band, with guests Selectric, Unsaid Fate, Saints of Death. Dec 9, 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $24, info www.venuelive.ca/. GREEN VELVET American mutli-genre musician, with guests Kevin Shiu and Aly Abji. Dec 12, 10 pm–3 am, M.I.A. (350 Water St.). Tix $15, info www.areyoumia.com/. VAN DJANGO BELLS Vancouver Gypsyjazz quartet performs hits from new holiday CD Cool Yule, with guests Keith Bennett and L.J. Monterey. Presented by the Rogue Folk Club. Dec 18, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www.roguefolk. bc.ca/concerts/ev15121820/. NERO British electronica trip performs a DJ set. Dec 29, 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $46.50/42.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. JD MCPHERSON Oklahoma rock-and-roll singer-songwriter and guitarist tours in support of latest release Let the Good Times Roll, with guests Honeyhoney. Jan 11, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. VANESSA CARLTON American pop singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Liberman. Jan 14, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. BAIO American electronica musician tours in support of debut solo release The Names. Feb 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges) at www.ticketweb.ca/. YOUNG GALAXY Vancouver indie dreampop band tours in support of latest release Falsework. Feb 10, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. LAKE STREET DIVE Brooklyn-based jazzpop band tours in support of upcoming debut release Side Pony, with guests the Suffers. Mar 1, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Nov
MIKE STUD Rhode Island hip-hop artist performs on his Back 2 You tour, with guests Moosh & Twist: OCD & Futuristic. Mar 3, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $15, info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. HEY MARSEILLES Seattle indie-rock band tours in support of latest release Lines We Trace. Mar 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/. ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER American singer-songwriter and Fiery Furnaces vocalist tours in support of upcoming solo release New View Mar 4, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. AOIFE O’DONOVAN American folk-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of upcoming release In the Magic Hour. Mar 5, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Zulu, Highlife Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. ANDERSON EAST R&B musician from Athens, Alabama, performs on his Devil in Me tour. Mar 5, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JUSTIN BIEBER Canadian pop superstar performs on his Purpose World Tour. Mar 11, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, at www.aeglive.com/. MOTOWN MELTDOWN Motown music performed in support of Seva Canada. Mar 19, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $32 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.ca/. ALESSIA CARA Canadian R&B singersongwriter performs on her Know-It-All Tour. Mar 29, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $24.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR 2016 Metal music by Abbath, High on Fire, Skeletonwitch, and Tribulation. Apr 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. CIARA American R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Jackie. Apr 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Australia garage-psych band tours in support of latest release Paper Mâché Dream Balloon. May 28, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $16 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketweb.ca/. DIXIE CHICKS American country trio performs on its DCX World Tour MMXV1. Jul 7, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 20, 10 am, $131.75/101.75/75.15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
2THIS WEEK HOW THE GROUCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: THE GROUCH & ELIGH American hip-hop duo, with guests Chali 2na, DJ Fresh, the Reminders, Kids, and DJ Seko. Nov 19, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $20-25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
DEAR ROUGE As part of the Straight series, the local electronica rockers perform on their Black to Gold tour, with guests Rah Rah. Nov 20, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $18.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, with guests Brant Bjork & the Low Desert Punk Band, Saviours, and Mothership. Nov 20, doors 6 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix at www.bplive.ca/. JAYME STONE’S LOMAX PROJECT The Vancouver Folk Music Festival presents Moira Smiley, Sumaia Jackson, and Tristan Clarridge. Nov 20, 7 pm, CBC Studio 700 (700 Hamilton). Tix $24, info www.thefestival.bc.ca/. JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Coastal Jazz presents American jazz drummer, bassist Christoph Luty, and pianist Tamir Hendleman, with guest Cory Weeds. Nov 20-21, 8 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $36-42 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/. BORN RUFFIANS Canadian indie-rock band tour in support of upcoming release RUFF, with guests Young Rival. Nov 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $22.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ROBERT DELONG American electronica musician tours in support of upcoming release In the Cards, with guest Coleman Hell. Nov 21, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. YO LA TENGO American indie-rock band tours in support of latest release Stuff Like That There. Features Dave Schramm. Nov 21, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $26.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. LEE HARVEY OSMOND Canadian psychedelic-folk band tours in support of latest release Beautiful Scars. Nov 21, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GOGOL BORDELLO The Georgia Straight presents New York City Gypsy-punk band touring in support of latest release Pura Vida Conspiracy. Nov 21, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Nov 22, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $37.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. THE BARRA MACNEILS CHRISTMAS TOUR 2015 Canadian folk group performs on its annual Christmas concert tour. Nov 21, 8-10:30 pm, St. Andrew’s-Wesley
ELEPHANT STONE Montreal psych rockers tour in support of latest release The Three Poisons. Nov 19, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. AN EVENING WITH GOOD LOVELIES Toronto folk-country trio tours in support of latest release Burn the Plan. Nov 19, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. WILD THRONE Bellingham rock ‘n’ roll band tours in support of full-length debut album Harvest of Darkness. Nov 19, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/. 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, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/10, info www.face book.com/events/1653967578195158/. GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Toronto punk band coheadlines with Brampton stoner-rock outfit, with guests Needs. Nov 20, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $35-45, info www.celticfestvancouver.com/. 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/. MOVITS Swedish hip-hop/swing band, with guests Sidewalk Chalk. Nov 22, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/. SNARKY PUPPY Coastal Jazz presents Texas-born, Brooklyn-based fusion band led by bassist-composer Michael League, with guests Uno Mas. Nov 23, 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $41-53 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketfly.com/, info www.coastaljazz.ca/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY—PART 2 Starring Jennifer Lawrence. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 52
Western pop culture is so comprehensively
2 bathed in fascist thinking that our “enter-
tainment” frequently looks like this, where one set of unlovable, super-militarized grunts is pitted against another, some nonsense about the fight for freedom is superimposed over top, and we’re expected to care about the difference. Indeed, the only thing murkier than the politics of this final chapter in the Hunger Games series is the photography, plummeting to a nadir of incomprehensible visual noise when Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, like you didn’t know) and a flank of whatever-fighters try to take a deci-
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Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 with her flank of fighters determined to take the Capitol.
always negotiating its own level of compromise, even in the relatively robust era, prior to 9/11, when the Spotlight team first started to pull on a thread that led all the way to The Hunger Games concludes with Mockingjay—Part 2; the silky hem of Boston’s CarHaida Gwaii offers up hope from the edge of the world dinal Bernard Francis Law mated Capitol by sewer and, naturally, come up (ruddy Len Cariou, appropriately smug). against a pack of C.H.U.D.s (or something). Which As Globe editors Walter Robinson and Ben would probably look like mobile albino penises Bradlee Jr., it falls to Michael Keaton and John with teeth if you could make anything out. Slattery, respectively, to embody both the virtues Above ground, the entire landscape is lethally and the sins of the press, with a cleverly plotted booby-trapped. Not only that, but Katniss and the reveal that brings even finer shades of grey to a gang have been saddled with Peeta (Josh Hutcher- picture already drained of contrast. Rachel Mcson), there to either help matters or murder every- Adams, Brian D’Arcy James, and Mark Ruffalo are one—nobody’s totally sure, including the audience— left to pound the pavement and do the hard work although, let’s face it, Peeta is really there to whine as the team’s grunts, with Ruffalo especially in his like a fucking bitch for two hours about, oh God, element, furiously chewing his face off as the uneverything. How Katniss ever fell for this simpering healthily driven pit bull Mike Rezendes. insult to the art of casting is beyond me, but since It took Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), an outGale (Liam Hemsworth) is also along for the ride, sider (and a Jew) shipped in from out of state as the director Francis Lawrence can at least take a break Globe’s new chief editor, to persuade the Spotlight from the film’s relentless forward momentum to team to take on the community’s most untouchable have us wonder which lucky man will be taking institution. Not that the problem ended with a boffo Katniss home after she’s assassinated President scoop. Baron’s challenge to his reporters—“Show me Snow (Donald Sutherland) with one of those six ar- that it’s systemic”—is what we need to remember as rows she brought to the revolution. the lights go up on this neatly accomplished movie. The Hunger Games does actually have something > ADRIAN MACK interesting to say about our overmediated “reality” (Julianne Moore’s President Coin is all about winning FRACTURED LAND the propaganda war), if only anyone behind the scenes A documentary by Damien Gillis and Fiona Rayher. of this weirdly unrousing trash had realized it. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 52 > ADRIAN MACK
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one more admirable than environmental activist Caleb Behn. A handsome, super-articulate young man from B.C.’s Peace Country, he’s a sharp critic In 2002, the Boston Globe revealed that a of government bodies and corporate reps who mammoth and continuing child-sex-abuse pillage treaty lands with minimal oversight. He’s scandal was covered up at the highest levels of the also a dab hand with hatchet and hunting rifle, city’s Catholic archdiocese. Spotlight harks back to and has worked hard to keep old ways alive. the paranoid ’70s thriller in its attempt to tell the With his tattoos and Mohawk hair, Behn is seen story, with wintry visuals straight out of Alan J. (All finishing law studies at UVic, with the aim of holdthe President’s Men) Pakula’s playbook and the kind ing the fracking onslaught in check. He’s the affecof spare and beautifully loaded dialogue—courtesy tionate son of a Cree mother and former chief who of Josh Singer and director Tom McCarthy—that works for the oil industry and a Dene father who’s Robert Towne used to specialize in. also a gentle activist. This balancing act has characIf the idea here is to make grown-up viewers feel terized his whole life, which began with a cleft palate smart and maybe a little righteous, then Spotlight he’s sure came from water contamination already succeeds in spades. Singer and McCarthy are griev- rampant in northeastern B.C. a quarter-century ago. ing the loss of good reporting as much as anything, Behn’s education, and ours, is followed—all without ignoring the fact that the fifth estate is the way to New Zealand, which is facing a similar
Starring Michael Keaton. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 52
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CARRIE-ANNE MOSS The woman formerly known as Trinity is clearly excited about her role in Marvel’s Jessica Jones, premiering Friday (November 20) on Netflix. Not just because the noir-ish detective series blasts through the glass ceiling of comics, and not just because she plays the first openly gay character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “It’s a very creative time in television,” the Vancouver native tells the Straight, enthusiastically talking up the show and its able lead, Krysten Ritter. “Cable is what independent films used to be.” Read more at Straight.com. -
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HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD A documentary by Charles Wilkinson. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 52
The third film in an eco-minded triptych by
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counters the creeping despair that underpinned Peace Out and Oil Sands Karaoke with a pretty memorable tag line: “Maybe we’re not totally screwed.” (Are they putting that on the poster?) To his credit, Wilkinson’s film builds a sturdy case for hope, a wispy commodity that we probably need to either jettison completely or convert into something a lot more meaningful, like real and decisive action. Haida Gwaii itself is a paradise that was snatched from the jaws of total obliteration, and Wilkinson lays out the tragic dimensions of its story. Those islands off the northwest coast of B.C.— “Canada’s Galápagos”, as one of the film’s talking heads reminds us—once boasted more diversity and biomass than the Amazon. Now a sickening twothirds of its old-growth forest has been lost to logging. Prior to that, smallpox brought the aboriginal population to the brink of extinction. But the point here is that Haida Gwaii entered a period of recovery that really began when the Haida Nation and erstwhile outsiders finally stood up to the forest industry, with Gwaii Haanas National see next page
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PLAYTIME Jacques Tati’s enduringly wonderful, 1967 comedy is presented by artist Vikky Alexander as part of Traces That Resemble Us at the Cinematheque on Thursday (November 19), preceded by Harold Lloyd’s 1928 feature Speedy.
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KINGS OF THE ROAD The ’theque’s Wim Wenders retrospective also continues, with four screenings of the film considered by most to be his greatest achievement, from Friday to Sunday (November 20 to 22).
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ERIC CLAPTON LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL: SLOWHAND AT 70 That title is almost as long as the man’s career. The Vancity Theatre celebrates 50 years of the original Bluesbreaker, aka “God”, on Monday (November 23).
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environmental crisis, and back—by directors Damien Gillis and Fiona Rayher. Their visual aesthetics, atmospheric music, and smart graphics go way beyond what’s needed for the story, adding a layer of sheer physical beauty that’s its own argument for preserving what’s left of our sadly abused land. That’s just one reason the 75-minute work was named best B.C. film at this year’s VIFF. A big part of Behn’s personal appeal, and his efficacy, comes with his hard-won skill at inducing sympathetic, sometimes even honest, responses from people on the other side of the ideological divide. “On a deeper level, we all feel fractured,” says one petroleum-industry spokeswoman, during an informal meeting in Calgary. That’s certainly a far more introspective thought than anything ever uttered by Smiler-in-Chief Christy Clark, here seen hawking LNG even as the market collapses. Fractured Land does a lot to tell us where we are in 2015. And its most important message is that Canada’s native peoples are a more valuable resource than anything we can pull out of the ground.
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THE ROOM James Franco’s favourite worst movie returns to the Rio Theatre on Friday (November 20) for a 12th-anniversary screening. Greg Sestero spoke of Room auteur Tommy Wiseau’s “berserker charisma” during a Straight interview in 2013, but you can ask your own questions when the actor holds a live script-reading and Q&A after the film. The evening wraps with the Vancouver premiere of Sestero’s newest, Dude Bro Party Massacre III (featuring Patton Oswalt!). NOVEMBER 19 – 26 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 49
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BROOKLYN Starring Saoirse Ronan. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 52
Buttressed by Nick Hornby’s lit-
2 erate script and an unforgettable
performance by Saoirse Ronan as a young Irishwoman adrift in 1952 New York, Brooklyn is a perfectly judged journey in time and place. What’s most memorable isn’t the huge sweep of social history, but simply the steady accretion of small, deeply human feelings. Many come courtesy of veteran theatre director John Crowley, who channels them through Ronan, here making the transition from child actor to bold young adult. When we meet Eilis Lacey, she’s little more than a frightened slip of a girl from stuck-in-time Enniscorthy, in southeastern Ireland. Beholden to her horrible shopkeeper boss (Bríd Brennan) and fatherless, she’s close to her forceful older sister Rose (Fiona Glascott) and permanently sad mum (Jane Brennan). Somehow, Rose has organized Eilis’s passage to America, complete with a place to stay in Brooklyn and a job at a nearby department store. The sea voyage is a fitting metaphor for her whole journey, which starts with a lot of throwing up and ends with Eilis solidly on both feet. In an atmosphere of postwar cynicism leavened by peacetime hope, she’s given help on the boat and then at her boarding house, ruled with an iron wit by Julie Walters’s sharp-eyed dorm mother. She’s awful at the job, as noted by her sleek manager (Jessica Paré, reminding us that this was largely shot in Montreal). But things pick up when the girl is nurtured by a kindly priest (Jim Broadbent) and then falls for a sweet-tempered ItalianAmerican boy (The Place Beyond the Pines’ Emory Cohen). When family matters suddenly call Eilis back to Ireland, she meets the fine scion of local gentry (Ex Machina’s Domhnall Gleeson), further complicating her choices. Brooklyn isn’t really a romantic melodrama, nor is it a stuffy period piece. The movie may feel too still for some tastes, but it’s a rare slice of poignant life, with Eilis and the rest all hovering daily between joy and sorrow.
Starring Seth Rogen. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 52
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cancer dramedy 50/50, the followup from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and director Jonathan Levine comes with pretty high expectations. Emphasis on the high. The Night Before is a stoner comedy about three friends (the suddenly ubiquitous Anthony Mackie joins in the proceedings) who are undertaking the last in a series of Christmas Eve pub crawls/blowouts in New York City. Chris (Mackie) has become a famous athlete and is a little too busy to keep hanging out with his pals. Isaac (Rogen) is a lawyer who needs to put childish things behind him. And Ethan (Gordon-Levitt) is the inspiration for their annual ritual, the one who loves it desperately because he has the least going on. Given that this filmmaking team could find the funny side of cancer, you’d think they would have interesting angles on Christmas, a season of endless absurdity and conflict. Indeed, the filmmakers aren’t shy about introducing absurdity and whimsy, particularly in the form of a wraithlike pot dealer played by Michael Shannon, or creating some unexpectedly beautiful visual compositions. But the movie is more interested in its characters, and how their brotherhood has been displaced by newer ties to in-laws and responsibilities. This isn’t a particularly happy idea, which might explain why a generally cheerful, silly, and recklessly gross movie also feels paradoxically sobering, even—or especially—when its manchildren are at their most baked. > RON YAMAUCHI
LOVE THE COOPERS Starring Diane Keaton and John Goodman. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 52
As anyone who’s ever seen the
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mas Story knows, there’s such a thing as too much. Apparently, the filmmakers behind Love the Coopers missed the memo, overstuffing the new holiday offering with enough characters, dysfunction, and Yuletide clichés for several movies. Add a batty old aunt and a talking dog for good measure. We can probably blame the middlebrow favourite Love Actually for starting the trend toward these tapestrylike takes on Christmas. But where that film found a subtle bittersweetness and some genuine laughs, Love the Coopers flits between depressing scenarios and cloying sentimentality. Most surprising are the big stars who’ve signed on for all this. Diane Keaton is the matriarch of the family, trying to pull off the perfect last Christmas dinner before separating from her husband of 40 years (John Goodman). Her sister (Marisa Tomei) is waylaid en route after shoplifting a present and having a deep conversation with the cop who arrests her. Ed Helms plays > KEN EISNER Hank, a divorced dad who’s trying to
hide the fact that he’s lost his job. Alan Arkin is the grandfather, hopelessly devoted to a diner waitress less than half his age (Amanda Seyfried). About the most interesting narrative centres on the hard-bitten Eleanor (Olivia Wilde), a progressive playwright who’s hanging around the airport bar rather than face her judgmental mother; it’s there she starts to flirt with Joe, a right-wing Christian (Jake Lacy, bringing some much-needed subtlety to the proceedings). But even here, Steven Rogers’s flowery writing gets in the way of real feeling: at one point, Eleanor informs the religious Joe she only believes in “the sound of Nina Simone’s voice”. Real people don’t talk that way. Which brings us to Steve Martin’s narration—a constant source of wryly embroidered, literary-sounding commentary that interrupts every scene. When someone invokes It’s a Wonderful Life, it comes off a bit like sacrilege—whichever god or soul singer you pray to. > JANET SMITH
SECRET IN THEIR EYES Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 52
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peoples, obviously, and the story is already so Irish, there was always a danger of overkill. So things are restricted to songs that would actually be played by show bands of the time.” Atypically, for such a detailed period film, Brooklyn uses almost no contemporary pop songs to set the stage. And the filmmaker regrets not being able to further explore the multiculturalism of 1950s Brooklyn. NEW THIS WEEK < “We originally had a scene dealing REPERTORY CINEMAS < with the overt racism of the period, FIRST-RUN SHOW TIMES < and the variety of people living there at that time is something we really NEW THIS WEEK wanted to address,” Crowley says with a sigh, “but there just wasn’t BROOKLYN Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, and Domhnall Gleeson star in time for everything.” Closed Circuit director John Crowley’s On the other hand, Crowley’s ob- drama about an Irish immigrant who vious rapport with actors can’t be lands in 1950s Brooklyn and begins a faulted, from the wonderfully bratty romance. Rated PG. 112 mins. Cineplex Park Theatre kid (James DiGiacomo) who plays the little brother of Eilis’s Brooklyn boy- BY THE SEA Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Mélanie Laurent star in In the Land of friend (Emory Cohen) to Domhnall and Blood and Honey writer-director Jolie’s Gleeson, who usually plays quirky drama about a former dancer and her or comic roles and here gets to play it husband who travel in 1970s France. 122 straight as our heroine’s back-home mins. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas and Cineplex Odeon International Village suitor. But the thespian who most reminds one of Crowley’s dramatic roots FRACTURED LAND A documentary by Damien Gillis and Fiona Rayher is Julie Walter, the quick-tongued dic- directors tells the story of a young indigenous tator of Eilis’s boarding house, filled leader and lawyer who confronts fracking with catty young ladies on the go. in his community. 75 mins. Rio Theatre and “Oh, it wasn’t too much, was it?” Vancity Theatre asks the director, while waiting for a HAIDA GWAII: ON THE EDGE OF THE green tea that never arrives. “To my WORLD Director Charles Wilkinson’s mind, that boarding house was like a documentary explores the islands’ raw beauty. Vancity Theatre kind of theatre, and Julie was meant to be its grande dame, ushering those THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY, PART 2 Francis Lawrence’s adventure girls—soon to be women—into the flick about the leader of a rebellion who larger world outside.” must face her nemesis. Rated PG. 136 mins.
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place. “Saoirse [pronounced “seershah”] is extremely beautiful in a certain kind of light but also looks like a regular person,” Crowley says. “She has an ethereal light and is somehow very grounded at the same time.” The other key factor was an extraordinary screenplay by Nick Hornby, a popular humorist who also did a sensitive adaptation for An Education. “His intuitive grasp is such,” says Crowley, “that I knew he would never take Eilis in the wrong direction.” Brooklyn benefits from gorgeous production design and unusually restrained use of Irish music, mostly in live dance-hall scenes. “I tried to be so careful with that. It’s so easy to slip over into sentimentality. Music is very important to Celtic
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Two things have to happen in order for you to move on. One thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do. Your wife has to express remorse for this affair—and it was an affair, not an adventure—and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt, and, um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal. You don’t give her version of events—why she kept this from you—but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would’ve made you feel worse. This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you would veto the affair if she informed and consulted you. Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard. Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty, and the manipulation, and then take
> BY DAN SAVAGE responsibility for the hurt she caused—that requires a sincere expression of remorse—and promise it won’t happen again. She shouldn’t promise not to fuck around on you again. You don’t want that, right? What she’s promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again, and not to avoid informing and consulting you again. And one more thing that won’t do: she won’t humiliate you again. You feel emasculated in the wake of this affair because her summer fuck buddy knew what was up when you two met and you didn’t. He knew who you were (the husband), but you didn’t know who he was (the fuck buddy). Now here’s the thing you have to do, CUCKS: you have to forgive your wife. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, massive loads were blown. The fact that there was an upside for you even in this messy affair (see: massive loads, blown) should make forgiving your wife a little easier.
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I’ve spent this last year back on the dating market, and it’s horrible. I have a reasonably pretty face, I’m fit, and I take care of myself. I have my life together—friends, interests, job—and I’m emotionally stable. I go out, I enjoy meeting people, I’m on Tinder. And I keep hearing that with a huge inf lux of young dudes, Seattle is an easy place to date as a woman. So why am I finding it so hard? I can get casual sex, and
that’s fun. But as far as finding a relationship beyond just fuck buddies, it’s depressingly predictable: guy acts interested, texts me all the time, but eventually starts fading away. I’ve asked close friends to be honest with me; I even had a heartto-heart with an ex-boyfriend. Everyone says I’m not doing anything wrong. Are they all lying to me? I’m currently seeing someone I really like. When we’re together, it seems like he likes me a lot. But now he’s starting to do the fade. I’m really sad and anxious. It’s killing my soul to be rejected constantly.
So here’s what you can do: chill the fuck out; listen to your friends, your ex, and your advice columnist; and stop melting down about what sounds like a thoroughly normal love life, BAD, not an unfolding catastrophe.
This is NGAA, the guy you advised to make a gay friend and listen to some musicals with him. I didn’t find a gay friend, but I did buy recordings of the shows you suggested and I’ve been listening to the songs you recommended. I don’t know them by heart yet, so I have more lis> BUMMED ABOUT DATING tening to do. But Mr. Stephen Sondheim’s message seems to be that I You’ve been “back on the dating need to quietly move on. Thanks for market” for one year, BAD. Twelve your answer, Dan. It really helped. > NO GOOD AT ACRONYMS measly months! And in that time, you’ve dated/fucked a handful of men and nothing panned out. That Thank you for writing back, NGAA, sounds pretty normal. If you ex- and for listening to the shows I recpected to be back in a committed ommended: Company, Follies, and relationship within weeks, BAD, A Little Night Music. My advice for then your unrealistic expectations you made a lot of my other readers are the source of your grief, not angry—really angry. They accused your thoroughly typical dating/ me of blowing you off and not answering your question and failing at mating/fading experiences. There are worse things than being this whole advice-column thing. But single for a year or two in your 20s. I didn’t blow you off. I directed you, Get out there and meet men, pursue as I’ve directed many other readers, those non-men interests, and throw to the expert I thought could help yourself into your work. Being single you. In your case, NGAA, that peris not an aggressive cancer—there’s son was Mr. Stephen Sondheim. no immediate need for a cure—and panicking about being single isn’t On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Jonathe secret to romantic success. (And than Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill. being single means being miserable Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow only if you convince yourself that Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ fakedansavage/. single = miserable.)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 12, 2015 WHERE: Main St. The guy trying to pick out a candle (last Thursday I believe). You were caught off guard by one of the scents; we exchanged a few words and I was caught off guard by your charm. It wasn’t until after I left the store that I realized what had happened. Now every time I look at/ burn the candle I fondly remember your gasp/chipped nail polish.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 16, 2015 WHERE: Nestor’s Hastings and Abbott
SUNDAY, 22 BUS ON HASTINGS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 15, 2015 WHERE: 22 MacDonald bus @ Carrall and Hastings We both got on the 22 at Carrall and Hastings heading east on Sunday at 2:45pm. You didn’t have a ticket so I gave you one. I sat across from you with my bud hand talkin. You stopped my heart. Cold. Tea? Chinatown?
BK MARKET (HASTINGS AND NANAIMO)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 15, 2015 WHERE: BK Market (Hastings and Nanaimo)
I was in line behind you in Nestor’s at Hastings and Abbott tonight 6:30/7pm. You bought a bunch of healthy items including organic kale and eggs, and were dressed in black athletic wear (North Face jacket). You gave a phone number that brought up a female name... girlfriend? Single? Hopefully. Sigh. What a babe...
Me, tall red-head, fingering the tomatoes looking for the ripest and juiciest one. You, green-haired Asian beauty, playing with the cucumbers. Our eyes locked for a second. Let’s get together and toss some salad.
BEAUTIFUL GINGER GIRL
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 13, 2015 WHERE: The Met
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 13, 2015 WHERE: On Cordova at Main I was on my way to work on Cordova when we passed each other under the construction cover near Main. You smiled and went on your way. My heart stopped, but not my feet. Coffee? Lunch?
PARADISE IN THE PAINT DEPARTMENT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 8, 2015 WHERE: Home Depot on Cambie and 8th Your name was Alex (at least that’s what your apron said, but I couldn’t be sure because it looked like it was written by a 4 year old), you made me a bunch of weird paint colours and suggested I burn my heritage home down. I like your nose ring and the fact that you don’t like Madonna. PS. My room looks awesome and I’m still looking for things to paint copper.
BEAUTIFUL BRUNETTE IN GREY DRESS AT THE MET
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At The Met on Friday night. You were with a group of friends at one of the round tables. I was standing at the small side bar with friends. We made eye contact numerous times. I wanted to come over to introduce myself but you were with quite a few people so I never found the right time. I’d love a chance to get to know you. Coffee? Dinner? Me: Dark & Handsome, scruffy beard
PRETTY BLONDE AT NO. 5
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Orange No. 5 Very odd place for an I Saw You but I guess it could happen anywhere. You were there with a guy (middle eastern looking). It looked like a date or something. I felt like you and I made eye contact several times. I can’t stop thinking about it. I was standing a couple tables away from you.
WHAT’S IN THE BUCKET?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 14, 2015 WHERE: #3 Bus Downtown Heya Joshua, I was really enjoying our conversation about Wreck Beach but I had to get off at my stop - I’d love to continue it sometime! Helena
PRISCILA AT NANAIMO STATION
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 12, 2015 WHERE: Hornby Street Bike Lane We were biking the same way on Hornby and you looked about as happy as I felt to be biking through the pouring rain. I love the attitude that allows people to smile at downpours, and you have a beautiful smile. Lunch sometime?
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 14, 2015 WHERE: Nanaimo Station
DOUBLE-TAKE IN WHOLE FOODS...
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 11, 2015 WHERE: Whole Foods Cambie St
BUS 16 FRIDAY 13TH
Clocked you just as you passed me daughter in hand double take and an enchanting smile we said hello and I walked backwards for long enough to see you take another look loved your boldness and your natural beauty care to meet again? I think you know who I am...
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 13, 2015 WHERE: Bus 16 29th Avenue Station You got on at Granville and smiled. Me, green hoodie and Canadians hockey cap, smiled back and went back into my book. Mistake! You got off at Hastings & Campbell with a big smile you turned to me, I said good night and wanted to get off the bus with you. My bad for not speaking up. Coffee?
GOOD FOR GRAPES AT THE IMPERIAL
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 12, 2015 WHERE: The Imperial Sitting next to each other rocking out and I’m regretting not asking for your number at the end of the night. You are very cute and seem like a cool person that I want to get to know more. I was the dude in a wheelchair and you were wearing a white top and had short brown hair.
SPECTRE - SCOTIABANK THEATRE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Movie Theatre You sat down alone with your ice cream and completely captivated me. Red hair, leather coat and boots, pale skin and stunning taste in rings and accessories. You are beautiful. Really beautiful.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 4, 2015 WHERE: Broadway Station Platform to Gilmore Last Wednesday afternoon... you’re hard to miss... can’t forget what you showed me at Broadway Station waiting for the train. Your stop was Gilmore if I remember, we were sitting across and facing each other making eye contact several times... how you doing ?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 11, 2015 WHERE: Pacific Center in the Lobby area - Street Level Pacific Center around 3pm today, I can’t forget your smile. You amazing Asian girl in black yoga pants, leather jacket and RUDSAK bag, talking with your other cute friends and looking at me while I was talking over the phone. I miss the chance to say hi but I had to complete this call for work. Will you give me a second chance?
HUBBA HUBBA AT THE HUB
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Hub Restaurant, New West
At first you walked past me as we made eye contact, you were a bit shorter than me tattooed and pierced (sexy beared to boot) we were both out of our elements to say the least. You had been at a mining camp for the past few months and needed to break the sausage fest. You showed me your work while your passed out Aussie roommate snored next to kitty poo, then later slipped into a steamy scrub down and ignored a Russian documentary by Vice magazine. You finished off what felt more like a reunion of old friends than a business transaction with a private fashion show. If you don’t know who I am still by now does a UNICORN ONESIE ring a bell. I lost your number. And now I am not obsessed or looking for you to be my boyfriend. You're just too cool to never talk to again. Coffee or drinks ? No charge this time.
You: Pretty, dirty blond (hopefully really dirty) slight build, sensually beautiful face. Me: Robust and smooth, dark hoodie and hat. We sat across from each other and caught eyes a few times. I raised a glass to you at the end. You gave me a wink. Maybe we can connect soon?
FUSE@VAG
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 6, 2015 WHERE: Vancouver Art Gallery Hello Sexy. We met last Friday @ FUSE in the Gallery Cafe where I pulled up a chair to sit next to you and your friend. We both enjoyed the Canadian Landscapes and I enjoyed your company. I want to see you again. Please help me make that happen.
BK, SUNDAY, HIGHGATE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 8, 2015 WHERE: Burger King, Highgate in Burnaby on Kingsway
CHECKING ME OUT... CAN’T FORGET YOUR SMILE!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 11, 2015 WHERE: Hastings Stroll
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 saw 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 hungover and looked like trash so I didn’t approach you. You were very handsome and interesting looking. If you're single let's chill, I’d like to see what your about... And I sware I clean up 100% better!!!
HASTINGS STEAM 3:30PM SAT 7 NOV
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Hastings Steam, Hastings and Hawks, East Van Me: black hair, blue eyes, 5’10” toned muscles... You: gorgeous, blonde (longer dreads), Spanish, younger. In the dark cooler sauna, I especially loved kissing you, you are so smokin’ hot, and sweet! I think I got the pronunciation of your name correct after we chatted... you said my name as you left... I think we could spend more time together.... no pressure or expectations, but your energy is quite rare, your kisses exquisite... I would be deeply honoured if we took this further, see where it goes... B.
CHEWIE’S OYSTER BAR
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2015 WHERE: Chewie’s Oyster Bar Saturday night... Pretty Asian lady in the bathroom lineup... we shared a giggle and then you said “nice to talk with you”. Maybe we could continue that? I was at the next table over with a group of old friends. Yes, I’m single :)
004 BUS STARE DOWN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 6, 2015 WHERE: Dundas 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 its worth a shot.
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s I mentioned in last week’s column, a new 18-month karmic work-through-it cycle has just begun, for both our personal and collective experiences. Straddling the Pisces/Virgo axis, the cycle will reveal what we’ve missed seeing previously. There’s folly in underestimating or ignoring a problem or issue when it arises. There’s also folly in getting distracted by the small stuff. On the other hand, even taking a small step or making a small contribution can do major good. The Virgo end of things suggests that we have significant repair, healing, and upgrading to do, and that we’ll be gifted with the opportunity to get to work. As we move through the next 18 months, we’ll be offered more tools to try and resources to explore. As we’re already witnessing via the tragic plight of refugees and the formidable terrorism cancer that now infiltrates the nucleus of everyday life, we can face crises and loss of epic proportions. Life, learning, love; reclaiming and repairing our humanity—it is all process and we are steeped in it now. This karmic cycle may not bring a solid conclusion or resolution, but it is one that keeps it moving along. On the plus side of things, if this is your moment to reap, wonderful potentials can open up for you. Mercury enters Sagittarius on Friday and the sun does the same on Sunday. Monday’s Venus opposition to Uranus through Wednesday’s Gemini full moon keeps travellers, commerce, the conversation, and the news in full swing.
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ARIES
March 20–April 20
On Friday, you can’t get to it all, but you’ll get through more than usual. The next week is good for travel, play, sales, and setting bigger wheels in motion. Sunday/Monday strikes a chord, brings release, and/or puts it on a faster move-along. Tuesday evening, it’s done, you’re done. Full-moon Wednesday and into Thursday sets you onto a smoother next page.
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June 21–July 22
One way or another, Mercury and the sun now put you to work. Consider it a good thing and aim for a touchdown. Over the next week, the more you put into it, the further you’ll get and the greater the reward. Leading into the full-moon week ahead, Monday could be an instigating or jump-on-it day.
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LEO
July 22–August 23
You’ll hit a better movealong now. Mercury into Sagittarius, starting Friday, can put earnings and profits on the upswing, but it can also see you spend a lot more. In addition to the holiday extras, it seems there’s a big-ticket item or two biting into your list. Monday/Tuesday, the Taurus moon has you mixed at full strength. Wednesday/Thursday works out well.
Saturday/Sunday, you’re hot stuff in action. On Monday, you’re on the live broadcast; Venus/ Uranus sparks a brainstorm, an opportune conversation, exciting news, and great selfie action. Watch for someone or something to pop up unexpectedly. Rely on instincts. A spontaneous purchase or instant hit strikes it just right. You could feel spent by Tuesday evening, but come full-moon Wednesday you’re in top form again.
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GEMINI
May 21–June 21
Mercury and the sun now exit your tough-it-out sector. That’s not to say you’re released from active duty, but rather that you’ll gain a fresh and helpful wind. Mercury/ sun can open up a new dialogue, gift you with greater perspective, and/or dish up better prospects. Monday’s Venus/Uranus and Wednesday’s Gemini full moon light a fresh spark and/or keep the good buzz going strong.
VIRGO
August 23–September 23
Settling in, uprooting, or simply powering up for the holiday onslaught, Mercury and the sun in Sagittarius pile it on you. You can try to avoid or downplay all the seasonal hoopla, but you’re not immune. Sunday/Monday could launch a spending spree. Venus/ Uranus can also spark a fresh idea, an impulse, a windfall, or a saving grace. Take it in stride, Tuesday through Thursday.
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September 23–October 23
If you feel too swamped or overwhelmed on Friday, let it slide. Saturday through Tuesday, you can get further/faster. Sunday/ Monday, something unplanned or fresh can do the trick quite nicely. You could be let off the hook; someone could gift or surprise you. Tuesday evening could finish you off, but Wednesday/Thursday, the full moon sets you up for another go-round. October 23–November 22
Both Mercury and the sun leave your sign now, but even with a finish line, deadline, or break in sight, you aren’t going to gear down much. Saturday through Monday puts plenty, perhaps extra, on the go. Not to worry, though— you’ll keep up quite well. Tuesday/Wednesday, the stars run the gamut. Planned or not, a bare-it-all talk could be well timed.
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November 22–December 21
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On Friday, you can make your way without attracting much notice, but if you want more attention, just ask for it. Saturday through Tuesday, it’s one thing after another. You’ll find a special knack for using your time, instincts, and resources to your best advantage. Tuesday through Thursday is great for catching up— with others or yourself. January 20–February 18
As of Friday, you can lighten up and still stay on top of what you need to. Saturday through Monday, you’re a sharpshooter. On the spot does it best. Tuesday can be a slower go, but you’ll still get the job done. Wednesday/Thursday, the full moon could clue you in and/or bring a (welcome) diversion. February 18–March 20
Neptune, your ruler, now picks up better speed. Thursday/Friday provides you with fresh fuel. Despite the extras and/or diversions, you’ll motor along quite well through Monday. On Tuesday, stay selective: choose quality. Just as soon as you call it quits for the night, there’s more. Socially or moneywise, Wednesday’s full moon serves a great perk-me-up. -
No matter how much you have on the go, for the most part, you should stay on top of it very well. Mercury and the sun are good for an energy and inspiration boost. Venus/ Uranus can make for an especially upbeat, busy, and/or social Sunday/ Monday. Sidetracks can be fun, lucrative, expensive, or stimulating. Wednesday/Thursday makes for great Book a reading with Rose Marcus at connecting, sharing, and storytelling. www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/.
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