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REZONINGS TO REDUCE TREES AND PRIVACY

The City of Vancouver is proposing the blanket rezoning of two-family areas in Kitsilano and Kensington– Cedar Cottage. Its objective is to create more housing choices in these neighbourhoods. These new options are laneway houses, secondary suites within two-family lots, and additional opportunities for infill and multipleconversion dwellings. But there would be “trade-offs”, according to a city staff report to council. One impact would be the loss of trees. There would also be fewer areas for green spaces. “While an effort will be made to retain trees where feasible, there may be tree loss to allow for infill and new buildings,” Dan Garrison, assistant director for housing policy and regulation, writes in the report. “New landscaping will be provided but there will be less green space due to increased site coverage and parking requirements.” Privacy would also take a hit. “Since more limited infill development has occurred in these [two-family] neighbourhoods over the years, residents enjoy a high degree of privacy,” Garrison notes. “Additional duplexes, infill to more lots, and laneway houses will mean that there will be more people living in the rear yards of properties, which can be expected to raise issues of overlook and privacy.” The blanket rezoning would also make it more difficult to find street parking. “While these areas are highly walkable and transit accessible, people still own vehicles and additional housing options will place more pressure on street parking,” Garrison writes. A number of character homes would also be demolished for new development. According to the report, “These changes will be balanced to achieve the best outcomes, but some objectives conflict and trade-offs would be required to accommodate more housing choice in neighbourhoods across Vancouver.” The wholesale rezoning of two-family areas in Kitsilano and Kensington–Cedar Cottage will be subject to a public hearing on September 18. Council is also scheduled on the

same day to hold a public hearing on the city’s plan to mass-rezone more than 67,000 single-family lots for duplexes. > CARLITO PABLO

ACTIVISTS SOUND ALARM ABOUT OVERDOSES

This Friday (August 31) is International Overdose Awareness Day, when gatherings around the world will call attention to a drug problem that’s increasingly global. In Vancouver, the day’s main event is scheduled to begin on the south side of the Vancouver Art Gallery at 7 p.m. Five years into an epidemic of drug-overdose deaths that shows no sign of abating, Tabitha Montgomery concedes that advocates like her are frustrated. “But this frustration only makes people more tenacious, more creative,” Montgomery told the Straight. “With that frustration, I’m not going anywhere.” She lost her father and a best friend to drug addictions. In a telephone interview, she noted that previous rallies have largely served as calls for an expansion of harm-reduction measures, such as supervised-injection sites. She said that this year’s event will focus more on treatment and prevention. “Harm reduction is wonderful,” explained Montgomery, who’s facilitating the event. “It keeps people alive. But we need to keep moving forward, to accessible, dignified, and regulated detox, treatment, and long-term housing, so people don’t end up back at square one.” Speakers will include Darwin Fisher, a long-time manager at North America’s first supervisedinjection facility, Insite, as well as the B.C. Centre on Substance Use’s Cheyenne Johnson and members of Moms Stop the Harm, a group of parents who’ve lost children or whose families struggle with addiction issues. Earlier in the evening on August 31, beginning at 5 p.m., a more intimate gathering will take place in the Downtown Eastside, at 62 East Hastings Street. “Let our sorrows increase our joy for seeing one another alive,” an event poster reads. “As we dance to raise awareness and [hold a] candlelight vigil on Friday August 31st. Please join us. Shine the light. Dance for decrim [the decriminalization of drugs].” Last year, there were 1,451 illicit-

drug overdose deaths in B.C., the highest number of any province in Canada despite B.C. having a much smaller population than Ontario and Quebec. > TRAVIS LUPICK

GROUP SEEKS CHANGE IN CITY’S APPROVAL PROCESS

Suggestions for a Vancouver citywide development plan seem to be gaining ground. The idea of a comprehensive blueprint could be emerging as a major campaign issue in this year’s October 20 civic election. So far, two parties—the Coalition of Progressive Electors and Yes Vancouver—have started talking about this concept. Moreover, the Vancouver Greens may include it in their platform. With the growing interest in a citywide plan, a grassroots organization that has been advocating for this measure is poised to gain a bigger platform. Alicia Barsallo, chair of the Residents for Community Control on City Development, told the Straight by phone that the group was formed in 2015 out of frustration over what is seen as token community consultations on major developments in the city. A citywide plan, which establishes the minimum number and types of housing, services, and amenities in each community, is one of twin approaches that RCCCD is proposing to empower communities. The other is providing residents a chance to say yes or no to major developments, like towers. “The most important thing to gain is that there can be no significant rezoning of a neighbourhood without a vote,” Barsallo said. In its draft platform, COPE talks about the creation of a “co-design committee” in each neighbourhood. The committee will formulate a local plan, which will become part of an overall citywide program. Barsallo said that COPE’s approach is “not incompatible” with RCCCD’s idea. Yes Vancouver’s concept is one that will rezone areas on a wholesale basis, and remove city council from the approval process. RCCCD is inviting candidates to a forum about how to govern future developments in the city on September 19, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Shamrock Hall (2881 Main Street). > CARLITO PABLO

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ne of the most dramatic human-rights stories of the year concerned the widow of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. Liu was jailed in 2008 and was later convicted of inciting subversion after launching a petition called Charter 08, which demanded democracy, the rule of law, and an end to censorship in China. His widow, poet Liu Xia, remained under house arrest until her husband’s death last year. But rather than spend the rest of her life living under these conditions in Beijing, Liu Xia was permitted to fly to Berlin in July, reportedly to seek medical treatment. The Chinese government’s decision to allow her to leave the country coincided with major commercial deals being reached between Germany and China. One of Liu Xiaobo’s close friends, Chinese poet Bei Ling, helped facilitate the transfer by campaigning for Liu’s widow’s release. He wrote an open letter, coauthored an article in the Guardian, and gave interviews to western media outlets, often from his home in Taiwan, where he lives in exile from his beloved hometown of Beijing. On Sunday, as part of TaiwanFest, Bei Ling (a pen name) will be in Vancouver to speak about how Liu Xia was freed—as well as his own experience being jailed in China. “In the open letter, I said she’s a writer-artist, she’s not a political person,” Bei Ling told the Georgia Straight by phone from Boston, where he was in transit on his way to Toronto. “She only married a political person.” Bei Ling wrote a book about Liu Xiaobo, which was translated into German and helped the cause of Liu’s widow. Bei Ling also credited German chancellor Angela Merkel, saying her experience growing up in repressive East Germany prepared her for negotiations with the Chinese government. In addition, a high-profile Chinese writer in exile in Germany, Liao Yiwu, also amplified concerns about Liu Xia’s fate. According to Bei Ling, Liu Xia left China with 14 pieces of luggage, which included “all her memories, her likes, and her husband’s things”. Bei Ling’s story is equally dramatic. In the 1990s, he was publishing a literary magazine in Beijing called Tendency. During this period, he struck up friendships with many writers outside of China, due to being an author in residence at Brown University, a visiting fellow at Bonn University, and a research associate on modern Chinese literature at Harvard University. One of those friends was American writer Susan Sontag, who supported

his efforts to publish Tendency. “She warned me that to bring this to China and print it may be dangerous,” Bei Ling recalled. “I told her, ‘It’s okay. It’s not a political magazine. It’s a literature magazine.’ She said, ‘You have to be careful.’ ” Bei Ling told Sontag that the issue featured the great Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, so there was nothing to be concerned about. He was wrong. Chinese authorities arrested him in the summer of 2000 and kept him in jail for two weeks for making an “illegal publication”. That’s when Sontag demonstrated true friendship. “Susan directly called [then secretary of state] Madeleine Albright,” Bei Ling said. “She says, ‘You have to help my friend Bei Ling, a Chinese citizen, who’s spent several years in America. He established a literature magazine in Boston and he needs to be released.’ ” Albright phoned China’s then vice-premier, Qian Qichen, to ask why Bei Ling had to be kept in jail. According to Bei Ling, the two governments engaged in negotiations and he was given a choice: leave jail and go into exile or serve 10 years in prison. He was given two hours to make up his mind and 20 hours to leave the country. He reluctantly decided to leave Beijing and was driven to his parents to bid them farewell and collect his belongings. On his way to the airport, he said, he closely studied the landscape, realizing that he might never return. Bei Ling relishes his freedom living in Taiwan, describing the country as civilized, caring, and culturally sophisticated. And he said that because the Taiwanese speak his native language of Mandarin, he feels at home in the island nation. He also insisted that Taiwan is possibly the freest country in the world. He said, for instance, that people can yell at police officers without feeling their wrath. He also pointed out that Taiwanese students occupied the legislative chamber and executive offices of the Taiwanese government during the 2014 Sunflower Movement. “In any country, even in America, they will send you to jail for doing this,” Bei Ling said. “In Taiwan, they let them stay there until they left by themselves.” Bei Ling will speak at 5 p.m. on Sunday (September 2) at the Orpheum Annex as part of TaiwanFest. The festival takes place in downtown Vancouver along Granville Street and at the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza from Saturday to Monday (September 1 to 3).

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different. I wanted to see something that reflected my friends, my cannabis tribe,” says MaryBeth Lafferty, photographer and founder of the creative marketing agency Blüm & Grow. Lafferty was commissioned by the Vancouver-based organic cannabis product company Miss Envy Botanicals to organize the high-tea event. She says as the culture shifts, there is room to explore new design concepts around cannabis consumption—including feminine themes. “We decided to go with a bit of a play on an Alice and Wonderland theme, very whimsical and sweet. It’s not something we’ve really seen much of in the Vancouver cannabis space, and now is definitely the time to play around with new concepts for different consumers.” Lafferty says she is catering to the community she wants to be a part of, adding that she thinks creators from all demographics need to help expand the scope of consumptionfriendly events—not just women. “I just really hope this can be an example of not only future events, but how future cannabis lounges may operate, dispensaries may design their spaces. The more diversity we create in the design aspect, the more customers will have choice to find something that suits their lifestyle,” Lafferty says. These feminized consumptionfriendly events aren’t the only facet of Vancouver’s quickly diversifying landscape of initiatives catering to the ladylike pot smoker. Camille Ritchie, a private cannatherapist, has recently introduced Ellementa to the West Coast—a women’s cannabis networking and educational talk series hosted across North America. The first Ellementa event, a women-only, consumption-free networking night, took place at the end of July. Ritchie hosted around two dozen canna-curious ladies in the newly renovated Aura Dispensary. “It’s providing a platform for women to have candid conversations around not just the medical uses of cannabis for women’s conditions, but to talk

about our experiences as a consumer or buyer,” Ritchie said to a Georgia Straight reporter after the event. The health-focused talk was presented by Kelly Insley, a registered nurse and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Nurses Association, and touched on the role of weed in things like menopause and motherhood. “A lot of women just don’t know what to do or where to start, but they don’t feel comfortable going to a male budtender to ask questions. Ellementa is trying to create that comfortable place for women to come talk about their experiences and feel safe to ask questions,” Ritchie says. On August 15, Ellementa presented its second talk: an evening dedicated to the role of cannabis in women’s sexual health with actor, producer, and cannabis consultant Siobhan McCarthy. From giggling over lubes to managing sex-related pain, the evening answered the most blushworthy of queries. “Please! Ask questions,” said McCarthy to the crowd of women. “Women always do their best learning when talking to one another, and we don’t have to be scared of talking about cannabis anymore.” Granted, there is reason to be frustrated when companies claim to champion the fourth-wave era of feminism by way of a gilded onehitter or hot-pink rolling papers. But this tactic is nothing new. As the country braces itself for October 17—the official date for the federal legalization of adult-use cannabis—hundreds of businesses are reaching for their slice of the commercial pie, and female consumers are a relatively untapped Canadian market. While many criticize the feminization of cannabis products, the silver lining of these female-focused events and spaces that are being created is that for the women who haven’t been comfortable with the existing marketplace, there may now be a draw to explore the therapeutic and recreational benefits of the highly stigmatized plant. -

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for new vocabulary, Mark believes that neither is able to offer enough words for students to reach a high standard of proficiency, or the context necessary to understand how to use them. The pair decided that individuals learn more naturally by passively reading and listening to long passages, rather than focusing on memorizing individual words and tedious grammar lessons—putting into practice the technique that helped Steve grow his own tally of languages to a cool 16. “LingQ is very much input-based,” Mark says. “There’s a lot of reading and listening, loading up vocabulary, and reading and listening again. The hardest part [with language-learning software] is finding content of interest. The more you enjoy the content, the more motivated you’re going to be. Your brain will start to make sense of the patterns on its own.” The service is simple. Users can browse through LingQ’s archives to find writing on topics they find stimulating, including custommade conversations and texts for beginners, while more advanced learners can upload their favourite ebooks in a foreign language— Harry Potter or novels by Dan Brown, for instance. As the student turns the page, the software automatically highlights new words in blue, and those they are learning in yellow. Words they’ve mastered appears as normal, but if users ever forget their meaning, LingQ offers integrated dictionaries that allow individuals to look them up. The system, Mark says, works for both reading and audio, with an accompanying transcript. “We track all the words that you come across on our system,” Mark says. “It’s saved in your database. Every time you subsequently come across that word, you can click on it to refresh your memory. Over time, your page gets lighter. Those are visual clues that motivate and help you to work your way through the text and the language.” LingQ’s software has seen more than 1.5 million sign-ups since it began, and now boasts about 400,000 site visitors monthly. The service currently offers around 25 languages, with varying amounts of pre-set content for each. Following LingQ’s approach of subconsciously learning by reading and listening to user-imported content, Mark believes, will help individuals advance faster. “A lot of the time, you can feel like you’re not progressing, or that you’ve plateaued,” he says. “The way we present your development helps you feel like you are growing, and getting better and better without you even realizing.” -

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Former world champion magician and ex-ballerina Juliana Chen plans to return to her former home of Vancouver to wow audiences young and old.

Vegas-style illusionists will bring magic to city > BY C HA RL IE SM I TH

etro Vancouver is a region of many languages, which can create barriers between people from different countries. But magic shows manage to transcend linguistic silos because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so visual. Objects appear out of nowhere, often in a colourful milieu, creating a sense of wonder regardless of whether audience members speak English, Mandarin, Farsi, or Swahili. As North Americans cities have become more diverse in the 21st century, this art form is more popular than ever, thanks in part to the spellbinding illusions of superstars like David Blaine and Criss Angel. Vancouverites will get their chance to experience Las Vegasâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;calibre conjuring next Friday to Sunday (September 7 to 9) with seven shows at A World of Magic at the Vancouver Playhouse. The opening event is on the Friday evening, followed by three family-friendly shows on each of the following two days. Presented by impresario James Liu, A World of Magic will feature worldchampion magicians Juliana Chen (also a presenter) and Aaron Crow. Chen was born in Hunan, China, and after training to be a ballerina, she joined the Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been named the best magician in China. After moving to the Lower Mainland, she won the International Federation of Magic Societiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; world championship in the manipulation category in 1997. In so doing, she became the first magician of Chinese ancestry to become the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. For his part, Crow has performed in the Sydney Opera House and on Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Got Talent, attracting millions of page views on YouTube. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all. Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2006 magicians of the year, Murray Hatfield & Teresa, will bring their awardwinning illusions to the Vancouver Playhouse. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll share the stage with magicians Ed Alonzo, Claudius Specht, Kevin James, and Wayne Houchin. Alonzo, also a comic actor and vaudeville performer, is known to many TV viewers for his Groucho Marx eyebrows and Harold Lloyd glasses, not to mention his crazy vertical hairstyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to bring Vancouver audiences a top, world-level performance,â&#x20AC;? Liu said at an August 17 news conference at the Marine Bay Restaurant in Richmond. The president of the 76-year-old Vancouver Magic Circle, Bryn Williams, also spoke at the news conference. He explained that Vancouver has Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest magic club,

with more than 150 members. Many, including Chen, have gone on to become headliners in Las Vegas and international touring magicians. Another of those professional touring artists is the Vancouver Magic Circleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past president, Billy Hsueh, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helping to promote A World of Magic. Williams said that members of his club are particularly excited about Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to Vancouver. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be amazing magic,â&#x20AC;? Williams said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These performers are simply not to be missed.â&#x20AC;? At the news conference, local magicians, including Williams and Hsueh, amazed and at times flabbergasted those in attendance with their tricks. Among those enthralled was Richmond councillor Chak Au, who confessed to being â&#x20AC;&#x153;addicted to magicâ&#x20AC;?. He admitted that he tried to be a magician when he was a young man. After failing in that endeavour, he went on to become a successful professor of clinical psychology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very happy that this Vancouver magic festival is coming to town,â&#x20AC;? Au said at the news conference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I thank the organizers for bringing such a high level for the audience in Vancouver.â&#x20AC;? Joan Elangovan, executive director of the Vancouver Economic Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Asia Pacific Centre, praised Liu at the news conference for contributing to the local economy by bringing A World of Magic to the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With all these trade disputes going on, I think we need some magic here,â&#x20AC;? Elangovan quipped. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need more interactions, understandings, and coming together to do things and enjoy these beautiful cultural aspects of life.â&#x20AC;? For each ticket sold, $3 will go to the Richmond Hospital Foundation. The foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior development manager, Spencer Gall, said that this money will help buy much-needed equipment to enhance health care in Richmond. He also couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist highlighting the parallels between magicians and medical personnel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we think about magic, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mysterious and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun and people get a lot of happiness watching the performers,â&#x20AC;? Gall commented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit similar to a hospital. In the hospital, our health-care professionals do their magic and they try their best to bring good health, happiness, and hope back to our patients and families.â&#x20AC;? A World of Magic includes one show on September 7, three shows on September 8, and three more shows on September 9 at the Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street). For more information, visit worldofmagic.ca/.

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straight stars > B Y R O SE MARCUS

August 30 to September 5, 2018

he end of August is upon us. With it comes the end of Mars retrograde, Saturn retrograde, and what many will describe as one hell of a long, hard summer. Mars, the action and assertion planet, functions at optimum in Capricorn. Now that the retrograde is out of the way, efforts directed toward getting it under better control will see more constructive gain. As it has done since the July 12 eclipse, Mars travels out of bounds (extreme latitude) for most of the month ahead. In this condition, the hot one is even more formidable as a driving force. Whether you meet the action planet as an opponent or ally, Mars doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan on dialling it down until it gains something to show for it. No matter whether the fuel is desire, ambition, or a great need, both Mars and Saturn (starting next Thursday) set the clock to time-isripe. From September 10 to November 15, Mars will revisit Aquarius. The transit sets up an overlap; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue to work our way through the remnants of that which gained traction back in April/May. At the same time, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll hit a redefine-it/ reshape-it acceleration track. Want to create the best advantage? Roll up your sleeves, face the tough stuff, get out of your own way. That was then, this is now; do not let it go to waste. Courage, initiative, and risktaking will serve you well. Stay productive. Spend the time, do the work, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll set yourself up for better results. Mars in Capricorn and Saturn in Capricorn reward self effort.

ARIES

March 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19

Held up no longer! Now that Mars is done with retrograde, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be better able to hit full steam ahead. Take charge, get it organized, get it built, stay goal-driven, or make it legit. You have a short window to set the foundation and/or to finish whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary before Mars hits Go on the next phase. Monday through Wednesday, the getting is good.

sounding your best. Friday/Saturday, take your time, keep it simple. Sunday, energy or interest perks up. Monday is your best day to socialize, communicate, write, shop, exercise, or get moving. As of midâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; next week, Mercury will switch into Virgo work mode.

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LIBRA

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August 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;September 22

Thanks to Mars making better time, you should feel a positive sense of moving past the past and gaining better ground. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do even better once Mercury treks into Virgo (late Wednesday) and Saturn ends retrograde next Thursday. Friday/Saturday are smoothrunning. Satisfaction is on the ready dial. Sunday/Monday, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty to get at. Tuesday/Wednesday, stay in your comfort zone. September 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;October 23

Mars, now on the upswing in Capricorn, allows you a bit more time to work up to it and to get yourself better sorted out. By the middle of the month, Mars will energize you and put a fresh spin on your daily get-go. Use the weekend to relax, top up on visits, and run errands. Tuesday begins a smooth-running week. October 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;November 21

Time is moving on. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get stressed about it, but do make the most of it. Now through September 10, Mars in Capricorn assists you to achieve better mind over matter. Saturn, ending retrograde next Thursday, also helps you to make important decisions and communicate with greater skill and authority. Tuesday/Wednesday, feel your way along. November 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;December 21

Up to less or up to more, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no problem making the most of the long weekend. Pumping up creativity and prospects, Mercury in Leo keeps you looking ahead and feeling good about it. Use this last leg of Mars in Capricorn to get a better handle TAURUS on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s necessary. Labour Day April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20 Monday, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the go. The week Things are shaping up/ ahead is smooth-running. looking up. Overall, the month CAPRICORN ends with the moon in Taurus December 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;January 19 moving you along an okay track. No matter what you face Now through September 10, Mars in Capricorn, a confidence-build- or what you want to do, you should ing transit, gives you something find your timing, instincts, and more to work with, for, and toward. execution running at peak. Now While you can ease into it through through September 10, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll gain the first 10 days of the month, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best fuel that Mars, now direct in Capricorn, has to offer. Saturn waste time or opportunity. in Capricorn, ending retrograde on GEMINI Thursday, is also good for moving May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 21 forward. Through Saturday, easy, AQUARIUS slow, and relaxed does it best. SunJanuary 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;February 18 day/Monday, the moon in Gemini Home is a good place supplies you with fresh get-up-andgo. On the upswing in Capricorn, to park it Friday/Saturday. SunMars assists you to choose and do day through Labour Day Monday, more efficiently, and to streamline youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in the mood to get out where it will do you the most good. and about, to take on the world Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to save time and money, again. Mars in Capricorn works as but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scrimp on quality. Tues- a background confidence booster. Through midâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;next week, Venus day/Wednesday, go by feel. and Mercury keep you on the upCANCER swing with good ideas, people, June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22 plans, and activities. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find you can work PISCES it out better now that Mars is on February 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20 the upswing in Capricorn. This Mars has just ended transit prompts you to set better boundaries and to establish more retrograde in Capricorn, and next realistic expectationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for yourself Thursday Saturn will do the same. and others too. Of course, Mars Moving forward from here, both requires that you show respect for transits take the guesswork out of the rules, and for where others are it and cement your new reality. You coming from and what they require are nearing a goal post or completion of significance. Easygoing is the from you. best way to play it for the long weekend LEO and the week ahead. -

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ARTS

As part of the Your Kontinent Digital Carnival, Lisa Birke and Terrance Houle paddle in two different directions (pictured in a performance documentation of Different Ways). Scott McGovern video still.

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College of Art and Design grad, and powwow dancer—Different Ways is a means of physicalizing heady conceptual meditations on Native and settler ways of being. “I guess for me part of it is that I got really tired of constantly being literal, and having to tell people, A canoe trip captures cultural misunderstanding in Terrance Houle like, ‘Wake the fuck up!’ ” and Lisa Birke’s new multimedia work at Richmond World Festival he tells the Straight from Calgary, where he’s about It’s a painful, poignant, and yet wildly to shoot the final video component of Different comical image: interdisciplinary artists Terrance Ways—an underwater view of the Bow River, Houle and Lisa Birke in a canoe, each facing a dif- which will be projected around him during his BY ALEX ANDER VA R T Y ferent direction and paddling in mad, pointless RAG performance. “That gets tiring. It gets really circles. Given that Houle is Indigenous, the son tiring. So I think we’re using art and having to of a Blackfoot mother and an Ojibwa father, and use humour and sadness and tragedy and all of that Birke is a northern European blond, born in these sort of devices to make people figure it out Germany but raised on Vancouver Island, a more on their own. ’Cause I can’t hold their hand anyperfect visual representation of cultural mis- more—and that includes Lisa. understanding would be difficult to imagine. “I know how Indigenous I am,” he adds. “But Houle and Birke’s boating excursion is the cul- the idea of Indigeneity is an umbrella that inmination of Different Ways, the multistranded, cludes so many people. What’s great about this multisite performance piece that the two are bring- project, working with Lisa, is that people come ing to the Your Kontinent Digital Carnival at this away with their own ideas of things.…It’s making weekend’s Richmond World Festival—an extrava- them look retrospectively into their own lives and ganza that also features a multicultural variety of their own history, whatever it is.” music and dance troupes, including the Vancouver Fittingly, part of Birke’s rationale for initiatCantonese Opera, Karen Flamenco, and the Vash- ing the project is her desire to more appropriately aan Ensemble. But there’s a lot of freight to unpack situate herself in her adopted country—a country from that canoe—and from Different Ways, which that her earlier videos portray as charged with will end in the fountain at Minoru Park after open- both beauty and violence. ing with a solo excerpt from Houle’s theremin“I really became aware that I was a settler body driven Ghost Days at the Richmond Art Gallery. representing myself within the quote-unquote The piece also includes video clips narrated and grand Canadian landscape,” she says, on the line animated by First Nations participants in work- from her Saskatoon home. “And that became more shops held coast to coast—real-life stories of racial and more problematic for me, because I am really injustice and recovery from the same. displaying the beauty of the landscape—and I really For Houle—who’s been bridging cultures all his do believe that it’s beautiful and the landscape has a life, as a skateboarding urban aboriginal, Alberta lot of power. I really connect with nature. But then

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there’s also that paradox that in placing my body in this landscape, from a picturesque perspective, what is it that I’m actually doing or representing there?” Tied into Different Ways’ web of theory and experience are notions of linear and nonlinear time, with different Canadian rivers—including the Bow, the Fraser, and the South Saskatchewan, which runs through Saskatoon—expressing both European notions of linearity and Indigenous ways of understanding nonlinear or cyclical ecosystems. And then there’s the canoe, which symbolizes the system of trade that opened the Canadian interior to generations of settlers, but that has since become an instrument of peaceful, almost meditative recreation. And, of course, the canoe is a signature example of Indigenous technology, while the theremin that Houle will use in his introductory performance is a European invention—but he’s using it to conjure the voices of protective ancestral spirits. The beauty of Different Ways, though, is that all of its complex content can be grasped intuitively as well as intellectually, and both Houle and Birke agree that humour is the key. “For my own practice, I think it makes us stop for a second,” Birke says. “As soon as you laugh you have an emotional response, and you’re very aware of what it is that you’re watching. And then you have to question why you’re laughing, especially if the subject matter is difficult.…It makes the viewer an active participant in the viewing. It implicates the viewer, because once you laugh, you’re responding in a very visceral and physical manner to what you’re seeing—especially with performance art.” “You can laugh and cry,” Houle says, alluding to both the absurdist elements of their performance and the tragic consequences of the colonial system. “They’re kind of the same thing.” Terrance Houle and Lisa Birke present Different Ways at the Richmond Art Gallery and Minoru Park on Friday and Saturday (August 31 and September 1) as part of the Your Kontinent Digital Carnival at the Richmond World Festival.

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measuring her life in days, the way the matriarch in Marion Bridge is. That has Cavendish contemplating the meaning of life, and how to live it to its fullest. And she candidly admits she’s thinking Marion Bridge might be a great show to go out on. “I’m getting older and I want to go out while the party is still hot and steamy and sweaty,” she explains, admitting she’s turned down several strong roles offered to her from across Canada recently. “I really think I’m there; I’m ready to be unobligated, not obliged to work anymore,” she adds. She started considering retiring after a challenging role she took in the critically lauded The Humans, which played in Winnipeg earlier this year, took a toll she wasn’t expecting, “I thought, ‘Wow, this is bigger than I am,’” says Cavendish, who brought in her sister from Pender Island to help her prepare for the demanding role of the play’s matriarch. “Right up to opening night, I was in a new kind of zone I’d never been in before, one of doubt and fear. Fear sat on my shoulder that first night.” Stage fright, in an actor famous for carrying the solo hit Shirley Valentine single-handedly for so many years? Apparently, it can hit at any time in your career. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to go through that again,’ ” Cavendish explains. “It’s propelled me into a true examination of the writing on the wall—that at 65 life is galloping more than it ought to.” Playing Theresa seems to have brought her a calm, however, a feeling propelled by her desire to help the Kay Meek build a strong theatre audience. But she’s already thinking about what she might do after Marion Bridge. And not surprisingly, it has to do with the dirt and the land. “I love living,” she says. “I love it when I’m in the garden making a big fat mess of it, and that’s what I want to make of it.” -

icola Cavendish is talking about dirt and life and death and winding down her career. She’s in a deeply reflective mood, in part because of the smoky haze—“the pall”, she calls it with signature flourish—that’s set in over Horseshoe Bay, the spot from which she’s speaking to the Straight over the phone. But the iconic actor’s state of mind comes mostly from rehearsing her new role in Daniel McIvor’s Canadian classic Marion Bridge. Almost four years ago, she saw it performed by community players in her hometown of Penticton, and it’s taken her this long to assemble the right team to stage it at West Vancouver’s Kay Meek Centre. Her long-time collaborator Roy Surette directs, and Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr creates the sets, while Lynda Boyd and Beatrice Zeilinger play older and younger sisters, both dealing with their own demons, to Cavendish’s middle sibling, Theresa. “I was so taken by the simple beauty of the piece in terms of story and the characters that he had onstage,” the veteran talent relates of the play, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. “It touches on so many aspects of people’s lives—how we live our short lives. And dying.” In the drama about three sisters who come home to Cape Breton to care for their dying mother, Theresa is a Catholic farm-order nun. And the role has her thinking not only of the garden she loves to dig into now, but of her years growing up amid the orchards of the Okanagan. “I love the earth, I love dirt. My brother was always fortifying the dirt around the cherry and peach trees, and there was always the cycle of life and death,” she recalls. Digging the earth is a simple pleasure her character, who’s starting to question her own faith, appreciates. “All the words that come out of her mouth are words I would be happy to Marion Bridge is at the Kay Meek have come out of my mouth.” At the same time, Cavendish has Centre from next Wednesday (Sepa close friend who is in a hospice, tember 5) to 20.

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orean music has the reputation of sounding foreign to western sensibilities— instruments such as the zitherlike kayagum and oboelike piri stress different tonal qualities than their generally sweeter European cousins, and traditional tuning systems don’t adhere to the tempered scale. But Grace Jong Eun Lee’s music is something different. Having spent most of her life in Canada, the teacher, pianist, composer, and kayagum virtuoso has developed a kind of hybrid form, in which Asian and western styles commingle almost seamlessly. And, having a penchant for the classical and romantic styles of 19th-century Europe, she also makes music that, from any perspective, is decidedly easy on the ears. “Mostly I write symphonic music, but bringing up a very important instrument, kayagum,” Lee says in a telephone interview from her North Vancouver home. “People wonder how they work together, but you have to see it. The eastern and western styles unify very, very well. My music has a kind of western beauty in it, and it’s not really ‘contemporary’ music, as we speak of it. It’s mostly music intended to be healing, peaceful, and hopeful. There’s care and love in it.” The Enchanted Music of Grace Jong Eun Lee, a gala concert celebrating 55 years of Korean-Canadian economic collaboration taking place next week, is largely devoted to this kind of music; one of the highlights will surely be a new piece, Waves of Sunset, which Lee plans to debut that night. “It’s set at the end of the day, but you’re expecting another day to come, hoping that the future and tomorrow will be better,” she explains. “And I know every day can’t

be happy times all the time; sometimes we suffer and can be discouraged. But, in fact, at morning we start again and gain much hope-andlove feeling. So the piece will have a little bit of a sad movement, but eventually it gets stronger. It’s a kayagum-and-orchestra piece, with lots of brass instruments— horn and trumpet and trombone all have solos in it.” But Lee stresses that, despite the evening’s title, it’s not all about her. Part of her intent is to showcase the strength and diversity of Asian culture in Vancouver, and so the second part of the concert will expand to include a wide variety of guest artists. For opera lovers, she’s presenting the Vancouver Singing Society: four Chinese-Canadian male vocalists who’ve trained in Europe and elsewhere. She’ll be adding her music to a demonstration of taekwondo skills, highlighting Korea’s national form of martial arts, and she’s also written new solo pieces for both piano and kayagum to accompany Poppin’ JUNO, a Korean YouTube sensation with a uniquely syncopated take on contemporary street dance. In addition to focusing on her penchant for beauty, Lee hopes to express the “powerful, energetic” side of the Korean character that has made the Asian country such an economic and cultural powerhouse in recent decades. “It’s for my community, and also for multicultural people,” she says. “And also it’s about my background. I’ve been here over 30 years in Vancouver, so inside of me it’s partially Korean culture, Asian culture, and Canadian culture. It’s all mixed up together, and every day I’m really thankful for that.” Th e E n c h a n t e d M u s i c o f G ra c e Jong Eun Lee takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre next Friday (September 7).

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ine years ago, former sketch actor Kevin Allison was down on his luck. His troupe, the State, left MTV after a successful run for a stab at the big time on CBS. It didn’t work out. Things weren’t looking up in his career as he approached his 40th birthday. “The State broke up in 1996. We had a long, tortuous breakup like the Beatles, basically,” he says by phone from his home in New York City. “Those were dark and difficult years for me, because I had really thought that the group would be together forever. We always talked like we were going to be the Rolling Stones or something like that, but that was just naiveté.” Twelve subsequent years of auditioning, pitching, and doing solo shows didn’t result in much. “I kind of floundered for a long time,” he says. “I blame myself for not getting up on-stage every night, because that’s what you really gotta do when you’re young like that. I actually quit performing entirely for about four years.” But as the saying goes, no risk, no reward. Allison took a risk that would see him heading a small business with 24 employees that also manages to scratch his creative itching. Some advice from his former sketch castmate Michael Ian Black led to his aha! moment. Black came to see Allison in a solo show made up of five kooky characters. The show was funny enough, but not nourishing. Black told him afterward, “I think you should just take the mask off. Stop playing these characters and just start telling your own true stories.” Allison’s reaction: “Oh God, that feels too risky.” But he gave it a try, hopping on-stage at L.A.’s improv-based UCB Theatre to tell the story of the time he prostituted himself at the age of 22. The thought of revealing himself terrified him, but he went through with it, taking a chance that would change his life. “It’s amazing what happens to people when they listen to a very honest and heartfelt true story,” he says. “It’ll just unlock certain emotions and thought patterns in other people. You really don’t know what you might be offering to other people by sharing the truth.” On his walk home that night, his future came to him in a flash. He thought, “That’s it! I should create a show called RISK! where the whole idea is everyone who comes up to share a story on-stage, they’ve got to be stepping outside their comfort zone; they should be sharing something they never imagined they’d dare to share in public. It could be a funny story or it could be a terrifying story or it could be a beautiful story, as long as it’s pretty clear that that person is boldly revealing something and kind of taking a risk. And I knew it had to be a podcast as well, because I knew that after 12 years of occasionally doing small theatre shows in New York, you need to reach a bigger audience.” Allison and his team work with both celebrities and regular listeners who want to share their stories. At press time, the lineup for his Vancouver show is still up in the air as Allison is busy listening to all the pitches. He’s heard all manner of personal, gut-wrenching stories over the last nine years. And with a million downloads per month, the program shows no signs of slowing down. “People are so individual and have such specific backgrounds and such specific friends and family members that there’s often incredibly different things about each story that make them surprising in different ways,” he says. “It’s amazing to me how it feels like we’ll never run out of new and surprising stuff.” RISK! True Tales, Boldly Told plays the Biltmore Cabaret next Saturday (September 8).

FOOD 2THIS WEEK THE KESSLER ACADEMY 2018 The Microcosmos Quartet leads the fourth annual performance that focuses on works by Stravinsky, Schnittke, Silvestrov, and Lourié. Aug 30, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour St.). Tix $29/10, info www.musicon main.ca/concerts/the-kessler-academy-4/.

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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS THE MUTE CANARY & OTHER FAVOURITES BY RUDOLF KOMOROUS Turning Point Ensemble kicks off its season with the world premiere of a new one-act opera by 86-year-old Rudolf Komorous. Sep 14-16, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $33/20, info www.turningpointsensemble.ca/.

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THEATRE 2JUST ANNOUNCED THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a play about a 15-year-old who, when his neighbour’s dog is killed, challenges his own barriers to uncover the truth about the dog, his family, and himself. Sep 6–Oct 7, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. TALES OF AN URBAN INDIAN The Royal Canadian Air Farce’s Craig Lauzon performs a site-specific work, staged entirely on a moving transit bus, which documents the life of an Indigenous man born on a B.C. reserve and raised in 1970s Vancouver. Sep 19-30, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $25-35, info www.phtheatre.org/tales-urban-indian/. MUSTARD The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Kat Sandler’s darkly comic tale about growing up, moving on, and finding magic where you least expect it. Sep 20–Oct 20, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. NEVER STILL The Firehall Arts Centre kicks off its 2018/19 season with the newest work from Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman, inspired by the inherent conflicts and dichotomies of water. Sep 26-29, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $20, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/ onstage/never-still/. LES BELLES-SOEURS Ruby Slippers Theatre presents Michel Tremblay’s play about the hilarious misfortune of one woman’s fortune, directed by Diane Brown. Sep 27–Oct 6, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Info www. gatewaytheatre.com/les-belles-soeurs/.

2ONGOING BARD ON THE BEACH Annual Shakespeare theatre festival features repertory performances of As You Like It, Macbeth, Timon of Athens, and Lysistrata. To Sep 28, Vanier Park (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $24, info www.bardonthebeach.org/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS VANCOUVER FRINGE FESTIVAL Annual festival features performances by nearly 100 theatre artists and companies over 11 days. Sep 6-16, Granville Island. Info www.vancouverfringe.com/. MARION BRIDGE Nicola Cavendish, Lynda Boyd, and Beatrice Zeilinger star in Daniel MacIvor’s play about three estranged sisters who make the trip home to Cape Breton to care for their dying mother. Sep 6-20, Kay Meek Arts Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Tix $45/42.75/15 , info www.kaymeek.com/.

DANCE 2JUST ANNOUNCED VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FLAMENCO FESTIVAL Flamenco Rosario presents performances by local and international flamenco artists, with free workshops and ticketed performances at various Vancouver venues. Sep 21-29, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Free to $65 (plus service charge), info www.vancouverflamencofestival.org/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE OPEN HOUSE Participating companies and artists include Kababayang Pilipino, Karen Flamenco, Shot of Scotch, Helen Walkley, Polymer Dance, and Anderson Performance Clinic. Sep 15, 11 am–5 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Free, info www.thedancecentre.ca/open_house/.

MUSIC 2JUST ANNOUNCED UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CONCERT OF WINNERS Conducted by Jonathan Girard, the winners of the inaugural Robert and Ellen Silverman Piano Concerto Competition perform with the UBC Symphony Orchestra. Sep 23, 7:30 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $8, info www.music.ubc.ca/calendarindex/2018/9/23/concert-of-winners/.

featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. 2ANDY HAYNES Aug 30–Sep 1 2DJ DEMERS Sep 6-8

YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/ vancouver/. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 and 9:30 pm. 2BYRON BERTRAM Aug 31–Sep 1 AVOCADO TOAST: VANCOUVER GROWN, ORGANIC FREE-RANGE COMEDY Vancouver TheatreSports presents a comedy show that pokes fun at Vancouver and its stereotypes. To Sep 1, Thu-Sat. at 7:30 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). From $10.75, info www.vtsl.com/show/avocado-toast/.

2THIS WEEK STORY STORY LIE: BACK TO SCHOOL Storytelling game show features performances by Jon Bennett, Conni Smudge, John Cullen, Andrea Jin, Gustavo Ferman, Marty Lawton, and host Jo Dworschak. Sep 5, 7-8:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10, info www.storystorylie.com/.

LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK WAYWARD WANDERING AND RETURN A teshuva-themed story slam featuring six original stories and a new autobiographical work by Cecil Hershler. Sep 1, 8 pm, Or Shalom (710 E.10th). Info www.orshalom.ca/selichot-story-slam/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK DOUGLAS COUPLAND’S VORTEX Douglas Coupland’s new radical art installation takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis. To April 30, 2019, Vancouver Aquarium (845 Avison Way, Stanley Park). $22/39, info www.vanaqua.org/. TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Exhibition focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic’s compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations. To Jan 11, 2019, Lipont Place (4211 No. 3 Road). Info www.titanicvancouver.com/.

GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2CABIN FEVER (exhibition traces the cabin’s evolution through renderings, artworks, and commercial products, as well as architectural models, plans, and full-scale installations) to Sep 30 2DAVID MILNE: MODERN PAINTING (first major exhibition of Milne shown in the country in 30 years features close to 90 works in oil and watercolour, never-before-presented photographs, drawings, and memorabilia) to Sep 9 2AYUMI GOTO & PETER MORIN: HOW DO YOU CARRY THE LAND? (a dialogue between artists Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin, presented via their individual and collaborative performance art practice) to Oct 28

MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2WILD THINGS: THE POWER OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES (exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants—how they relate to each other and how they connect people to nature in the city) to Sep 30 THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, 604-8225087, www.moa.ubc.ca/. 2ARTS OF RESISTANCE: POLITICS AND THE PAST IN LATIN AMERICA (exhibition illustrates how Latin-American communities use traditional or historical art forms to express contemporary political realities) to Sep 30

TIME OUT ARTS LISTINGS are a public service provided free of charge. Submit listings online using the event-submission form at straight.com/AddEvent. Events that don’t make it into the paper due to space constraints will appear on the website.

World Fest does fusion right

t’s not easy blending together different cuisines, and it’s a fact that this type of cooking has earned a less-than-impressive reputation over the years. After all the butchered attempts at serving fusion dishes in the ’90s, you’d think the term fusion would’ve been eliminated from Vancouver’s culinary vocabulary. But contrary to popular belief, fusion fare is still going strong in Metro Vancouver—and you’ll be able to find plenty of it at this year’s Richmond World Festival. The annual extravaganza returns Friday and Saturday (August 31 and September 1) at Minoru Park and Richmond Cultural Centre Plaza (7191 Granville Avenue, Richmond). This year’s Richmond World Festival It attracted more than 40,000 people will showcase cross-cultural cuisine. last year, featuring everything from musical performances to sports attrac- the 1970s: combining gastronomy tions to arts activities. However, it can from different countries. Festivalgoers will be able to catch be argued that its food offerings are the most important highlight, not only cooking demonstrations on the culinbecause they can satisfy appetites, but ary stage, which will focus on locally sourced food and a because they simulfusion theme. One taneously showof the featured case multiculturguests is chef Lan alism through a Tammy Kwan Do, owner of Bánh delicious medium. “The Richmond World Fest recog- Mì Très Bon. Her restaurant explores nizes Richmond’s growing reputation how French culture influenced Vietas a culinary tourism destination,” namese cuisine, and serves fan favourTed Townsend, director of corpor- ites like bánh mì (a Vietnamese baate communications and marketing guette made with various ingredients) at the City of Richmond, told the and French-style pastries. Though she Straight in a phone interview. “We’re may not identify with creating fusion seeing an increasing growth in Rich- food, she acknowledges the signifimond, and a lot of that has to do with cance of how different cultures can afthe cultural diversity of the food that fect different cuisines. Do will be precan be found here, which is right in paring items such as grilled-beef bánh sync with the theme of what we’re mì and green papaya salad, which gives attendees a glimpse into the food histtrying to celebrate at the festival.” Although food lovers now pre- ory and culture of France and Vietnam. Another highly anticipated event at fer to call fusion food “globally inspired” cuisine, the core aspect of the annual fete is the FEASTival of Flathis cooking style remains the same vours: a festival within a festival that as when it was first popularized in will feature more than 50 food trucks.

Best Eats

Many different global treats will be available, including tacos, dumplings, barbecued meats, noodles, and Amsterdam street food. Some of the food trucks will be offering fusion creations, such as El Cartel. It specializes in Korean, Latin-American, and Tex-Mex flavours, with menu items like Korean steak tacos, Korean poutine, and Mexican-style chicken tacos. The roaming meals-on-wheels business has scored high ratings online, and we don’t doubt its cross-culture grub is as mouthwatering as it sounds. Another one to keep an eye out for is Mr. Bannock—Vancouver’s first Indigenous food truck. Chef and owner Paul Nattrall uses traditional cooking methods like clay and stone baking to create delicious bannock (flat quick bread), and sources traditional ingredients from the Squamish Nation such as juniper berries and smoked wild salmon. But he also gets creative and blends his old-school kitchen techniques with urban food trends, creating tasty items like bannock pizza and Indian tacos. Fusion food isn’t always executed properly—when it’s done poorly, you won’t want to try it again. Yet present-day success stories like Mr. Bannock, which has earned awards for its fusion Indigenous street food, prove that merging different cuisines doesn’t necessarily have to leave a bad taste in your mouth. “The food trucks are celebrating their own cultures, but they’re also bringing in other cultures as well. That’s really what the World Festival is about, bringing together cultures and encouraging that integration and fusion,” said Townsend. “What better way to do it than through food? It’s an important element of the festival, and one that is also very enjoyable and filling.” -

B.C. winery goes biodynamic

s I waded through emails and other messages upon returning home from a week and a half of Argentine travel, an update from Okanagan wine country rose to the top as particularly notable news. After 30 or so years of organically farming their estate vineyard (the last half-dozen using Demeter-certified biodynamic practices), the Cipes family of Kelowna’s Summerhill Pyramid Winery have just released their first certified biodynamic wines. While most appreciate organic farming as eschewing the use of synthetics in herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, and so on, biodynamics offers the theory of operating a farm Summerhill Pyramid Winery has as its own ecosystem. This involves released certified biodynamic wines. operating not as a monoculture, but a balanced farm with animals to assist the moon affects the tides, the same with compost, pest control, and other science advocates various vineyard aspects, plus cultivating various flora treatments be done only at the propcomponents to create balance and er phase of the moon, when plant harmony. potential, absorption, and developDemeter is the globally recog- ment are at an optimal level. nized entity establishing and cerWhile Summerhill’s estate vinetifying biodynamic standards, and yard has been operating biodynamits Canadian arm adds the follow- ically for years, their wines are only ing to the above general criteria on just beginning to be certified. The its website: delay on this part “A variety of of things is due to regenerative farmthe winery being ing techniques are British ColumKurtis Kolt used, including bia’s first to go this crop rotation, composting, interplant- route; Demeter’s B.C. chapter was ing, careful treatment of livestock to wading these same waters for the ensure both longevity and quality, and first time too. seed saving. In addition, influences I was curious about the requirefrom the moon and other planets are ments for the Demeter certification taken into account. In essence, the of a wine, since most of its criteria are farmer becomes the conductor of an centred on vineyard practices. After orchestra, working with nature, rec- I reached out by email, coproprietor ognizing weaknesses in the farm and and CEO Ezra Cipes obliged by sharworking to strengthen the whole farm ing a small pile of the paperwork they organism.” had to navigate. Criteria include things Yeah, yeah, yeah—it can sound a like minimal sulphur use, avoidance little mystic and fantasy-oriented, of plastic vessels for storage, and use but there is science behind all as- of only Demeter-certified or organic pects. The moon thing sounds a egg whites in fining a wine. The latter little wacky, but just as we know is irrelevant to Summerhill Pyramid

The Bottle

Winery, as all their wines are vegan. This direction is not an easy one to take; shortcuts aren’t an option. It’s particularly challenging when a winery like Summerhill is the first out there striving for this certification and quality, without a road map. On the upside, other British Columbian wineries wanting to tread this path will now find it ever so slightly established. May I be among the first to offer a hearty pat on the back to the Cipes family, who were pioneers in British Columbian organic wine decades ago. Their pioneering ways have continued, which can only be for the greater good of our local industry. The following wines are available winery-direct, and will soon be in various private stores around Vancouver for a couple bucks more. SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY 2017 SUMMERHILL VINEYARD GRÜNER VELTLINER ($32.20, www.

summerhill.bc.ca/) A rarity around these parts, this Austrian variety takes to the Okanagan’s penchant for mineral- and acid-driven wines well. Salty sea air on the nose leads to muddled lemon, quince, and a distinct peppery note, with a touch of bitter almond on the finish. A wine likely to fascinate alongside smoked fish, rich cheeses, or a host of Asian dumplings. SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY 2017 SUMMERHILL VINEYARD RIESLING ($32.20, www.summerhill.

bc.ca/) The Cipes family’s Riesling from their estate’s 40-year-old vines is a winner year after year, and the 2017 edition knocks it out of the park yet again. Concentrated Granny Smith apple, lime, and pink grapefruit are kissed with honey and graced with a rub of fresh sage. Just a touch off-dry, it’s a no-brainer with Thai curries, Korean barbecue, Buffalo wings, or, really, Netflix and comfy sweatpants. -

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THE KILLERS • FLORENCE + THE MACHINE METRIC • ARKELLS • THE WAR ON DRUGS • ST. VINCENT • FATHER JOHN MISTY BLUE RODEO • MOTHER MOTHER • CHROMEO • BAHAMAS • MILKY CHANCE • STEREOPHONICS X AMBASSADORS • RODRIGO Y GABRIELA • COLD WAR KIDS • GRETA VAN FLEET DEAR ROUGE • BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE • MATT MAYS • CURRENT SWELL • WHITEHORSE BLACK PISTOL FIRE • MATT ANDERSEN • SAID THE WHALE • YUKON BLONDE • THE ZOLAS HEY OCEAN! • MIDNIGHT SHINE • DELHI 2 DUBLIN • BARNEY BENTALL THE JULIAN TAYLOR BAND • CRYSTAL SHAWANDA • BELLE GAME • THE MATINÉE LITTLE DESTROYER • THE BOOM BOOMS feat TA’KAIYA BLANEY WILLIAM PRINCE • SHRED KELLY • KELLY DERRICKSON • MURRAY PORTER SNOTTY NOSE REZ KIDS • DAYSORMAY • BITTERLY DIVINE • MOB BOUNCE HALEY BLAIS • ANDREW PHELAN • MISSY D • LITTLE CROW • THE CARNIVAL BAND • ZYNTH & CO A W E E K E N D O F M U S I C , C R E AT I V I T Y, A N D C U L I N A R Y E X C E L L E N C E F E AT U R I N G : O C E A N W I S E ™ C U L I N A R Y P R O G R A M L O N G TA B L E D I N N E R S E R I E S EDIBLE CANADA - OCE AN WISE AMBAS SADOR NED BELL J O Y R O A D C AT E R I N G - K I S S A TA N T O - S T. L AW R E N C E S KOO K U M PIC N IC BAS K E TS H AW K S W O R T H R E S TA U R A N T - H O N E Y S A LT - B E L C A F E - L E S A M I S D U F R O M A G E

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On the surface, there wouldn’t appear to

BY JOHN L UCAS

be that much common ground between Brandon Flowers and Alice Cooper. In his ’70s heyday, shock-rock progenitor Cooper embodied all that was depraved and evil about rock ’n’ roll, singing tender paeans to necrophilia and decapitating baby dolls on-stage. Flowers, on the other hand, has a sort of cleancut nice-guy image seemingly at odds with his status as the frontman of one of this millennium’s biggest rock bands. Heck, in 2011 the guy made a video at the behest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with the title “I’m Brandon Flowers and I’m a Mormon”. When the Straight connects with Flowers via telephone, the 37-year-old musician is at home in Park City, Utah, enjoying some much-needed downtime in a summer that has been packed with tour dates. He reveals that he and the man born Vincent Furnier actually aren’t as different as they may seem—and not just because Flowers fronts a group called the Killers and Cooper’s fourth LP with his own band was titled Killer. “We share a lot in common, actually,” says Flowers. “We were both raised in the desert, we both enjoy golf, we’ve both worn eyeliner—he’s worn more than me.” Cooper famously spends as many as six days a week on the links at the Arizona Biltmore Golf Club in his hometown of Phoenix. Flowers is less active in that department—thanks in large part to an ongoing issue with his shoulders—but there was a time in his youth when he looked set to follow in the footsteps of his cousin, pro golfer Craig Barlow.

When the men come around

Left to right: Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr., frontman Brandon Flowers, and bass guitarist Mark Stoermer of the Killers. Anton Corbijn photo.

“It’s inhabiting this person I was, or this conBrandon Flowers and his Killers bandmates explore cept of what I thought a man should be when PTSD and masculinity on Wonderful Wonderful I was 15, when I was igThen, as rock ’n’ roll legend would have it, Flowers’s norant,” he notes. “I’m still learning, and I’m still career path was changed forever when someone becoming that man that I want to be. stole his golf clubs and he turned to music instead. “It brought a lot of levity to the record and a That’s turned out pretty well for him. Since form- whole new element to the live show,” the singer ing in Las Vegas in 2001, the Killers have released continues. “We usually pair it with the song five well-received studio albums and have toured ‘Somebody Told Me’, and the spirit of it sort of the world numerous times. The band first broke big overflows into that song as well, and it’s a nice moin the U.K. and has arguably had its greatest success ment, instead of this earnestness for two hours.” there, with all of its LPs hitting the top spot on the Official Albums Chart. The most recent one, Won- THE VERSION OF THE BAND that has been tourderful Wonderful, was the first to match that state- ing in support of Wonderful Wonderful could perhaps be called Killers 2.0. Of the core four-piece, side by reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Flowers has said that the lyrics on Wonderful only Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Wonderful are among the most personal he has have hit the road this time around. The official line ever written, with songs such as “Rut” and “Some is that guitarist Dave Keuning has taken a break Kind of Love” delving into the childhood trauma to spend time with his family while bassist Mark and ongoing struggle with PTSD faced by his wife, Stoermer has gone back to college. The two are still Tana. Elsewhere, Flowers uses the recurring motif considered members of the band, but their spots of boxing (most notably on “Tyson vs Douglas” but are currently being filled by long-time touring sidealso on “Run for Cover”, which namechecks legend- men Ted Sablay (guitar) and Jake Blanton (bass). Flowers insists that it no longer feels strange to ary heavyweight champ Sonny Liston) to explore look around the stage during a Killers concert and themes including endurance and disillusionment. Wonderful Wonderful came out almost a year not see Keuning and Stoermer. “In the beginning it did, but we’ve already done ago, but Flowers says he has no difficulty tapping into the emotions that shaped some of its most af- 115 shows now,” he notes. “So, all those anxieties fecting songs, even after performing them on-stage are kind of over now. The way I’ve always looked at night after night on tour. To keep things from get- it is that it’s my job to sing, whether they’re there ting too heavy, he says, the band has really been or not. I still have a job to do, and of course in a leaning into its more crowd-pleasing fare, in par- perfect world they would be gung ho about tourticular “The Man”. A strutting slab of bombast that ing and be up there, but they’re not. My dream neatly straddles glam rock and electro-fried disco, still lives. My dream’s still alive, man.” As for what the future holds, Flowers indi“The Man” is Flowers’s winking look back at the cates that Keuning “is still figuring it all out” and cocksure days of his youth.

points out that Stoermer remains very much an active presence within the band, his absence from the tour bus notwithstanding. “Mark contributed a lot to the record and is more excited about being creative in the studio, and you can’t fault him for not loving touring, and so if that works out, where he can come in the studio, of course he’s welcome, and right now we’re planning on it,” the frontman says. Mind you, Flowers admits that he’s not sure if there’s a Killers record on the immediate horizon or if he’ll revive his solo career. The singer has released two records under his own name—2010’s Flamingo and 2015’s The Desired Effect. Perhaps unsurprisingly, both have topped the U.K. album chart, which strongly suggests that there are indeed many people out there eagerly awaiting a new Brandon Flowers LP. “I made those solo records so that people could have breaks in the band,” Flowers states, “and so with this new configuration and this new understanding, it seems like it’s created a world where we can put more Killers records out. But also I’m really proud and happy with my two solo records, and I miss performing those songs too, so I’m a little bit torn at the moment.” If the music thing doesn’t work out, Flowers returning to the world of golf is probably out of the question, all things considered. If Alice Cooper happens to call, however… “He’s asked me before,” Flowers says. “I’ve had shoulder problems and I haven’t been able to golf as much as I want to. But I would like to golf with Alice Cooper one day. I hope I can get my shoulders back to a place where I can play without pain, and I will take Alice on.” Ladies and gents, you’re looking at The Man. The Killers headline SKOOKUM at Stanley Park on September 9.

SKOOKUM SURVIVAL TIPS >>>

> MIKE USINGER

guy who founded the 2 AsBoythat Scouts once suggested, the

best thing one can do when headed outdoors is be prepared. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell was talking about hiking, camping, and building fires out of rain-soaked forest debris, but that advice holds true today, especially when getting ready for the sonic smorgasbords known as all-day music festivals. Here are five handy hacks for the inaugural edition of SKOOKUM, which will see the Killers, Arkells, Florence and the Machine, Father John Misty, St. Vincent, Metric, and too many others to list here perform at Stanley Park next Friday to Sunday (September 7 to 9). (And while we have your attention, here’s a sixth tip for free: Only a fool or unrepentent Luddite heads to an all-day festival without a portable smartphone charger for when the iPhone battery hits three percent. You’re welcome.)

The planet isn’t going to clean itself up. SKOOKUM is asking that festival attendees be Ocean Wise and leave single-use plastics at home.

On the subject of being as green as possible, check out all the many transportation options for the festival and then plan your journey. If you prefer to let others do the work, start here: www. skookumfestival.com/getting-here/.

Many breweries, wineries, and restaurants will be represented on-site at SKOOKUM, which takes place next Friday to Sunday at Stanley Park. The last thing you want to be doing during Black Pistol Fire’s set is taking a well-deserved nap after two Bomber Park Life passion-fruit ales and four dozen oysters from Coquille

Fine Seafood (two of the many breweries, wineries, and highly regarded restaurants that will be represented on-site). Download the free SKOOKUM app for all your onsite details, from the map to the daily schedule.

No one is going to go hungry at SKOOKUM, with the festival featuring a small army of food trucks, pop-up restaurants, and a picnic-basket program. Those who want a culinary experience that will match the musical one will want to seriously consider signing up for one of the Long Table Dinners, which will feature multiple seatings and wine paired with dishes

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that include, but are not limited to: roasted rib-eye with Bordelaise sauce and horseradish salsa verde; shucked corn, oregano, Nakusp lobster, and white chanterelle mushrooms; and campfire Pemberton potatoes with nasturtium, egg emulsion, and salmon roe. (Go to skookumfestival.com/ lineup/food/long-table-dinner-series/ for more info and booking.) Even though we’re 99 percent sure Vancouver’s brilliant 2018 summer is going to continue right through to the end of September, it once again pays to remember that BadenPowell suggested it’s a good idea to be prepared. Don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle and clothing for the Vancouver weather. Oh, and also that portable charger. The last thing you want to be doing is trying to document your SKOOKUM experience with three percent left on your iPhone battery. -

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MUSIC

Local duo Little Crow loves to give back Iconic artist Saint-Marie keeps looking forward

While the Killers and Flor-

2 ence + the Machine might grab

headlines, tucked away in the packed lineup of the SKOOKUM festival is a Vancouver gem. Little Crow wasn’t originally slated to be on the bill at the Stanley Park event. The atmospheric, folky duo—composed of singer Emily Seal and guitarist Kas Baker—is a relative newcomer on the circuit. Beginning the group in 2015, after being introduced by mutual friends, the pair quickly grew a musical chemistry that blossomed into a romantic relationship. Together, they began volunteering at events and galas for the music-therapy charity Music Heals—where, by chance, they discovered the opportunity to play at SKOOKUM through Music Heals’ Covers for the Cause initiative. The program gives fans the chance to connect with artists by asking them to video themselves covering a requested song. In return, the individual pledges to donate as much as they wish to Music Heals. This year, the organization offered a special prize for the artist who inspired the biggest contribution. “Kas and I both feel that music is such a powerful thing, and we wanted to support music therapy because it connected so well with us,” Seal tells the Straight, on the line from her Deep Cove home. “We saw that they were doing this Covers for the Cause thing, and we had been doing it a couple of times before. Then we saw that they were giving the artist who raises the most the opportunity to play SKOOKUM, so it was really blending our passions, and raising money for a charity that we really believe in. We definitely pushed as hard as we could, and we have a lot of covers to pump out now.” For Baker, gathering donations for Music Heals was personal. After suffering a brain injury at 18, he

As she’s both the senior artist at

2 this weekend’s SKOOKUM fes-

Singer Emily Seal and guitarist Kas Baker of Little Crow earned the chance to play SKOOKUM through Music Heals’ Covers for the Cause initiative.

was helped by Vancouver Coastal Health’s G.F. Strong complex, the largest rehabilitation centre in B.C. The desire to contribute to the hospital and its music-therapy program prompted Little Crow to pledge its entire fund to the organization. “Kas just felt such a connection with that place, and they did so much good for him,” Seal says. “It was crazy, because before his brain injury, he actually didn’t play music at all. And then it was after his brain injury, and healing at G.F. Strong, that he picked up an instrument and was able to move forward with his life. They really just gave him so much. We just wanted to give back to them for that.” Currently working on its first fulllength album—the follow-up to a self-titled EP released in 2016—Little Crow has a number of never-beenaired songs to fill its SKOOKUM

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slot. Building on the sound of its initial offering—a raw, smoky folk debut with layered acoustic-guitar riffs and lyrics that discuss taboo topics with a welcome honesty—the pair will maintain a similar dark, ambient feel, but will push further toward the territory of indie rock. It’s a sound, they hope, that will win over the 20,000-strong crowd set to descend on Stanley Park. “It’s such a great thing to be a part of such a strong bill,” Seal says. “Some of our favourite artists that have influenced our music so much are playing there, so I think really just taking in the atmosphere and getting the opportunity to play a festival that those artists are at is amazing.” > KATE WILSON

Little Crow plays SKOOKUM in Stanley Park on September 7.

Sainte-Marie has been doing just that—with righteous anger but more importantly with boundless compassion, humour, and energy—for more than half a century. At 77, having recently revisited some of her most enduring material for last year’s Medicine Songs album, and on the verge of the release of an authorized biography written by Georgia Straight theatre critic Andrea Warner, you’d think she’d be looking back. And she has been, but the conclusions she’s reached aren’t those of anyone who’s going to retire soon. “If there’s anything consistent about me, it’s diversity,” she says. “From minute to minute, hour to hour, I just see things through the lens of whatever’s going on that day.…So there’s a certain consistency from when I began to where I am right now. It’s not as though it’s a lot of angles and corners and hallways for me; it’s just kind of a continual spiral that visits the same perspective, but a little bit further along the way each time the spiral comes back to pointing in the same direction.” A case in point being “The War Racket”, one of Medicine Songs’ two new compositions. A powerful indictment of those who profit from sending young soldiers to die, it addresses some of the same topics as Sainte-Marie’s prescient “Universal Soldier”, a folk anthem of the 1960s, but from a more explicit and less sentimental perspective. “Sometimes it’s as though you’re looking out different windows of a tower,” Sainte-Marie says, adding that artists are “privileged enough to know that there are lots of windows to look out”. “It’s the same world out there, and it’s the same person looking out the window,” she continues, “but it looks different depending on which window you’re looking from.”

tival and a pioneering activist for Indigenous and women’s rights, festival organizers probably considered asking Buffy Sainte-Marie to introduce the event with the ritual acknowledgment of its location on unceded Coast Salish territory. And if they had, they might have been surprised at her response—as the organizers of the 2017 Junos, in Ottawa, certainly were. “They asked me to start the Junos off by saying ‘We are here tonight on the unceded territory of the Algonquin people, who have been here for millennia,’ ” the veteran singer-songwriter recalls, sounding freakishly spry for someone who’s just flown 6,000 miles from her home on Kauai to play a festival in Cape Breton, and who’s going to turn around and fly back the next day. “And I wouldn’t read it. The Junos, they handed me the script, and I said, ‘No, no, no. We’ve got to change this.’ ” The Juno crew bristled, but SainteMarie won them over with a simple but powerful argument about the meaning of words. “The word unceded is lawyer talk,” she explains. “I consider it lawyerese, and it trips up the listener or the reader. It stops you for a second, for a crucial second. Unceded. That means you don’t have a chair? Does that mean you’re in a tennis match but you didn’t qualify? And millennia? Who the fuck says ‘millennia’, unless you’re on television and trying to sound important? So I changed it. I said ‘the unsurrendered territory’, and I said ‘who have been taking care of this land for thousands and thousands and thousands of years’. It’s a huge difference, whether > ALEXANDER VARTY you go along with the lawyer talk that comes down from government, or whether you have the fucking guts to Buffy Sainte-Marie plays SKOOKUM stand up for people talking to people.” in Stanley Park on September 9.

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rom the sidelines, Nasri Atweh has seemingly spent much of the past decade living an impossibly charmed life, and not just because he’s managed to relocate himself from the THURS: POOL TOURNAMENT frozen tundra of Toronto to perDAILY HAPPY HOUR petually sunny Los Angeles. 1038 Main Street But based on Expectations, the IVANHOE PUB forthcoming third release from his band MAGIC!, the 37-year-old songwriter isn’t without those moments when the walls start to close in and the future seems uncertain. Lush and almost symphonic as the record is at times, there’s also a dark side lyrically, especially on the back half of the album. Consider “I will 7 DAYS never find the centre of your heart,” A WEEK from the woozy, synth-buzzed thumper “Darts in the Dark”, or 9:30PM-CLOSE “When the trust is gone, so is the HOSTED BY: EVIL BASTARD love,” from the breezy soul jam KARAOKE EXPERIENCE “When the Trust Is Gone”. MAGIC! explores everything from synth-pop and electro to ska on its forthcoming third album, Expectations. Reached in an L.A. studio, FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM! Having a child will do that to you. shooting to No. 1 in America and which he laconically refers to as acknowledges there were times OPEN UNTIL 3AM his second home, the musician when he felt overwhelmed while “I’ll pull back a little bit of the cur- the U.K., and top-five around the FRIDAY AND SATURDAY who goes simply by the name Nasri writing Expectations. tain for you,” Nasri responds when planet, including Australia, Japan, asked how personal the lyrics on and Sweden. Expectations are. “I have my stepson It would have been easy to go who is nine, and my son Noah, who back to the same well for Expectais almost three. Life changes when tions, but Nasri chose to branch you have a child.” out. While you get traces of JamaiPM PM For Nasri, there was more up- can ganja on tracks like “AppreciPM heaval than normal. The singer ate You”, the album also serves AM C met his other half, singer Sandy up everything from thumping B D N O M H C I Mölling of Germany’s all-female left-field electro (“Darts in the R , K R PA No Angels, while working with the Dark”) to neon-splattered synthMINORU group as a songwriter. When she pop (“Core”). became pregnant with their child, “It was a tough album to make she agreed to move to Los Angeles, emotionally, but the songs were where Nasri relocated after grow- just pouring out of me,” Nasri says. ing up in Toronto as the son of Pal- “There was just a f lood of songs, estinian immigrants. and that’s why there were so many “What happened was that I was, styles. There was no calculating for the first time in my life, domes- the style of the album—it was more ticated,” the singer says. “That was that the songs followed the lyrics something, being a dramatic art- and the message.” ist, that I was kind of fighting for All this, he suggests, has him in a long time. You go through a lot a better place than he once would when you have this drastic change have imagined. Before kids, and from staying at the studio till 4 in before MAGIC!, he found himthe morning, doing whatever you self with a steady f lood of royalty want, to ‘The kids get up at this cheques, which only drove home time and you have to take care of once again that money doesn’t them.’ It’s good stuff, bad stuff.” solve problems. So for every dark-cloud line like “I was super unhappy,” Nasri says. “She says she loves another man” “Imagine you have no money. Then from “How You Remember Me”, you write songs for all these big there are also tender moments like stars and you’re given a big cheque. “You’ve got me hanging on your You can do whatever you want with every word, so be careful what you that cheque—buy a house, things, say” from the symphonic pop bal- go on vacation. Except you’re sitlad “Things You Say”. ting there not knowing what to DESI SUB CULTURE ELIJAH WOODS x JAMIE FINE “What I also found,” he con- do with the money. I thought that tinues, “was that when someone is the money was going to make me around you all the time, you start happy. But it was something that to rely on them emotionally—it’s a just ended up sitting in an account. WITH ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES BY: level of codependency which comes I was doing the same thing that I DAWN PEMBERTON LOCARNO JOHN GONZALES JOE AMOUZOU KIMMORTAL with a relationship. That’s where was doing before I had money—goWASAKAKA ALL STAR LATIN BAND VANCOUVER CANTONESE OPERA MIKE MACHADO TRIO ‘Things You Say’ came from. The ing to play basketball with friends, SHYAMA PRIYA | VASHON ENSEMBLE | ALCVIN RAMOS | PHASE III STEEL DRUMMERS | MILK CRATE BANDITS opinion of your partner is kind of with nothing changing. 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Because FEASTIVAL OF FLAVOURS FT. 50 OF THE REGION’S BEST INTERNATIONAL FOOD TRUCKS in nicely between Joy Division’s I’d got paid, I had the choice where I YOUR KONTINENT DIGITAL CARNIVAL Closer and Nine Inch Nails’ The didn’t have to do these sessions that FEATURED ARTISTS LISA BIRKE & TERRANCE HOULE Downward Spiral, the record is ul- I had only done to make money. It AFRICA ZONE BAMBOO THEATRE CULINARY STAGE timately an uplifting and hopeful was clear to me that I didn’t want to ARTISAN MARKETPLACE IMAGINATION WORLD one. The bright-eyed tropical-pop be there anymore. So I met Mark, GLOBAL VILLAGE AND MORE! jam “Kiss Me”, for example, came and we started a band.” from Nasri missing his family afAnd while the walls might close in ter they departed for a minivaca- on occasion, “impossibly charmed” tion in Germany, suddenly leaving is on most days a good description www.richmondworldfestival.com | #RichmondWorldFest funRichmond him alone with plenty of time on of where Nasri is now. his hands. “Some people think I just don’t STAGE SPONSORS ZONE SPONSORS PRESENTED BY If something binds all the songs care, but I honestly don’t take a lot together, it’s that MAGIC! has more of things that seriously,” he says. or less abandoned the sound that “I never have. That’s how I make made it something of an overnight music. I spend half the time while sensation. After years of writing I’m making music playing PlayStaCOMMUNITY SPONSORS MEDIA SPONSORS songs behind the scenes for every- tion, like I’m trying to turn back one from Pitbull and Justin Bieber time and be eight years old. to Shakira and Iggy Azalea, Nasri “But I’ve been finding grey hairs,” found himself wanting something Nasri adds with a laugh, “so I’m not more. Forming MAGIC! with sure that’s going to happen.” guitarist Mark Pellizzer, bassist Ben Spivak, and drummer Alex MAGIC! headlines the Richmond Tanas, he sprang the ska-pop bon- World Festival’s YVR Main Stage on bon “Rude” on the world, the track Saturday (September 1).

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Head gives good rock opera on Dear Father L OCA L D I S C S HEAD Dear Father (Wave/Zed Productions)

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iously wonder why no one locked onto it before. Well aware that everyone loves a good double-entendre, Head thoughtfully included a marketing stroke of genius in its mail-out promo package for Dear Father. In addition to an old-fashioned CD, basic-black T-shirt, thoughtfully composed cover letter, and comprehensive 8-by-11 stapled booklet marked “The story behind the songs”, the group enclosed a tiny sticker reading “I Love Head.” Who other than the ghost of Andrea Dworkin or someone dating one of the Demodogs from Stranger Things is going to line up on the other side of that fence? Considering the lengths Head went to for its Dear Father press kit, it’s no great surprise the album shows an admirable attention to detail. The group cites Evanescence, Halestorm, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch Nails as major influences, the former two most evident thanks to singer Lyric’s vocal delivery. She wrenches every bit of drama out of “Love Lies” lines like “I am sick, sick as a dog, out of my mind, stomach in knots, I die.” Her bandmates, meanwhile, create a rich, goth-lite tapestry with tasteful baroque-metal guitar, cascading funeral-swirl keys, and rocksteady drums. There’s a lot to process on Dear Father, a concept-album sequel to 2016’s Afraid to Sleep. The record continues to trace the story of a character called Alberta, whose alcohol- and drug-fuelled upbringing seemingly crosses lines with that of Lyric—even though real names have been changed. Head explains the record like this: “Dear Father is the final chapter which unravels the sickness and reveals the hold her abusive father had on her.” In case that mission statement isn’t potent enough, head to Track 4, “The Prayer”, a spokenword piece that starts with midnight-in-the-forest keys and “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and ends with “And dear God, please don’t let father kill us tonight…amen.” Get through the considerable trauma (“I crawl through these toxic streets, among survivors/ Looking for the quickest fix,” from “Breathe”) and you eventually end up in a place of hope with the final pre-hidden-track instrumental, “The Tail”. The song’s punctuated with comfortably numb guitar solos and black-tower keys. Given all that Alberta has been through—think a microcosm of the misery in the Downtown Eastside—a happy ending is too much to hope for. But “The Tail” is the kind of meditative number that lets you make movies in your mind. The beauty of that? You get to write—hopefully like Lyric and Alberta—your own ending. > MIKE USINGER

RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS 2020 (Volunteer Media)

I will confess that I have no idea

2 who Rushden & Diamonds are.

Oh, sure, they’re Vancouver hip-hop producers whose most notable accomplishment to date has been landing two songs on the soundtrack to the Sega game Anarchy Reigns. But given that “Rushden and Diamonds” is the name of a football club in the U.K., it’s a sure bet that “Michael Rushden” and “Karl Lord Edward Diamonds” are pseudonyms. There is evidently some sort of elaborate back story here, and 2020 is in fact a sequel to 2010, which came

out in its eponymous year. No idea what any of it’s about, but there are plenty of references to yachts and Maseratis and all sorts of other fetish objects of conspicuous consumption that—let’s keep it real here—underground hip-hop producers from Vancouver can possess only in their dreams. All of which suggests that the whole thing is an exercise in high-life fantasy and/or wink-winknudge-nudge comedy. The love-me-down beats of “Afterparty Afternoon” and “Last Time” sound like someone’s Reagan-era cocaine dreams, while the 8-bit arcade beats of “Own World” suggest that video-game scores are exactly where this duo belongs. Whoever Rushden & Diamonds really are, these guys have made some notable friends; guests on 2020 include Kool Keith and KutMasta Kurt. That’s pretty impressive, admittedly, but it doesn’t make the record any less of a head-scratcher for those not in on the joke. > JOHN LUCAS

DUMB Seeing Green (Mint)

With all the examples of musicianship on offer in the iTunes store, it’s easy to write off semi-experimental, abrasive postpunk as brainless. Despite its tongue-in-cheek band name, though, local group Dumb proves the genre is anything but. Over the past two years, the four-piece has released a trilogy of albums, each high-energy and aggressive, yet incorporating musical twists that add an inventive flair to the records—an extra beat here, or an unexpected chord there. Its latest release, the 14-track Seeing Green, develops those ideas further. Standout track “Hard Sea”, for instance, takes a note out of Devo’s book with its thumping rhythm, but adds coarse, atonal guitar solos that culminate in a clean, palm-muted coda. “Artfact”, too, sounds like the angry younger brother of Talking Heads-era David Byrne in his first Spanish language class, while the major to minor shifts of “Warming Up” are impossible to anticipate. As a result, Seeing Green is postpunk at its most interesting—never predictable, and always on the cusp of spiralling out of control.

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YOUR VOLUNTEER Wellspring (Independent)

Talk about being an overNot only is Jay Hosking the proud holder of a PhD in neuroscience (currently doing postdoctoral work at Harvard) and a published novelist (the Globe and Mail called Three Years With the Rat an “ambitiously constructed… fantasy of interdimensional proportions”), he’s also a singer-songwriter of undeniable talent. Seriously, man. Just pick one thing and be good at that. When you’re good at fucking everything, people start to resent you. Just kidding, sorta. Wellspring is a six-song release with a sonic palette that extends from the subtly shifting indietronica of the opening track, “Who Am I?”, to the more straightforward folk pop of the closing “Landsmen”. Throughout what his Bandcamp page describes as “this sad-sack vocal EP”, Hosking—who has a pleasingly earnest singing style and an ear for yearning melody—ruminates on frozen lakes (“Waves”) and regretful loneliness (“Book”), sounding deeply uncertain and more than a tad melancholy, which might make you feel a bit better about a guy who can probably do, well, everything better than mere mortals like us can.

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REAL PONCHOS Vancouver psychedelic country-soul band celebrates the release of its latest album. Oct 13, 9:45 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15 (plus service charge), info www.rickshaw theatre.com/. COLIN LINDEN Canadian roots singer, songwriter, and guitarist, member of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Oct 19, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $30/$27, info www.capilanou.ca/. BRIA SKONBERG WITH “A” BAND New York–based alumna of Capilano University’s jazz-studies degree program performs with the “A” Band. Oct 26, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $32/$29, info www.capilanou.ca/. KWEKU COLLINS Rapper from Illinois, with guest Joseph Chilliams. Nov 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret

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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS SKOOKUM FESTIVAL Three-day music festival features performances by headliners the Killers, X Ambassadors, and Florence + the Machine, plus Metric, Arkells, the War on Drugs, St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Blue Rodeo, Mother Mother, Chromeo, Bahamas, Stereophonics, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Cold War Kids, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Matt Andersen, Matt Mays, Current Swell, Dear Rouge, Said the Whale, Yukon Blonde, the Zolas, Hey Ocean!, Delhi 2 Dublin, Barney Bentall, Crystal Shawanda, Belle Game, and the Matinee. Sep 7-9, Stanley Park. Tix at www.skookumfestival.com/.

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In Generation Wealth, documentarian Lauren Greenfield catalogues the gross excesses of a culture in serious decline.

All the money in the world RE VIEW S GENERATION WEALTH A documentary by Lauren Greenfield. Rating unavailable

For the past two-and-a-half photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has focused her camera on human excess—L.A. teenagers cruising the beach in luxury convertibles; tulletwirling Russian debutante balls; Chinese mansions with gold toilets; glitzy child beauty pageants; and body-mutilating plastic surgeries. In her 2012 documentary The Queen of Versailles, she famously turned her lens on a former beauty queen and a time-share baron as they tried to build America’s largest monster house on the eve of the last recession. What all her subjects have in common, as she explores in this free-associating and surprisingly personal new documentary, is the compulsive and poisonous pursuit of money and status. In Generation Wealth, she reflects on her career and revisits many of her photographs’ colourful characters. The most memorable include fallen hedge-fund manager Florian Homm, exiled in Germany, desperately sucking the cigars that are the only vestige of the extravagant lifestyle he has left. There’s also a school-bus driver who’s living out of a car due to her plastic-surgery bills, and an aging, workaholic financier who’s pouring thousands into surrogate motherhood. Inevitably, any look at consumer capitalism will cover commodified sex, represented amply here by deeply troubled porn stars, deadeyed Las Vegas escorts, and—in what may be the film’s most unsettling image—the naked performers at Atlanta’s Magic City strip club, maniacally scrambling on all fours across the floor to grab the dollar bills being rained on them. Greenfield interweaves these interviews with reflections on her own comfortable life, career, and family, questioning her privateschool upbringing and her frequent travel while her children were young. The approach (a departure for a director who has largely stayed out of films like Versailles and the anorexia doc Thin) grounds the work in real emotion and reinforces the main idea that love and family trump the almighty dollar any day. But as in so much of this sprawling meditation—an odd mix where the heinously crass often outweighs the authentically beautiful—deep analysis is lacking. An economist does offer views on the rise of global capitalism and the way blind wealth precipitated the decline of all ancient civilizations. Donald Trump also makes several appearances. You’ll appreciate the artistic risks Greenfield takes, her refusal to oversimplify, and—damn! She sure can shoot a picture. But aside from just being appalled, your take-aways

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here may stop at “Money can’t buy you love.” That and the realization that, while we’re frantically scrambling for our own dollar bills, Rome is definitely burning.

that covered some similarly transgressive material. The writing is beautiful throughout, especially in the protagonist’s recollections of discovering the hidden parts of grown-up life that > JANET SMITH could be both “pointless and elegant”.

BREATH Starring Simon Baker. Rated 18A

A coming-of-age story without the Stand by Me sentimentality, Breath is a refreshingly original take on boyhood and on surf-movie tropes. This handsome effort is also an impressive feature-directing debut for actor Simon Baker, a Tasmanian busy with the Mentalist series until recently. He produced and cowrote the screenplay with Gerard Lee, the frequent Jane Campion collaborator who created the BBC’s creepy Top of the Lake with her. Here, Baker and Lee adapted a highly regarded 2008 novel by Tim Winton, an author and playwright Australians have dubbed their “poet laureate of the beach”. Winton narrates this tale of growing up in the 1970s, in a wild, seaside part of western Oz, as told from the (retro) perspective of 13-year-old Bruce Pike (quietly memorable newcomer Samson Coulter), known as Pikelet to best pal Ivan Loon (Ben Spence), called Loonie, of course. Pikelet goes to a posh private school, courtesy of his gentle parents (Aussie veterans Richard Roxburgh and Rachael Blake). What little we get of sun-haired bad boy Loonie’s family is not good, vaguely explaining his daredevil spirit. Finding Pikelet’s true nature is what this Hemingway-esque memoir is about, and it comes through the boys’ growing obsession with surfing. This peaks when they meet Sando, a former pro surfer played by a scruffed-up Baker himself. They start hanging out at his bohemian retreat (he’s got Moby Dick on the bookshelf, alongside the Carlos Castaneda), and Sando gives them Zen-like instruction in the deeper arts of ocean-taming. This is over the mostly silent objections of his American wife, Eva, played by Elizabeth Debicky, the tall, French-born Polish-Australian we know from her otherworldly presence in The Great Gatsby and the Guardians of the Galaxy flicks. Eva is a competitive skier suffering from a recent accident, and now her competitiveness has been turned onto Sando, in terms that viewers, and the boys, are not really privy to. Her morose nature has a certain allure to Pikelet, which comes into play when Sando and Loonie leave town abruptly. The two-hour movie loses its way in scenes that—somewhat paradoxically—grow morally darker and too tonally repetitive to sustain interest. Breath recovers, however, and special marks must be given to cinematographer Marden Dean for sticking to a wintry, non-golden-light palette that evokes the ’70s without fetishizing that decade, and to Rick Rifici, who did the superb water photography—as he did for Adore, a fairly recent Aussie film

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WE THE ANIMALS Starring Evan Rosado. Rating unavailable

Moonlight meets Malick in this low-budget character study, centring on a boy who finds himself—in both senses—inside an at-risk family. The animals of the unpunctuated title are a self-contained tribe of three young brothers stranded in upstate New York, with parents who aren’t up to the task. Episodic happenings over unspecified time are told from the perspective of the smallest boy, Jonah (Evan Rosado), about 10 when things begin. He looks to slightly older Manny and Joel (Isaiah Kristian and Josiah Gabriel) for protection, and needs it. Their unnamed father (Looking’s Raúl Castillo) is prone to violence, and Ma (Sheila Vand, of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) responds by zoning out, leaving the boys to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. When not searching for crackers and soy-sauce packets, or raiding nearby farms for vegetables, Jonah hides under his bed, writing gibberish in a journal also filled with increasingly grotesque drawings, some of which burst into life on the screen. His murmuring voice-overs, dropped after a while, recall the first-person narration of the much-lauded 2011 Justin Torres novella on which this is based. These Tree of Life–like incantations give us some very sketchy background to dire situations that are nonetheless honeyed by nostalgia for childhood in a vaguely defined time before digital media. Indeed, the only electronics seem to be an old princess phone and boxy TVs showing old movies or the odd porn tape. The homes here are bereft of culture, and of hope, but not of colour and light. Cinematographer Zak Mulligan finds the lyrical sweep and darker undertow of private spaces, small-town streets, and the local swimming hole. Unfortunately, writer-director Jeremiah Zagar, in his feature debut after making many far-ranging documentaries, relies on visual moods and the compelling presence of nonprofessional child actors to give the story shape and meaning. From the setup, you expect the mixed-culture marriage—Dad is from Puerto Rico and Mom is white—to be a factor, along with the revelations of Jonah’s sexual ambiguity. But the characters mostly remain ciphers, with the sole female figure exerting little influence on dreamlike events. Even the animation is static, hitting the same notes again and again. In short, there’s a lot of talent on display here, although it remains regrettably immature.

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1945 Starring Péter Rudolf. In Hungarian, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

Two men in black silently ar-

2 rive by train in a dusty border

town just after a heinous war has ended. It might as well be the U.S. in 1865, but in fact it’s Hungary 80 years later, with Nazi rule now replaced by Soviet occupation. You’d think such momentous changes would preoccupy the few residents left in the area, but right now they are more concerned with the perceived threat from that arrival. No one recognizes the men, probably father and son (Iván Angelusz and Marcell Nagy), who are carrying large boxes declared to contain perfumes. But there’s the smell of fear in the air, and the strangers are assumed to be Jews. “You know: hats and beards,” says a resident

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A Hungarian town finds itself disturbed by the arrival of two possibly Jewish men in the quietly tense period thriller, 1945.

drunk to the local big shot, who like most local men has a hat and mustache. Said big shot (veteran actor Péter Rudolf) is István Szentes, the town clerk and acting mayor, and he has many reasons to worry.

He runs the only drugstore, a profit centre he wound up with after denouncing its Jewish owners and seeing them taken away. Now the Russians are likely to seize the property, if the absent Pollak family

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number one customer. Their boy’s comely fiancée (Dóra Sztarenki) seems more interested in the family fortune than in the groom. And she still has a yen for her previous beau (Tamás Szabó Kimmel), a muscular soldier who fits right in with the new Soviet overlords. Little happens and yet everything is set in motion in Ferenc Török’s quietly tense thriller, shot in sepia-toned, wide-screen monochrome, with anxiety ramped up by Tibor Szemzö’s free-jazz score—and the knowledge that Hungary itself has recently swung back toward the far right. The screenplay was adapted from Gábor Szántó’s short story, and in its draggier moments the movie doesn’t appear to have quite enough material to sustain even its fussily crafted 90 minutes. Still, 1945 manages to work itself toward a darkly poetic finish, not with a gunfight at the train station but with the smoke of history refusing to vanish on the near horizon. > KEN EISNER see next page

A documentary by Moon Chang-yong and Jeon Jin. In Tibetan, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable

Documentary realism gives

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spiritual reverie in Becoming Who I Was. For their first feature of any kind, South Korean filmmakers Moon Chang-yong and Jeon Jin spent years following two subjects through the Ladakh region of northern India and beyond, presumably in hopes that a good story would emerge. It did. The principal focus here is on Padma Angdu, only five when exiled Tibetan monks anointed him a rinpoche, or reincarnated spirit of a great teacher from the past. When we meet him, at age nine, he’s playing with other schoolboys and doing homework with his mother and three sisters. He likes soccer and Bollywood movies, is good at drawing, and is unusually afraid of firecrackers. There’s no

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THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST Starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Rated 14A

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The other night while my wife and I were watching porn and masturbating together, I suggested we masturbate in front of DirtyRoulette. I briefly explained what the site is about. She asked me if that’s what I do—if I get on DR when I masturbate. I replied yes, sometimes—and she was so taken aback, she ended our masturbation session to process it. We’re fine now, but do you think this is “cheating”? > DIRTY ROULETTING

I don’t think it’s cheating, DR, but you aren’t married to me. In other words, if your wife regards you masturbating with strangers on the Internet as cheating, then it’s cheating. There are, of course, some people out there who regard too many things as cheating—fantasizing about others, looking at porn, even non-webcamor-porn-enhanced masturbation. People who think this way usually regard cheating as unforgivable and, consequently, their relationships are doomed to failure.

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but it can still be alive and kicking inside a woman for several days. If a woman fucks a man, and hours or days later, I fuck that woman with fingers or toys that are later inside of me, can I accidentally get pregnant? > ACTIVELY LOOKING

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or best practices for introducing my husband to my boyfriend? > POLY PROCESSING

No.

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Keep it casual and keep it brief, PP. A quick drink before you and your husband head to a sold-out show you have only two tickets for. If your husband has an unexpectedly emotional reaction to meeting your boyfriend in the flesh—if it dredges up jealousy issues—you won’t be putting him in a situation where he has to bottle that up for hours or, worse yet, for a weekend.

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Big oversight on my part, thank you for writing in! On the Lovecast : Finally! A sexadvice/rabbit-care podcast mashup: savagelovecast.com . Email: mail@ savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage. ITMFA.org.

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