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More than two dozen peer-reviewed that the economic slowdown in the deau seems to recognize this. studies show that the country’s only western industrialized world is really In addition, the Liberals were legal supervised-injection site saves linked to a shortage of demand for correct to move more decisively than lives and money, cuts street disorder, goods and services. Anyone who’s read the NDP on marijuana. While New and reduces the transmission of dis- articles by Nobel Prize–winning econo- Democrats talked about increasing eases. Trudeau wasn’t afraid to say mist Paul Krugman knows that. Redis- the number of police in Surrey, the that he supported building more of tributing tax benefits to the middle class Liberals pledged to legalize pot. and lower-income Canadians is an apthese facilities in Canada. The war on drugs has led to wideThe same is true of the Liberals’ propriate response to the problem. spread carnage, just as Prohibition Trudeau was also willing to run of liquor fuelled the growth of U.S. approach to tax policy. The evidence is that too many tax breaks for the deficits in order to jack up spending on organized crime in the Roaring ’20s. wealthiest members of society sty- infrastructure, including rapid transit. Trudeau looked at the evidence (egged It makes sense in a on by Vancouver Quadra Liberal MP mie economic decountry with low Joyce Murray) and called for the legalvelopment. This is interest rates and ization of cannabis. Anyone who’s paid abundantly clear where 81 percent attention to the health benefits of this to anyone who’s Charlie Smith of residents live in plant knows that this is a no-brainer. read the work of progressive thinkers like former U.S. urban regions. Investments in infraThere is still room for the Libersecretary of labour and economist structure will yield long-term eco- als to pay more attention to scientific Robert Reich, Liberal MP Chrystia nomic dividends. evidence, particularly when it comes The Liberal platform was ranked to rising greenhouse-gas emissions. Freeland, and even author Linda McQuaig, who failed to capture a seat for second-best, only behind that of the On this issue, the NDP had a better Greens, by the Council for Canadian platform and the Greens had the best. the NDP in Toronto this election. Yet it was the Liberals, not the New Urbanism. It gave Trudeau’s party 11 The Liberals’ Murray, again, has Democrats, who were more aggres- “very strong” and three “strong” rat- been on top of this issue. But many sive in dealing with personal taxes. ings in its 14 categories. of her fellow party members aren’t as “We will cancel income splitting and Similarly, the Liberals were pre- keen to look in a clear-minded way at other tax breaks and benefits for the pared to make major investments in the climate crisis, radically crank up wealthy,” the Liberal platform declares. arts and culture, which forced the federal support for renewable-energy The Liberals promised to increase NDP to play catch-up during the options, and make carbon pricing a the marginal federal tax rate from 29 campaign. Trudeau pledged to double higher priority. Liberal vagueness in percent to 33 percent for those with annual expenditures on the Canada these areas was revealed in an analytaxable incomes over $200,000. The Council for the Arts from $180 million sis by the B.C. Sustainable Energy marginal federal rate for people with to $360 million and boost spending Association. Let’s hope the next Libtaxable incomes between $44,701 on Telefilm Canada and the National eral energy minister takes some time and $89,401 will fall from 22 percent Film Board by $25 million per year. to look at the incredibly rapid growth to 20.5 percent. These changes were The creative economy is often of solar energy around the world. touted as “revenue-neutral”. overlooked by political parties, even But on the whole, the Liberals The party is also going to adjust Can- though it has become a lifeblood showed the most courage of the maada’s child-care benefit, unlike what of cities. Digital entrepreneurs, the jor parties in advancing controversial was promised by the Conservatives and performing arts, film production, policies. They didn’t assume that votthe NDP. The Liberals say they’ll phase and the music industry are major ers were stupid. 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and the Metro Vancouver regional government, to restore portions of the stream channelled in underground pipes. The process of “daylighting” re-creates the natural floodplains of streams and relieves pressure in culverts during heavy rainstorms, which are a consequence of climate change, thereby lessening the impact of flooding. The City of Vancouver’s Still Creek Rehabilitation and Enhancement Study notes that “urban streams and creeks often play a significant role in stormwater management by conveying runoff from roads, buildings and properties towards larger water bodies, thereby minimizing the chances of flooding and associated property damage.” Restoring streams provides habitat for wildlife, as well as recreational space for the community. Rosen and her family moved to
Renfrew-Collingwood in late 1999, and she immediately dedicated herself to the revival and celebration of Renfrew Ravine and Still Creek. At that time, the area was a dumping ground for garbage, but Rosen recognized that it could become a “really beautiful place” again. “I thought, ‘Well, I can come to ravine cleanups and clean up garbage, but maybe there is something I can do as an artist that changes people’s attitudes, so they don’t want to throw garbage in to begin with, that they have a different relationship to Renfrew Ravine,’ ” Rosen said by phone. For the last three Novembers, starting in 2012, chum salmon have been seen spawning in the Vancouver portion of Still Creek after an absence of 80 years, a phenomenon that was immensely gratifying to Rosen. She’s hoping they’ll come again next month. -
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(David Suzuki) This is perhaps the environmentalist and broadcaster’s most eloquent and personal book, with chapters on a wide range of subjects including fame, barriers to change, and aging and death. It’s loaded with thought-provoking comments, such as when Suzuki describes human beings as an invasive species, or how all sorts of circumstances lead human beings to behave foolishly, which is why ecosystems and the biosphere shouldn’t be recklessly placed in jeopardy. “When so-called once-in-a-hundred-years events like floods or extreme storms begin to occur every ten years or less, something is not right,” he states in the book. “The human imprint can now be found even on earthquakes and volcanoes.”
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ancouver has long been an environmental leader—and not only in raising global awareness about climate change. Our town gave birth to Greenpeace, is home to David Suzuki, and was represented by an MLA who introduced North America’s first carbon tax as premier (Gordon Campbell). It also has some of the cleanest drinking water on the planet, thanks to farsighted efforts to preserve the North Shore watershed system. Meanwhile, the city’s initiatives to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and pursue a goal of consuming 100 percent renewable energy are attracting attention around the world, including from Pope Francis and U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. And recently, SFU offered a short residency at the Harbour Centre campus to Australian scientist Tim Flannery, a best-selling author and renowned educator on global warming. If you’re curious to learn more about environmental issues leading up to late November and early December’s UN climate-change conference in Paris, here are four recently published books worth reading. Three are by B.C. authors and the fourth is by Flannery.
A WORLD FOR MY DAUGHTER: AN ECOLOGIST’S SEARCH FOR OPTIMISM (Alejandro Frid) Frid, an
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activity, Frid shows how far-reaching these effects can be on the ground or at sea. A World for My Daughter leaves readers with a greater appreciation for the fragility of the web of life, especially along the Pacific Coast. ATMOSPHERE OF HOPE: SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS (Tim Flannery) Here,
Flannery focuses a great amount of attention on what he calls third-way technologies to suck gigatonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The book includes sections on how seaweed farming, roofing products that absorb carbon dioxide, and wood chemistry can all help preserve the future of humanity. With its startling data and clear descriptions of the extent of the ecological crisis facing humanity, Atmosphere of Hope is a wake-up call to the world and a perfect primer in advance of the upcoming UN climate talks.
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FORUMS 2THIS WEEK NEUROPLASTICITY AND EDUCATION: STRENGTHENING THE CONNECTION Five leading experts in the fields of neuroscience and education, including UBC’s Dr. Lara Boyd and UC professor emeritus Michael M. Merzenich, will speak about the huge potential for positive change that comes when we understand the connections between our brain’s ability to grow and educational practice. Oct 23, 7 am, Westin Bayshore Hotel (1601 Bayshore). Info www.neuroplasticityand education.com/. WOMEN AND THE BUSINESS OF ANIMATION SPARK Animation presents a new event featuring some of the world’s top animation filmmakers, producers, and executives on the role of women in animation. Oct 23, 9 am–7 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $15-70, info www.sparkfx.ca/.
SETTLER-COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE POLICIES IN NORTH AMERICA Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discusses colonialism and genocide policies in North America. Sponsored by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and First Nations Studies, and UBC’s First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. Oct 27, 7-9 pm, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ events/714236692040031/. GREY DIVORCE: THE NEXT GENERATION OF FAMILY LAW Expert faculty will provide delegates with insights into how traditional family law topics are being reconsidered for the emerging group of divorcees. Oct 28, UBC Robson Square (800 Robson). Tix $770, info www.pbli.com/programs/overview/. SAM SULLIVAN’S PUBLIC SALON Speakers include Bob Rennie, Cory Ashworth, Judy Graves, Nicole Bridger, Kevin Chong, Dale McClanaghan, Alexander Weimann, and Daniel Kalla. Oct 28, 7:30-9 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $30/20, info www. globalcivic.org/public-salons/.
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STYLE & SUBSTANCE: CLIMATE CHANGE POP-UP Sale of fashion, jewellery, shoes, and furniture benefits the David Suzuki Foundation and philanthropist Vivian Chan’s startup. Oct 23, 6-10 pm, The Closet YVR (360 Carrall). Info www. facebook.com/events/916202798466652/.
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FOOD AND DRINK 2THIS WEEK TASTE OF YALETOWN Local restaurants showcase their creativity and talent with menus at set price tiers of $25, $35, and $45. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. To Oct 29, various Yaletown restaurants. Info www.yaletowninfo.com/event/ taste-yaletown-2015/.
RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE Express solidarity with the Palestinian people. Oct 23, 1 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.cpavancouver.org/.
PROJECT TRUE PRESENTS: UNMASQUERADE Evening of art, music, and talk in support of eating-disorder treatment and recovery. Oct 27, 7-10 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $25, info www.projecttrue.com/.
WORKING HOLIDAY FERMENTATIONS, VANCOUVER SUSTENANCE FESTIVAL Holistic nutritionist Andrea Potter and community artist Elisa Yon present a hands-on exploration of fermented foods. Oct 22, 6-8 pm, Dunbar Community Centre (4747 Dunbar). Tix $5, info www. workingholidayproject.com/.
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B.C. BEER AWARDS AND FESTIVAL One-day-only event features both the B.C. Beer Awards ceremony hosted by CBC’s Stephen Quinn and a craft--beer festival with over 50 breweries and cideries. Oct 24, 4-9 pm, Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial). Tix $30, info www.bcbeerawards.com/. BC UNCORKED FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL B.C.-focused food and wine festival showcases wines from over 45 local wineries, matched with foods provided by 11 local restaurants and caterers. Oct 24, 7-9:30 pm, Heritage Woods Secondary (1300 David Ave., Port Moody). Tix $55, info www.bcuncorked.com/.
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Health checkup PREVENT THE FLU This month, vaccines against influenza are available at public health offices, doctors’ offices, travel clinics, and pharmacies in advance of flu season, which starts in November. It takes the body two weeks to develop antibodies to the virus. That’s why provincial health officials recommend getting vaccinated as soon as possible. Children six months or older may receive the inactivated influenza vaccine shot; they must be at least two years old to receive the live-attenuated nasal-spray vaccine. Visit immunizebc.ca/ for more information about who’s eligible for free vaccinations. -
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PRIMAL FLO (Steve Nash Fitness World & Sports Club) Try fluid body-weight sequences inspired by wild animals.
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MMA (Urban Fitness) Martial-arts moves will make you feel like you’re Georges St. Pierre without hitting anyone.
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TGIF DANCE BLAST (Ron Zalko Fitness & Yoga) Sweat and act silly with choreographed dance moves to Top 40 hits.
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AERIAL YOGA (Tantra Fitness) Do the downward dog or the bridge pose while suspended in the air in a silk hammock.
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BLACK CAT YOGA In the spirit of Halloween, Emmanuelle Rousseau and Boyd Thompson of Stretch Yoga are hosting two feline-friendly classes this Sunday (October 25) at their East Pender studio. They’ve teamed up with VOKRA (Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association) for a pair of 75-minute Flow and Hatha classes where patrons will be joined by a dozen of the association’s black cats. Each of the felines at the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. classes will be available for adoption, and Rousseau is hoping that the event will shed light on their need for placement, as black cats often go unadopted due to widely held superstitions. All funds generated by admission fees will go to support VOKRA.-
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And “We are by far the largest health–IT Telus executives insist that this will company in Canada,” Blair said to a end up costing the Alberta health-care group of executives and a small num- system less money in the long run. ber of journalists. Telus is also proPaul Lepage, viding electronicpresident of Telus h e a l t h -r e c o r d s Health and Payapplications to Charlie Smith ment Solutions, doctors, acute-care talked about how families can mon- hospitals, pharmacies, insurers, and itor loved ones with the help of tech- employers. “Ultimately, all of those nology. As an example, he cited the initiatives are focused on the citizen, possibility of devices worn by sen- the consumer, the plan member,” Leiors providing information to people page said. in another location about whether Meanwhile, Chin has paid a great they may have fallen down. deal of attention to one of the hottest The third panellist, Dr. Elaine new areas of diagnostic testing: teloChin, is Telus’s chief wellness of- meres. She said that these are found ficer. She discussed how digital de- at the tips of chromosomes, which vices that measure blood pressure contain all of a person’s DNA. and other health indicators are being She cited shoelace tips to provide sold at Bloomingdale’s. “They think an analogy to describe what happens it’s going to be the hottest Christmas to people’s chromosomes as they age. present going,” Chin said. Just as tips protect shoelaces from Over the past decade, Telus states fraying, telomeres protect chromothat it has invested more than $1.5 somes from destabilizing. billion in its health division, which In her new book Lifelines: Unlock has more than 1,600 team members. the Secrets of Your Telomeres for a While telecommunications rivals Longer, Healthier Life, Chin states like Bell and Rogers have sunk bil- that telomeres have now been reclions into television and sports teams, ognized as a cause of all chronic disTelus has focused its efforts on help- eases. And at Telus’s head office, she ing clients live longer, healthier lives. bluntly stated that these sections of In an interview with the Georgia nucleotide sequences weaken with Straight earlier this year, Telus presi- age and lifestyle factors, including dent and CEO Darren Entwistle said poor diet, too much alcohol, smokthat the company is aiming for bet- ing, stress, and lack of sleep. ter patient outcomes at lower costs. “That will really determine your “We also think that technol- biological fate,” Chin said. ogy and empowering our citizens Researchers Elizabeth Blackburn, to greater care of their health and Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak won that of their families can not only the Nobel Prize in medicine for their remediate disease, it can prevent work in this area. Chin explained that disease from happening in the first telomeres are usually longer in childplace,” Entwistle said. hood, but shorten with time as DNA As an example, Telus has created replicates to keep people healthy. a personal-health-records platform When genetic material starts to fragthat enables people with diabetes to ment, it fails to be copied properly. track blood-sugar levels at different This leads to the production of untimes of the day and night. It can healthy cells. This, in turn, can result also be used by those with congestive in cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheart failure or other chronic condi- heimer’s disease, osteoporosis, arthtions to provide long-term informa- ritis, and other chronic conditions. tion on health indicators. That could “Wellness is, in fact, based on sciinclude a person’s pulse readings or ence and it’s not a fad,” Chin insisted. resting-heart-rate readings. In her book, Chin describes a Consumers can log in daily and multitude of ways in which telomeres examine a dashboard full of in- can be tested. Blood or saliva tests formation. They may also decide will work. She writes that quantitative whether or not they want to pro- polymerase chain reaction testing is vide this information to a physician, the most cost-effective at $250 to $500. coach, mental-health specialist, or Fluorescence in situ hybridization will family member. It also keeps track run between $1,000 and $1,500. “I generally tell people to opt for of lab-test information, allergies, family immunization records, and a the less expensive test; then, if they are concerned by the results because host of other data. Lepage said that over the past six they fall below the average, they can do years, Telus has tried several different additional testing to assess the percentbusiness models to cover the cost of age of short telomeres,” Chin writes. > B Y C HARLIE SMITH
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eceiving a cancer diagnosis malignant melanoma. Not only did is a scary experience. Pa- members of the relaxation group tients are often immedi- experience reduced psychological ately thrust into aggressive distress, they also had more active conventional therapies without fully immune systems than those in the understanding how they work or why control group. A six-year followthey are necessary. We live in a culture up showed a trend toward greater where we put the responsibility of our recurrence and higher mortality health into someone else’s hands. We rates in the control group comare told to trust that they know what pared to the relaxation group. is best, and patients are often discourThe bottom line is that patients aged from doing their own research. who focus on reducing stress and They can feel that from the fi rst healing have a better prognosis. day of diagnosis, People also have they are put on lower rates of a conveyor belt developing canand shuffled from cer in the first Adam McLeod one appointment place if they folto the next with no other options low these practices. Given available. Once the treatments are what we know complete and the patient is de- about the connecclared cancer-free, they’re expected tion between imto continue on with their life. mune function and The reality is that this experi- stress—as reported ence is so stressful for patients that in the journal Canit often leaves them traumatized cer—this is not suremotionally and physically. Treat- prising. ment should not end the moment The aggressive that someone is given the “all- conventional treatclear”. That is the time to focus ments that patients on keeping your immune system receive often do a strong and changing factors in good job of killing your lifestyle to reduce the risk of cancerous cells. The recurrence. Patients need guid- problem is that these ance to make these physical and same therapies also emotional changes. The good leave the immune sysnews is that a lot can be done and tem severely weakened there is substantial research to at a time when you need back these therapies. it to be strong. You must You can help your body fight have a well-functioning immune syscancer by reducing stress and fo- tem to patrol your tissues and idencusing your efforts on healing. tify abnormal cells before they have One of the most comprehensive an opportunity to manifest as a clinintervention studies in cancer re- ical disease. The first year after being search, published in Archives of told you’re in remission is the most General Psychiatry, evaluated the important time to support your imeffects of stress-management tech- mune system. There are many naturniques such as relaxation on cancer al therapies and lifestyle changes that recurrence following removal of a can be done.
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he Liberals’ October 19 victory over the tough-on-crime Conservatives prompted a succinct reaction from the unofficial leader of Canada’s marijuana-reform movement. “Holy smokes,” Jodie Emery said in a telephone interview. “We were all joking about how activists are out of a job. Mission accomplished. Now what?” In his campaign for prime minister, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised his government would fully legalize and regulate the sale and consumption of recreational cannabis. That pledge went significantly further than NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair’s plan to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of pot. While decriminalization leaves supply to the black market, Trudeau insisted Canada should regulate cannabis in ways similar to how the country handles other controlled substances, such as alcohol and tobacco. “It is time that Canada adjusted to the reality that controlling and regulating marijuana is a way of both protecting our kids, protecting the public, and ensuring that we are not financing gangs to millions and millions of dollars,” Trudeau told the Straight at an August 19 campaign stop in Vancouver. Now, Emery said, there are a thousand questions about how that will happen. “What kind of system are we going to have?” she asked. In March, Trudeau told CKNW Radio that a Liberal government would begin by decriminalizing marijuana “in a very rapid fashion”. That requires removing cannabis from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which would save a lot of people from negative interactions with police. From 2003 to 2012, the B.C. Ministry of Justice recorded charging 44,522 people for crimes related to cannabis. Exactly what comes next is less certain, but a 38-page Liberal party draft “policy paper” dated January 2013 provides many hints. It recommends marijuana be sold in retail storefronts, perhaps similar to those already operating in Vancouver. That document repeatedly emphasizes a legitimate marijuana industry should be heavily regulated. It points to tobacco and alcohol sales as examples, noting there are
strict rules for how those products are supplied, sold, and advertised. As the owner of a number of Vancouver dispensaries, Don Briere conceded he stands to gain a lot from Trudeau’s plan. “We were dancing in the streets,” he recalled of election night. But Briere argued people who have nothing to do with pot also stand to benefit. He explained that while he’s paid federal GST on weed sold through his dispensaries, he hasn’t paid PST to the province. That’s because authorities consider cannabis sold through Vancouver storefronts to be medicinal, and medications are exempt from PST. Briere said if a new Liberal government permits the sale of recreational marijuana, those sales would be subject to PST, and that would translate into millions of dollars in new money for the provinces. “I alone have paid over $200,000 in GST on marijuana,” he said. “Hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of time, and we’ll continue to add to that.” In the Liberals’ policy paper, it’s calculated that legalizing marijuana will bring in $4 billion in government revenue each year. In addition, an older special senate committee report, from 2002, estimates between $300 million and $500 million spent on law enforcement and the justice system annually could be saved by legalizing cannabis. Meanwhile, the Liberals estimate implementing a new regulatory scheme will carry a price tag of just $65 million over five years. In a telephone interview, Joyce Murray, the re-elected Liberal MP for Vancouver Quadra, was reluctant to predict what tangible form legal marijuana sales might take. She said the initial emphasis will be on consultation and discussions with the provinces and municipal governments. “What’s important is the principles,” she said. “And the principles are to prevent underage access to marijuana as well as to stabilize the safety of the product.” Emery warned that Trudeau hasn’t acted on the marijuana file yet, and that today police across Canada still have the authority to arrest anybody caught with a joint. “The Harper legacy of prohibition will continue for some time,” she said. “And now the Liberals will have to make sure they don’t over-regulate.” -
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billion in this area over four years. Fry emphasized that this is part of a broader plan to shift the delivery of health care into the community to ensure people only go to hospital when it’s necessary. “The money that is saved could go into a whole lot of other areas of health care,” she said. “This is what the successful countries are doing.” Fry mentioned that she would like to see greater emphasis placed on health promotion, disease prevention, and multidisciplinary community teams in a “person-centred system”. In some other countries, she said, these teams include social workers, housing advisers, counsellors, psychiatric nurses, and psychologists. “Housing for the mentally ill [in Canada] tends to be prison or the
street,” Fry added. “We don’t have the ability to house them in an appropriate manner. So these are some of the things we’re plugging into the system. So it’s going to be a different way of looking at it.” The Liberals have also promised to end the Canadian Blood Services ban on accepting blood donations from men who have had sex with men. In addition, during the campaign the Liberals pledged to introduce rules restricting “commercial marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children” and “tougher regulations to eliminate trans fats”. The party platform offered assurances that a Liberal government will lower the cost of prescription medications by negotiating with provinces to engage in bulk buying. The document also promised to improve access to medications. “We will prioritize decreasing the number of harmful, adverse drug reactions by improving reporting, and ensuring more research and followup on reported adverse effects,” the platform stated. “We will continue to ensure timely approvals for new medicines, many of which not only improve patient health, but reduce overall health care costs as well.” In 2013, Fry told the Straight that Canadians were spending $14 billion more than was necessary on prescription drugs, either individually or through their insurance plans. She based this figure on research compiled by UBC professor Steve Morgan, who specializes in researching pharmaceutical policies. The Straight asked the Vancouver Centre MP shortly before the election if the UBC professor would offer advice to the incoming Liberal government. “I would hope that Steve Morgan would play a huge role,” Fry replied. “Steve Morgan has already been a person that I have consulted a lot.” -
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hea O’Neil developed a keen interest in sustainability while spending a year at Pensacola State College in Florida. In a recent phone interview with the Georgia Straight, the SFU Public Square employee recalled how frustrated she became when she couldn’t find anywhere to return her plastic bottles in Pensacola. “They wouldn’t take them, so I became obsessed with recycling and waste management when I came back to SFU,” O’Neil said. “I studied environmental geography and was super passionate about it, particularly on the waste side.” O’Neil is now trying to inspire hundreds of young people to embrace a greener future as one of the organizers of ReThink Food. It’s a one-day challenge to secondaryschool students to design more sustainable ways of dealing with food in their schools. “It’s very exciting for students to have the ability to make a lasting impact in their schools,” O’Neil said. “That would be something that I wish I had the chance to do at my high school.” Another organizer, SFU engineering student Raaj Chatterjee, told the Straight that the goal is to help highschool students bring ideas forward to enhance food sustainability. He said that projects could, for example, include creating community gardens, promoting meatless Mondays, or developing composting systems.
Tessica Truong, Shea O’Neil, and Amelia Huang are organizing ReThink Food to get young people generating ideas about sustainability. Amanda Siebert photo.
“Some of these things are happening already,” Chatterjee said. “They could develop one of those ideas to make a more expansive, cooler project.” O’Neil added that students might also have ideas about how to develop communications strategies to promote sustainability. There might be a composting system in a school and there could be opportunities to devise ways to increase students’ participation. The deadline for registration is Monday (October 26) and it’s open to teams of four to eight students. Participants can also sign up individually and will be placed in a group.
SFU Public Square employee Tessica Truong and recent SFU graduate Amelia Huang are also part of the team putting together the event. A panel of judges will evaluate the projects and offer feedback. Winners will be eligible for funding of up to $1,000. “We’re going to keep it flexible,” O’Neil said. “We’re hoping that the students include a rough budget of their project, as well, to give them that experience.” ReThink Food takes place November 5 at Telus World of Science as part of Simon Fraser University’s We the City: 2015 Community Summit.
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Melina said. According to her, adding garlic to a meal can also increase the body’s absorption of zinc from foods such as chickpeas, grains, and tahini. In its Medical Reference Guide, the University of Maryland Medical Center notes that garlic can also be taken to boost the immune system and prevent heart disease and colds. “Antioxidants like those found in garlic fight off free radicals, and may reduce or even help prevent some of the damage they cause over time,” the guide states.
For thousands of years, ginger has been used for arthritis, colds, hypertension, and migraines, University of Minnesota professors Ann M. Bode and Zigang Dong note in the second edition of Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects. Research suggests that ginger lowers cholesterol and improves lipid metabolism and can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. “It can help people not feel nauseated, if they get sick in travel,” Melina said. “But it’s widely used to help CUMIN The seeds of the cumin plant, women who are experiencing morning which is part of the parsley family, are sickness. They can use it in cookies or commonly used in Latin American, teas or powder capsules or ginger ale.” North African, and South Asian cuisines. They are an excellent source of TURMERIC Chinese and Ayurvedic calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, medicine traditionally used turmeric to treat arthritis. On its website, the manganese, and other minerals. According to WebMD, cumin Atlanta-based Arthritis Foundation can be taken for digestion prob- notes that a 2006 study showed turlems, such as bowel spasms and meric can prevent joint inflammation. In Herbal Medicine, University of diarrhea. Cumin is also used as an aphrodisiac and diuretic, as well as Texas researchers Sahdeo Prasad and Bharat B. Aggarwal note that turmeric to induce menstruation. can also be used for abdominal pain, GARLIC To decrease your risk of can- chicken pox, conjunctivitis, digestive cer, the American Institute for Cancer disorders, liver ailments, and urinary Research recommends eating gar- tract infections. “The beneficial effects lic as part of a well-balanced, mostly of turmeric are traditionally achieved plant-based diet. “Garlic and also through dietary consumption, even at onion have shown up time after time low levels, over long periods of time,” to be very protective against cancer,” Prasad and Aggarwal write. GINGER
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UBC professor Gwen Chapman has cowritten a new book, Acquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way They Do, which explores the relationship between what people eat and how they grew up.
Gender and healthy eating
strongly suggesting that feeding families is still the domain of women. In almost every family interviewed, an adult woman was primarily responsible for planning menus, shopping for groceries, cooking, and orchestrating meals that balanced Research shows that even in two-income families, women are individual preferences, still bearing most of the burden for ensuring kids are fed well hectic schedules, and cultural traditions. You’ve heard the cliché: you are what you “In this regard, the gendered nature of family eat. A new book argues that in fact, our food choices foodwork seems to have changed very little dursay much more than that, reflecting our personal ing the past several decades,” the authors write in BY GAIL JOHN SON backgrounds, aspirations, and opinions of ourselves the book. “Our data also revealed that women’s reand others. sponsibilities extended beyond ensuring that everyAcquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way one was fed to caring for everyone’s They Do takes a scholarly look at how everything health.…By promoting the principles from gender and social class to political and moral of healthy eating and incorporatconcerns shapes the meanings that people attach ing healthy foods into family meals, to food. In a food-obsessed city like Vancouver, women could establish an identity it’s an especially relevant book that draws many that was recognizably feminine, mark conclusions—some predictable and others not. themselves as good mothers, and disResearchers interviewed 105 families from tinguish themselves from women across Canada, living in small and large cities as whom they critiqued as inadequately well as rural areas composed of farms and villa- feeding themselves and their families.” ges, of varying income levels and social classes. The topic of healthy eating came It’s a project that Gwen Chapman says is a cul- up time and again in researchers’ mination of her research interests over several interviews with families, with some participants feeling guilty about not years in UBC’s faculty of land and food systems. “I’ve focused on trying to understand people’s achieving a certain standard of eating eating habits from a social perspective: the way we and others laughing off their inability eat, the way we think about food, and how those to reach a “gold” standard of healthy are embedded in the social context of our lives,” eating. And while the term healthy eating came up Chapman, a professor, says by phone. “I’ve been often, people had different ideas about what exactly particularly interested in gender as well as family it means. Some interpreted it as homemade, whole relationships relating to food practices.” foods and “traditional meal patterns”, such as plates “We judge ourselves and we judge others about of meat and vegetables. Others considered healthy their food choices,” she later says. eating to comprise foods devoid of components For Acquired Tastes, Chapman teamed up such as artificial colours, preservatives, additives, with Brenda Beagan, a medical sociologist and and sugar. Some participants said they believe professor at Dalhousie University’s school of people have a responsibility to eat healthfully. Still occupational therapy, and four other research- others presented themselves as virtuous or moral ers from across Canada. individuals because of their eating habits. The study found that gender had the greatest in“This implied that some foods were more sofluence on people’s engagement with food, the data phisticated than others, but it also imputed a lesser
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moral status to those who ate low-brow and unhealthy food,” the authors write. “This often occurred when people described their impressions of other people’s choices in a grocery store.” Interestingly, participants categorized certain foods, such as lighter and healthier ones, as “feminine” while typically masculine eating was depicted as unconcerned with health or cost. “Almost everyone described men as reluctant to eat vegetables, the agreed-upon cornerstone of both healthy eating and maintaining weight control,” the authors write. “Masculine diets were characterized as meat-centred, hearty, heavy, and filling.… Regardless of age or gender, almost everyone associated men and meat, especially beef.” Poverty makes it hard for people to follow whatever dictates of healthy eating may exist, “widening chasms in health outcomes between social classes”, note the authors. Chapman and her colleagues echo Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health Health, in their call for a new “dietary literacy” akin to media literacy. There are no quick fixes to problems such as poor nutrition, Chapman admits, but their research could be used to shape public policy, including finding ways to alleviate poverty and supporting education on food skills (including gardening, shopping, cooking, and nutrition) for all students from kindergarten to Grade 12. “Our research clearly shows that people living in poverty really struggle to eat in the ways they want to be eating, ways that meet their own standards for healthy eating, ethics, and eating in socially acceptable ways,” Chapman says. “Support for education on food skills…may help ease some of the gender differences in food attitudes and practices. If all students are introduced to concepts and skills, then it may help in developing more shared responsibilities for food. It will be important to ensure that this education helps to raise understanding about gender and food in ways that encourage change rather than reinforcing stereotypes.” -
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They called her Nirbhaya, BY ANDREA WAR N ER
Hindi for “fearless”, when the media first reported the 23-year-old’s brutal gang rape and torture aboard a New Delhi bus in 2012. The details were so shocking, so horrifying, that the assault made headlines around the world. They dispensed with anonymity when Jyoti Singh Pandey died a few weeks later from the injuries inflicted by her six attackers. The global response was swift, the uprising swelled by rage and a sense of “enough”. There were protests and calls to action to stop violence against women, socialmedia campaigns to destigmatize the shame that’s often associated with sexual assault, and demands for increased accountability: of perpetrators, governments, and judicial systems. Award-winning playwright and director Yaël Farber mourned and protested like many modern people, via Facebook. Poorna Jagannathan, a New York City– and Mumbai-based actor who was familiar with Farber’s powerful background in testimonial theatre, saw the post and invited her to come to Mumbai and make a theatre piece about sexual and gender-based violence. “Women are ready to speak here in India in the wake of this rape and death,” Jagannathan reportedly told Farber. “Come here and create work that enables us to break the silence.” Farber accepted the invitation and headed to Mumbai, her five-year-old daughter in tow. They lived with Jagannathan for a month, a critical time of research and development for the South African–born theatre artist.
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Ankur Vikal (left) and Priyanka Bose are two of the actors in Nirbhaya, based on real women’s stories of sexual violence. William Burdett-Coutts photo.
for women, actors and storytellers, where you offer to tell your story so nonactors, who were everybody can understand their own stories better. ready to tell their stories “As one testimony builds onto another, we start of sexual and gender- to understand that God is in the details, we empabased violence. Farber’s thize with somebody when we understand the deprocess, from screen- tails of their life,” Farber says. “I did not just want ing to auditioning to to make a piece, and neither did Poorna, about just Playwright Yaël Farber mourned and protested after the Delhi creation, is very specif- Jyoti Singh Pandey, because the whole point was ic; she’s conscientious that it was not an anomaly. It was not an unusual bus rape. Then she visited India and gathered more stories about the sometimes event. The brutality of it shocked people, it was very “What I was interested in was, why was this a fine line between exploitation and empowerment. effective and made it stand out, but this is happenbreaking point? Why did people suddenly feel the “Every single decision that is made and what ing everywhere, every day, all over the world.” need to take to the streets? What was it about the goes onto our stage, they [the actors] are When Pandey’s rape and murder first specificity of her [Pandey’s] story that had unleashed, complicit in terms of their own testimade headlines, there was also a trefinally, an appropriate level of outrage towards what monies,” Farber says. “Of course, mendous amount of racist conversaCheck out… is happening around the world?” Farber says, over that’s not easy.” A survivor may be reSTRAIGHT.COM tion around the attack. Farber says it the phone from her current home in Montreal. sistant to including a certain aspect was critical to Nirbhaya’s architecture Visit our website But by the time she arrived in Mumbai, the of their story in the work, because that they included at least one story for morning-after public outcry had already lessened, so the creation often that’s where the shame resides. that happened outside India. The reviews and local arts news process took on an even greater sense of urgency. “But this is never something that can fi ft h testimony in Nirbhaya is from a “We all know there’s only a certain amount be forced or rushed. It can only be a woman who was raped in Montreal. of time these stories retain a sensitivity,” Farber very guided process and everything that “One night in the postshow talk, people says. “It’s a tough world we live in and it’s full of ends up up there is about them taking action.” were talking about Indian women and she said, sad stories and things happen that are beyond the The screening process involved a series of deep- ‘This didn’t happen to me because I’m an Indian imagination, and so when that aperture opens, ly probing questions. There were people whose woman, and neither did this happen to me by a very briefly for a time when people actually shed stories were perfect for Nirbhaya, but Farber had man of any particular ethnic persuasion, this their numbness and feel, there’s a window that to pass them over. She could tell who would ul- happened to me because I’m a woman and he you have to slip through if you’re going to create timately feel blindsided by the process—both the needed to enact his violence on me,’” Farber retraction forward. Every time I spoke to people, six-week intensive in New Delhi, where they would calls. “There’s a tendency to distance ourselves there was a sense of how things could so easily create during the day and Farber would write at from what makes up the fabric of sexual violence slide back to a sense of complacency that we have night, and the subsequent performances—which and gender-based violence within our societies, around the world towards sexual violence.” would result in feelings of exploitation. but it’s pernicious and it’s everywhere.” Nirbhaya is Farber’s guard against that compla“It’s a very harrowing journey to go on,” Farber Nirbhaya presents painful, lived women’s excency. The play, which debuted in 2013 and won says. “I’m a playmaker, I’m not a therapist, and periences, but sexual, gender-based violence isn’t the Amnesty International Freedom of Expres- that was always very, very important that I made just a woman’s issue, Farber says. “It’s a humansion Award and was a New York Times critics’ pick it very clear: this is not a therapeutic process. It rights issue. If you believe in human rights, there this past May, positions Pandey’s story as its nar- can become some kind of enormous sense of is no other way to cut it, the neglect of this issue rative spine and from that helps five Indian actors, camaraderie to begin to speak, but we are making in the world and at these epidemic proportions is including Jagannathan, reveal their own personal a piece of theatre and if we have any ideas beyond a violation of human rights.” experiences of sexual and gender-based violence. that, I would not be worthy as a leader.” Farber cast Jagannathan and Priyanka Bose while Farber has worked in testimonial theatre for 15 The Cultch and Diwali Fest present Nirbhaya at the she was in Mumbai. She also put out a call looking years. She calls it social activism, a place for true York Theatre from November 3 to 14.
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Editor’s choice A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Radix Theatre has always pushed the bounds of the stage. But with TBD: Liberation Through Hearing, its creators shove the limits like never before, engaging with audience members on each of the 21 straight days of the piece’s run through everything from text messages to video podcasts to site-specific performance. Riffing on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the “smartphone-enabled” theatre work aims to create a witty metaphorical exploration of death and reincarnation. Radix Theatre presents TBD: Liberation Through Hearing from Sunday (October 25) to November 14 at various locations.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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SOLITUDES SOLO (At the Firehall Arts Centre from October 28 to 31) Daniel Léveillé’s serene, spare works for five separate dancers.
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THE DAMAGE IS DONE (At the Cultch until October 24) Writer-doctor Gabor Maté takes the stage for the first time in a true tale of family trauma.
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6 GUITARS (At the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on October 23 and 24) If you’ve never caught Chase Padgett’s Fringe hit, now’s the time.
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VARIATIONS AND RHAPSODIES (At the Orpheum on October 24 and 26) Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott joins the VSO.
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NEXT: CHRISTOS DIKEAKOS (At the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 31) Rich, deeply thought-provoking photographs about Northwest Coast art and its collectors.
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TENDER NAPALM Our arts fan this week is playwrightdirector Amiel Gladstone, who is in rehearsals helming Vancouver Opera’s upcoming Dark Sisters. Here’s what he says about his choice of the week: “Philip Ridley’s work is super scary, and you find yourself watching his plays through fingers pressed to your face. He is one of the bravest playwrights I know. And actor Claire Hesselgrave? I’ll watch her do pretty much anything.” Twenty Something Theatre presents Tender Napalm from Friday (October 23) to November 8 at the Havana Theatre.
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THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER
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Stephen Stubbs directs an all-star band and the Vancouver Chamber Choir in Vespers of 1610, which he argues is Claudio Monteverdi’s greatest work.
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tephen Stubbs came of age during one musical revolution, and now he’s going back in time to explore another. As the affable artistic director of Seattle’s Pacific MusicWorks explains, the Beatles were among his formative influences, and he doesn’t mind letting the world know. “I had my own rock ’n’ roll band, as I think every self-respecting teenager did in that period,” he admits, in a telephone interview from his Emerald City home. In fact, when he left for London to study the lute his baggage included a Fender Telecaster electric guitar—but he sold it to cover his airfare home, and with a handful of exceptions he’s stuck with the lute ever since. This doesn’t mean that his popand-rock beginnings haven’t left their mark. “In Europe, I found that the basic role of a lutenist is to be like the rhythm guitar player in a band,” he says. “Basically, you’ve got the chordal pattern laid out by the bass line, and you’ve got whatever melodies are happening above that, but your job is to fill out the texture and make it seem fun. So I felt right at home in my career as a continuo player in that, if you like, you’re always deciding for yourself what to do rhythmically and in terms of patterns and so on.” This focus on pacing and group dynamics has also served Stubbs well as a conductor and ensemble leader, his role when he’ll direct Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 for Early Music Vancouver this Friday. An all-star band, including the magnificent Bruce Dickey on cornetto, will join nine vocal soloists and the Vancouver Chamber Choir in this pivotal creation, which Stubbs contends is not only among the composer’s greatest works, but one that changed the world. “You could say that it is the representative work that announces the new Baroque era, as opposed to the Renaissance era that went before,” he explains. “Of course, that’s us looking back and putting labels on things, but by and
large the Renaissance was marked by a highly developed and highly regularized kind of counterpoint of many voices, and the new thing that’s dawning at the beginning of the Baroque is a kind of release from that contrapuntal web into much more soloistic thinking. It’s the birth of the opera, where the text is expressed with one voice rather than multiple voices, and it’s a release into the era when a soloistic instrumental player also has that ability to be at the centre of the music. Monteverdi, standing on this cusp between the polyphonic web of the Renaissance and the expressive, soloistic qualities of the Baroque, really throws the kitchen sink into this particular work. So you get both: you get both the Renaissance polyphony and the new, expressive, soloistic qualities.” There’s another reason, he adds, why Vespers of 1610 stands out. “That’s because Monteverdi here is a fairly young man. He’s written some books of madrigals, he’s written a couple of the very first operas, and this is kind of his audition piece to get the gig of the rest of his life, which was to be a Kapellmeister, the [musical] head of a great cathedral.…So it’s not just that it’s standing there at this cusp between the Renaissance and the Baroque, but it is also the most brilliant composer of the time throwing all of his best ideas into one work.” Stubbs’s 2015 take on Monteverdi’s masterpiece honours postBaroque interpretations by deploying a choir, but is otherwise faithful to what listeners would have heard in Mantua or Venice some 400 years ago. He’s not averse to more radical reinterpretations of the composer’s canon, having returned to the electric guitar to record several Monteverdi numbers with the vocal ensemble Red Byrd—but while that 1990 release, Songs of Love and Death, is fetching collectors’ money on eBay, this merely requires a trip to Point Grey and a couple of happy hours of your time. Early Music Vancouver presents Vespers of 1610 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday (October 23).
Vancouver Moving Theatre with the Carnegie Community Centre and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians along with a host of community partners presents
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FEATURING OVER 100 EVENTS AT OVER 40 LOCATIONS SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS CARNEGIE THEATRE CELEBRATION Carnegie Jazz Band / Idverb Wed Oct 28, 6pm – 9:30pm Carnegie Theatre 401 Main – free FOR A MUSE OF FIRE Theatre exploring community, diversity, homelessness Oct 28-30, 8pm InterUrban Gallery 1 E. Hastings – sliding: 5¢ to $20 BENEATH THE SURFACE Jenifer Brousseau’s Imagi’NATION Suicide awareness play Fri Oct 30, 7pm Templeton Secondary 727 Templeton – by donation STEALING THE LIGHT: STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Columpa Bobb Sun Nov 1, 2pm Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden 578 Carrall – by donation to Garden BARRIO FLAMENCO Flamenco for the People Sun Nov 1, 7pm The Ironworks 235 Alexander – by donation THE SHAKUHACHI QUEST Jim Sands’ Epic Journey into the Soul of Music Nov 5 & 6, 8pm InterUrban Gallery 1 E. Hastings – sliding: 5¢ to $20 AGAINST THE CURRENT Tzo’kam / Rose Georgeson / Grace Eiko Thomson Chibi Taiko, Katari Taiko, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi Taiko, Vancouver Okinawa Taiko Friday Nov 6, 8pm Japanese Hall, 487 Alexander – $15/$10 at the door COURAGE TO HEAL Poetry w/ V. Mason-John, B. Clark, R. Johanson, J. Christmas Sat Nov 7, 3pm Carnegie Theatre 401 Main – free ALL OF ME: DALANNAH GAIL BOWEN & FRIENDS Jazz, Gospel, Blues w/ S. Kendall, R. Worst, C. Nordquist, D. Say, J. Salmon, O. Owen, and more Sat Nov 7, 8pm Ukrainian Hall 805 E. Pender – $10/$5 at the door UKRAINIAN HALL COMMUNITY CONCERT & SUPPER Dovbush Dancers Orkestar Slivovica / Tzo’kam / Twin Bandit with St. James Music Academy Sun Nov 8, 3pm Ukrainian Hall 805 E. Pender. Tickets 604.254.3436 – $25
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Lawrence English, who runs Australian record label Room40, will explore the body as an ear at Vancouver New Music’s ambient festival. Marc Behrens photo.
Ambient artists unite in Nomadic Streams > B Y A LE XAN DER VAR TY
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Their one shared characteristic, he continues, is “being attentive to sound”, and the same can be said of the artists VNM artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi has assembled for Nomadic Streams. These range from the FLUX Quartet, performing Morton Feldman’s hushed and hypnotic String Quartet No. 1, to English himself, whose Wilderness of Mirrors took its inspiration from music of an entirely different complexion. “I had this particularly good experience halfway through making this record,” he says of the disc, which he’ll draw on during his Vancouver performance. “In 11 days, I had the pleasure of hearing Swans and My Bloody Valentine and Einstürzende Neubauten.…And, seeing these groups, what I realized was that there was this very strong physical affect, this connection with sound in performance. Obviously, with Swans there’s another element, in that I think they are actually an incredible band—and by that I mean a group of musicians playing together. But what really stuck out for me was this kind of affective, physical experience that I had: this kind of bodily experience of sound.” In other words, while English can talk eloquently and at considerable length about aesthetic theory, his preoccupations at the moment are more visceral—which doesn’t necessarily mean that his Vancouver performance will reach the punishing sound-pressure levels of your typical My Bloody Valentine show. “Volume is only part of the equation,” he says, laughing. “What I’ll be doing for the festival, in terms of the solo performance, is very much about this idea of the body as an ear.” -
or Lawrence English, Vancouver New Music’s Nomadic Streams festival is not only a celebration of ambient music in all its puzzling diversity: it’s also a 15th-birthday party for Room40, the record label he runs from his Queensland, Australia, home. “I think about 80 percent of the artists that are performing at the festival are kind of friends and family of the label,” he says in a telephone call from Stockholm, Sweden. Indeed, sound sculptor Marina Rosenfeld, drone specialist Rafael Anton Irisarri, audio collagist Steve Roden, and avant-garde turntablist DJ Olive have all released music on English’s imprint—but this doesn’t mean that either the festival or the record company has an easily definable aesthetic. “Maybe the easiest way I can explain that is just through the name itself,” says the composer, audio artist, and producer. “I mean, ‘Room40’ is borrowed from the facility at Bletchley Park, in England, that was used as a code-breaking facility during the first and second world wars. It was the place where they broke the Enigma code; Alan Turing was working there. But what was interesting for me in terms of it being a metaphor for what the label could become is that it brought all of these directions together. They brought in scientists and military strategists and crossword puzzlers and general office workers—a whole range of people that were all interested in or concerned with the same problem. And that was what I wanted Room40 to be: a whole range of people coming from different backgrounds or aesthetic worlds, but they’re all in- Nomadic Streams runs at VIVO Media terested in creating opportunities for Arts from Thursday to Saturday (October 22 to 24). really focused listening.”
dance allsorts New Works presents
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 SHOW 2:00 PM WORKSHOP 3:15 PM ROUNDHOUSE PERFORMANCE CENTRE 181 ROUNDHOUSE MEWS Pay what you can at the door Suggested $15 adults, $5 for children under 12
Advance tickets for guaranteed seating available online at www.newworks.ca The October edition of Dance Allsorts is co-presented by New Works and the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
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Dancers leap to their limit > BY JA NET SM IT H
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hen you create a dance that features eight performers jumping in difficult rhythmic patterns for 70 gruelling minutes straight, you’re bound to get some pretty strong reactions. Belgian dance maverick Jan Martens reports the most vociferous response to his The Dog Days Are Over has come from the famously vocal audiences of France. “In Paris we had a woman screaming in the middle of the show, ‘This is torture!’ ” he reports to the Straight over the phone from Montreal, where his work is touring before heading out to Vancouver’s Scotiabank Dance Centre. “And at the end, ‘Bravo for the dancers but not for the choreographer!’ “The reactions in the audience are very divided,” he continues. “One side feels this is too much and ‘Oh my God, they are going too far!’ And the others are laughing and being entertained. This is what I am going for: it makes you question who is right.” Don’t worry, though. Martens assures that he put all kinds of research into how long the dancers could sustain the experiment without hurting themselves. And, through that process, he discovered an unexpected effect—one that reviews say is clearly visible, and highly metaphorical, onstage. “What was a surprise to me was they [the dancers] said, ‘I could never do this on my own.’ Not because they could lose the count but just the fact that people doing this with you also makes it easier for you,” Martens explains. “You build energy as a group.” Martens was inspired to make The Dog Days Are Over by the photos of Philippe Halsman, the artist best known for his LIFE magazine portraits in the 1950s. He would shoot stars like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe jumping, but it wasn’t so
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In the provocative The Dog Days Are Over, performers hop and jump for 70 straight minutes, finding a group energy and bare humanity. Piet Goethals photo.
much the images as what Halsman said about the photos that struck Martens. “He said, ‘I ask them to jump because they’re not busy with the act of posing,’ ” he relates. “When you jump you can’t control your facial expression. And he said in this way he could capture the real human being.” Capturing the real human being has been Martens’s goal ever since he discovered contemporary dance at 17. He went off to train in the Netherlands, where he was put off by the emphasis on virtuosity of the neoclassical style. “That was a very limited view of what beauty could be,” the Flemish artist recounts. “I guess I had kind of a reaction to all these beautiful bodies and beautiful lines. “There is beauty in an old body, in a child’s body, in a big body,” he adds, basically describing the subjects of his early solos. Far from creating conceptual work that sits on a pedestal, he seeks to
connect with the audience by showing the fragility of the people on-stage. So it’s accessible, but with a work like Dog Days, he wants to challenge you, too. “The performance is about getting too much information to be able to digest it,” he says. “And how do we do that as human beings when, today, our world is going faster and faster?” Of course, that brings us back to the dancers, who must also commit to memory the almost impossibly complex symphony of tasks that Dog Days sets out—making the show as much a physical feat as a mental one. “It’s really a hard-core show,” he admits. “We had to look at what is healthy and what is not. “Of course,” he adds wryly, “if you did this show for 10 years, that would not be a good idea.” The Dog Days Are Over is at the Scotiabank Dance Centre next Thursday to Saturday (October 29 to 31).
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A Simple Space conjures wit and wonder TH E AT RE A SIMPLE SPACE A Gravity & Other Myths production. Presented by the Cultch. At the York Theatre on Tuesday, October 13. Continues until October 24
All sorts of involuntary sounds were
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animal whimpers of fear. Then there was the whooping and cheering. In A Simple Space, the Australian acrobatic company Gravity & Other Myths presents an hourlong program that will leave you wrung out—and very happy. In stripped-down staging that’s the polar opposite of a Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, the seven acrobats and single musician in the touring company occupy a bare, black space in the middle of the York Theatre stage. There are light stands on the four corners of the playing area and the simply clad tumblers flick the switches themselves. The show is intimate. Some audience members get to sit on-stage within licking distance of the action, and even if you’re not that lucky, the York Theatre isn’t very big, so wherever you are, it’s easy to hear the sounds of effort. As the performers hurl one another through space and climb one another’s bodies to build teetering towers of flesh and bone, you can hear their grunts and heavy breathing. You can also see them grinning like idiots, because, let’s face it: they’re having the time of their lives. The whole show is built on play, on the sheer joy of occupying a body. The tone is like a back-yard game, but the skill level is upped by about a zillion. A lot of the numbers in the almost-wordless performance are driven by competition. So Daniel Liddiard tries to stand on his hands longer than any of the other company members can hold their breath, for instance— which means that he’s upside down for frickin’ ever. And three of the guys skip as fast as they can; whenever one of them trips up, he has to remove an article of clothing. Yippee! But these are only the warm-up acts. As the evening progresses, the skills get ever more impressive and the tension ramps up. Before long, Liddiard is leaping from one set of shoulders to
A Simple Space features stripped-down staging for eye-popping acrobatic feats. Steve Ullathorne photo.
another, then he’s flipping and tumbling through space in combinations that look impossible to land—and sometimes very nearly are. Jascha Boyce refuses to stay earthbound; give her some bodies to climb and she scrambles up to stomach-churning heights, as bright-eyed as a fiveyear-old—and her aerial flips cap the evening. Rhythmically, texturally, and choreographically, A Simple Space is varied and inventive. In the opening sequence, company members race around, stop, fall straight backwards, and get caught by their comrades. The routine pops with all the geometric energy of a Piet Mondrian painting. Kids will love this show. So will you.
I WISH… By Col Cseke, Nathan Pronyshyn, Linda A. Carson, and Kim Selody. Directed by Giuditta Mingucci. Produced by Presentation House Theatre and Teatro Elsinor. At Presentation House on Friday, October 16. Continues until October 25
Two years of international collaboration
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It all sounds great on paper. I WISH… is part of an effort called the Boomerang project. Initiated by Berliners Dirk Nelder and Odette Bereska, Boomerang involves six companies > COLIN THOMAS from around the world. Representatives from
those troupes interviewed kids about immigration and poverty. I WISH…, a coproduction between Presentation House and Italy’s Teatro Elsinor, is one of the scripts for young people that arose from that research. But I WISH… is largely meaningless. The script was assembled by Calgarians Col Cseke and Nathan Pronyshyn, as well as North Vancouverites Linda A. Carson and Kim Selody, who is the artistic director of Presentation House. The play launches us into a fantasy world in which a former king named Leo wanders around, pushing a shopping cart filled with computer equipment. Using a fishing rod with a microphone attached, he collects wishes and feeds them into his techno-pile. Leo doesn’t seem to have any concrete motivation for doing this. Then Leo’s niece Sandra arrives. She’s vaguely evil sometimes and her intentions look vaguely commercial—sometimes. “If you collect enough wishes, you can create an algorithm,” she explains—if you can call that explaining—and the algorithm will make wishes come true. These ideas are as weightless as they are selfconscious, and the terms of the fantasy world are arbitrary. Leo is mute at first, but he finds his voice for some reason. When Sandra tries to force her way into Leo’s computer files, she figures out—God knows how—that the password is an operatic aria. Structurally, the script circles. Sandra makes several false exits. Leo throws in one of his own. Jay Brazeau, who plays Leo, is a fantastic actor, but not even he can make this material work. Emilie Leclerc is suitably alert as Sandra. But there’s only one chunk of this presentation that’s remotely interesting. In it, Sandra asks audience members to share their wishes. In the program, director Giuditta Mingucci says that, in researching I WISH…, “I was struck by the beauty and power of the interview process itself.” Okay. So, if that’s all you got out of it, why not just continue the interview process? And if you’re going to write a play, why not use it to share the thoughts and experiences that kids have regarding poverty and immigration? Wasn’t that the point? > COLIN THOMAS
The Firehall Arts Centre presents a Daniel Léveillé Danse production
SOLITUDES SOLO An Exquisite Collection of Solos Choreographed by
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In Unwrapping Culture, Alvin Erasga Tolentino (left) and Pichet Klunchun create chaos with stuffed toys, mechanical guns, and flower garlands. Chris Randle photo.
Unwrapping dark truths amid plastic and neon
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Dance work employs uncountable trinkets in its surprisingly subversive look at Thai consumerism D ANC E UNWRAPPING CULTURE A Co.ERASGA and Pichet Klunchun Dance Company production. At the Scotiabank Dance Centre on Thursday, October 15. No remaining performances
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performance of Unwrapping Culture, you might think you had stumbled upon the aftermath of an out-of-control three-year-old’s birthday party. Thousands of neon rubber bands covered the floor, along with pastel-haired dolls; dozens of mechanical dinosaurs, crocodiles, and dragons; flower garlands; and plastic figurines. In fact, it was the detritus of a gutsy show that slyly, and frantically, critiques consumer culture—and, specifically, the loss of Thailand’s ancient, elegant traditions to it. It was surprisingly dark and subversive underneath all the plastic, noise, and neon. The piece was created by Thailand’s Pichet Klunchun, a master of the classical khon dance who has taken the revered form into edgy contemporary territory, here working with local Filipino-Canadian artist Alvin Erasga Tolentino. The show’s opening was brash and chaotic. The audience stood and sat around the dance floor that was piled with bags and knickknacks. Klunchun and Tolentino appeared at one end, sporting Hawaiian shirts and gyrating to a Thai rap video playing on a big screen behind them, satirizing the popculture junkies in today’s Bangkok. Soon they were taking on the role of hawkers at a Thai night market, playfully foisting lotions, toys, and other junk on audience members. Unwrapping Culture was at its best when Klunchun would suddenly shift into his exquisite, rigorous khon—but not the way the masked dance would have been
performed back in the days of the royal court. At one point, he streaked white greasepaint on his face and used masking tape to affix a ridiculous fake flower and a dinosaur to his head, strapping a screeching toy machine gun over his shoulder and then lunging and gesticulating to the strains of haunting traditional Thai music. Meanwhile, Tolentino slowly and meditatively emptied neon rubber bands out of a garbage bag into a circle on the floor, as if he was enacting some sacredyet-profane ritual. It was all as if to say, “This is what we, and our culture, have become.” Focused, meaningful moments like this were interspersed with near anarchy. The audience would be invited to throw bright rings over Thai classical-dancer dolls on the floor, or the duo would let loose a dozen flashing, screaming mechanized toys on the floor. Often the work felt much more like performance art than dance. It could seem crazy on the surface, but Klunchun was pushing some dark and challenging ideas. At one end of the room, he erected a sort of sham shrine made out of night-market trinkets, surrounding a statue of the Ramayana demon king with souvenirs and f lashing twinkle lights. When Klunchun and Tolentino draped themselves in the orange robes of sacred monks and knelt before the blinking altar, it was a stark comment on the new religion of commerce in his country—and, of course, elsewhere. Why this was so provocative is that Thailand prides itself on its devotion to Buddhism. But as anyone who reads the news knows, Thailand is in a state of upheaval, and not just politically: witness headlines earlier this year about the ongoing issue of misbehaving monks. And this is a show that offers a brazen contrast to the tourist perspective so many of us on the West Coast have. It’s a wild ride.
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Violence and politics of ’70s mix in Killings PROF I LE MARLON JAMES
Some five years ago, when he what would become his current novel, Marlon James was writing a set of novellas that featured lone protagonists. The first work tracked “a hitman from Chicago who’s hired to kill a Jamaican” and served as the Minneapolis-based author’s effort at penning American crime fiction. “Even back then I knew the Jamaican he tried to kill was involved in an assassination plot,” James says now. “I just didn’t think it was a big deal.” After generating a good 300 pages, he sought the advice of a friend who informed him that, rather than a series, he was actually writing a novel. Opening in 1976, A Brief History of Seven Killings broaches “everything from the growth and explosion of reggae music to the Bob Marley assassination attempt, to the Cold War, to Henry Kissinger, to Mick Jagger, to Carlos the Jackal”. A chorus of voices, James notes, “ended up being just the only way I could talk about that year”, and the resulting book presents a polyphonic narrative that addresses Jamaica’s sociopolitical landscape during the late 20th century. Since its release in 2014, the novel, a bustling mix of violence and humour, stream of consciousness and patois, has drawn wide praise, and last week it won the 2015 Booker Prize. “I’m very grateful for it [the reception],” James says to the Straight, on a stopover in New York days before the announcement. “I know it’s not the easiest book to like. It’s not one of those novels that goes down like a sugar pill.” Using the December 3, 1976, assassination attempt on Marley, referred to here as “the Singer”, as a
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Marlon James’s wide-screen, intensely ambitious A Brief History of Seven Killings just took this year’s Booker Prize.
springboard, the plot line reveals the minds and motivations of the gunmen, and the gangsters, politicians, CIA operatives, journalists, and other individuals “who one way or another found themselves caught in the middle of it,” James says. “And the ways they dealt with the events and the consequences, which spiralled over the course of nearly 20 years, from 1976 to 1991.” Marley had been the common thread in the earlier novellas that sparked the project, though James “didn’t really even notice it” as he wrote them. (James, who is 44, grew up in Jamaica, where airwaves “up to the mid ’70s were playing mostly foreign music”, and came to appreciate the reggae icon as an adult. “Sometimes, people abroad have this idea that reggae’s only Bob Marley, so Jamaicans must have been listening to Bob Marley all day, every day. Well, he wasn’t playing on the radio.”)
Of Brief History’s diverse cast, he especially enjoyed writing the tenacious Nina Burgess, who witnesses the shooters fleeing the Singer’s residence, and Josey Wales, a gangster with far-reaching influence who participates in the hit. “In the ghetto there is no such thing as peace,” Josey observes in patois. “There is only this fact. Your power to kill me can only be stop by my power to kill you.” “Josey is in a lot of ways the centre of the novel,” James says. “To write a character that is responsible for so much bloodshed— he’s basically the villain of the story, in those really superficial terms— but to still give him humanity,
I think people, in a weird way, as much as they don’t want to, end up liking him.” To convey the era’s hope and furor, James called on his own memories, as well as music, academic studies, and “people who know people who told me a story”. Poring over period journalism, he was struck by “how biased and warped, and sometimes corrupt, the reporting was. And that was really interesting in context, because I’m trying to write a story where I’m tying everything together,” he says. “The original source material was really good for giving perspective. It was thoroughly unreliable in terms of giving me an accurate portrait of the time.”
While brutality and history also shaped John Crow’s Devil and The Book of Night Women, his 2005 and 2009 novels, his intentions and processes with all three are dissimilar. “I’m not interested in a sustained message throughout,” he says, “because I get bored.” At nearly 700 pages, Brief History is a showcase of James’s stylistic dynamite and never suffers from its scope or ambition. Relating the characters’ pursuit of power and autonomy, amid civil unrest and drug trafficking, gave James the chance to further explore his fascination with unanswered questions. “That’s one of the reasons why this story appealed to me,” he says, “because so many of the main characters don’t exist. They could’ve existed, and they probably did, but we don’t know anything about them. There’s no history of the boys who tried to kill Marley. There’s none. There’s rumour, there’s conjecture, there’s gossip, and we know about the ones who survived, but the other guys we don’t really know anything about. “I like to go into stories that history can’t cover or history isn’t interested in covering,” he continues. “And I think that’s one of the things that the novelist can do that the biographer cannot.… The novelist can illuminate the life and show the dimensions and the contradictions and the growth and the tragedies and the pains of the people who had to endure history— who helped cause it, who may even help change it—that we don’t know about.”
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Marlon James is making two appearances this week at the Vancouver Writers Fest, both of them on Friday (October 23). See writersfest. bc.ca/ for details.
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS UGLY, THE MUSICAL Musical tells the story of how Cinderella’s two ugly stepsisters find out who they truly are. Oct 23-25, 7 pm, DW Poppy (23752 52 Ave., Langley). Tix $18/15/12, info www.monu mentaltheatre.com/. THE DINING ROOM Western Gold Theatre presents A.R. Gurney’s play, which takes a look at the lives of 50 characters whose most important life decisions centre around the dining-room table. Oct 23–Nov 8, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $25, info www.westerngoldtheatre.org/.
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TENDER NAPALM Twenty Something Theatre presents Philip Ridley’s play that re-examines and redefines the language of love. Oct 23–Nov 8, 8-10 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $18-28, info www.twentysomethingtheatre.com/. RED ROCK DINER: ARTS CLUB ON TOUR The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a musical that captures the excitement and innocence of Vancouver’s burgeoning rock ‘n’ roll scene in the 1950s. Oct 27, 8 pm; Oct 28, 8 pm; Oct 29, 8 pm; Oct 30, 4 pm; Oct 30, 8 pm; Oct 31, 4 pm; Oct 31, 8 pm; Nov 1, 3 pm, Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). Tix $45/35/20, info www.evergreencultural centre.ca/event/red-rock-diner/2015-10-27/. SNAPSHOTS: A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK WRS Productions presents a musical with songs adapted by Stephen Schwartz from his hit shows Wicked, Godspell, Pippin, and The Baker’s Wife. Oct 28– Nov 8, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $20-52.50, info www.snapshotscollective.com/. FOR A MUSE OF FIRE Live performance piece weaves together personal stories from the Downtown Eastside, dialogue, humour, and adaptations from Shakespeare. Oct 28-30, 8 pm, Interurban: Gallery & Community Art Space (1 E. Hastings). Admission by donation, info www.creativainternational.com/.
2ONGOING OTHER DESERT CITIES Vagabond Players present a play about a woman who returns home to celebrate Christmas with her family after a six-year absence. To Oct 24, Bernie Legge Theatre (Queen’s Park, 1st St. and 3rd Ave., New West). Tix $15, info www.vagabondplayers.ca/.
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Have a Hilarious Halloween!
he spooky season is underway, and Vancouverites are always looking for a good scare or two. Pumpkin patches, haunted houses, and the annual Halloween Ghost Train in Stanley Park are some of the city’s regular attractions. But this Halloween, trick-or-treat yourselves to a scare with an artful spin. Here are some noteworthy events that will haunt you via music, interactive storytelling, theatre, and other creative frights.
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Where: Orpheum (601 Smithe Street) When: Next Friday and Saturday (October 30 and 31) at 8 p.m. What: The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor John Morris, serves up musical thrills and chills that range from haunting concert-hall classics (Claire de Lune; Symphonie Fantastique) to favourite film and theatre scores (hello, ET and Harry Potter).
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Where: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (578 Carrall Street) When: Through next Saturday (October 31), 7 to 10 p.m. What: Inspired by gruesome stories of Judge Dee, a famous detective in Tang Dynasty China, Seven Tyrant Theatre’s performers will spook visitors as they make their way through this terrifying haunted house for adults.
Company presents John L. Balderson and Hamilton Deane’s 1927 Broadway hit, with a contemporary steampunk twist that will thrill and chill audiences.
THE LOST SOULS OF GASTOWN
HALLOWEEN MONSTER MATCH
Where: Meet at Cathedral Square, across from Holy Rosary Cathedral at the intersection of Dunsmuir and Richards streets When: Through next Saturday (October 31), starting at 7, 8, and 9 p.m. Continues to November 14 with an 8 p.m. start. What: A gothic theatre adventure that emphasizes atmosphere rather than cheap frights. Guests follow a bobbing lantern through the dark alleyways of Gastown while they’re told disturbing stories of our city’s past. DRACULA
Where: Metro Theatre (1370 Southwest Marine Drive) When: Through Saturday (October 24) at 8 p.m.; matinee performance on Saturday at 4 p.m. What: The Royal Canadian Theatre
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Performers in Judge Dee’s Chinatown Haunted House aim to terrify visitors.
Where: The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau Street) When: Next Saturday (October 31) at 7:30 p.m. What: The Vancouver TheatreSports League’s improv maestros put on two shows with music, dancing, drinks, and a costume parade that will provide the audience with a scary-funny Halloween evening. ALIEN CONTAGION: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME
Where: A secret location revealed by email after ticket purchase When: Through next Sunday (November 1); shows every 30 minutes from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. What: An immersive and spinetingling theatrical adventure in which audience members solve clues, overcome challenges, and save the
Where: Playland (at East Hastings Street and Windermere Street) When: Through next Sunday (November 1); doors at 7 p.m. What: Dubbed Vancouver’s premier Halloween attraction, Fright Nights features seven haunted houses and 15 rides. Guests will also see physical stunts performed by two comedians, the Monsters of Schlock. PETER N’ CHRIS: THE MYSTERY OF THE HUNGRY HEART MOTEL
Where: Anvil Centre Theatre (777 Columbia Street, New Westminster) When: Next Friday and Saturday (October 30 and 31) at 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday (October 31 and November 1) matinees at 2 p.m. What: A murder-mystery thriller performed by two award-winning comedians and Fringe favourites. HALLOWEEN FUN
Where: Burnaby Village Museum (6501 Deer Lake Avenue) When: Tuesday to Friday (October 27 to 30); various times What: Explore the historic attraction with a scary twist that features a haunted village, tours through mysterious buildings, and a family-friendly carnival at the carousel pavilion. -
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THE WAITING ROOM The Arts Club Theatre Company presents the world premiere of John Mann and Morris Panych’s play about the pre- and post-diagnosis life of a man known only as J. To Oct 31, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix from $29, info www. artsclub.com/. ALIEN CONTAGION: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents an interactive-theatre adventure that sees participants battle ghouls, aliens, and zombies. To Nov 1, The Virtual Stage Arts Society (P.O. Box 21524 1424 Commercial Drive). Tix $12.50-50, info www.zombiesyndrome.com/. A DOLL’S HOUSE The Slamming Door Artist Collective presents Henrik Ibsen’s
drama about a housewife who becomes disillusioned with her condescending husband. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix from $18, info www. brownpapertickets.com/event/2148918/.
congregation into the modern age of 1938. To Nov 1, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacifictheatre.org/season/2015-2016-season-3/ mainstage/smoke-on-the-mountain/.
WAIT UNTIL DARK The Sidekick Players Club presents director Carroll Lefebvre’s version of Frederick Knott’s award-winning thriller. To Oct 24, Tsawwassen Arts Centre (1172 56th St., Delta). Tix $18/15, info www. sidekickplayers.com/.
DEUX ANS DE VOTRE VIE (YOU ARE HAPPY) Théâtre la Seizième presents Quebecois playwright Rébecca Déraspe’s dark romantic comedy about finding great love at any price. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25-28, info www.seizieme.ca/.
FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN A portrait of the bond between mother and son by Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond). Tix $20-45, info www.gatewaytheatre.com/. SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN Pacific Theatre presents the Midnight Theatre Collective’s play about a pastor who attempts to bring his backwater
House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $15, info www.phtheatre. org/show/i-wish/. THE DAMAGE IS DONE From invading Nazis to a failed revolution, the impact of historical and family trauma is transformed with humour and compassion. To Oct 24, 8 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/ events/the-damage-is-done-a-true-story/.
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DRACULA The Royal Canadian Theatre presents Bram Stoker’s classic horror story with a Victorian-steampunk twist. To Oct 24, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 S.W. Marine). Tix $25/18, info www.rctheatreco.com/. I WISH... Presentation House Theatre and Teatro Elsinor present a play about a man who travels the world capturing people’s wishes. To Oct 25, Presentation
DANNY NIELSEN + FRIENDS The Dance Centre presents the Discover Dance! noon series, featuring Canadian dancer Danny Nielsen. Oct 22, 12 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $14/12, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/discover_dance2/. CARMEN Karen Flamenco presents a version of Bizet’s classic opera that fuses flamenco dance and orchestral melodies. Oct 23-24, 7 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $26-42.50, info www. karenflamenco.com/.
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MORRIS DANCE WORKSHOP The Vancouver Morris Men and the women DANCES FOR A SMALL STAGE 32 of Tiddley Cove Morris teach you how Eclectic mix of contemporary-dance pieces to perform a Morris dance. Oct 25, 1-3 by Heather Myers, Agnes Tong, Andrew Bartee, Kirsten Wicklund, Vanessa Goodman, pm, Billy Bishop Legion (1407 Laburnum). Scheherazaad Cooper, and Caroline Liffman. Free admission, info morrisworkshop. weebly.com/. To Oct 23, 8-10 pm, ANZA Club (3 W. 8th Ave). Tix $20, info www.smallstage.ca/. see next page
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MODUS OPERANDI As part of the Dance Allsorts series, Modus Operandi performs a mixed program of contemporary dance. Oct 25, 2 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $15/5, info www.newworks.ca/. DANIEL LÉVEILLÉ DANSE IN SOLITUDES SOLO Grouping of spare, elegant dances, in which five dancers perform both in silence and to the melodies of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. Oct 28-31, 8 pm, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). $23-33, info www.danielleveille danse.org/en/accueil/.
MUSIC 2THIS WEEK DE PROFUNDIS Frederic Rzewski’s tour de force for speaking pianist, based on the letter written by Oscar Wilde when he was imprisoned at Reading Gaol. Oct 23, 12 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Free admission, info www.capilanou.ca/music/ events/Cap-Classics-Concerts-2015-2016/. MONTEVERDI VESPERS OF 1610 Early Music Vancouver and the Vancouver
Chamber Choir present a performance of Monteverdi’s great masterpiece. Oct 23, 7:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $17.50-66, info www.vancouverchamberchoir.com/.
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FLAMENCO AND ORCHESTRA Now here’s a way to heat up a fall night: take Spain’s fieriest mythical character, Carmen, mix her with flamenco and a live orchestra, and there’ll be sparks flying in no time. Karen Flamenco presents Carmen at the Vancouver Playhouse this Friday and Saturday (October 23 and 24), with choreographer and bailaora Karen Pitkethly (shown here) drawing scenes and inspiration from Carlos Saura’s sumptuous film of the same name. Tony Lee’s I Musici Sushi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Urquhart, plays Georges Bizet’s Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2 throughout the production, sharing the stage with flamenco guitarist Gerardo Alcala and flamenco singer Jafelin Helten. Think of it as a little ruffled, tragedy-laden trip to Seville for an evening.
VARIATIONS AND RHAPSODIES Bramwell Tovey conducts pianist AnneMarie McDermott and the VSO in a program of works by Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Poul Ruders, and Sibelius. Oct 24, 26, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www. vancouversymphony.ca/. RAPHAEL SEVERE French clarinetist and pianist Paul Montag performs music by Debussy, Borodin, Lutoslawski, Berg, and Bernstein. Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society. Oct 25, 3 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital.com/. HOLLYWOOD IN CONCERT Music from movies like Star Wars, Avatar, Independence Day, Phantom of the Opera, and Beauty and the Beast. Oct 25, 3-5 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $15-30, info www.vancouverpops.com/. THE POSTMODERN CAMERATA: TEARS AND TORMENT Vancouver-based chamber ensemble presents works by Bach and Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock. Oct 25, 4 pm, Dunbar Heights United
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COMEDY 2ONGOING LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-5252262, www.lafflines.com/. 2GERALD GERALD GERALDSON Oct 30-31. THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 & 10:30 pm. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2DAN SODER Oct 22-24 2ILIZA SCHLESINGER Jan 14-16 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30 2CAMERON ESPOSITO Feb 11-13 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks.com/. Comedy club with amateur night Wed at 8 pm, talent showcase Thu at 8 pm, headliners Fri-Sat at 7 pm and 9:30 pm. Cover $7 Wed, $10 Thu, $20 Fri-Sat. 2DAN ST. GERMAIN Oct 23-24 2BOBBY LEE Nov 13-14 2GODFREY Dec 4-5 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm);
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Pushed to rattle off specific influences for BY MIKE US IN G ER
Dilly Dally, singer-guitarist Katie Monks skillfully redirects the conversation, launching instead into a discourse on the state of modern pop. The best way to look at the Toronto quartet’s debut album, Sore, she suggests, isn’t to pore over a laundry list of the acts that have proven inspirational. Instead, she suggests there’s a good reason Dilly Dally sounds more riotously pissed than L7, Courtney Love, and Babes in Toyland during the glory years of grunge. Boiling things down to basics, Monks and her bandmates—guitarist Liz Ball, bassist Jimmy Tony, and drummer Benjamin Reinhartz—are mostly of the opinion that everything sucks today. “There are many reference points on the record,” Monks says, on the line from New York City, where Dilly Dally is playing CMJ. “Some of them haven’t been made properly in a long time. It’s important for people to remember parts of the past and music history—to remember Sonic Youth or Nirvana and maybe start thinking about guitars again. And not what the mainstream is for that stuff right now. It just feels boring after a certain point, listening to all the bands that sound like Arcade Fire and Passion Pit.” Just getting warmed up, she continues: “While we’re talking about the culture conversation and guitar music, there’s the whole beachwave thing that’s been happening over the past seven years. That’s another thing where I’m just ‘Oh, man.’ It bores me.
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The members of Dilly Dally love to take a room, dress it up in floral prints, doilies, and Hollywood-glam mirrors, and then smash the shit out of it all.
about him, and I was a kid in high school. I was a fan. I looked up at him on the stage and I was like, ‘Yeah—I wanna do that.’ ” It would take half a Toronto’s Dilly Dally channels its frustration, and its decade for Dilly Dally to sense that everything sucks, into something positive truly jell, things finally I like when people switch it up—I really do. And I coalescing with the addition last year of Reindon’t like it when people in the industry just keep hartz and Tony. Still, as tightly locked in as all dishing out the same stuff over and over again. It’s four musicians are on howling monsters like “The been seven years of beachwave and Real Estate. That Touch” and “Get to You”, it’s arguably the tandem shit happened seven years ago, and yet everything of Ball and Monks that drives the band. For as still sounds like that. That’s just weird and boring.” long as they’ve been playing together, people have No one’s accused Dilly Dally of being boring been pushing them to swerve from their original on Sore, a record that’s marked by deliriously dis- vision. Both have refused to budge. torted cat-scratch guitars and Monks’s fantastic“There’s a lot of shit and a lot of assholes in the ally scorched, slurred vocals. “Desire” finds music industry,” Monks says bluntly. “But the band as inelegantly wasted as Pretty on when you’re wandering through the whole the Inside–era Hole, and “Ballin Chain” mess of it, and you find somebody who’s Check out… channels class-of-’94 college rock genuine, who fucking cares, and is a STRAIGHT.COM with dreamy results. The messy mutrue artist in the business for the right Make our website dhoneyed blues of “Snake Head” is the reasons, that’s beautiful.” your source for best thing this side of scoring with JenAnd right from the beginning, concert reviews nifer Herrema, while the stark-pianoboth knew they were in it for the and local music and-serrated-vocals outro of “Burned by long haul. the Cold” suggests that Dilly Dally is caOf course, there’s a long list of folks pable of something more than sloppy and loud. who’ve stubbornly stuck to their artistic guns. The record came together organically, with A lot of them came from the early ’90s, a time Monks and Ball trusting their gut feelings rather when you could be as chaotic, messy, and sonicthan overthinking everything. ally ugly as you wanted and still find yourself on a “I’m not a nerd—I don’t remember exactly how major label playing huge festivals. None of those to create different guitar sounds and then refer- acts need be name-checked by Monks—one listen ence them later,” Monks says. “We just do what to the uncompromising and unrelentingly great feels right in a way that acknowledges the spirit Sore and you’ll be able to figure them out. of certain bands from certain times. There’s a real The unswerving dedication of Monks and Ball feeling to it, and it’s not self-indulgent and it’s not to a sound that, for years, was out of fashion has wrapped up in a tight little bow that’s super-di- them now at the front of a great wave of Toronto gestible. It’s unapologetic and very raw.” noise-punk extremists that includes heavy hitThat Monks has ended up in a band isn’t sur- ters like Metz, Greys, and HSY. As a result, Dilly prising. Her brother David is the singer-bassist for Dally has been flagged as a band on the rapid rise veteran Toronto indie kings Tokyo Police Club, everywhere from the Guardian to Pitchfork. Inand that gave her an early look at life on-stage. terestingly, Monks suggests her group’s unholy “I was 16 and he was 18 when he started play- roar is the sound of raw frustration being chaning big shows,” she says. “Everyone was talking nelled into something that’s weirdly positive.
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DRIVEN TO VOTE Austra went all-out for democracy
on Election Day. The singer, aka Katie Stelmanis, tweeted out a number and told fans in Toronto that if they needed a ride to the polls, they could text her and she would give them a lift. In related news, Austra is changing her stage name to “Uber”.
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE When Florence Welch, the
face of Florence + the Machine, first breezed through town five years back, she played the Commodore. That was just the start of what’s been a rapid rise for the self-described former witch and part-time punk rocker. Today, Welch is a hockey-rink headliner, whose third and latest studio album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, debuted at No. 1 on both sides of the pond. -
Florence + the Machine plays Rogers Arena on Sunday (October 25).
Dilly Dally plays the Media Club on Tuesday (October 27).
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Katie Monks sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On seminal influences: “We grew up in high school on the Strokes and indie rock. That stuff has now been packaged up and sold back to everybody. I guess then we got some dance-punk like Passion Pit and Death From Above, and that, for me, was like ‘Damn, they just dropped a bomb.’ It was such a curve ball, and it really brought something new to the conversation.” On moving forward: “Music that was made in the ’70s, music that was being made in the ’90s, and music that’s being made now is all part of the same conversation. We’re not one-dimensional, and we want to throw something new on the table, whether we accomplish that with this record, or the next one, or the one after that.” On the new rhythm section: “When Ben and Tony joined it gave us a completely different energy. We started writing new songs like ‘Ballin Chain’ and ‘Snake Head’, both of which are on the record. It was like being a new band. Not that we don’t get on like sisters who love each other, but me and Liz were bickering less. It was definitely a breath of fresh air.”
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“Liz and I have always known that this is going to be our life’s work,” she says. “Whether there’s money or whether there isn’t, this is happening. Because people try and fuck with that is why we’ve sometimes got frustrated. We’ve never got frustrated by not getting recognition. Where the frustration comes from is getting fucked over by people not respecting the path that we’ve chosen for ourselves.” -
HUGHES SHE KIDDING? Taylor Swift told GQ she often turns to John Hughes movies for songwriting inspiration. Watch for such numbers as “No More Yankie My Wankie” and “Merry Christmas, Shitter Was Full” on Swift’s next LP. ALL THE BLAND THINGS Blink-182 has announced
that it’s almost ready to roll out a record with Matt Skiba, the band’s replacement for famously estranged singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge. New songs will include “Punk Rock Cliché”, which describes nearly everything Blink-182 has ever done.
OASIS: THE SEQUEL Noel Gallagher has told Bang
Showbiz that he’d love to see his two sons form a band just like Oasis. No word on whether he’d love them to spend their entire time in a band fighting each other like Scudthorpe trailer trash.
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There’s nothing specifically Halloween-centric about Off to See the Lizard, but Cult Babies’ latest seven-song cassette (which is also available on Bandcamp for those living in the current century) has a definite season-of-thewitch vibe. Maybe it’s the titles of tracks such as “Garbage People” and “Yes We Cannibal”, or perhaps it’s the organ-swirled, reverbsaturated garage-psych songs themselves, which seem to emanate from some dank realm of unspeakable deeds and dreadful stenches (i.e., the ’60s). Whatever the case, these tunes are tailor-made for your Devil’s Night playlist. What numbers like “Conspiracy Dog” are about isn’t exactly clear, but they’re still a crypt-kicking good time, replete with fuzz-ripped guitars and creepshow keyboards. -
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2THIS WEEK THE LATE SHOW : SPOOKTACULAR DOUBLE FEATURE Instant Theatre presents a double-bill of spooky comedy shows Zombie Apocalypse and Psychological Thriller. To Oct 25, 9-10 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $10/8, info www.facebook.com/instant theatrecompany/. THROWBACK THEATRESPORTS The Vancouver TheatreSports League celebrates all things 1980s with a comedic trip down memory lane. Oct 22, 23, 24, 29, 30; Nov 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 7:30-9 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $10-22, info www.vtsl. com/show/throwback-theatresports/. DAMONDE TSCHRITTER Canadian standup comedian. Oct 22, 8 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $10, info www.yukyuks.com/. DAN ST. GERMAIN Comedian known for appearing on Best Week Ever, @Midnight, and We Love the 2000s. Oct 23, 7 pm; Oct 23, 9:30 pm; Oct 24, 7 pm; Oct 24, 9:30 pm, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie Street). Tix $25, info www. yukyuks.com/. PHANTOM SIGNAL A live comedy-horror radio performance features the talents of Jayson McDonald, Andrew Bailey, and Tara Travis Oct 26, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $10 at the door, info www.facebook. com/TalesTooTerrifying/. THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW: A LIVE D&D COMEDY EXPERIENCE Vancouver comedic performers present a live, improvised performance inspired by classic RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Oct 28, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST Annual celebration of the written word includes authors Anakana Schofield, Bill Richardson, Carellin Brooks, Daniel Galera, Elaine Lui, Farzana Doctor, George Bowering, Hannah Kent, Ian McAllister, Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Solie, Laura van den Berg, Marlon James,
ALONE BUT NOT LONELY Esteemed Montreal choreographer Daniel Léveillé is bringing his award-winning Solitudes Solo to the Firehall Arts Centre from next Wednesday to Saturday (October 28 to 31), and it promises to be a serene evening of dance. In these spare, intricate pieces, five dancers (including Justin Gionet, shown here) perform in silence and to the melodies of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. The theme is being alone—both the range of emotions that state brings on and the nearspiritual questions it raises. Think deep but pared-down. Nicole Brossard, Paul Yee, Robert J. Wiersema, Sarah Dunant, TJ Dawe, and Wab Kinew. To Oct 25, Granville Island. Info www.writersfest.bc.ca/.
EILEEN KERNAGHAN AND MIX HART AUTHOR READING Eileen Kernaghan reads from Sophie, in Shadow and Mix Hart reads from his debut young adult novel Queen of the Godforsaken. Oct 22, 7-9 pm, Peter Kaye Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. CANZINE WEST 2015 Event features over 100 zine and indie-comics vendors from Vancouver and beyond. Oct 24, 1-7 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian World Arts Centre (SFU Woodward’s, 149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu. ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/20152016Fall/canzine2015.html. SIGAL SAMUEL In a prefestival event for the JCC Jewish Book Festival, the Montreal author presents her debut novel The Mystics of Mile End. Oct 25, 3 pm, Jewish Community Centre (950 W. 41st). Tix $16, info www.jewishbookfestival.ca/. VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM PRESENTS THE 1ST EVER GHOST STORY SLAM Poets and storytellers take the stage to tell their spookiest tales and poems. Participating artists include Al Tee, Nyla Carpentier, Bryant Ross, Sonya Littlejohn, and Tahina Awan. Oct 28, 8 pm, Café Deux Soleils (2096 Commercial). Tix $6-10, info www.vanslam.ca/.
ET CETERA 2JUST ANNOUNCED EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL Explore the culture of Vancouver’s East Side through workshops and demonstrations in areas like glass blowing, wood carving, and Jacquard loom weaving. Nov 19-22, various Vancouver venues. Free admission, info www.culturecrawl.ca/.
2THIS WEEK A SIMPLE SPACE Seven acrobats expose the reality of failure and weakness. To Oct 24, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/. 6 GUITARS Chase Padgett presents a show that blends music, comedy, and unforgettable characters. Oct 23, 24, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $27-35, info www. shadboltcentre.com/. THE 12TH ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Annual event celebrates the culture of the Downtown Eastside with 12 days of music, stories, songs, poetry, cultural celebrations, films, theatre, dance, processions, spoken word, panels, workshops, discussions, gallery exhibitions, multimedia, art talks, history walking tours, and a diverse array of artists. Oct 28–Nov 8, Carnegie Theatre (401 Main). Tix free to $25, info www.heartofthecityfestival.com/.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery. bc.ca/. 2THE GUND COLLECTION: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST (exhibition features a group of historical and contemporary First Nations artwork from the Northwest Coast, drawn from the Collection of George Gund III) to Jan 31 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouverbased artist Christos Dikeakos considers the economic and cultural values involved in transactions of Northwest Coast art) to Jan 31 2THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (explore the conceptual design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery, created by Herzog & de Meuron) to Jan 24
MUSEUMS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 NW Marine Dr., UBC, 604-822-5087, www. moa.ubc.ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built) to Dec 30 2(IN)VISIBLE: THE SPIRITUAL WORLD OF TAIWAN THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ART (collection of artistic mediums from seven Taiwanese artists whose works explore the coexistence of modernity and tradition) Nov 20–Apr 3 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver. ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified exhibitions that connect Vancouverites with the ancient village and burial site upon which Vancouver was built. Highlights include soundscapes, original videography, and family-friendly interactivity) to Dec 30
OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK ANTIMATTER [MEDIA ART] Premier showcase of experimentation in film, video, audio, and emerging time-based forms. To Oct 31, Deluge Contemporary Art (636 Yates St., Victoria). Info www.antimatter.ca/.
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Judas Priest wants to get intimate with fans Judas Priest has been headlining concerts in Vancouver since the Screaming for Vengeance Tour back in 1982, but this time around things are different. Local headbangers will be able to see the British metal legends in the comparatively cozy confines of the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver for two shows next week. “We’ve been mixing it up on this tour,” explains Priest vocalist Rob Halford on the line from his home in Phoenix. “The last show we played before we took a break was in Germany at the Wacken Heavy Metal Festival outside of Hamburg, and that was, like, 80,000 people. When you’re playing to that amount of people you’re trying your best to connect, but it can be quite challenging because of the distance between the stage and the crowd. At the same time you’re aware that you’re on the big gigantic screens on either side of the stage, so everybody gets a chance to see right up your nose, you know. “Having said that, on that particular European leg we played a tiny little place in Holland where the stage was just about big enough to get the band and gear on. And I gotta tell you, when you are playing those tighter, more intimate type of venues, it’s extra special. It’s got a bit of a throwback vibe to when you first started as a band, you know. So we’re gonna get all that when we come up to play for you.” When the band hits town it will be touring behind its 17th studio album, last year’s Redeemer of Souls, which is a return to the straightforward Priest sound after the intricacies of the sprawling 2008 concept album Nostradamus. It’s also the first to feature new guitarist Richie Faulkner, who took over from original member K.K. Downing in 2011. “We were so looking forward to writing with him after we did the Epitaph world tour together,” notes Halford,
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PETA was on Judas Priest’s case for its leather jackets, which the band says are faux. Their matching snakeskin thongs, however, are the real thing.
“I remember the first day of being in the writing sessions with Richie and the room was electric, you know; there was solid things happening hour after hour. We just kept writing and writing, but we had to put the brakes on because we were on a time schedule.” Although Downing’s aggressive playing style had become an integral part of Judas Priest’s sound over the years, Halford says the band welcomed whatever musical traits Faulkner brought to the game. “He’s his own man!” he asserts. “We didn’t want a copycat, we didn’t want somebody that was just gonna replicate things. The basic components of the song are already in place, but we said to Richie: ‘Don’t be afraid to do your own thing, because it’s important that you establish your own identity.’ Which he did. “And the fans were so receptive,” he adds. “There was no negativity towards the guy. Let’s face it, to some extent Richie saved Judas Priest, because if we hadn’t have found him at the crucial time that we were looking for a guitar player things could have
turned out quite differently.”
> STEVE NEWTON
Judas Priest plays the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver on Tuesday and Wednesday (October 27 and 28).
Caplan succeeds with excess, in the best way Playing to the converted is easy,
2 as is building a fan base on the
back of a smash radio hit or prime soundtrack placement in a popular TV show. Winning over crowds through good old-fashioned sweat and charisma is, however, a considerably more daunting task. Reached at a tour stop in North Dakota, Hamilton-born, Halifaxbased singer Ben Caplan professes to be more than up to the job of rolling into a town cold and then making the curious feel like they’ve just discovered their new favourite artist. Part of the appeal is borderline-theatrical songs that put the freak back into junkyard-blues folk. It probably
doesn’t hurt, either, that Caplan sports the kind of beards-gone-wild facial hair that would impress Sam Beam, William Fitzsimmons, and Rick Rubin. Based on his appearance alone, he’s impossible to ignore. “In Canada, we’ve been doing well over the last couple of years, so we show up pretty much anywhere we go and we’ve got some people who are pretty excited to see us,” Caplan says, speaking on his cell. “Last night in North Dakota, I’d never been to that part of the States before, so I had the vibe by song two or three that no one had any idea what to expect. It was like, ‘Everyone’s here to see a show, not necessarily my show.’ By the end of it they were just thrilled. Afterwards, I was doing some signing at the merch table and hanging out with the crowd and people told me they were just flabbergasted. It was great to see people who had no idea who we were and what we were about come away from it as hard-core fans.” What the singer and showman is all about on his second full-length, Birds With Broken Wings, is excess, which we mean as the highest of compliments. Although Caplan plays live with a stripped-down cast of hired guns called the Casual Smokers, the record features contributions from 27 backing musicians, with everything from cellos and violas to darbukas and cimbaloms thrown into the mix. The result is everything from Gypsy ragtime (“Birds With Broken Wings”) to divebar country (“Belly of the Worm”) to nicotine-yellowed jazz (“Deliver Me”). Through it all, Caplan sings like a man raised in skid-row diners on cheap gin and filterless cigarettes. Often beautiful despite its rough edges, Birds With Broken Wings wasn’t an effortless affair. “I was hoping this record would be a two- or three-week project, and then it turned into a nine-month project,” Caplan says. “It took a long
time to make, and probably cost double what I intended to spend. But once I got into it I felt the need to keep doubling down. I felt that the songs had so much potential, and the project had potential that, when we ran out of money and I had new ideas on how to refine things, I just went and found some more.” Despite its audacity, Birds With Broken Wings is a record with a serious message, even if the songs are often left purposefully open-ended. Lines like “I have seen with my eyes images I wish I could erase,” from “40 Days & 40 Nights”, are powerful, but it’s up to the listener to decide what Caplan is singing about. “My mind is often in different spots in each song, but if I could generalize I’d say I’ve spent the past few years meditating on what is going wrong in the world,” he offers. “I believe strongly in looking for social justice, searching for environmental justice, and trying to live in a just world while creating a just society.” That doesn’t mean, however, that he’s not up for having a blast onstage, especially on nights when he’s got the element of surprise working in his favour. “We’ve been on the road now for quite a few weeks,” Caplan says. “As a band, we’ve been playing together for a few years, and we put a lot of work into this record, so we’ve got a pretty tight ship. The sound on-stage and in the room is the best it’s ever been in my career. Some people in places like North Dakota come to the show expecting a mid-level band playing some songs. But we really put on a performance. I hope it doesn’t sound egotistical to say so, but people tell us that we really kill.” > MIKE USINGER
Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers play the Biltmore Cabaret on Monday (October 26).
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Inside Joshua Hyslop’s fridge WHO ARE YOU
My name is Joshua Hyslop. I’m a singer-songwriter on Nettwerk Records. I’ll be releasing my sophomore album, In Deepest Blue, on Friday (October 23), and then touring through the U.S. and Canada, opening for Vanessa Carlton. I have also been: a house painter. It was meant to be a summer job once but I ended up doing it for five years. And a pizza maker for an awful pizza place in my hometown. I never received any training and quit after one week. A year later, the building it was in exploded. For real. FIRST CONCERT
It was in 1995, when I was eight years old. My parents took my sister and I to Bellingham, to the Mount Baker Theatre, to see Michael Card. I don’t remember any of the songs. I just remember that he was alone on-stage and everyone was completely silent while he played. He had something like six or seven guitars on-stage with him and I thought that was too many. I started playing guitar seven years later and I realized I was wrong. LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT
When I was in Grade 11 I got to see Wilco at the Orpheum. My friend had shown me a few of their songs on his Discman and I loved it. I immediately went out and bought their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and while I was paying for it the guy at the register told me they were coming to town in a few months. I had no money, so I sold everything I could (some video games, my old pogs, a few of my sister’s CDs) and bought a ticket. I was in the back row of the balcony, but I didn’t care. When the lights went down and the band walked on-stage, everyone was cheering and they launched into their first song. All I could think was, “I want to do that.”
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Chili-pepper wine? Joshua Hyslop still wonders what he was thinking.
They finished their set to a standing ovation and walked off-stage. Everyone was clapping and cheering and they came back on for the encore and played a few more songs. Usually that’s it, but everyone kept cheering and clapping, so they came back on and played a second encore. When it happened again, people started filling up the aisles and running to the front of the stage. After their third encore they bowed and walked off-stage and the lights and music came on, so people started collecting their things and leaving. I had just made it to the lobby when I could hear the band was back on-stage and playing again. We all ran back into the theatre to catch the fourth and final encore. By the end of the night I had cheered myself hoarse and was more determined than ever that music would be in my future somehow.
inspiration to me. His songwriting is incredible and he never stops. He just keeps putting out record after record. This album is incredible, plus it features Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Pat Sansone, and was produced by Ethan Johns. It’s amazing. David Bazan Curse Your Branches Listening to this album was the first time I ever had the feeling that a song had been written for me—that someone was perfectly articulating things I’d thought and felt and gone through but never been able to express. It hit me, and it was great. He also recently put out a record of a bunch of his songs accompanied by the Passenger String Quartet, which is an amazing record too. WHAT’S IN YOUR FRIDGE
Pomegranates. Years ago I spent a couple months living in and out of a van that someone had given to me. I had very little money and didn’t really know how to cook or anything. In mid-October that year, Safeway had a sale where you could buy four pomegranates for $4, and they were huge. I pretty much lived off of them, and I’ve continued to fill the fridge with pomegranates every October since. An unopened bottle of chili-pepper-infused wine. It’s been in there for ages. My wife and I do winetastings in the Okanagan sometimes and we got two small bottles of this stuff a few years ago. I don’t know why we got it. It took us over a year to finish the first one. It’s actually extremely spicy, and, apparently, the longer you leave it unopened the spicier it gets. I can’t imagine it would even be enTOP RECORDS joyable at all by now, but I can’t just This is impossible. If you asked me throw it away. It’s a real problem. this question again in a week, you’d This is a condensed version of What’s probably get different answers. Ryan Adams Heartbreaker This in Your Fridge. For the full, riotously is such a classic album. I love every entertaining version, go to www. song on it. Ryan Adams is a huge straight.com/music/whats-your-fridge.
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Hartman explores a distinctive artistic vision RE COR D I N G S
When you hear the music-box intro to “Maps of Sinking” give way to a godly metallic, shimmering drone, you can practically see their mystic temple being built.
ODETTA HARTMAN 222 (Northern Spy)
Hailing from New York City’s
> ALAN RANTA
2 famed East Village, Odetta Hart-
man has that whole melting-pot thing down pat. There is an obvious bluegrass core to 222, reportedly her firstever “strictly solo” record, with banjo, violin, and acoustic guitar primarily supporting her lilting, countrified vocals. Yet, framing that throwback style, her sound expands to include field recordings, lo-fi processing, and electronic bass. “Creektime” has an early Fiona Apple vibe augmented by a William Ryan Fritch neoclassical folk lift and Jookabox indie glitchtronic eccentricity, while “Tap Tap” sees her vocals mutated and digitally delayed in a style occasionally reminiscent of Laurie Anderson. Only 22 minutes long, 222 holds together as an album due to its distinctive artistic vision and thoughtful sequencing. The subbass and stuttering, stomp-clap beat of “Dreamcatchers” picks up steam until it abruptly stops. It’s one of the most aggressively electronic tracks, but it gives way to “Lazy LA”, with beach sounds accenting a summery acoustic guitar. Throughout the album, which feels longer than it is in a very good way, Hartman masterfully walks the line between being forward-thinking and respectful of the past. > ALAN RANTA
D.O.A. Hard Rain Falling (Sudden Death)
Hard Rain Falling, D.O.A.’s
2 16th full-length, is fiercer and
more consistently satisfying than anything Joe Keithley has done since War on 45, wisely sticking—with a couple of exceptions—to a tight,
THE BINZ Get Sauced With… the Binz (Independent)
The important thing about a
2 gimmick is that it be enter-
Odetta Hartman is of the opinion that there’s no good reason a grown woman shouldn’t dress up like a princess.
fast, energetic hardcore formula that seems to be engrained in Keithley’s DNA. The topical high point, “The Cops Shot a Kid”, details both the racist action of police and selfdestructive community reaction. “Punk Rock Hero” steers away from Keithley’s tendency to sloganeer by criticizing those who think throwing beer bottles at cop cars is a meaningful gesture of protest. And when Keithley does sloganeer (“Pipeline Fever”, “Racism Sucks”), the fury of his delivery and the fire of his guitar easily help you to swallow the prosaic, leftist-by-numbers lyrics. The weirdest moment is a tie between the Scottish-inflected “Kicked in the Teeth” and the reggae cover “Johnny Too Bad”, which seems a bit goofy on first listen, but ultimately works. The weakest point, meanwhile, is “Ni
Hao”, an attempt at cuteness about D.O.A. touring China, with lyrics that sound like Keithley spent about 10 minutes on them. Here’s hoping the new rhythm section of Paddy Duddy and Mike Hodsall stick around for a while; they could be the best complement to Keithley since the days of Randy Rampage and Chuck Biscuits.
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PERILS PERILS (Desire Path)
Kyle Bobby Dunn and Thomas
2 Meluch are both notable in their
own right. Meluch has released nearly half a dozen albums of folktronic, fieldrecording-laced electronic meditations under the name Benoît Pioulard, while Dunn has released several sprawling full-lengths featuring guitar-based
drones and minimalist compositions for strings and piano. The pair formed PERILS in 2012, during a tumultuous time in their lives. Originally from Haslett, Michigan, Meluch was relocating from the U.K. to Seattle, while Dunn was in Belleville, Ontario, putting the finishing touches on his massive tripleLP release Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness, and feeling drained on all levels. Rather than dwell on his insecurities, Meluch started putting ideas together and sending them to Dunn, who merged his haunting, impressionistic approach with Meluch’s vaguely nostalgic vocals to create 10 pieces allegedly “culled from a poutine- and whisky-fueled trudge through the dark corridors of an asyet undiscovered or possibly imaginary mystic temple”.
taining; if it’s fun, people will willingly play along. For example, with physical media in a state of disarray, instead of a CD (archaic) or an LP (expensive), why not issue your album as a download card attached to a bottle of hot sauce? Get Sauced With… the Binz is exactly that, a code for six new songs attached to a bottle of Jung & Walker hot sauce— proving, as the band’s press release proclaims, that “food is the music format of the future.” (“We could have spray-painted the download codes on a brick, but we felt a bottle of hot sauce might sell better,” Binz frontman Gary Robertz observes.) Haven’t sampled the sauce yet, but the music certainly delivers. “Gutless” kicks off with a riff worthy of Mission of Burma, then smartly spins things back in time with background “whoa”s that suggest “Stepping Stone” (and I’m talking Paul Revere and the Raiders and/or the Monkees, not Minor Threat). “Radiant City” borrows a title from Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns’s antisuburban pseudodocumentary and has some of the hookiest riffage on hand, with a vocal that evokes Bleach-era Nirvana. “What Do We Get” offers propulsive hardcore that comes closest to having a straightforwardly anthemic, fist-in-the-air chorus, something the Binz could stand to do more often. All the same, it rocks. > ALLAN M AC INNIS
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FUNK & OLD SCHOOL DANCE PARTY 1970s-themed funk and old-school dance party features music spun by DJ Daddy Mikey and Earl da Pearl. Nov 14, Croatian Cultural Centre (3250 Commercial). Tix $15, info www.meloproductions.net/.
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CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED CARLO MARCHIONE Guitarist performs a solo recital. Oct 31, 7-9 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $35/25/20, info www.vancouverguitar.org/events/ carlo-marchione/. HALLOWEEN AT THE WALDORF Halloween party features music by Nick Bike, Abasi, Bokeh, Glyn, Jon Lee, Matt Hudolin, Midnight Vulture, Jesse Hills, Sam Demoe, Mateo, Jessica G, Juan Ton, Perkulator, and Alex Mei. Oct 31, 8 pm, At the Waldorf (1489 E. Hastings). Tix from $35, info www.atthewaldorf.com/. A SUMNER BROTHERS ALL HALLOWS EVE VII Halloween party features music by the Sumner Brothers, Rawk Löbster, Punkaoke, and Devil in the Wood Shack. Oct 31, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $15/10, info www.facebook.com/ events/967583376645429/. BLUEBIRD NORTH: WHERE WRITERS SING & TELL Music by Canadian singer-songwriters Dustin Bentall, Winston Hauschild, Nat Jay, Kim June Johnson, and host Shari Ulrich. Nov 3, 7:30-10 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (183 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $15, info www.songwriters.ca/. CARNAGE American hip-hop artist, with guests Expendable Youth and Dr. Seiz. Nov 10, doors 9 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. LILA ROSE Toronto-born, Californiabased singer-songwriter, with guests Selina Koop. Nov 12, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $12, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
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DEATH IN JUNE Neo-folk group led by English folk musician Douglas Pearce. Nov 26, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $30, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.
BURTON CUMMINGS Canadian rock legend, formerly of the Guess Who. Dec 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, River Rock Show Theatre (River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond). Tix on sale Oct. 22, 10 am, $89.50/79.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.riverrock.com. NEW YEAR’S EVE 2016 GLITZ & GLAMOUR GALA New Year’s Eve party features music by Alibaba, Earl da Pearl, DJ Superfly, Daddy Mikey, DJ Reign, DJ El Nino, DJ Kemo, Latin DJ Soundloco, and DJ Reign. Dec 31, doors 6 pm, dinner 7 pm, Hilton Vancouver Metrotown (6083 McKay Ave., Burnaby). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $99/60 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS American soul-R&B group tours in support of latest self-titled release. Jan 21, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 23, 11 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Welsh experimental-rock band. Feb 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE WAILERS Jamaican roots-reggae group, with guests Boomdaddy. Mar 12, doors 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $29.75 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI American rock singer-songwriter leads
MARK FARINA Dance DJ, with guests Luke McKeehan, DJ Krown, and Kleo Kinetic. Oct 23, 9:30 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $25, info www.facebook.com/ events/1687110688202068/. DESERT DWELLERS World electronica duo from New Mexico, with guests Kalya Scintilla, Eve Olution, and DJ Emog. Oct 23, 10 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $25, info www.rickshawtheatre. com/653/desert-dwellers-with-kalyascintilla-eve-olution-and-dj-emog/.
MUSE English alt-rock band performs on its Drones World Tour, with guests Phantogram. Dec 10, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $85/65/45/29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. livenation.com/. DRAGONETTE AND YOUNG EMPIRES Canadian electropop group will coheadline with Toronto rock band, with guests Dirty Radio. Dec 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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DUNE RATS Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. Consider the case of the Dune Rats. When the Georgia Straight caught up with the Australian three-piece by phone in the spring of 2014, it was immediately evident that the band takes its partying seriously. Bassist Brett Jansch was doing his best to recover from two straight days of debauch with next to no sleep, while his bandmate Danny Beusa had gone missing, eventually to be discovered face-down, but alive, in the desert. If memory serves us correctly, the Dune Rats were subsequently turned back at the border trying to get into Canada, which probably wasn’t a surprise. The psych-tinted garage fuckups will make another attempt to play Vancouver this Saturday (October 24) for a gig at the Cobalt. Hopefully they won’t be coming up the coast through Vegas. his stripped-down band through a wide selection of songs encompassing his entire career. With guest literary stylist Derrick Brown. Mar 22, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Oct 23, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
2THIS WEEK THE BROS. LANDRETH Winnipeg-based alt-country foursome performs on its Runaway Train tour, with guest Donovan Woods. Oct 22, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS Australian multi-instrumentalist and his band perform on their Flag North American tour, with guests Jon & Roy. Oct 22-23, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $37.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. DEREK WARFIELD & THE YOUNG WOLFE TONES Derek Warfield performs with Damaris Woods, Peadar Hickey, and Daniel O’Sullivan. Oct 22-23, 8 pm, Blue Frog Studios (1328 Johnston Rd., White Rock). Tix $35, info www.bluefrogstudios.ca/.
DAVID MORIN Neo-soul singer performs on his We Are Every Colour Tour, with guests Chin Injeti, Omar Khan, and IHA RA. Oct 22, 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $10, info www.alexandergastown.com/. BLACK MASTIFF Edmonton psychedelicrock band tours in support of upcoming release Music Machine. Oct 23, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE GLORIOUS SONS Rock group from Kingston, Ontario, performs with guests Northcote and Poor Young Things. Oct 23, 7 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.bplive.ca/. GREG DRUMMOND Folk-rock singersongwriter from Port Moody, with guests the Wild Romantics. Oct 23, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15, info gregdrummond.brownpapertickets.com/. THE JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND Music by anti-folk singer-songwriter Joey Only and his band. Oct 23, 8 pm, WISE Hall (1882 Adanac). Tix $10, info www.facebook.com/events/1474020879570301/. STEEL PANTHER Mock hair-metal band from the States performs two shows on its All You Can Eat tour. Oct 23-24, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam).
THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Rock ‘n’ roll duo tours in support of latest release Bad News Boys, with guests Milk Lines and IS/IS. Oct 24, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $18 (plus service charges and fees) Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. DUNE RATS Australian rock band tours in support of debut self-titled release. Oct 24, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www. ticketweb.ca/. DELTA RAE American folk-rock band tours in support of second full-length album After It All. Oct 24, doors 7 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS The Georgia Straight presents Welsh indiepop singer-songwriter performing on her Neon Nature tour, with guests Christine and the Queen. Oct 24, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $35 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. HARVEST MOON CUP The Eden Medicinal Society presents its first annual medicinal cannabis competition, featuring performances by Snoop Dogg, Chin Injeti and the Lifetimes, and Sailor Gerry. Oct 24, 7 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Info www. myeden.ca/. EAST VAN OPRY Country-roots music by Paul Pigat, Speeding West, the Gastown Revellers, Colleen Rennison, Anne-Louise Genest & Archie Pateman, the Neon Stars, John Reischman, Barbara Adler and Ten Thousand Wolves, Robt Sarazin Blake, the Real Ponchos, Twin Bandit, JJ Lavallee, and Madelaine McCallum. Oct 24, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $23/20, info www.facebook.com/ events/896835857099813/. DAR WILLIAMS The Rogue Folk Club presents American singer-songwriter touring in support of new album Emerald.
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PACO PENA Spanish flamenco guitarist brings together a distinguished ensemble of guitarists, singers, and dancers in a passionate, primal, and fiery tribute to both the rich history and thriving future of flamenco music and dance. Oct 24, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $60-114 (plus service charges and fees) at www.chancentre.com/. LADIES SING THE BLUES Music by Joani Bye, Catherine St. Germain, Alita Dupray, Leslie Harris, Nadine States, and Amanda Dean. Oct 24, 8-11 pm, Edgewater Casino (750 Pacific Blvd. S.). Tix $10, info www.stadiumclub.ticketleap.com/. BALKAN BEATS GYPSY PARTY Balkan and Gypsy music by Balkan Shmalkan, Laydee Ra, and 2 Sweet Anomaly. Oct 24, 10 pm, Waldorf Hotel (1489 E. Hastings). Tix $13, info www.facebook.com/ events/529153417242270/. RUBBLEBUCKET American indie-dance band tours in support of latest release Survival Sounds, with guests Babes. Oct 25, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. FLORENCE + THE MACHINE The Georgia Straight presents English indie-rock band touring in support of latest release How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, with guests the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. Oct 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $36-70.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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MARIAN HILL Philadelphia electropop duo. Oct 25, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Info www.fortunesoundclub.com/. MURRAY MCLAUCHLAN Canadian singer-songwriter performs with his trio. Oct 25, 7:30-9:30 pm, Centennial Theatre (2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Van). Tix $45, info www.centennialtheatre.com/production/murray-mclauchlan/. ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. American indierock singer-songwriter tours in support of latest EP release AHJ, with guests Walking Shapes. Oct 26, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. GRIMES Canadian experimental-pop singer-songwriter performs on her Rhinestone Cowgirl tour with guest Nicole Dollanganger. Oct 26, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $28 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS Canadian folk musician tours in support of second studio release Birds With Broken Wings. Oct 26, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15, info www.facebook. com/events/1621350288132748/. HEARTLESS BASTARDS American garage-rock band performs on its Restless Hearts tour, with guests Slothrust. Oct 27, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. JOYCE MANOR California pop-punk band tours in support of latest release Never Hungover Again, with guests Girlpool. Oct 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. JUDAS PRIEST Heavy-metal legends from Britain (“You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”, “Living After Midnight”), featuring vocalist Rob Halford. Oct 27-28, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix $149.50/109.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. SMALL BLACK Brooklyn indie-pop band tours in support of latest EP release Real People, with guests Painted Palms. Oct 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. THE SWORD Rock band from Austin, Texas, performs on its High Country tour, with guests Kadavar and All Them Witches. Oct 28, 7:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $22 (plus service charges and fees), info www.rickshawtheatre. com/662/the-sword-high-country-tour-withkadavar-and-all-them-witches/. JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO Coastal Jazz presents American jazz organist, trumpeter, and vocalist with guitarist Dan Wilson guitar and drummer Jason Brown. Oct 28, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $39-45 (plus service charges and fees) at www. ticketfly.com/, info www.coastaljazz.ca/.
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CONTACT WINTER MUSIC FESTIVAL Electronica festival features music by Above & Beyond, Hardwell, Steve Angello, DJ Snake, Andrew Rayel, Oliver Heldens, Klingande, Tchami, 3LAU, Bakermat, Jauz, Mercer, Jai Wolf, Vanic, Wiwek, Snails, Slander, and Nghtmre. Dec 26-27, 5 pm, B.C. Place Stadium (777 Pacific). Tix $250/175/150 (plus service charges and fees) at www.contact-festival.com/.
CLUBS & VENUES ACADEMIC PUBLIC HOUSE 1619 W. Broadway, 604-733-4141. Pub fare, cheap beer, and cocktails from 11 am till late. Pub trivia Tue; Bourbon & Bingo Thu; chart, rock, hip-hop, and dance classics Fri-Sat. ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 2DAVID MORIN Oct 22 2KYPRIOS, TONYE AGANABA, ALEX MAHER, THE CHAPERONES Oct 29 2DJ MARVEL + JOLIN RAS Oct 30 2THE INTERNET Oct 31 2MY NU LENG (LATE SHOW) Oct 31 2NIGHTMARES ON WAX Nov 5 2TORY LANEZ Nov 9 BACKSTAGE LOUNGE Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston, Granville Island, 604-6871354. Vancouver’s only live-music venue on the water, with music nightly. Live band karaoke hosted by Sami Ghawi and Reuben Avery Tue at 9:30 pm. BELMONT BAR 1006 Granville, 604-6054340. Fresh and local fare, craft beer and wine on tap, and live entertainment nightly. Open daily at 5 pm. 2CALM BEFORE THE STORM Oct 21 2DRINK.DINE.DANCE. SERIES Oct 29 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2THE BROS. LANDRETH Oct 22 2DELTA RAE Oct 24 2WICKED WAYS—A SUPER VILLAINOUS COSPLAY BASH Oct 25 2BEN CAPLAN & THE CASUAL SMOKERS Oct 26 2SMALL BLACK Oct 27 2NATALIE PRASS Oct 31 2HALLOWEEN BONE-US BASH! Nov 1 2ANDRA DAY Nov 2 2IN THE VALLEY BELOW Nov 3 2LUNA Nov 4 2KATE BOY Nov 17 2BLITZEN TRAPPER Nov 20 2HEALTH Dec 7 2KIASMOS Dec 12 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22, 2016
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A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR The Rocky and Tyler tour FOX CABARET 2321 Main. 2DANIEL comes to Vancouver, with guests Danny ROMANO Oct 21 2GREG DRUMMOND Brown and Vince Staples. Nov 10, doors Oct 23 2PHANTOM SIGNAL Oct 26 6:30 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 2MARK FEWER, JOHN NOVACEK, AND Griffiths Way). Tix $29.50-65 (plus service JODI PROSNICK Oct 27 2THE ORCHID charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. CLUB Oct 27 2JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO Oct 28 2TIMMY’S ORGANISM Nov 11 THE WEEKND Canadian indie-R&B singer-songwriter performs on his the see next page
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FRANKIE’S 765 Beatty, 778-727-0337. Coastal Jazz presents live jazz and blues throughout the weekend (Thu-Sun). 2ZAPATO NEGRO Oct 22 2BRADLEY/ MCGILLIVRAY BLUES BAND Oct 23 2BLUE MOON MARQUEE Oct 25 2JACLYN GUILLOU Oct 29 2OLIVER GANNON QUARTET Oct 30 2JAMES DANDERFER TRIO Nov 1 FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings, 604-764-7865. 2CHILD ABUSE, CASSETTE MERCHANT, BOG, SEVENS NINES AND TENS Oct 21 2CROWN OF TALONS, HEAVY LIES THE CROWN, THE FIFTH CIRCLE, WARBEAR Oct 23 2BUSHWHACKER, THE HALLOWED CATHARSIS, 88 MILE TRIP, CRATERS Oct 24 2MONSTER MASH BOOLESQUE SPOOKTACULAR Oct 29 2POISON IDEA, CAR 87, ELIMINATOR, OLD DERELICTS Oct 30 2CALM LIKE A BOMB (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE TRIBUTE), SYRINX, PARALLEL LINES (BLONDIE TRIBUTE), ROCCOR Oct 31 HARD ROCK CASINO VANCOUVER 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam, 604-5236888. 2STEEL PANTHER Oct 23 2JUDAS PRIEST Oct 27 2FINGER ELEVEN Oct 30 2RUSSELL PETERS Nov 4 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 27 2TROOPER Dec 31 THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2STRIKE A CHORD: A BENEFIT FOR MUSIC HEALS Oct 22 2MARK FARINA Oct 23 2HARVEST MOON CUP Oct 24 2PROJECT SOMOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGE GRAND FIESTA FUNDRAISER 2015 Oct 29 2THE ZOLAS Nov 5 2CHERUB Nov 7 2GOOD FOR GRAPES Nov 12 2THE PAPER KITES Nov 18 2BORN RUFFIANS Nov 21 2FAMILY OF THE YEAR Dec 6 2HALF MOON RUN Dec 8 2SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Feb 4 IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. Pub with live bands on weekends and open jam night Sun. from 4 to 8 pm. Open at 9 am with breakfast and daily food specials. Pool tourney Thu. No cover. 2ROCCOR Oct 21 2RICOCHET RABBIT Oct 23 2HONEYBOY WILSON TRIO Oct 24 2SONS OF THE HOE Oct 25 & Nov 1 2RHYTHM ST. Oct 30 2PURPLE GANG Oct 31 LAMPLIGHTER PUBLIC HOUSE 92 Water, 604-687-4424. Pub trivia with Nice Guys Inc. Tue; bourbon and bingo Wed; Rocksteady with DJs Arems, Hoppa & Rexx Thu; FKYA DJs Fri; DJ Antonia & Friends Sat. LIBRARY SQUARE PUBLIC HOUSE 300 W. Georgia, 604-633-9644. Free pinball Wed, Show Me Love ‘90s party Fri; Saturday Night Special dance party Sat. Canucks and Whitecaps pregame. MEDIA CLUB 695 Cambie, 604-608-2871. Live music most nights. 2RUBBLEBUCKET Oct 25 2JOCELYN ALICE Nov 12 2GIRL BAND Nov 20 ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN HANSARD Nov 12 2VANCE JOY Jan 12, 2016 2BLUE RODEO Jan 26 2LEON BRIDGES Mar 15 2RAFFI Apr 23
PAT’S PUB & BREWHOUSE 403 E. Hastings, 604-255-4301. Invitational jazz jam Mon; Disaraygun DJ and live trumpet Tue; Steve Kozak Blues & Brews Wed; No Cover Thu; live bands Fri.-Sat. at 9 pm; live jazz Sat. from 3-7 pm. No cover. 2PAT’S PUB COMEDY Oct 29 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2BARENAKED LADIES Oct 21 2THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM Nov 15 2DARCY OAKE Nov 27 2PUSCIFER Dec 2 2YAMATO, THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Feb 6 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 RED ROOM ULTRABAR 398 Richards, 604-687-5007. Trance night Thu; Latin and Top 40 Fri; international and local DJs Sat; alternative and industrial with DJ Pandemonium and friends Sun. REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am. RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604681-8915. Live bands some nights. 2DESERT DWELLERS Oct 23 2THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Oct 24 2THE SWORD Oct 28 2CARNIVAL OF LOST SOULS Oct 30 2CATURDAY CREW: INFECTION Oct 31 2PARKWAY DRIVE Nov 3 2L7 Nov 4 2HARDCORE 2015 Nov 7 2HATE ETERNAL Nov 10 2LILA ROSE Nov 12 2STOMP RECORDS 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Nov 13 2NERD FEST V Nov 14 2TESSERACT Nov 16 2KMAN AND THE 45S Nov 17 2MOVITS Nov 22 2TEXAS IN JULY Nov 24 2DEATH IN JUNE Nov 26 2THE MAHONES Nov 27 2AUTHORITY ZERO Dec 4 2DIECEMBERFEST 7 Dec 11 2KEITHMAS VI Dec 18 2YOB Dec 31 2UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA AND LOWER DENS Jan 28 2ENFORCER AND WARBRINGER Jan 30 RIVER ROCK SHOW THEATRE River Rock Casino Resort, 8811 River Rd., Richmond, 604-247-8900. Tix for all shows at www.ticketmaster.ca/. 2KENNY G Nov 16 2ROGER HODGSON Nov 28 2BURTON CUMMINGS Dec 30 2ANDREPHILIPPE GAGNON Dec 31 ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, 604899-7400. Concert venue and home to the Vancouver Canucks. 2FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Oct 25 2A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR Nov 10 2THE WEEKND Dec 2 2MUSE Dec 10 2BLACK SABBATH Feb 3 2IRON MAIDEN Apr 10 2THE WHO May 13 2SELENA GOMEZ May 14 THE ROXY 932 Granville, 604-331-7999. New house band Tattoo Alibi Sat. & Mon; country band Locked & Loaded Sun; the Bulge and DJ Joe Pound Tue; Troys ‘R Us Wed.-Thu. 2ARTIST AND SLAVE Oct 21 2NOT A CHEW TOY, DEAD RIVALS, THE HARVEST Oct 22 2ELLICE BLACKOUT, THE CUT LOSSES Oct 24 2THE SYLVIA PLATTERS Oct 26 2MATT CAIRNS Oct 28 ST. JAMES HALL 3214 W. 10th, 604736-3022. 250-seat venue at St. James Community Square features concerts presented by the Rogue Folk Club. 2DAR WILLIAMS Oct 24 2RED MOON ROAD Oct 30 2KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Nov 1 2SÉAN MCCANN Nov 6
2ALLISON CROWE BAND Nov 13 2THE JOCELYN PETTIT BAND Nov 14
THE THREE BRITS 1780 Davie (at Denman), 604-801-6681. The West End’s only craft-beer house, steps away from English Bay. Pub trivia with the Nice Guys Wed at 7 pm; brunch daily till 4 pm. VENUE 881 Granville, 604-646-0064. Tix for all events at www.venuelive.ca/ and www.bplive.ca/ 2THE GLORIOUS SONS Oct 23 2ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Oct 26 2HEARTLESS BASTARDS Oct 27 2GAME OF THRONES TRIVIA NIGHT Oct 28 2RYN WEAVER Nov 1 2RUFUS DU SOL Nov 5 2THE STRUTS Nov 8 2THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Nov 14 2CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Nov 20 2ROBERT DELONG Nov 21 2PRONG Dec 3 2THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 11 2GRAVEYARD Dec 12 VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604569-1144. Tix at www.voguetheatre.com/. 2HEY ROSETTA! Nov 6 2AN EVENING WITH ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Nov 7 2MAC MILLER Nov 8 2RODRIGUEZ Nov 10 2MATTHEW GOOD Nov 13 2PROTEST THE HERO Nov 15 2X AMBASSADORS Nov 18 2JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Nov 20 2YO LA TENGO Nov 21 2SNARKY PUPPY Nov 23 2KING CRIMSON Nov 26 2BARNEY BENTALL & THE CARIBOO EXPRESS Nov 28 2KAMELOT Dec 2 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Dec 9 2FRAZEY FORD Dec 10 2DRAGONETTE AND YOUNG EMPIRES Dec 11 2NICK LOWE’S QUALITY HOLIDAY REVUE Dec 19 2NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS Jan 21 2THE WOOD BROTHERS Jan 31 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-2545858. Live music by local artists and international touring acts. 2THE JOEY ONLY OUTLAW BAND Oct 23 2SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE AND NICHOLAS KRGOVICH Oct 24 2DROP-IN ROCK CHOIR—EAST VAN! Oct 27 2THEN & NOW: A FUNDRAISER FOR MEGAPHONE MAGAZINE Oct 28 2RED HAVEN Oct 29 2A SUMNER BROTHERS ALL HALLOWS EVE VII Oct 31 2GREYS AND INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Nov 20
OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS DECK THE HALL BALL 2015 Featuring performances by Death Cab for Cutie, Cage the Elephant, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, Alabama Shakes, Nathaniel Rateliff, and X Ambassadors. Dec 8, 3 pm, Key Arena (305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA). Tix US$95/65/60/50/40 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS CRIMSON PEAK Starring Mia Wasikowska. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 55
“Ghosts are real,” proclaims Edith (Mia
2 Wasikowska) at the start of Crimson Peak, and for the next two hours director Guillermo del Toro strives to bring that notion to life with a gothic horror-romance that is so visually stunning you pretty well forgive its major lack of suspense. Edith is the reclusive, literary-minded daughter of Buffalo industrialist Carter Cushing (Jim Beaver), who in 1901 is approached by gentlemanly Brit Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) when the latter is looking for investors in his engineering project back home. But there’s something the self-made Cushing doesn’t like about Sharpe—and it’s more than just his girly-soft hands. He doesn’t much care for the stranger’s interest in Edith, either. He pays Sharpe and his brooding sister Lucille (Zero Dark Thirty’s Jessica Chastain) to go
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Mia Wasikowska tangles with ghosts, oozing blood-red clay, and girly-soft industrialists in Guillermo del Toro’s gorgeous if scare-free Crimson Peak.
amateur painter called Rudolf Abel (real name: Willie Fisher), here played by fabled stage actor Mark Rylance, whose dry-ice performance should make him better known to Sumptuous Crimson Peak exercises style over suspense; Mr. Hanks goes to East Berlin in engaging Bridge of Spies. moviegoers. The fact that Donovan away for good, which leads to some nasty ultra- served with the OSS—the precursor to the CIA— and maintained connections there is conveniently violence involving the corner of a porcelain sink. Sharpe gets the girl anyway, and when he takes elided. This doesn’t alter our quiet American’s innew wife Edith back to his elegantly rotting an- tuitive negotiating skills or the half-step remove cestral manse sitting on a subterranean deposit of from government required for him to defend Abel, ever-oozing, blood-red clay, the movie takes the and later to detect an opportunity to swap the conventional form of a ’60s Hammer haunted- Soviet spy for Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down over Russia in 1962. Travel is required house flick. The most stylish one imaginable. Del Toro—who won over discerning horror fans to wintry East Berlin, just as the Wall is erected, with the Spanish-language Cronos and The Devil’s vividly re-created in many actual locations. (The Backbone, before hitting it big in 2006 with his dark only technical letdown is Thomas Newman’s bland fable Pan’s Labyrinth—pulls out all the freaky visual attempt at a John Williams score.) stops. At one point his obsession with winged insects Donovan soon loses his overcoat and nurses a sees a butterfly swarmed by tiny ants, its eyes de- nasty cold for the rest of the movie. Ultimately, he’s voured by gouging pincers in microscopic close-up. a not-too-distant relative of Bruce Willis’s reluctant The detail and colour in the costumes and hero in the Die Hard movies—a notion underlined sets keep you transfixed until the ornate vibe is by the presence of German star Sebastian Koch, shattered by ghastly violence. The quality and who played a nuclear scientist in (we hope) the last inventiveness of the various apparition effects of the series. While crossing this calmly entertainheightens the eye-candy level, and every single ing Bridge, Koch’s East German functionary gencharacterization rings true. erates the most interesting subplot, which shows Crimson Peak has a lot going for it, and may well German and Russian agents angling to hold on to be the most ravishing horror movie ever made. competing strands of power in tenuous situations. What interests Spielberg most, however, is his Too bad it just isn’t scary enough. > STEVE NEWTON Capra-esque hero’s insistence on carrying out his tasks in as much accordance with U.S. constitutional BRIDGE OF SPIES protections as reality will allow. The spectre of Guantanamo can be glimpsed through the razor wire. Starring Tom Hanks. In English, German, and > KEN EISNER
Russian, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 55
STEVE JOBS The atomic spirit of “duck and cover” haunts Starring Michael Fassbender. Rated PG. For the gentlemanly Bridge of Spies, which finds showtimes, please see page 55 Steven Spielberg moving smoothly into John le A messianic atmosphere dominates this Carré territory, minus the cynical resignation. three-part tale, with anonymous mobs awaitWith the unexpected help of Joel and Ethan Coen punching up dialogue, British screenwriter Matt ing key products launched by Steve Jobs, whose Charman compresses five years of fairly authentic very name resonates with Old Testament patrihistory into a shorter period. Tom Hanks is at his archy and New World capitalism. Despite featuring Hanksian best as real-life lawyer James Donovan, a bravura turn from Michael Fassbender, an Irishwho helped prosecute Nazis at the Nuremberg German actor who overcomes the burden of looktrials. This postwar insurance specialist was tapped ing nothing like Jobs (whose biological father was to defend a British-born Russian radio expert and a Syrian Muslim), and a ceaseless flow of smart-ass
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STATION CHIEF HADDOCK He’s arguably Canada’s
most successful showrunner, but sometimes Chris Haddock feels more like an investigative journalist. “Over the years, I’ve made various contacts with people who have been inside the state apparatus,” says the mastermind behind Da Vinci’s Inquest, Intelligence, and the new Vancouver-based CBC drugs-and-espionage opera, The Romeo Section. “And they tell you stuff that makes your jaw drop.” Haddock reckons his anonymous sources “enjoy their lives and professions being in the [fictionalized] spotlight”. Particularly in Canada, he adds, since the American spook world “gets all the screen time”. Read more about The Romeo Section at Straight.com.-
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MERU A documentary by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 55
What drives a man to hang in a flimsy tent off
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with avalanches audibly rushing down around him? Or to share a high-altitude smoke with his two climbing bros before making his last push up a killer peak? These are questions that never fully get answered in Meru, but one thing is clear: these guys are fully obsessed. Mixing sweeping views with the back story of three men—Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk—who attempt the titular summit in the see next page
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dialogue, the new movie is a two-hour-plus slog. Although Aaron Sorkin’s script draws on Walter Isaacson’s definitive biography, he insists we believe that the Mac man’s last half-hour before touting each new thing was taken up entirely by West Wing–like cross-talk with whoever dropped by the auditorium that day. Announcements for the Macintosh, the failed NeXT project, and the breakthrough iMac were therefore shadowed by far-from-private arguments with cofounder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), troubleshooter Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), and ex-CEO and father figure John Sculley, played by Jeff Daniels, underlining this walk-and-talkathon’s fealty to The Newsroom. All are facilitated by Jobs’s personal wrangler and marketing wizard, Joanna Hoffman, played by Kate Winslet, sporting bad hair and an iffy Polish-American accent. Above all, any public appearance means an update on Jobs’s relationship with daughter Lisa (played by three different youngsters) and her mother (Katherine Waterston), because the guy’s paternity issues must have been the most defining thing about him. Unlike David Fincher’s cool approach to The Social Network, Danny Boyle channels Citizen Kane and Cecil B. DeMille, reinforcing the notion that the Red Sea parted when Jobs was born and closed again when he died. This is the second movie called Steve Jobs in less than six months. The earlier release was subtitled The Man in the Machine, and Alex Gibney’s documentary at least wondered aloud if our Apple fixation says something sad about us. This flick doesn’t even understand that question.
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WIM WENDERS RETROSPECTIVE
The American Friend kicks off a massive tribute to the wunderkind of New German Cinema at the Cinematheque on Thursday (October 22), culminating in December with Wenders’s five-hour cut of the very accurately titled Until the End of the World.
DOUBLE BRANDO The Rio Theatre pairs recent doc Listen to Me Marlon with A Streetcar Named Desire for a double shot of Brando on Friday (October 23). Enjoy the bill with an alcoholic beverage, maybe a STELLAAAAAAA! ED SHEERAN Fans of the sensitive ginger can catch his Wembley Stadium concert movie, Jumpers for Goalposts, at a one-night-only screening at the Scotiabank Theatre on Thursday (October 22). The event, which is being broadcast globally, includes a live set before the film.
THE DENIER’S DENIER As an anomalist who’s investigated
thousands of cases of unexplained phenomena, Christopher Chacon is used to the criticism of skeptics like James “The Amazing” Randi. “But these are people I respect,” says the investigator, who worked as an adviser on Paranormal Activity 5: The Ghost Dimension (opening Friday [October 23]). “Before I got into parapsychological research, I had a touring illusion show, back in the days of Doug Henning. I came from the same position, because you know how easy it is for people to misperceive events.” After going through “case after case after case”, however, Chacon says it takes “complete denial to stick with your guns and say, ‘No, I’m still skeptical.’ ” Read more at Straight.com. OCTOBER 22 – 29 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 53
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Himalayas, the documentary captures the real tension and superhuman feats that movies like Everest have to portray through actors. Interestingly, the world’s highest mountain seems like nothing to this trio: codirector Chin has even skied from the top of Everest. But Meru, and its peak known as the Shark’s Fin, is another story. As expert, F-bomb-dropping commentator Jon Krakauer explains, it has no Sherpas and no fixed ropes to help along its climbers; they must haul hundreds of pounds of tools and food. The first attempt, early in the movie, goes sideways—and then things get really interesting. The men all retreat to their daily jobs and families, but fate and an epic amount of bad luck bring them back, single-mindedly, to try to conquer the Shark’s Fin once more. It’s the kind of story that you couldn’t make up, and the film is by turns surprising and heart-pounding. Still, like the recent Sunshine Superman or Everest, Meru never digs too deeply into the complex forces that drive some people to death-defying acts. Perhaps due to the fact that one of the filmmakers is a climber, and the other is his wife, there’s little real analysis of what is, on the surface, an act of insanity. Then again, introspection might not be such a great trait when you’re hanging from a rock face and it’s 20 below.
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NORTHERN SOUL Starring Elliot James Langridge. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 55
“EXHILARATING!”
The mid-’70s pop scene of Eng-
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NEIL YOUNG, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE CLIMB.” PAULA MEJIA, NEWSWEEK
“AS EXCITING AND SUSPENSEFUL AS A FICTION THRILLER.” DANIEL EAGAN, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
“MERU THRILLS... WORTH SEEKING OUT ON THE BIG SCREEN.” ALAN SCHERSTUHL, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“ENGROSSING... HAIR RAISING... A NAIL-BITER.” DENNIS HARVEY, VARIETY
BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLE A FILM BY JIMMY CHIN AND ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI COARSE LANGUAGE
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chased after ever-more-obscure soul singles, had a transformative effect, predicting later obsessive moves into punk and electronic dance music. We missed that action on this side of the pond, where music by black Americans, while seriously underappreciated, was always more available. First-time writer-director Elaine Constantine began Northern Soul as a documentary project and then switched to a fictionalized approach, with support from producer Steve Coogan, who appears briefly as an asshole schoolteacher, alongside various family members. The cast is mostly made of newcomers, and they are very good indeed. Elliot James Langridge plays John Clark, an unusually shy but basically good everykid who comes to life when getting off on stateside jams. He gains more confidence after encountering local DJ Matt (Josh Whitehouse), who shares his passions, has long-hair-and-tattoo looks, and is a mean dancer with big ideas. Matt’s also a self-destructive pill-popper of uncertain background and future, but he inspires John to fook off from school and parents (veteran Ricky Tomlinson plays his kindly grandfather), and eventually to chat up a mixed-race, slightly older nursing student (Antonia Thomas, who had a similar role in the recent Sunshine on Leith). The period setting is gorgeously gritty, with its soundtrack a velvet goldmine of rare sides from the likes of Edwin Starr, Shirley Ellis, and the Tomangoes (okay, I never heard of them either). And you can see why Constantine was drawn to the bromantic adventures of misfit lads never featured on Coronation Street. But it’s still odd that she would push all the female characters so far to the margins of what’s already an outsider story. Instead of piling up more macho conflicts than it ever needed, considering how strong the atmosphere (and dialect) is here, she could easily have given us a couple more things that made the girls move. > KEN EISNER
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Starring Christopher Plummer. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 55
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man travelling back through a nasty past already clouded by dementia. Despite that grim description, the
forgettably titled Remember is a devilish entertainment that uses our own collective knowledge against us in decidedly twisted ways. Plummer’s 90-year-old Zev Guttman has recently lost his beloved wife, and now his memory is going. Too bad director Atom Egoyan, in his best effort for quite some time, didn’t place a photo of Julie Andrews by Zev’s bedside at a Midwestern retirement home. No Austrian aristocrat, he’s a Holocaust survivor with the tattoo to prove it, as Zev is constantly reminded by another resident with a shared history. Martin Landau plays the wheelchair-bound Max, who has tasked his more mobile friend with the mission—should he choose to accept it—of tracking down a hated Auschwitz guard. Turns out there are three ancient Rudy Kurlanders living in the U.S. and Canada. Armed with some cash, detailed instructions from Max, and a Glock 9mm, Zev makes a false start and then finds a better candidate in a scary place called Idaho. (Everything here was actually shot in Ontario.) Instead, he meets the man’s son, a psychotic deputy (Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris) with a German shepherd called Eva. Eventually, Zev tracks down another Rudy, played by Das Boot captain Jürgen Prochnow in rather unfortunate aging makeup. It’s a shame he didn’t trade places with Bruno Ganz, who appears briefly here and of course was Herr Hitler in those Downfall clips spoofed in endless permutations on YouTube. With a pulpy, frankly preposterous script by first-timer Benjamin August, the movie raises unexpected questions about the supposed innocence of youth and the seemliness of its own storytelling devices. It asks us to keep unpacking what only appear to be settled memories. > KEN EISNER
ROCK THE KASBAH Starring Bill Murray. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 55
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able rockfest, perhaps explaining the special K above. But “Smoke on the Water” and a whole lot of Cat Stevens tunes are on offer when a failed music maven heads to Afghanistan in search of one last score. Living on “development” money from hapless, would-be stars, dishevelled SoCal promoter Richie Lanz is played by Bill Murray, providing the main reason to hit this Kasbah. When he happens upon a U.S. tour heading to everybody’s favourite war zone, he hopes his latest acquisition (Zooey Deschanel) will bring him back to the bigs. Once in Kabul, though, she strands him without money, passport, or talent—as evidenced by his Deep Purple recitation. He then falls in with some Yanks (Scott Caan and Danny McBride) exploiting the situation. (Mitch Glazer’s script is full of digs at America’s propensity to stick its dick into every hornet’s nest it can find.) Accompanied by a sympathetic cab driver (Australian Beejan Land) and, later, a mercenary played by Bruce Willis, Richie ends up in a remote spot run by warlords. Despite prohibitions against women speaking, let alone singing and dancing in public, it’s the dream of village girl Salima (Palestine’s Leem Lubany, last seen in Omar) to appear on Afghan Star, the local American Idol. Under the fitful direction of Diner’s Barry Levinson, we are not to be trusted with Salima singing in Arabic or Pashto, and thus we get those Cat Stevens tunes. Then there are bizarre interludes with Kate Hudson as a hooker with a heart of Platinum Plus. And it should be mentioned that cinematographer Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave) manages to make Morocco, where this was filmed, look as dark as the inside of Richie’s Van Nuys motel room. This acceptably uneven effort acknowledges the inspiration it took from Setara Hussainzada, the first female contestant on Afghan Star. Her tale doesn’t have as happy an ending as this one does. > KEN EISNER see next page
BEEBA BOYS Starring Randeep Hooda. In English and Punjabi, with English subtitles. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 55
The generic gangster flick gets a Punjabi twist in Beeba Boys, an initially grabby, Vancouver-set tale that quickly runs out of steam. What’s special is that it delves into a Sikh subculture marked in the 1990s by internecine warfare, as first-generation youth ganged up to do illicit stuff, and worse, at the behest of seemingly legitimate businessmen. It’s a shame that this violent yet lightweight tale isn’t set then, because moving those period-specific events into the present, with ubiquitous cellphones and all that, doesn’t do the story, the Sikh community, or the audience any favours. The film’s reliance on generic gangster tropes—unimproved by inspiration, budget, or exemplary acting—is its biggest problem. At the high-energy start, we’re introduced to sharp-suited Jeet (Bollywood star Randeep Hooda) and his Beeba Boys. (Beeba means “good”, underlining the debt to Goodfellas.) Over head-banging bhangra music, each Boy is given a freeze-frame and a title card. But we don’t really get to know any of these cold-blooded killers except turban-wearing, jokecollecting Manny, played by The Darjeeling Limited’s Waris Ahluwalia. Still living with his parents and small son (Samir Amarshi) in a classic Vancouver Special, Jeet has the expected problems reconciling family life with his business tactics. This isn’t helped by his liaison with the blond bunny (Sarah Allen) who happens to be a juror in a current court case. (His time in jail results in an amusing visit to the TV room, where he beats up another prisoner because “I can’t hear Suzuki!”) Then there’s his uneasy friendship with a new BB (Ali Momen) who might actually be working for a rival gang. In the end, there are too many developments that leave you wondering how so-and-so knew so much about what happened to whosit. And what’s unique about the film is
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GOOSEBUMPS Starring Jack Black and Dylan Minnette. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 55
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REMEMBER? Christopher Plummer, Dean Norris, and Martin Landau star in The Captive director Atom Egoyan’s drama about an elderly man with dementia who goes in search of the person responsible of the death of his family. Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas
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don’t want to end (they have kids, they do love each other, everything besides the sex is working) or can’t afford to end (they don’t have enough money for lawyers or two households, one depends on the other for income/health insurance/ caregiving). So which kind of idiot are you? The most common kind, I’m afraid. I’m going to take a break from questions like these—from questions like yours, HUBBY—because I’m sick of the subject and my regular readers must be, too. But for you, HUBBY, and one last time, here’s my advice for people in your situation: do what you gotta do to stay married and stay sane. Have a convo with the wife about the accommodation you require—permission to get it elsewhere—to stay in the marriage. Reassure her that you’re prepared to spend the rest of your life with her while emphasizing that you refuse to be celibate for the rest of your life. So every now and then, for your own sanity, and for the greater good, you’re going to have sex with other women. You’ll do it discreetly, rarely, and NSA-ly, > HELP UNDERSTANDING but you’re gonna do it. If this isn’t BOUNDARY-BREAKING YEARNINGS something your wife can accept, HUBBY, then your only other opIf I were required to answer par- tion is divorce. ticular types of questions based on the percentage of the mail they These are things I (28, gay, constitute, I would answer two male, single) did last night, and questions like yours every week, they show how fucked up I am. 1) I HUBBY. The majority of the mail hooked up with a guy off Craigslist. I receive is from unhappy people It was lame, he wasn’t cute, I was in sexless marriages they either bored. 2) I came home and went on
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1. I hooked up with this dude once, and it happened so fast—and it was so sleazy—that I had to fish his driver’s licence out of his wallet when he was in the shower because I couldn’t remember his name. And that sleazy hookup led to a relationship so good that I wound up marrying sleazy hookup dude. Twice. So in my experience, WIML, and the experiences of millions of other people in LTRs with people they fucked the first time they met, hooking up isn’t proof that someone isn’t looking for an LTR. So that underwhelming hookup doesn’t make you a hypocrite, okay? 2. Gym dude isn’t into you—just like you weren’t into the dude you hooked up with last night. Are you into every dude you see at your gym? No. Do you swipe right on every dude you see on Tinder? No. So last night you got rejected quickly and impersonally—Tinder-style—but you’ve dished out that kind of rejection too. Don’t be a hypocritical baby about it, okay?
3. You made an underpants perv very happy, WIML, and you made yourself a little money. Nobody was lied to or misled, no one got hurt, and the total amount of joy in the world ticked up slightly. You have nothing to be ashamed of, okay? One eventful night does not an out-of-control sleazebag make. But if you feel out of control, WIML, take things slower. Resolve to be a bit choosier about who you hook up with, remind yourself to be grownup about rejection when it comes your way, and refrain from kinkshaming yourself the next time you make an underpants perv’s day.
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> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < LOUD RUNNER DENMAN FITNESS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 19, 2015 WHERE: Denman Fitness West End I first heard you, and then saw you, on the treadmill, early in the morning. I was on the gym floor. Me - slim, short brown hair. Confused at what all the noise was, I looked up, expecting to see a 250lb rugby player, or even a whole team of rugby players. To my surprise, and delight, I saw a slender, athletic and very attractive young women. You remind me of the super model Megan Gale. We shared a smile (me and you.. Not me and Megan Gale). I would love to catch up for a chat sometime. Maybe somewhere away from the treadmill - so I can hear you :)
ONLY MY FRIENDS ARE PSYCHOS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 15, 2015 WHERE: Downtown Vancouver We flirted at my work event at your bar. I mentioned I found you attractive to a friend and he took it upon himself to call back to your work the next day to try get your number for me. He is crazy. I am not. You are cute.
AT CHIPOTLE ON SATURDAY NIGHT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 17, 2015 WHERE: Chipotle You were observing me and my friend having dinner at Chipotle’s and asked me if we were on a date. I said no, we are just friends (which is the truth). I kept looking at you, because I thought you were cute. Why didn’t you ask me out? :)
250A BUS DRIVER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 15, 2015 WHERE: 250A Bus From Downtown I got on the 250A (bus 998?) at Georgia and Burrard. When I got off at Park Royal I told you that you had beautiful eyes. You seem very sweet. Coffee sometime?
I WANT YOU IN MY MOUTH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 WHERE: Drive-In Showing The Outsiders You: slinging bison burgers at the drivein showing of The Outsiders. Me: juice running down to my elbows, and a mouth full of meat. Don’t get me wrong, you’re a seriously hot babe, but the truth is, I can’t stop thinking about your burgers... I’ve shamelessly scoured farmer’s markets and outdoor shows... searching for those magnificent potato buns and perfectly grilled onions... when will I see you again!?...
DEDREAMY AT DEDUTCH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 18, 2015 WHERE: DeDutch on Oak & 16th You were sitting by the window, reading a newspaper. You have salt and pepper hair, black-rimmed glasses, wearing a grey t-shirt, plaid jacket. I was dressed in black, voyageur scarf, also black-rimmed glasses, curly hair messily piled atop my head. I was trying to figure out how to say hi - I even considered sending over an espresso (the shooter of coffees, right!?) but alas, you left before I could come up with something. So here I am... You’re hot. There, I said it.
CUTE CASHIER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 15, 2015 WHERE: Save On Foods I was buying lottery tickets at Save on Foods by Coq. Centre and saw you at your check out. You are dark haired, really cute and have a great devilish smile (which could be trouble). Watching how you interacted with your customers makes me believe you would be real fun to hang out with. Not to mention that you have a great little body hidden beneath your ‘uniform’. I think you were cashier number 8. I’m an average hard working fella who’s into cars and recently started to enjoy lattes and walks. Send me a note. I think we could have a great time together.
WHOLE FOODS, KITS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 17, 2015 WHERE: Kits Whole Foods Several times now, I have wound up in your checkout line, and each time I’ve felt that you’ve expressed a genuine interest in me that I don’t see you expressing in the other clients in line... If it’s just that you are an exceedingly pleasant girl, so be it - I’ll continue to enjoy our brief exchanges. But if there’s the slightest possibility of something more... let me know! On this most recent occasion you asked me if I was on a day off and I said that I was on duty that evening... I teased you about being a bar room brawler at the Savoy...
CUTE ALPACA SWEATER ON THE TRAIN TO WATERFRONT.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 10, 2015 WHERE: Commercial Station. We were both on the train heading towards Waterfront and you asked me how my night was going and I told you I liked your sweater. We continued to have an obscure conversation about possum wool socks? ha ha. We exchanged first names quickly but that's all, I didn’t realize we were already at my stop and I was already running late. You were a sweet Australian that was new to town and I’d love to show you around the city!
PURPLE SHOELACES
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 16, 2015 WHERE: Granville Island Dear adorable guy with purple shoelaces. We ran into each other on Friday Oct. 16 around 4 pm. I was dressed in purple, you were in a black kitchen uniform. You complimented my purple hair and we bonded over our shared love for the best colour ever, purple. I was in a rush for the bus and didn’t have time to have a proper conversation. My hugest apologies! If you’re interested, I believe we should go for drinks some time and see if we share anything else in common. I’d also love to see your tattoo closer up.
WROTE A NOTE FOR YOU ON THE BACK OF MY FARE TICKET
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 17, 2015 WHERE: 229 Bus/Seabus You said your name was Rebecca. You had a red lifeguard sweater on. I passed you a note on the back of a bus going up Lonsdale. You came to sit across from me, blushing and I was swept off my feet. You said you were coming back from a party on Wreck Beach. I want to see you again!
CUTEST BAGPIPING, BEATBOXING SAYTR I’VE EVER SEEN!
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 17, 2015 WHERE: Waterfront Station I’ve seen you a few times around the city (you’re pretty hard to miss) but today when waiting for the Seabus outside. I stopped and really watched you for the first time. And dude, you are a talented man. Couldn’t find any change in my backpack, but I think you saw me looking anyway and flashed me a grin. Would love to chat sometime, anyone who can pull off street performing as a musical satyr has got to have some stories.
FLUSTERED NEAR GRANVILLE STATION
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 14, 2015 WHERE: Granville Station You: Tall, cute guy named Sean trying to make small talk near Granville and Dunsmuir. Me: Flustered brunette wearing leather leggings and a white tee running late for a date. You said I was cute and asked if I was in a hurry, I said I was and that was going on a date. You joked at the irony, I was in such a hurry and only got that your name was Sean before getting nervous and running away. If you see this, I’d like a do-over :)
CONDO SHOPPING ON W12TH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 12, 2015 WHERE: W 12th You were a tall, very attractive brunette wearing jeans and grey boots leaving an open house viewing on W12th near Arbutus. Me, tall, dark and in the company of my female realtor. You told us not to bother going in to see the unit because it was small. I’m quite sure our eyes locked for an extended moment. I haven’t stopped thinking about you since. I would love to take you out for a drink.
JULIE @ 8TH & MANITOBA
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 16, 2015 WHERE: 8th & Manitoba Thanks so much for the bicycle basket advice. I’ve been thinking about you since meeting you on that lovely summer day. Hopefully I get a chance to talk to you again.
CHIVALRY ISN’T DEAD!! YOU FIXED MY BIKE TIRE.
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SABALI FILM
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 4, 2015 WHERE: Cinemateque You were selling a ticket outside the film, we chatted briefly. Saw you after, wanted to ask if you were able to sell your ticket, and if you would like to get a coffee?
BRIDGEPORT TO TSAWWASSEN
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 16, 2015 WHERE: Canadian Tire
I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 9, 2015 WHERE: Bridgeport Station and on the 620 to Tsawwassen
Hi Bobby, I met you in front of Canadian Tire on Cambie. Thank-you so much for the kind random act. That was the sweetest!! Sadly I lost your little note you wrote with your # on it. I hope you see this. That was such a surprise. It took me till up the hill to realize you had fixed my flat. You are a true gentlemen.
You are a handsome, vegan student; I am a colourful-haired baconarian. We had a long and interesting conversation about various topics, including Dave. I enjoyed our conversation, a lot. Would you like to go for a bike ride sometime, and maybe get some vegan, gluten-free food together? ;) S.
CAPITOL HILL ENCOUNTER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 WHERE: Seattle - Capitol Hill Very chance encounter but it had an impact on me. Neither one of us had an agenda. We chatted for ages, watched the sun set then grabbed drinks. I didn’t know my new number, so all you had was my name. You were headed back to Van the next day, I was a week after that. Look me up, even just for another chat. You seem like a really special person.
TAXI ON ALBERNI ST. IN THE RAIN ON SEP. 20TH
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 WHERE: Alberni St. at Denman You helped us get our bags into a cab with your umbrella, as it was pouring. That was so sweet! You were so cute and had a great smile, and I felt a mutual attraction. You were wearing a U. of Manitoba jacket, and even waved at our taxi on Georgia St. later on. I hope you live here, rather than visiting. If so, I would really love to meet you, so if you read this, drop me a note. Thanks!
CAN’T CHASE A BIKER ON FOOT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 14, 2015 WHERE: Canada Line/YVR Bound You: sexy bike rider with great hair in a grey long sleeve and jeans. Me: blueish hair and a leather jacket, shamelessly staring. You said we didn’t have to move to accommodate your bike but we did anyway. Then we both got off at King Ed and you rode away. I regret not asking you out for a drink. Second chance?
STARBUCKS CHAT
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 9, 2015 WHERE: Starbucks, Marine Way, Burnaby BC Hi, we had a brief chat, sharing a benchseat at Starbucks on Marine way, Thursday Oct 8th. You were studying and I was working on a laptop. Be great to see you again & continue where we left off!
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