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anonymous suggestions about how to restore derelict buildings, or Confessions, in which Las Vegas casinogoers got a similarly anonymous opportunity to unburden themselves in Sin City, she’s found a way to use the tools of community art to humanize very different urban environments. And now, with her online Neighborland project, she’s able to apply those tools on a more than merely local level. “The interactive public-art projects, they really started out as my quiet way of asking my neighbours things I was too shy to ask in person,” Chang relates. “I’m an introvert, and I’ve been to a lot of community meetings that have ended up being run by the loudest people in the room. That made me wonder how can more people get involved over time, and how can the quiet people be heard just as much as the loud ones? But only later did I really realize that participatory public-art projects had many benefits—that they’re places where we can collectively dream together and reflect together.” Although Chang has degrees in urban planning, architecture, and graphic design, most of her work is rooted in psychology—in her fear that urban environments, as we understand them today, reinforce feelings of social isolation and political impotence. “In my experience, people are yearning for safe spaces where they
can be honest and vulnerable,” she says. “Over the last century, many communities have changed from these closely knit local groups to these spatially dispersed social networks. Thanks to the Internet, our networks are now global, and many of our closest friends live far away. But with that shift, I think we’ve lost a valuable resource, in that we don’t know as many neighbours as we once did.…And I think that leads to a number of other things: less local knowledge and wisdom being passed on, less compassion, more infighting, less solidarity. Less ability to come together and shape the culture of our communities.” Community art, she says, is a way of rebuilding trust. But it’s not without physical impact, she adds, citing improved street lighting, bike lanes, and night markets as just a few of the valued community enhancements that have come out of her work in her own Louisiana neighbourhood. If Chang’s vision is somewhat dystopian, or at least concerned with harm reduction as much as civic improvement, Teju Cole has a sunnier approach. Author of the novel Open City, photography critic for the New York Times Magazine, and a photographer himself, Cole is happy to selfidentify as a flâneur—a term coined in 19th-century Paris to describe those who enjoy urban life as an es-
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sentially aesthetic experience. His vision of “the urban” is expansive, to the point that it now includes digital communities as well as physical ones. To make his point, he refers to the way we began our conversation. He’s in an unnamed airport, en route to a writers’ festival in Bali. I’m in a Vancouver exurb. We’re connected by telephone—but also by a wealth of experiences we almost certainly would not have had prior to the rise of affordable books, reliable communications technology, and the Internet. “That’s the collective space that we are inhabiting as modern citizens,” he says. “Our conversation began with gamelan [music], and then we spoke about [American composer] Lou Harrison, and I think this is very natural to the way we live today. And it’s not something that’s put on at all: it’s just recognizing that the common spaces that people have with each other can be quite interesting and unexpected, and very nourishing for all sides. And art is just one of the things that makes this possible in a very vivid way, in a very indelible way.” His own art, he says, is rooted in the fragmented nature of urban experience—Open City eschews traditional narrative structure in favour of a series of memories and impressions; his camera builds on the snapshot aesthetic of 20th-century street photographers. Rather than hunger for a coherent narrative, he suggests, we should embrace life’s discontinuity. “Ultimately, we’re still individuals that are functioning in this, right?” Cole says. “Even if it’s all one big ‘continuous city’, to borrow a phrase from [Italo] Calvino, it’s still a city— and the point of a city is its variegation. So it might be one continuous city, but inside that space is the ineluctable fact of the individuals in it: the isolation of being yourself, and the joy of being able to wander.” Buffy Sainte-Marie might seem an odd choice for a panel on art and urbanism: for most of this century, she’s been making her art while living on a lush Kauai farm. In her typically forthright way, however, she sweeps theory aside to zero in on the most practical thing we can do to build better people, and by extension better cities. “To encourage children at home, in community centres, and in school with free creative tools—like crayons and clay and musical instruments and other things that make noise and colour and fun—is to accept and build their self-expression, and to pave their way to personal success, their sense of contributing and interactivity with the rest of the community, rural or urban,” she tells the Straight. “Artists are more than just decorators and entertainment,” she continues. “We are also visionaries and true creators, and Canada needs to encourage creativity and originality at home in our own families if we are to thrive as healthy societies.” -
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The B.C. New Democrats say they are collecting a growing body of evidence that proves a Liberal government practice of deleting emails was “systemic” and explicitly for the purpose of preventing the release of information to the public. In a telephone interview, David Eby, MLA for Vancouver–Point Grey, said the NDP will forward the documents it has collected to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. (OIPC) and that body can then decide if a formal investigation is warranted. The Opposition member’s claims come on the heels of an October 22 OIPC report that details how employees in the premier’s office, plus staff at two ministries, had “triple deleted” emails, taking extra steps to expunge records from computers. The results of that investigation implicate the premier’s deputy chief of staff, Michele Cadario. In addition, the OIPC has accused one government employee, George Gretes, of giving false testimony about the practice while he was under oath. That case has been forwarded to the RCMP. “The practice we observed was the routine emptying of the Recover Deleted Items folder to ensure that emails were permanently deleted from an employee’s system,” the OIPC report reads. “This is not the intention of the Recover Deleted Items folder and for employees managing their mail account it serves no legitimate purpose.” The file the NDP is building already includes information on a number of additional email addresses that were not the subject of that investigation, Eby said, one of those being an account that belongs to the premier herself. Eby explained the NDP filed a
freedom-of-information request that asked for all correspondence to and from Premier Christy Clark’s public and private email addresses for a two-week period in December 2014 (coinciding with an announcement about the Site C dam). That request resulted in the government stating it could find no records meeting the criteria of the request. A subsequent freedom-ofinformation request asked for the “message tracking logs” for the same account and same period, Eby continued. The government’s response to that request, however, stated that there were more than 150 emails sent from the premier’s public account during that time frame. Eby said the NDP has similar evidence of missing emails for accounts controlled by Tobie Myers, chief of staff to Rich Coleman—who oversees several ministry portfolios, including liquefied natural gas—as well as the email account of John Dyble, deputy minister to the premier. Eby maintained that those discrepancies—a number of which were reviewed by the Straight—suggest that hundreds of emails pertinent to government business were deleted from the premier’s account as well as the accounts of top government officials. Meanwhile, freelance journalist Bob Mackin has stated publicly he may have proof that emails were deleted from accounts belonging to Sam Oliphant and Maclean Kay, both of whom work in the premier’s office as media relations officers. The premier’s office did not respond to a request for comment by deadline. Clark has said her government is cooperating with the OIPC and has emphasized that she has ordered all government employees to refrain from deleting emails. > TRAVIS LUPICK
ONLY TWO POT STORES ORDERED CLOSED BY CITY
The city has officially sent out its first round of letters ordering the closure of specific marijuana dispensaries. But even though there are more than 90 storefronts illegally selling cannabis in Vancouver, only two were mailed letters stating they must shut their doors “immediately” or “be subject to enforcement action”. Those locations are Quick Stop Dispensary at 2893 East Broadway and Health Lifestyle Marijuana Supply Centre at 201–1011 Commercial Drive, according to Vancouver’s chief licensing inspector, Andrea Toma. The city has given every other dispensary a grace period of six months while it works with those operators to see their stores meet the requirements of a legal framework for marijuana-related businesses that councillors adopted last June. The storefronts ordered closed did not file applications for a new class of business licence by an August deadline. An October 26 city news release stated that just 11 of 176 applications the city received met all zoning requirements and are ready to proceed to the next phase of the licensing process. An additional 30 met all zoning requirements with the exception of a rule that prevents two dispensaries from operating in close proximity. Those businesses now have six months to submit a new application for an alternative location. “The applications in these ‘clusters’ will be evaluated and scored based on criteria established in the bylaw,” the release stated. “In each cluster, the operator with the best score can continue in the permits and licensing process at that location.” The remaining 135 applicants failed to meet additional zoning requirements. They can also submit
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MLA David Eby claims that the NDP has evidence that the B.C. Liberal government has been deleting emails from Premier Christy Clark’s account. organization told the Straight in a phone interview. Maestro’s group and its mother organization, Migrante Canada, are founding members of CMWRC, which is being launched Wednesday (October 28) in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Charlottetown. The new coalition is calling for open work permits so migrant workers can move between jobs. It is also demanding the removal of a rule imposed by the Conservative government that limits the time a foreign national can work in Canada to four years. In addition, the coalition also proposes the granting of permanent residency upon arrival to people accepted to work in the country. During the election campaign, Trudeau unveiled an immigration plan focused on the reunification of families. He also promised to work with provinces and territories to develop a system to enable caregiver foreign workers to change employers in cases of mistreatment. > CARLITO PABLO
a new application for a different location, and those with storefronts will be permitted to continue selling marijuana from their current address for the next six months. The city would not reveal the names or locations of the 11 businesses approved for phase two of the process. That information is scheduled for release in “early November” when an “opportunity for public input” will begin. > TRAVIS LUPICK
NEW GROUP TO IMPROVE LOT OF FOREIGN WORKERS
Migrant workers and their supporters are launching a new coalition to advance the plight of foreign employees. The formation of the Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada (CMWRC) comes as prime minister–designate Justin Trudeau and his Liberal party are set to assume power. “The well-being and lives of migrant workers are tied to their employers, and in a number of cases, this has led to abuse and exploitation,” Erie Maestro of the Vancouver-based Migrante B.C.
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hen the Leap Manifesto was published one month before Canada’s October 19 federal election, it temporarily derailed the campaign of NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, journalist and filmmaker Avi Lewis recalled in a telephone interview. “In the electoral moment, the manifesto was seized on by the rightwing corporate press and used as a dagger to stick in Mulcair’s back,” Lewis told the Georgia Straight. The manifesto—a call for urgent government action on climate change and a shift away from fossil fuels—was endorsed by high-profile Canadians such as Leonard Cohen and David Suzuki as well as a number of NDP candidates and the party’s union backers. It was subsequently used against Mulcair in arguments that his party was too leftwing to form a government. A National Post headline described it as nothing less than a “plan to overthrow capitalism”. A Globe and Mail editorial warned that it, “if taken seriously, would pretty much put an end to every [energy] project ever—pipelines, windmills and solar-panel farms included”. Despite those attacks, the document hasn’t gone away and many people are taking it seriously. On November 5, the Leap Manifesto will be at the centre of an outdoor rally taking place in downtown Vancouver at Jack Poole Plaza beginning at 12 p.m. “The first responses were very dismissive,” Lewis said. “But we have a policy agenda now, which has survived that initial onslaught and is gathering momentum in this postelection moment.”
Author and Leap Manifesto supporter Naomi Klein poses questions as husband Avi Lewis listens behind a camera operator.
Lewis will be there alongside the event’s main speaker, Naomi Klein, plus a number of other notable attendees and musical guests. Two days earlier, on November 3, Lewis and Klein’s latest documentary, This Changes Everything, is scheduled to be released on iTunes. And all week, some 3,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will be in Vancouver for the group’s annual convention. That gathering has allowed Leap rally organizers to predict that hundreds or even thousands of people will gather for Klein’s speech in Coal Harbour. Lewis acknowledged that an
important question is how Canada can pay for the renewable-energy infrastructure and public-transit projects for which the manifesto calls. “We anticipated that question, took it very seriously, and gave it a serious, deep policy response,” he said. That came in the form of a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) paper titled “We can afford the leap”. In a telephone interview, one of the document’s coauthors, CCPA senior economist Marc Lee, said the money is available and can be accessed with progressive government policies. “We need a revenue source like a carbon tax,” he told the Straight. “So
we’re increasing the taxes paid on the bad stuff now, using that revenue to plow into green infrastructure and other climate-action measures.” According to the CCPA paper, abolishing fossil-fuel subsidies would save Canada’s federal government $350 million annually. It also suggests the country could end “special tax treatment for capital gains income” to recoup $7.5 billion per year, return the corporate tax rate to where it stood in 2006 to earn $6 billion per year, and implement a new federal upper-income tax bracket for incomes over $250,000 for revenue worth $3.5 billion per year.
Finally, the paper outlines how Canada should implement a national carbon tax. It suggests it start at $30 per tonne, which would result in earnings of $16 billion per year. That could eventually be increased to as high as $200 per tonne for federal tax earnings of more than $80 billion per year, though that rate would have to phase in slowly and over the long term, Lee noted. “The manifesto itself is rhetoric and talking about a vision,” he said. “The piece we did was to say that vision is empirically supported.… Based on the research that we have done over recent years, we think there is a good economic case to be had for it.” Lee said he believes it is possible for Canada to shift to 100 percent renewable energy within 20 years. He described that goal as ambitious but not unrealistic with the right leadership. Lee added that the election of a majority Liberal government may serve as an “opening” on that front. “The adults are in the room again and you can actually have a conversation and talk about how Canada can do its part on the global stage and meet its climate obligations,” Lee said. “But I am a bit wary about what we’re ultimately going to get.” Roseanne Moran, a CUPE communications representative and organizer of the November 5 rally, told the Straight that the goals outlined in the Leap Manifesto can happen without sacrificing jobs. “That’s why we signed on to it,” she said. “We think it is the right route to sustainable jobs, sustainable communities, and protecting the environment. We don’t think there has to be a tradeoff between good jobs and protecting the environment for the future.” -
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y now, many British Col- trying to make things work,” Flanumbians are aware of po- nery said. “So they are very, very, tential environmental and very widespread and pervasive.” economic effects of runHe noted that a major concern away global warming. More extreme with burning fossil fuels is the release weather events, rising sea levels, and of particulates. Research shows that frequent forest fires are just three tiny particles measuring less than threats created by rising greenhouse- 2.5 microns in diameter go deep into gas emissions. the lungs and in some cases can even However, the health effects of enter the bloodstream. According climate are less well understood. It’s to the U.S. Environmental Protecan issue that Austion Agency, many scientific studtralian author and ies have linked climate-cha nge particulates to researcher Tim Charlie Smith premature deaths, Flannery has addressed in his new book, Atmosphere nonfatal heart attacks, aggravated of Hope: The Search for Solutions to asthma, irregular heartbeats, decreased lung function, and increased the Climate Crisis. In a recent interview with the Geor- respiratory symptoms. “In places like northern China now, gia Straight at SFU Harbour Centre, Flannery explained that he worked we’re seeing longevity decrease by very closely for several years with Tony about five-and-a-half years, on averMcMichael, who coauthored reports age,” Flannery said. “That’s before the on health impacts for the Intergovern- big cancer that we know is inevitable and is going to come off the back of mental Panel on Climate Change. “They range from direct impacts, breathing all of those particles.” He added that even in a country deaths through heat waves and so forth, and on to the impacts on like the United States, the health imfires—and deaths and smoke in- pacts of burning fossil fuels run into halation from fires—right through the hundreds of billions of dollars. Here in Vancouver, Mayor Gregor to psychological impacts for farmers who are dealing with years and Robertson is well aware of the poyears of below-average rainfall and tential health impacts of climate
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change. In a phone interview with the Straight, he said that the city is already taking steps to implement recommendations in its climate-change adaptation strategy. “We divvied that up into three main pieces, one being the extremeweather and heavy-rain events, two being sea-level rise, and three being prepared for heat,” Robertson said. One approach to address heat is beefing up the urban forest. The mayor’s political party, Vision Vancouver, promised in the last election campaign
to plant 150,000 new trees by 2020. He also pointed to a pilot project called the “cooling parklet”. (A parklet is a platform that extends from sidewalks into street parking that can include benches, tables, and landscaping.) “We’re looking at vulnerable neighbourhoods with heat risk— without tree canopy to deal with the hot days,” Robertson said. “These parklets would have shade and seating and water fountains, possibly water-misting devices. So, obviously, there’s a win-win with more permeable surface to deal with rainfall and also being a good little island of cool on these hot days.” Last summer’s drought demonstrated that Vancouver isn’t immune to blistering heat. One of the city’s responses was to create “cooling stations” in public facilities, including libraries and community centres. “It’s not something I was expecting, even seven years ago as mayor, that this would happen so quickly,” Robertson said. The city’s climate-change adaptation report noted that a 2009 heat wave caused an estimated 122 “excess deaths” in Vancouver and an increase in emergency-room visits. “Vancouverites are generally less acclimatized to high temperatures
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and therefore have a lower threshold for health effects,” the report stated. “Vulnerable populations such as older adults, infants and children, those with chronic illness and socially disadvantaged communities are also at higher risk.” In late August, the Lower Mainland experienced a brutal windstorm, leaving a half-million B.C. Hydro customers without power. Events like this were anticipated in the climatechange adaptation strategy. It stated that “emergency management and response capacity will need to cater to more frequent, simultaneous and extreme disasters.” Robertson plans to attend the UN’s COP21 climate conference in Paris in late November and early December, claiming that “national leaders in politics and business aren’t moving anywhere near fast enough.” He said mayors from around the world plan to share stories and best practices as well as push national leaders for a “bold agreement” to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. “That’s why sending signals from our cities is so important,” Robertson said. “We’re on the frontlines of this. We have to raise the alarm bell and implement change on the ground as boldly as we can.” -
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MAIN STREET VINYL RECORD FAIR Get deals on records, turntables, vintage audio gear, record storage, and other accessories. Nov 15, 11 am–5 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $4, info www.vinylrecordfair.com/.
GHOST TRAIN IN STANLEY PARK The classic night-train ride includes a 14-minute experience with lights, sounds, and live performers playing classic horror characters. To Nov 1, 5:30-9:30 pm, Stanley Park Miniature Train (Stanley Park). Tix $11/8/6 at www.ticketleader.ca/.
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MAWO’EEN Mobilization Against War & Occupation presents a cultural and political night marking 12 years of antiwar educating, organizing, and mobilizing. Oct 30, 7 pm, Joe’s Cafe (1150 Commercial). Free admission, info www.mawovancouver.org/.
ROCKIN’ FOR RESEARCH A cabaretthemed evening features music, dance, comedy, and gourmet food and drink. Proceeds go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Nov 7, 7 pm, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (900 W. Georgia). Tix $350, info www.rockinforresearch.com/.
COMPARATIVE XENOPHOBIA: FRAGILE SOLIDARITY OR ENDURING HUMANITARIANISM IN GERMANY? Heribert Adam discusses variants of xenophobia in South Africa and Canada as well as the influx of refugees into Germany. Nov 4, 7-9 pm, SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.face book.com/events/844497565598566/.
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FORUMS 2THIS WEEK THE CINEMA OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Forum asks if films that depict urgent social problems challenge people to change their views. Oct 29, 7-9 pm, Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (SFU Woodward’s, 149 West Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/sfuwood wards/events/events1/2015-2016Fall/eco trauma.html. HOUSING IN THE CITY: BEYOND THE HEADLINES Seven experts tell stories of their efforts to make housing better for working households in Canadian cities. Part of SFU Public Square’s 2015 Community Summit: We the City. Nov 2, 6:30-8:30 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info www.sfu.ca/wethecity/. SEXUAL ROLE-PLAY Evening of exploration into the ways that sexual role-play can enhance your sex life. Nov 2, 7:30-9:30 pm, The Art of Loving (369 W. Broadway). Tix $25, info www.theartofloving.ca/. MUSIC IN THE MORNING PRESENTS TUNING IN: JUNE GOLDSMITH Veteran broadcaster, writer, and speaker Eric Friesen talks with Music in the Morning’s founder and original artistic and executive director, June Goldsmith. Nov 4, 10:30-11:30 am, Vancouver Academy of Music (1270 Chestnut). Tix $32/30/16, info www.musicinthemorning.org/.
WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM: LECTURE Paulette Regan will speak on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, of which she was a part. Oct 31, 11 am–12 pm, Unitarian Church of Vancouver (949 W. 49th). Free admission, info www.wilpf vancouver.ca/. YONATAN SHAPIRA Talk by Israeli-airforce officer who became a solidarity activist and Gaza Boat sailor. Nov 3, 6:30 pm, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, UBC). Admission by donation, info www.facebook.com/ events/326192700837781/.
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FOLK AND FIDDLIN’ TIME The VSO and Let Your Music Shine! With Lisa & Linda present a playful show that introduces children to the fiddle. Oct 30, 10 & 11:30 am, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). The event also runs Oct 31, 10 & 11:30 am, at the Anvil Centre. Tix $15/7, info 604-876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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FALL FAMILY CARNIVAL The Westside Church presents a family-friendly event featuring a juggler, games, treats, and costumes. Oct 30, 6:30-8:30 pm, The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts (777 Homer). Tix $5, info www.wchurch.ca/carnival/.
BODY SOUL SPIRIT EXPO Highlights include exhibits, lectures, a consciousness marketplace, healing sessions, and readings. Oct 30–Nov 1, PNE Forum. Info www.bodysoulspiritexpo.com/. LADIES’ NIGHT: HALLOWEEN EDITION Jaime Callica hosts a costume-friendly night of male dancers and guest artists. Oct 30, 7-10 pm, The Granville Strip (1050 Granville). Tix $20/15, info www.thegranvillestrip.com/. WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE Fully realized live show based on the popular podcast hosted by Cecil Palmer (played by Cecil Baldwin). Includes music by Eliza Rickman. Oct 31, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC). Tix at www.livenation.com/. NITRO CIRCUS LIVE Athletes in freestyle motocross, BMX, and skate unite for an all-new production that includes tricks, record-breaking feats, and stunts. Featuring 17-time X Games medalist Travis Pastrana. Nov 1, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
DRINK.DINE.DANCE. SERIES The Belmont Bar presents a four-course harvest dinner. Oct 29, Belmont Bar (1006 Granville). Info www.belmontbar.com/.
HALLOWEEN BONE-US BASH! Kitty Nights presents a post-Halloween party with Burgundy Brixx, the Viva Vancouver Dancers, and the Purrrfessor. Nov 1, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). info www.kittynights.com/vancouver.html.
FALL INTO THE MARKET 2015 Liberty Wine Merchants presents an evening pairing coastal wines with cuisine from Granville Island purveyors. Nov 2, 7-9 pm, Bridges Seafood Restaurant (1696 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $29.99, info www.facebook.com/ events/1649829001954935/.
DIWALI FEST The Diwali Celebration Society presents Diwali Downtown events held in Surrey and Vancouver, Diwali workshops, storytelling, cooking demonstrations, free performances at the Vancouver Public Library, and special events around Commercial Drive. Nov 3-15, various Metro Vancouver venues. Info www.diwalifest.ca/.
SPORTS 2THIS WEEK CANUCKS VS. PENGUINS Vancouver takes on Pittsburgh in NHL action. Nov 4, 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $99.25-368.25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
ATTRACTIONS SCIENCE WORLD AT TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE Highlights include hundreds of interactive exhibits in five permanent galleries, the Centre Stage for live science demonstrations and workshops, and giant movies in the Omnimax Theatre. Closed Mondays. 1455 Quebec. Info 604443-7443, www.scienceworld.ca/
OUT OF TOWN 2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS LE CIRQUE DE LA NUIT: VERADEASI Le Cirque de la Nuit presents high-flying theatrics and awe-inspiring cirque performances. Nov 13-14, 9 pm–2 am, Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard). Tix $85, info www.cirquenuit.com/.
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Young families, 20-somethings, and craft breweries are revitalizing the formerly sleepy Cumberland. Carolyn Ali photo.
heritage false fronts adjacent to the Cumberland Museum & Archives. “Cumberland used to be described as ‘bar fights rolling into the streets’,” Adam tells me as the brewery’s patio fills up with a mix of 20-somethings and families. “Now, it’s strollers and mountain bikes.” And of course, Ali craft-beer drinkers. “The craft-beer wave came late to the Comox Valley, but it came with force,” he says. Since Cumberland Brewing opened at the end of last year, two breweries have opened in Courtenay: Gladstone Brewing Company in January and Forbidden Brewing Co. in July. While there’s still plenty of Lucky Lager consumed in the area, tastes are changing with
the North American trend. Adam says Cumberland Brewing is a neighbourhood operation: 80 percent of customers come on foot or by bike. Since the brewery has no plans to can or bottle its beer, mainlanders who want to try the excellent Just a Little Bitter ESB or the signature Forest Fog unfiltered wheat ale have to come to Cumberland themselves. A 10-minute drive away, Courtenay (population 25,000) isn’t nearly as hip as Cumberland. Forbidden Brewing Co. is tucked away among the strip malls of Cliffe Avenue in the Best Western Westerly Hotel & Convention Centre. But the tasting room is bright and welcoming, with table seating and a small menu of burgers, fish tacos, and nachos. Named after the Forbidden Plateau,
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Above, a blue hummingbird design creates artful walls and ceilings; below left, the artist (Amanda Siebert photo) also puts her prints on home textiles and is working on creating tiles as well.
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mirrored, undulating lines of bold red flowers. “People get involved in it. When they realize it’s actually hand-done, then the piece becomes an art object. They say, ‘She didn’t do this all digitally.’ “At IDSwest,” she The Red Palette’s Markella Mildenberger takes birds, skulls, and adds of the popular Vancouver trade show other images from her canvases and repeats them on chic wallpaper where she staged a Viewed from across the room, Markella display in September, “we were swamped for Mildenberger’s wallpaper design looks like an an- the whole week. People wouldn’t walk by, they would full-on stop to look at the wallpaper. BY JANET SM IT H tique filigree pattern from an Old World salon. Move closer, though, and you’ll see the deli- That’s what art’s supposed to do.” cately scrolling print is actually skulls, mirOnly three-and-a-half years ago, Mildenberrored and repeated in Victorian funeral-home ger was living in Vernon and selling her paintshades of sepia and grey on ivory. ings at farmers markets around the Okanagan, Th is is the beauty of the Vancouver- sitting on the boards of galleries, and teaching ite-by-way-of-Vernon’s work: originat- business and marketing to artists. Her message ing as paintings, it has a richness, tex- to students in her workshops? “You don’t have tural brushwork, and hand-created feel to be a starving artist,” she says. that you could never mimic digitally. It wasn’t till recently that she took her own advice, Sitting in the West End studio where finding myriad ways—starting with wallpaper— she’s launched her ever-growing de- that she could turn her expressive canvases into sign business, surrounded by both home décor under the label the Red Palette. paintings and long panels of wallMuch market and fabrication research later, paper, she points to a canvas with a she won a business grant and moved to Vancouraspberry-red-feathered humming- ver to connect with interior designers and bring bird, and then shows a 12-foot-long her prints to home décor. The response has been swath that depicts it, repeated, in a quick, probably because Red Palette designs swirling pattern. Dahlias, magno- stand out in a market where trends come and lias, faces, octopuses, brick walls: go. As Mildenberger points out, because her all of them, and more, get ab- work originates as art, it can’t be copied. “This stracted kaleidoscopically in her is what I want to do: play with colours and texcustomizable wallpapers. Each tures,” the self-taught artist enthuses. “If I folpainting can lead to infi nite pos- low a trend, then it’s just going to die out. sibilities, through not just rep“I really like when you see brush strokes or etition, but colour combinations: if I spill a drop of water: it’s human,” she conthe skull print fi nds a different mood in electric tinues. “I refuse to go down the path of just pink, and the hummingbirds look sleek and con- drawing on an iPad. I like to feel the paint on temporary in black on white. my hands. And I like to sit in the dark with a “I like that you have to spend a little more time glass of wine and just paint.” looking at it,” says the artist, considering the Her timing has also turned out to be perfect.
“If you’d fl ipped open a magazine two years ago you’d see a blurb about wallpaper, but not much else,” she says. “But now in L.A. and New York, everybody is all over wallpaper.” The products are much easier to put up—and take down— these days. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to paste the walls!’ But now there’s no paste, and it’s fully removable.” Working with interior designers and homeowners, Mildenberger has come up with countless ways to feature her wallpaper. She’s spread pink cherry blossoms on a turquoise background across a ceiling. And she’s done a lot of powder rooms in her bold prints, and she recommends that people give the wallpaper a quick gloss coat to seal it. Sometimes, the prints find their way to a larger feature wall, or along the lower part of dining-room walls, under a plate rail or moulding. Interestingly, the wallpaper prints are being showcased like art as well: at the recent Vancouver Home + Design Show, designer Jamie Banfield framed three rectangles of her skull print and put them over the sink in a bathroom in the B.C. Hydro Power Smart home. Four-by-eightfoot panels have also been selling well; picture one sitting long and low over a modular sofa. Mildenberger is only now starting to realize the limitless applications her patterns have. She’s moving into textiles and upholstery, planning to launch pillows and duvet covers by the time she hosts a pop-up shop next March at the Playground space on Columbia Street. She shows a rich abstract silk in jewel tones and a thick cotton twill emblazoned with a delicate blue-and-pink bird pattern. Next up? She’s investigating tile work and transferring her designs to mosaics. “There are a million uses for it that I haven’t even thought of yet,” she remarks. Eager to collaborate with tile manufacturers, furniture designers, and home decorators, Mildenberger is clearly unafraid to put her work out there in as many forms as possible. “I say if you can’t let it go, don’t paint it,” she emphasizes. “It’s meant to be shared.” -
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ooler temperatures, an overcast sky that appears to threaten rain at every hour, and the return of our favourite prime-time TV shows— there’s no better time of year to stay firmly planted indoors than fall. So it’s worth sprucing up your home to ensure a season of comfortable lounging, no-fuss get-togethers, and—let’s face it—shameless Netflix binging. Not sure where to start? Let autumn’s hottest trends—straight from some of the city’s design insiders—guide you in your stylish revamp. OVERT OPULENCE Although a scaled-back, minimalist approach remains popular for both decorating and decluttering the home, this fall might prove more is more. “Opulence in furnishings, accessories, and wall colour—it’s all in,” says Joshua Pettinato, stylist and visual sales merchandiser at Vancouver’s Mint Interiors. Think bold patterns, lush textures, and dark, moody colours like deep navy, emerald, and grey that you can incorporate through luxe décor, textiles, and even wallpaper. Gold—especially when paired with white marble—is also a central colour to keep in mind. But don’t feel like you need to change up your aesthetic completely to embrace the lavish look. “Start with a neutral foundation and pick your statement pieces depending on what opulence might mean for Clockwise from left, the Vibrations rug from Lenny Kravitz’s collaboration with CB2; a warm-leather chair from Moe’s; you,” advises Pettinato, who stresses natural stones on knobs at Anthropologie; and opulent gold accents on Jonathan Adler’s ceramics (at Mint Interiors). that “quality is cheaper in the long rugs—is as edgy as it is earthy. The run”—whether that means a grand not the orange shag rugs and all-over is a well-travelled, eclectic look.” Case in point: rocker Lenny Kra- key, however, is in their makeup: a velvet sofa or a few handmade pot- linoleum of decades past. “We’re still seeing a lot of industrial and midcen- vitz’s collaboration with Chicago- mix of wools, woods, and leathers tery pieces. tury modern, but it’s starting to mix based furniture retailer CB2, one that keeps the trend from being too ’70S GLAM Taking a page from the with the ’70s for a more bohemian- of McLean’s favourite lines of late. done-up. “Look for those elements bell-bottoms and suede looks hit- glam style,” explains Tanya McLean, Each piece in the ’70s-inspired col- pertinent to the era, but opt for more ting runways is perhaps fall’s biggest interior designer and owner of Mango lection—from the curvy, two-toned natural tones and fabrics for a laidthrowback trend. But rest assured—it’s Design Co., over the phone. “The result side tables to the plush, patterned back feel,” McLean suggests.
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WARM METALS Cozy up your space for the cooler temperatures ahead with warm metallics and woods. “Gold, copper, and bronze are huge—especially in accessories,” shares Sara Samieian, co-owner and general manager of the Vancouver-based Moe’s Home Collection. She notes that floor and table lamps in brushed metals have been particularly hot lately, given that buyers tend to gravitate toward chic lighting options in order to combat autumn’s darker days. In terms of wood, Samieian sees a combination of richer tones coming back in style. In a phone interview, she says that furnishings made from dark woods in rustic brown and grey stains have become extremely popular, as have sofas and chairs upholstered in caramel-tobacco-hued leather. “People are really drawn to it, so we’ve expanded that line quite a bit,” she says, referring to Moe’s own collection of vintage-leather furnishings. NATURAL CUES Not quite ready to let go of summer’s greener, decidedly more bloom-filled pastures? There’s a solution. “Bring the outside in,” Pettinato says. “Fill your home with greenery and nature. Big potted plants are definitely going to be a trend.” If you’re not ready for the commitment of plant parenthood, you can opt for a low-maintenance cactus or air plant, which should provide as much life and interest to your space as their more moisture-dependent counterparts. Or, you can go a slightly different route with natural stones. “Crystals and minerals are really, really huge for fall,” Pettinato says. Pyrite—also known as fool’s gold—and unfinished quartz crystals, for example, can be displayed on your coffee table or mantel, or even as part of a nature-inspired centrepiece with a few fallen branches and candles. “We’re also seeing a lot of people use them as hardware on sideboards and cabinets,” he adds. -
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erike Lainevool’s False Creek condo may be less than 500 square feet, but she still has a bright home office. She drew on her interior-design skills to make it all work: below her desk is a pull-out Parsons table that does double duty as a keyboard tray when she’s working and a coffee table when she’s entertaining. The wall-mounted TV acts as a second monitor for her laptop. A storage bench can be used as dining-room seating, and clutter is hidden away with clean-lined overhead binder bins. “I took a hotel-room approach to planning my home workspace in the way that I incorporated it into the living area,” says Lainevool, design director at Shape Properties. “I placed my work area beside a window because I didn’t want to be in my kitchen or in a dark corner. Because I live in a small space, I chose not to have any open shelving. All of the storage that I built in is behind closed doors to keep the space visually uncluttered. “Everything is close at hand and within reach but out of sight, like on a sailboat,” she adds. With Vancouver’s staggering house prices, one-bedroom or even “junior one-bedroom” suites are the reality for more and more homebuyers who are swapping white picket fences for shared walls. But even without a second bedroom to use as a home office, pros like Lainevool prove that small spaces can still accommodate workspaces. Keeping clutter to a minimum is the golden rule when it comes to making a modest space seem larger. “Closed, compartmentalized storage is always great in a small space, so you can get all that work stuff out of the way in a f lash,” says Brandon Lange, project designer at LUX Design, who recently helped create a private residential unit at Shangri-La. “If you don’t have the luxury of built-in cabinetry, you can use standup boxes or magazine holders to keep paperwork organized, and baskets can go on top of cupboards or under tables.” Kendall Ansell, of Kendall Ansell Interiors, points to the Container Store (a U.S.–based
into a computer station for her husband. “Use things that conceal your work and have some storage so you can tuck things away on a Friday afternoon.” Using lighter colours in smaller rooms also helps make them seem bigger, and that goes beyond the paint on the walls. “Everyone used to have these giant, dark executive desks years ago,” Ansell says. “Make sure furniture is lighter; if I buy storage boxes from IKEA, I always buy the white ones. Make sure you invest in good lighting too. All that will make the space feel brighter and bigger.” The walls behind or next to a desk are often underused when it comes to maximizing space in a condo. “A lot of times, people don’t utilize vertical space,” Lange says. “Shelving above your desk helps get anything off your work surface and clutter off your desk. Then you can have fun with it, too, and bring in a bit of colour, like using a nice fabric or material on a pin board. Baskets can go on shelving above the desk and not only serve as organization but bring in a nice visual interest too, so you’re accessorizing while keeping organized. You want things to be streamlined visually to make the space feel a lot bigger.” Bob’s Your Uncle Design recently created workspaces in some of the one-bedroom homes at Shape Properties’ Amazing Brentwood project. BYU principal Ada Bonini says it takes creative thinking to work within tight spaces while dealing with restraining factors like building codes. “With small spaces, it’s becoming less likely you can just close the door on your work area, and because of local building codes, you can’t close cabinet doors over live electrical switches: say, if you’re thinking of putting your computer and printer inside of a millwork piece that houses active electronics,” the registered interior designer says. “One solution is to use a momentary circuit switch, commonly known as a kill In the new Amazing Brentwood project, Bob’s Your Uncle Design was able to work a big amount switch. When the door is open, power can of style and storage into a small space, planning things right down to the electrical outlets. f low through to an electrical outlet. When store that ships to Canada) and Room in Order leave the office space as the office and your it’s closed, it stops power from running to as good sources of stylish storage options. home as your home,” says Ansell, who re- the outlet.” see next page “You need to be organized so you can cently converted a storage closet at home
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Sleek white works in small spaces, as shown by the Dow Jones desk and Sylvia chair from Mobler Furniture; at left, the company’s Dalia desk has midcentury touches that add subtle visual interest to a room.
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However, Bluetooth and wireless technology make it even easier to have a tidy, wire-free workstation, and more and more condos are being designed with niche areas for such purposes, Bonini notes. If your space is very small and you have no designated work zone, she suggests that you consider furnishings that are dual-purpose. “If you are using your dining table as a work zone, you should consider using chairs that have wheels and an ergonomic function,” she says, pointing to the MultiGeneration by Knoll hybrid base chair as an example. “It’s available with casters, a padded seat, and
comes in fun colours and could easily pass as dining chairs.” Functional, multipurpose, and aesthetically pleasing desks can make all the difference in a small space too. Keith Lawrence, merchandising and design manager at Mobler Furniture, says desks like the New York and the Alberni, which come in white and chrome—“You want to stay away from dark colours, anything that grabs too much attention”—are ideal for condo offices. “The nice thing about both of these is they pivot,” he says. “The desk and shelf unit are built together but swing 360 degrees so they can fit in a corner, they can go straight up against a wall, they can go around a corner. With a lot of new developments these days, the rooms are not necessarily square. So many
clients say the room is triangular and it’s very difficult to fit a home office in there, but these desks work.” Check out the sleek white Dow Jones desk, or the Richard for other airy, lighter styles. Other options include the Powell desk, which is only 16 inches deep. “If you’re working with a laptop or iPad, this is a perfect size,” Lawrence says. “It doesn’t take up space in your room. It’s white lacquer, so there’s no visual weight at all, and it has a centre drawer.” The midcentury-inspired Dalia desk, with two drawers, has a high-gloss white lacquer finish and walnut splayed legs: “That’s going to add some visual interest to your room without being commanding.” Then there’s the Lift, a heightadjustable coffee table that ranges
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from 11 inches off the f loor to 26. “You can take it up to a comfortable desk height or all the way up to dining-room-table height,” Lawrence says. “If you’re working with a laptop or iPad, you can easily use this as your desk. When you’ve got company coming, you shrink it for your coffee table, and when it comes time for dinner, you lift it all the way up. I’ve had people realize once they move in that 500 square feet isn’t as big as they thought. With a 500-square-foot condo, you don’t have room to seat four people at a dining-room table and have a coffee table and have a desk.” Finally, when outfitting your home office, Lainevool suggests carefully curating the space and avoiding impulse buys.
“Look for items that do double duty,” she says. “A dining bench can have a hinged seat with storage below, as can an ottoman. Before purchasing any item, think first of other ways it can be used. My home-office chair is nice enough to do double duty as guest seating in the living room or to take a place at the dining table. Buy less and choose quality items with style to eliminate visual clutter. “Have a plan, make a budget, and save up,” she says. “Use tools such as Houzz or Pinterest to collect images, examples, and sources of home-office setups and small spaces that you like. And subscribe to mailing lists of furnishings retailers that you like, so you are notified of sale dates.” -
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ondo living has its pros and cons. Convenience can often be outweighed by a lack of space thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure to cramp your style, but the good news is there are plenty of solutions when it comes to reconfiguring your confined quarters. Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to upgrade your closet, maximize the space in your kitchen cabinets, or build your own custom organization system, these three companies provide options for every space and budget. KITCHEN, PANTRY, BATHROOM, AND MORE If you did the math,
how many square feet of underutilized space are hiding in your cabinets and cupboards? According to Joseph Choi, owner and operator of ShelfGenie of British Columbia, most people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even aware of what they could be doing to maximize storage in their pantries and kitchens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole idea is to take advantage of the spaces that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really see,â&#x20AC;? Choi says. His company specializes in creating glide-out shelving that gives a whole new meaning to the word functional. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We like to go in and see what our clients have in their cupboards first, and from there we design around what they have and what they need.â&#x20AC;? Following a consultation, ShelfGenie custom-builds each piece to fit your cabinets and cupboards, and installation takes less than a day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great because it gives people the option of not having to renovate just because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough space. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a tenth of the price of gutting your kitchen,â&#x20AC;? says Choi. A condo-sized kitchen can be outfitted for anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000. www. shelfgenie.com/local/british-columbia/.
Organizational heaven: Smart Klosets caters to the DIY crowd, with a slide-and-click system that requires almost no tools and that is easily reconfigured.
shelf and hanging rod must have been a minimalist. Luckily, there are options to make the most out of even the smallest closets. Felicia Hao, franchise owner with STOR-X, says the solution to closet woes can be as simple as installing a second hanging rod. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always recommend to have two rods because you instantly double your storage and hanging space,â&#x20AC;? Hao says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you have a single reach-in, you want to maximize it by adding that rod and SINGLE CLOSETS REINVENTED some extra shelves, andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;depending Whoever decided that a single closet on a clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budgetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we can do simple would be complete with just a wire or we can go way over the top.â&#x20AC;? Lamps,
light strips, shelves, drawers, hanging rods, mirrors, and cupboards are all options with STOR-Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s custom-built wardrobe-organization systems, and all products are made to order in the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Richmond warehouse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our clients really like that we are a locally manufactured company, and we offer a lifetime warranty,â&#x20AC;? Hao says. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for the easiest solution, hanging rods and an extra shelf start at $120, but Hao says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had some clients spend upwards of $15,000 on walk-in closets and storage rooms. www.stor-x.com/
FOR THE DO-IT-YOURSELFER If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more of the DIY mentality but you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t down with IKEAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s particleboard or illustrated instruction booklets, Hank Dyck of Smart Klosets says his companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patented product is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lego system of closetsâ&#x20AC;?. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has the ability to accommodate a configuration that the user can change over and over: you can lay out your closet one day and change it the next without costly renovations,â&#x20AC;? Dyck says. The system begins with the installation of a frame that allows the
user to â&#x20AC;&#x153;slide and clickâ&#x20AC;? a variety of shelves, drawers, and hangers onto their closetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back wall. Almost no tools are required to build the system, and once the frame is attached to the wall, the components snap into place with ease. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another feature is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re building everything out of high-end plywood instead of pressboard. We definitely cater to the DIY crowd,â&#x20AC;? Dyck says. The ž-inch plywood comes in two different tones, and the cost to outfit a single closet starts at about $500. www.smartklosets.com/ -
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unter S. Thompson was famous for many things: a renegade approach to journalism, a voracious appetite for drugs, and a fashion sense that might be politely described as insane. Making sleek, industrial-chic furniture out of airplane-grade aluminum was not, however, one of the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author’s talents. But that doesn’t stop Matt Muldoon from citing Thompson as a major inspiration for the bookcases, standing wardrobes, display shelves, and executive desks that he builds for his Knuckles Industries company (www. knucklesindustries.com/). “I’ve always been huge into Hunter Thompson’s writing, and I know that’s not translatable into design at all,” Muldoon says on the line from Toronto, where he’s meeting with clients. “Where I get inspiration from is anyone who’s always just done what they’ve wanted to do. When he started gonzo journalism, everyone was like, ‘You’re an idiot.’ But he was like, ‘This is who I am.’ ” Muldoon knew he was going to do something creative for a living from an early age. Raised in a small town near Calgary by parents who had a passion for drawing and sculpting, he eventually gravitated toward shop classes in high school. “I liked it because it wasn’t math, and I didn’t have to stare at paper,” he says with a laugh. Muldoon initially learned a trade, getting his ticket as a pipe fitter and welder. At the same time, he never gave up his love of making things on the side. “It sounds super cheesy, but if I could credit one person with showing me that I could build stuff for a living and be creative industrially, it would be Jesse James on Discovery Channel,” he reveals, referring to the Texas bike
Knuckles Industries’ Matt Muldoon makes hip furniture, from executive desks to bed frames, from airplane-grade aluminum.
and car builder. “I started doing what those dudes were doing. It was sculpting, but it was sort of an end-game sculpture. It wasn’t just twisting up a bunch of metal and stabbing it into the ground. Instead, it was ‘Why don’t I do something that I can bolt into a car?’ So I started building hot-rod seats, and they’d get more and more decorative and out of control.” Muldoon’s transition to furniture would officially start when he was
commissioned by a Calgary marketing company. “They saw an interior I did on a hot rod that was super-polished aluminum and rivets everywhere,” he says. “So they gave me a call and said ‘Could you do a boardroom table for us?’ I was a little apprehensive because I’d never done one. Like anyone who makes things, you’re your own worst critic. I was like, ‘I’m not sure what you want, but I think I can do it.’”
The company ended up thrilled with the final product, that giving Muldoon the confidence to move across the Rockies to Vancouver and then commit to building furniture full-time. Right from the start, metal—specifically, high-grade aluminum—was his preferred medium. His 60/61 Series of furniture has each piece produced in a limited run of 200, with all items coming with an individual stamp of authenticity and
a declaration of quality. The line takes its name from the fact Muldoon works with 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum. “It’s an aluminum that’s a real pleasure to machine,” he notes. “All of it is half-inch material—I’m starting with half-inch sheets and then building it up. I wanted that half-inch aesthetic because it’s not cheap-looking. What I hate about a lot of metal furniture is that it’s thin—because thin and light is easy to ship—and it looks like shit. I wanted my stuff to sit there looking like, if you weren’t sure what it was, that it might have just been unbolted from the underside of a plane. Nothing is flimsy.” Whether you’re talking king-size bed frames (priced at $8,500) or Vancouver-condo-sized end tables ($2,195), Knuckles Industries’ pieces start out with aluminum that’s roughed out, milled, and drilled for bolts. After it’s sanded for a uniform look, anodizing seals the metal to prevent oxidization. “It gives a satin finish, which I love,” Muldoon says. “It gives it this weird sort of soft look on a crazy-hard material that’s super unforgiving.” And the result is a tribute to a couple of important figure in his life—people who are even more inspirational than Hunter S. Thompson and Jesse James. Muldoon grew up with two sisters, the older one completely composed and detailed in everything she did, the younger one wild and unwilling to colour within the lines. When he looks at what he’s doing today with Knuckles Industries furniture, he sees both of his siblings in his work. “Making shit growing up, I was always looking back and forth at what they were doing,” Muldoon says. “I sort of got pulled both ways. I have this crazy part of my brain that’s like ‘Make whatever the fuck you want’ and this other part that’s like ‘Make sure it’s so perfect that no one can ever pick it apart.’ ” -
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cott Radburn is design director of Homehouse Design. It’s a new boutique interior design group based in Vancouver, but Radburn is no rookie to the profession. He’s a trained architect who’s spent 30 years designing buildings and interiors in Canada and Europe. He’s adept at working with modern, transitional, and traditional styles, as well as space planning and creating custom furniture.
Scott Radburn: Gold, believe it or not. It’s actually coming back. Gold and black. GS: Do you have a favourite wood? Scott Radburn: I love wood that has the effect of having sat on the beach for a long period of time—the bleached type, particularly on floors, very natural, with a low sheen. Traditional houses had a high-sheen, glossy, varnished shellac so they shined. Now, it’s very low sheen so you don’t even know it’s there. Obviously, if it’s got the protector on it, it’s easy to clean. You get the benefit of looking natural but you also get the benefit of being able to maintain it and not even have to wax it.
Georgia Straight: What do you love about being an interior designer? Scott Radburn: It’s all about design, creating spaces, and realizing people’s dreams. I love seeing things built in three dimensions, like a sculptor creating something that’s useful. GS: What should a homeowner do before hiring an interior designer? Scott Radburn: Do some research. Spend time thinking about what your requirements are. If possible, have some images that you can have on hand to be able to explain visually what you’re hoping to achieve. Obviously, the design field is more of a visual art, so images say a lot more than words.
Scott Radburn says that he’s been inspired by legendary Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. Amanda Siebert photo.
separate smaller rooms. Each room had a fireplace and you went in and closed the door. These days, people like the idea of houses flowing and being more open. So that’s another aspect: if you can adapt a traditional home into being more suitable to today’s lifestyle and still reflect the qualities of the traditional home that people love.
GS: What’s important to know before designing a traditional home’s interior? GS: Has any architect or interior designer had a major impact on you? Scott Radburn: You should have some knowledge about traditional archi- Scott Radburn: I’m biased toward tecture. Somebody once said a good Arthur Erickson, who’s a Canadian architect, particularly with traditional hero. That’s one of the reasons I homes, is actually a master craftsman. wanted to move back to Vancouver. You have to know how it can be rebuilt He loved gardens and he was excepor how parts of it can be replaced to feel tional at bringing the outdoor spaces like it was the original home. You have into the house. That’s definitely a to take the best qualities of that house special ability that I love to emulate. and enhance them and you have to diminish the bad qualities. Also, trad- GS: How do you enliven areas not as itional homes were often built with well used as the kitchen or living room?
Scott Radburn: Somebody once told me that unless an indoor and even an outdoor space has been given a name or an identity, it will end up being a clutter space. You’ll pass by it. You often find that’s where refuse gets left. Houses are often made up of rooms and there’s a lot of circulation space between them. An important element of space planning is to try and eliminate those circulation corridors. It’s as simple as putting a piece of furniture, a chair, creating a focal point, light over a certain space, or a carpet on that floor. Instead of a minimum width, make it five feet wide so maybe you can stop and sit down in that space and do something.
and don’t take on too much. You’re often living in the house. You need to start a project and you need to finish it. You can’t start a project and leave half and go on to the next one. If you can see what you’ve finished and achieved, that gives you the hope and will to move on to the next stage.
GS: Where do you look for design inspiration? Scott Radburn: Architects and designers get better as they get older. That’s because you spend your whole lifetime looking around you. Your mind becomes an encyclopedia of everything you’ve seen. The best designers are the ones who can take that encyclopedia of images that are in their head and bring them out at the right time and in the right place.
GS: Any advice for people wanting to change the colours in their home? GS: Do you have a favourite interior public space in Vancouver? Scott Radburn: I definitely don’t like to overdo it with the colour or with Scott Radburn: Back to Arthur materials. If you keep them more simi- Erickson, definitely it’s the Museum lar, the rooms flow and the space feels of Anthropology. If any guests come bigger. It’s hard enough to choose col- over, I definitely take them there. ours in any case. If you pick a nice one, I think it’s an absolutely spectacular go with it. Colour is something that space and no doubt enhanced by the GS: What’s a common mistake that can change over time. The good thing objects that are in it. I can go back do-it-yourselfers make? is it’s not a costly thing to do. So I have and look at it again and again. no issues with painting even a whole Scott Radburn: My advice would be house a very neutral colour. As you live Contact Homehouse Design at 604to do a renovation one step at a time in it, then you can start adding colour. 628-3715 or email info@homehouse.ca.
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Sit in style on L’Atelier Home’s upholstered Louis chairs (left) or Sofa So Good’s button-tufted Harlan studio sofa.
Have a seat in fine fashion VINTAGE SEATS Fancy a chair that is new but also has an antique look? Situated in the Gastown neighbourhood is L’Atelier Home (452 West Cordova Street), a boutique furniture shop that offers unique seating pieces. It’s known for upcycling to create custom-designed, reimagined vintage chairs and sofas. Go for a Louis chair ($390 to $420), the round, Frenchstyle upholstered piece refurbished with new and customized fabric and frame. We like it in fuchsia against antique-white wood. The shop also offers custom furniture that is handmade in Vancouver.
The buttontufted sofas at Sofa So Good (2331 Alberta Street) will add some retro glam to your home and never go out of style. For a classic and simple tufted couch, the Dora studio sofa ($1,900 to $2,500) will suit your needs. And don’t be afraid of a pop of colour in the living room: the Harlan studio
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sofa ($1,250 to $1,600) comes in hotpink leather with high tapered legs. Made popular back in the 1960s, it is the embodiment of old-school chic. Choose the Langford studio sofa ($1,600 to $2,200) for a timeless piece that features a tufted back, flared armrests, and vintage-style legs. All sofas come with pillows and the option to choose custom accent fabrics. MODERN AND STYLISH People sometimes associate modern and contemporary furniture with cold or uninviting. At Bayside Furniture (1456 West 8th Avenue), shoppers will be able to find stylish couches that are both welcoming and comfortable. Add some flair to your living room with the Baxter condo sofa (starting at $2,155), made with an ecofriendly Canadianhardwood frame. You might have a hard time choosing what kind of fabric you want since there are so many choices. The Draper sofa flip (starting at $2,855) is long and has a
versatile sectional chaise, making it the perfect couch to lounge around on. To suit your preference of urban look, you can even choose between metal and wooden legs. GREEN-LIVING CHAIRS Emeco is introducing the new Alfi collection, showcasing seating choices — made from reclaimed and recycled materials—that convey the nature and environment of urban parks. The high-back Alfi chair ($435) is made for comfort and durability, with its locally sourced wood base and curved back, and comes in five subtle earth-tone colours. The Alfi counter stool ($543-$556) comes in at a loftier height, perfect for kitchen bars or higher tables. You can find them at Inform Interiors (50 Water Street). Emeco was founded in 1944 to make fire-resistant and torpedo-proof chairs for the U.S. navy—so you won’t have to worry about its products falling apart.
What do you get when you combine the most famous luxury-car brands with contemporary furniture? You get an unprecedented line of streamlined and opulent seating products. Inspiration Furniture (1275 West 6th Avenue) has been offering high-end seating choices for more than a decade, and now it has brought the furniture lines of Mercedes-Benz, Lamborghini, and Aston Martin to its store. Inspiration Furniture coowner Steen Skaaning says his store is the first one in North America to bring these collections under the same roof. “This is furniture on steroids.…This is really sexy stuff,” Skaaning tells the Georgia Straight in a phone interview. “How do you create a coalition between an Aston Martin sofa and an Aston Martin car? It’s interesting, because once you see it, the furniture seems to fit with the car brand perfectly.” In the 3,400-square-foot gallery that showcases the luxury-car/ furniture collaboration, customers will be treated to sofa eye candy. Mercedes-Benz’s MBS001 sofa (starting at $21,000) is the epitome of Mercedes-Benz. A sleekly curving choice, the sofa has aluminum legs that come in nine different colours. Skaaning says the combination of the stitching, perforated leather, and two-tone colours on the coolly futuristic couch captures the signature Mercedes-Benz sense of style. In the Aston Martin collection, take a look at the semicircular sectional (starting at $87,000) made from Alutex and carbon-fibre materials, with aluminum legs. There are about 140 different leather choices, with plenty of customization features and wood finishes. -
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Cooking up a fall kitchen Bring outdoor inspiration inside with home décor from the new Simons store (1060 Park Royal South, West Vancouver). Its home-fashion collection has cool nature prints and designs for your dining table. Try a wood-print tablecloth ($19.99) to transform your table into a barklike surface. Pair it with a decorative braided place mat ($4.99) and a wood-print napkin ($3.99) to complete the urban-lodge feel. For additional rustic accents, opt for a set of mini-wood-slice coasters ($7.50). With this kind of setup, you’ll never feel too far away from nature.
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With upscale yet reasonably priced entrées made from top-notch ingredients, like Pacific cod brandade with wilted spinach, Perch Restaurant is raising the bar for eateries at universities.
Campus cuisine gets graduation Forget student food—Perch Restaurant is ruling the culinary roost at UBC by offering quality dishes at affordable prices
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typically associated with upscale cuisine, but UBC is changing that with its new Perch Restaurant. It’s the perfect place for 20-somethings saddled with student debt and sick of noodles and sandwiches to have their parents take them out for dinner—or for local food lovers to have a high-quality meal without high-end prices. If you’re making the trek to the sprawling campus, take my advice and leave yourself some extra time to find the place (and get a parking spot if you’re driving). The restaurant is on the top f loor of the new Alma Mater Society (AMS) Student Nest building (simply known as “the Nest”)—but the 250,000-square-foot building itself isn’t clearly marked, nor is there any signage pointing you to the restaurant. Look for the oddly shaped edifice by the Aquatic Centre. When you enter the Nest, you’ll see an openconcept gathering space and eateries offering everything from sushi to bánh mì to pizza. On a recent Friday night, a DJ was spinning discs in the bright, airy space. Perch is adjacent to a student lounge with oversized red beanbag chairs and people curled up with their laptops. The restaurant itself feels cavernous; with a mostly grey colour palette, it needs more tables or the addition of something like lush plants to make it seem less empty. Press material makes much of
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the views of the North Shore mountains, but in fact this vista is largely wasted. You get a glimpse of it from the patio and from a couple of spots in Perch’s TV-outfitted lounge; there are no tables next to the north-facing windows, that area seemingly used to store
Other standouts among the main dishes (which start at $13) are Pacific cod draped with wilted spinach, and perfectly pan-roasted steelhead trout perched atop potato confit. Seared rare albacore tuna is served cold with a German potato salad, the vinaigrette dressing a refreshing alternative to the creamy stuff of summer picnics. Also served chilled is a playful Waldorf salad–inspired scallop dish with celery, apples, walnuts, raisins, and watercress. Breathtakingly beautiful is the pickled-beet salad, the golden and deep-red bulbs f lirting with whipped goat cheese; a brassica salad offers crunchy surprises, with broccoli and kale chips tossed in with the crisp, raw leaves in a classic caesar dressing. The kid-friendly crispy fried chicken consists of two slabs of white meat that resemble fish sticks and come with honey dill and pickledgarlic-scape ranch sauces. And those thick wild-rice rösti fries with harissa mayo make for an addictive little dish. Chances are you’ll order more than one. The well-curated wine and beer lists focus almost exclusively on B.C. products. Most of the wait staff are UBC students, and the service is great. The only time you may find yourself waiting is if your server is stuck at a table of 12 that’s asked for separate bills, which probably happens a lot in a place frequented by cashstrapped students. It’s a small price to pay for an overall pleasing experience that won’t leave you frowning when your credit-card bill shows up. Plus, walking through the Nest will give you a glimpse of student life today. If you went to UBC back in the day, you’ll wish you could have had your parents treat you to a wholesome meal at a nice place like this. -
extra chairs. Like the other Nest food outlets, Perch is owned and operated by the AMS, with revenues going toward AMS programs and services, such as its food bank, advocacy office, sexual-assault support centre, Safewalk, and many others. So right there you’ve got a feel-good reason to support the place. Need others? The kitchen team pulls products from its own rooftop garden and sources other seasonal items from UBC’s organic farm. Fish and seafood are Ocean Wise–certified and traceable via the ThisFish program. The coffee is organic, shade-grown, and fair-trade. Then there’s the food. You’re in good hands with Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson, formerly of the Pear Tree, who has trained in some of Germany’s Michelin-starred restaurants. He’s not reinventing the wheel here, but Perch isn’t trying to be something it’s not. What it is, is excellent food for excellent value. Consider that the most expensive item on the current menu costs $24—a succulent grilled flank steak with bone-marrow croquette and charred onion—and you’ve got a price point that beats out leading chain restaurants with topquality ingredients. If you were to situate this restaurant in Coal Harbour and StieffenhoferBrandson were as high-profi le as media-savvy PERCH RESTAURANT 6133 University Boulevard, chefs like the Four Seasons’ Ned Bell, you’d be 604-827-3564. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. paying much, much more.
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Meal ticket OFF TO MARKET Do you love animals and wine? The ninth annual Fall Into the Market tasting event will feature coastal wines, with ticket sales directly supporting the B.C. SPCA. The samplings take place on Monday (November 2) from 7 to 9 p.m. in the dining room of Bridges Restaurant on Granville Island. Come prepared with an appetite, as Granville Island food purveyors will contribute tasty offerings. Tickets are $29.99 and can be purchased at all Liberty Wine Merchants locations. See more info at libertywinemerchants.com/. -
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DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Just in time for Halloween comes a devilishly divine drink, care of our friends at Jim Beam. For the Dancing With the Devil cocktail, mix 60 mL of the Kentucky brand’s oaky Devil’s Cut bourbon with 30 mL of DeKuyper Triple Sec. Add 30 mL of Fresh Lemon Sour, 30 mL of passion-fruit juice, and 2 dashes of Tabasco sauce, and shake with ice before straining it all into a chilled glass. Garnish with a cherry and you’ve got a hell of a cocktail—one that packs a demonic bite beneath its sweet notes.-
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Postmark Brewing’s Dominic Giraldes experienced a turning point when he received a shipment of 20 different beers from Germany. Amanda Siebert photo.
Postmark brewer gets Straight to the Pint > B Y B RIA N LYNC H
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WHO ARE YOU My name is Dominic Giraldes and I’m the master brewer at Postmark Brewing. I started brewing nine years ago after a brief midlife crisis. In my time I have been honoured to brew with some of B.C.’s legends, such as David Varga and then Gary Lohin. YOUR DAD’S FAVOURITE BEER He had two that I remember the most. When I was really young, he used to drink Olympia. I barely remember that, but I can still remember reading the classic can: “It’s the Water”. At some point he switched to Miller Light, probably as they had great commercials back then, and he watched a lot of sports. My favourite memory, though, was when I was 12 and decided I could drive, right through the garage door, so he thought I should actually learn. He would take me to the dump and let me drive around. As I got better he would stop at the store and pick up two Miller Lights and have me drive him around the country roads. FIRST GO-TO BRAND Believe it or
not, I was a Beck’s and St. Pauli Girl drinker. Liquor-store clerks wouldn’t ID me drinking these as they would if I was buying Budweiser or Coors. I guess I thought I was sophisticated at a young age. Other than those, there was always Pabst Blue Ribbon. A classic. My best friend’s brother was stationed in
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Germany in the army. He once sent us 20 bottles of different German beers and a couple of glasses. At first I didn’t get it. The Hefeweizen was cloudy and smelled like bananas. WTF?! But we persevered through the dunkels, the bocks, and all the rest. Needless to say, I was hooked and never went back. In those days there wasn’t even Sierra Nevada, and I lived in a small town. I had to do something, so I started to learn how to brew. DREAM DESTINATION I’ve been to
a lot of them, but I have never visited Belgium. That is probably number one. But following closely is Japan. I have tasted some craft beers from that area; they were fantastic.
FIRST BEER BREWED It was fair. A pale ale from a kit. It was clean, and I was proud. Now the second beer I brewed, that was dynamite. It was a stout, and I’ve never been able to reproduce it… Yet! CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT So far, 1,200 litres of Kölsch. It was so clean and crisp. Even I couldn’t find a fault. That is rare for my weird, meticulous mind. The simple beers to me are the hardest and most fulfilling to brew. No room for mistakes. I will try again. I will. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A BEER WITH David Varga from 33 Acres
Brewing Company; David Bowkett from Powell Street Craft Brewery; Jack Bensley from Main Street Brewing Company. And always Gary Lohin from Central City, but I have had many, many beers with him. -
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t’s almost time to head up the Seato-Sky Highway to Cornucopia, Whistler’s celebration of food and drink, running November 5 to 15. A two-hour drive will take you to 11 days of more than 150 events, dinners, seminars, demonstrations, and all-out good times. As a bonus and a counterpoint to all of the eating and drinking, you have that fresh mountain air coupled with an event-long series called Nourish Health + WellCornucopia, Whistler’s food and drink ness, which includes yoga, meditation, festival, is back. Mike Crane photo. and nutrition-oriented programming to ensure you’re feeling tiptop from Bordeaux, the Rhône Valley, and start to finish. If worse comes to worst, more, enabling you to tackle store there is a Hangover Cures From the shelves with ease. Pros seminar at your disposal. Should you find yourself headed that CORNUCOPIA TOP 25 CELEBRAway, and indeed, you should, here are TORY RECEPTION (November 7, 5 my can’t-miss Cornucopia events. Ex- p.m. to 7 p.m., $45) A month or so ago, a good number of cept where otherlocal wine writers wise noted, all of and sommeliers them take place (myself included) at the Whistler Kurtis Kolt cloistered ourselves Conference Centre (4010 Whistler Way). Information on in a Yaletown restaurant for a blind Cornucopia, including travel and ac- judgment of wines from Cornucocommodation advice, can be found at pia winery participants, determining whistlercornucopia.com/. the top 25 wines of the festival. All of those wines are on offer for your WSET AT WHISTLER (November 5 sipping and swirling pleasure at this and 6, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., $621.50) You Whistler Public Library event. can make it an all-out party trip if you want, but if you’re looking to get ser- CRUSH GRAND TASTING (November ious about your exploration of the wine 7, 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., $89) This is the world, the Pacific Institute of Culinary big one: the Grand Tasting where every Arts is offering the Wine & Spirit Edu- participating winery, craft brewery, and cation Trust Level 1 program, over two distillery is in attendance to pour its full days, where you can actually get cer- goods. Make sure you grab a bite first; tified by the globally recognized wine- there’s a lot of sipping to be done, and education body. You’ll come down from you’ll probably want seconds when you the mountain with a solid, extensive hit the Champagne. Who wouldn’t? base of wine knowledge (pun intended). BUBBLE-ICIOUS (November 8, 11 a.m. FRANCE WITHOUT THE ATTITUDE to 12:30 p.m., $40) C’mon, sipping (November 7, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., sparkling wine before noon? That’s what $40) French wine can seem stuffy or weekends in Whistler are for! From confusing, but at “Wine Diva” Daenna Champagne to cava to Okanagan deVan Mulligen’s seminar, you’ll be tast- lights, you’ll learn about ’em all in this ing through the wines of Burgundy, perennially popular seminar; book soon.
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ber 14, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., $40) It can be difficult to keep up with the exploding world of B.C. craft beer. The best way to get up to speed? The B.C. Craft Brewers Guild’s Ken Beattie assembles a whole bunch of the latest award winners from the World Beer Cup, the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards, and the October 2015 B.C. Beer Awards. Sure, it starts at 11 a.m., but if you decide you need a little hair of the dog, why not do it with some of our very best brews? -
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Heart of the City Festival has done a lot to modify the generally negative image of the Downtown Eastside. But not all the transformations the festival hopes to effect have to do with public perception. Some are deeply internal, like those advanced by two of this year’s flagship productions. Working from First Nations stories—some rooted in everyday heartache and others in ancient cosmology— both Beneath the Surface and Stealing Light: Stories of Transformation offer a compelling blend of warm-hearted hope and cautionary wisdom. Jenifer Brousseau’s script Beneath the Surface, which she’ll direct for her Imagi’Nation theatre company, is based on a real-life tragedy: the suicide of her friend and colleague Christine SmithParnell’s stepdaughter, Chastity Smith. “It was literally within the day, I believe, that Christine looked at me and said, ‘You need to do something. You need to write a play. Youth need to know that this isn’t the way,’ ” says the playwright, reached at her East Vancouver home. “She was just really adamant that I needed to do something about it— and I agreed on the spot.” It has not been an easy task. Writing Beneath the Surface forced Brousseau to examine painful episodes in her own life. And while it’s specifically aimed at helping aboriginal youth stare down the temptation of suicide, it tells larger truths. “If you come from abuse or you come from hurt, that pattern has to stop somewhere—and knowledge is power,” Brousseau says.
Using the stage for change
Playwright Jenifer Brousseau (left) explores a real-life case of teen suicide in Beneath the Surface, starring Madelaine McCallum (right). Melanie Orr photo.
Light’, and it’s simply initially nervous about presenting her work ‘Don’t let people steal before Smith’s relatives in Haida Gwaii and the your light, and if they Nass Valley, but apparently it’s met with the best Two theatre works at this year’s Heart of the City Festival do you have every possible reception. right to take it back.’ “Since the show went there, there haven’t been draw from First Nations stories to confront tough issues And then, as we grow, any suicides in these communities,” she notes. “So In Beneath the Surface, part of that knowledge we learn that there is a light inside of us: there’s this is a play, yes, but it’s not just a play. It’s a mescomes from the realization that those who wound us a spirit light, but if it’s dampened then we can sage of hope.” have been wounded, too. The script, which borrows do great wrong to ourselves and to others. its framework from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas “That light you have inside you, for all of eter- The Heart of the City Festival presents Beneath the Carol, places its central character in the afterlife, nity, belongs to you—and don’t let anybody take Surface at Templeton Secondary School at 7 p.m. on Friday (October 30). Stealing Light: Stories of where she learns that the classmate who bullied her it,” she adds. was herself being bullied at home. She also comes to That’s very much the message of Beneath the Transformation is at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical realize that no matter how alone she felt, there were Surface as well. Brousseau admits that she was Chinese Garden at 2 p.m. on Sunday (November 1). people who genuinely cared about her. “The centrepiece of the show is a monologue done by a young man who reaches out to the lead Heart of the City Festival offers up everything from drums to flamenco character, and Creator reminds her, you know, Given that it’s organized by Vancouver Moving Theatre, it should be no surprise that ‘Th is gentleman had things that you needed to many of the Heart of the City Festival’s flagship presentations are rooted in the draunderstand, that you needed to hear,’ ” Brousseau matic arts. But music’s getting a good look in this year, primarily through the drum says. “And in this monologue he covers the truth extravaganza that is Against the Current. A timely examination of wild salmon as a of residential schools, the truth of aboriginal hismetaphor for both Japanese-Canadian and First Nations culture, the multifaceted tory, and the truth of where that’s brought us— production—at the Japanese Hall next Friday (November 6)—features community puppeteers and the and where we can go from here, in forgiveness, Coast Salish choir Tzo’kam, but its heart and beat will come from the massed drums of Chibi Taiko, and in love, and in recognizing who we are and Katari Taiko, Sansho Daiko, Sawagi Taiko, and Vancouver Okinawan Taiko. who we were meant to be.” Also worth hearing is singer Dalannah Gail Bowen, a long-time DTES resident who’ll offer her jazzy Similar themes run through Columpa C. Bobb’s take on the blues at the Ukrainian Hall next Saturday (November 7). Of late she’s been performing in solo performance Stealing Light, a suite of four a powerhouse duo with bassist Owen Owen Owen, but the all-star cast for this celebratory night also stories that grow out of the well-known tale of how includes Doug & the Slugs pianist Simon Kendall, along with the veteran jazz rhythm section of Rene Raven snatched the life-giving sun away from the Worst on upright bass and Chris “The Wrist” Nordquist on drums. forces of darkness. Inside that framework, Bobb Flamenco dancers—all red lipstick and coal-black attitude—tend to get the glory, but another progresses from offering a kid-friendly parable to attraction at Barrio Flamenco: Flamenco for the People will be Spanish singer Naike Ponce, making discussing adult-sized environmental concerns. her Canadian debut at the Ironworks on Sunday (November 1). And then things end up with Orkestar “The thing about these stories is that we’re Slivovica and other Eastern European acts at the Ukrainian Hall next Sunday (November 8), in a 100supposed to grow with the lessons: as we maproof community concert and supper. Yes, there will be perogies—and we like the sound of that, too. ture as human beings, the stories deepen,” Bobb For a full schedule, visit www.heartofthecityfestival.com/. explains in a telephone interview from her > ALEXANDER VARTY Winnipeg home. “The kid version is just the beginning of the lessons inside ‘Raven Steals the
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Editor’s choice DAREDEVILS NIGHT Cirque du Soleil is cranking up the trapezes and high wires for Kooza this week, and if you missed it when it came here five years ago, it’s one of the Quebec phenomenon’s more dazzling shows. For starters, it’s energy-packed, emanating from a central bandstand that’s inspired by Bollywood films and Pakistani buses. There are hoop dancers and high-wire bicyclists—but best of all is the show’s famous Wheel of Death act. In it, two horned devils whip around in giant, suspended wheels. It’s spectacle with a capital S. Kooza is at Concord Pacific Place until December 27.
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER (At the Scotia-bank Dance Centre from October 29 to 31) Belgian provocateur Jan Martens pushes his dancers to jump.
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SCARE-CITY (At Hot Art Wet City to November 14) Endangered animals meet urban sprawl in the surreal works of Shwa Keirstead and Mia Dungeon.
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A HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR (October 30 and 31 at the Orpheum) Creepy classics brought to life by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
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ALL SOULS (To November 1 at Mountain View Cemetery) Concerts, processions, and shrinelightings artfully honour the dead. (See page 40.)
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HALLOWEEN MONSTER MATCH (October 31 at the Improv Centre) Vancouver TheatreSports League offers a ghoulishly funny twist on Halloween night.
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NIGHT SONGS Our arts fan this week is David Pay, artistic director at Music on Main (which presents Ensemble Variances on November 3 at Studio 7000. Here’s his pick of the week: “Vancouverites who love music only have a few months left to hear VSO concertmaster Dale Barltrop before he departs for Australia. He’s a stunning violinist, and when he makes intimate concerts with friends, it’s beyond fantastic. At the next VSO Chamber Players gig, he’s playing Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s gorgeously over-the-top trio with Ariel Barnes on cello and Chiharu Iinuma on piano. Total power trio.” The VSO Chamber Players perform Night Songs at Pyatt Hall on October 28 and 29 and November 1.
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The Anvil Centre’s new non-proscenium theatre (Amanda Siebert photo, left) can accommodate shows from jazz concerts to the sketch-comedy production Peter N’ Chris: The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel.
New West’s Anvil Centre boasts flexible theatre > BY A M A NDA SIEBE R T
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ew Westminster’s Anvil Centre is adding to its list of cultural offerings as organizers launch an exciting theatre program in the building’s brand-new contemporary-performance space. The Anvil, a gleaming angular building on Columbia Street between Eighth and Begbie, was built and opened last fall by the City of New Westminster after pressure to reinvigorate Columbia Street from the downtown community. According to theatre coordinator Jessica Schneider, the stage was created to meet a set of needs in the area. “Commerce, culture, and community: those initiatives became the vision of Anvil Centre,” she says in an interview at the newly completed building. An 18,000-square-foot event and conference space can be found on the first floor, while the second
floor contains the free admission New Westminster New Media Gallery and New Westminster Museum and Archives. The third floor houses the theatre. Schneider hopes that, in time, events and productions in each part of the building will complement one another. “We who operate each area of the Anvil are trying to find ways to make that vision real by integrating all three aspects,” she says. A comic conference earlier this year saw a trade show on the first floor, a gaming exhibition in the New Media Gallery and museum, and tribute shows in the theatre. “We’re hoping to host more events like that,” says Schneider. Schneider is the Massey Theatre Society’s executive director, and was hired by the city to operate the Anvil Centre’s theatre program, working with programmers to curate shows. The need for the performance space was identified through a study of the regional theatre
ecology. The Anvil Centre’s theatre might not be the biggest in the area, but it’s certainly the most flexible. Features like state-of-the-art lighting, a sprung floor, and a capacity of 364 make it one of the largest and most modern theatres of its kind in the Lower Mainland, with seats outnumbering those at similar theatres like the Cultch and Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. Its nonproscenium format means the space can be reconfigured in a number of ways, including as a theatre in the round. The building also offers fivestar catering and is fully licensed. “We’re looking for shows that are developed intentionally for this kind of environment. It provides a different way of inviting the audience in, because the barrier of a raised stage is gone,” says Schneider. The theatre’s wood panelling makes for excellent acoustics, and Schneider has plans for chamber music and jazz concerts in the near
future. She’s also keen to experiment with performance artists, comedy, and new-media productions. “We’re hoping that we’ll offer things that only this theatre can do. We don’t have an established audience, and so we have to build on what is already going on at other theatres,” she says. “That’s the experiment when you launch a theatre from scratch.” Because the venue offers a unique space, competition from local theatres hasn’t really crossed her mind. “We’re looking at the regional scene to see which audiences aren’t being served outside of downtown [Vancouver]. Residential demographics play a huge part in what we decide to showcase,” says Schneider. The goal for Schneider and team is to draw many communities and arts interests in, and to create a habit of visiting the Anvil among residents not just of New Westminster, but of all neighbouring cities, including Vancouver. “We want to be a touchstone for
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but everything looked like we were trying too hard. It was all too literal. So then we came up with this…” Kai sets up a model. The floor is black and there’s a grey circle in the middle. It’s surrounded by a ring of eight sets of black risers that can seat 13 audience members each. The actors never leave the stage, but when they exit a scene, literally or metaphorically—when they go into another room or distance themselves emotionally—they can step out of the grey area and into the black. Clothing the actors—or the characters—is even trickier. After all, which task is she performing? Although she hasn’t completed her costume choices on the day of the interview, Kai says that she figures the trick is going to be figuring out how to make it look like the actors are dressed as themselves, while giving a subtle nod to the characters they’re playing. M, for instance, is a financier. “I tried putting Shawn [Macdonald], who’s playing M, in a collared shirt and business pants, but as soon as he put them on, it was obvious that they were too much. It was like the clothes were saying, ‘He is this character.’ So now I’m just going to put him in some regular pants and just a casual sweater or something”— whispering a hint rather than making a statement. Asked if there’s a kind of liberation in restriction, including the restrictions of this script, Kai replies, “I work way better with restrictions. If somebody said, ‘Okay, you can have all of the money and all of the resources you want,’ I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.” -
n emerging star of theatrical design, Shizuka Kai is known for her minimalism. But, even for Kai, the design constraints of Cock are a challenge. In Mike Barlett’s script, the second sentence reads, “There is no scenery, no props, no furniture, and no mime.” Meeting with the Straight in the lounge of the Performance Lab, where the artists from Rumble Theatre are putting Cock together, Kai, who is designing both the set and costumes, remembers, “One of the actors said to me, ‘Oh, this must be so easy for you!’ Um. No. It’s not! As a designer, it’s really hard! It’s like, ‘Why do you even want a designer if you don’t want a design?’ ” But there’s no such thing as a neutral design choice, so every decision matters, and the question becomes: How do you create a design without appearing to do so? The play asks existential questions of its own. Off the top, John breaks up with his long-term male partner, M. To his surprise, John soon falls in love with W, a woman—even though he has never had a female lover and has long regarded himself as gay. John can’t make up his mind, though, and continues to vacillate between his love interests. All of the parties, including M’s father, F, decide to work things out over dinner. The image of the cockfighting ring became Kai’s inspiration. “When I imagined a cockfight, I imagined a dirt pit,” she says, “but, when I looked at photos of cockfights, I found out that they take place in a circular space within a properly made arena. And the floor is green— almost like a tennis court. They’re Rumble Theatre’s Cock runs from very clean, neat-looking venues. So Friday (October 30) to November 8 we tried a few variations on that idea, at Performance Works. FUGUE THEATRE presents FUGUE THEATRE presents
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Show tunes into Cuban history > BY A L EX A NDER VAR TY
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t’s not quite the same thing as being crammed into a choleraplagued slave ship and then set to work under the blistering Cuban sun, but dancer Danais Yera understands what it’s like to arrive in a new world with next to nothing. And that knowledge is the driving force behind Afro-Cuban Dimensions: A Musical Journey From Cuba to Canada, a sonic history lesson that Yera and the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre will premiere this weekend. “Basically, the concept that I sustain in this show is that of the immigrant, when you move from your country to a new place,” Yera explains, on the line from her Vancouver home. “When I came here three years ago, I just brought two pairs of jeans and a couple of shirts, but also I had my culture, where I came from—and I’m proud to say that I am from Cuba. It’s just a little island in the middle of the Caribbean, but with such a strong culture! That’s the concept that I have been developing: how all these African slaves, when they went to Cuba, they didn’t have anything. All they had was the memories and their culture, and in Cuba what they did was work with whatever they found. They built new tambores, built new percussion instruments, and started from zero. “As immigrants, that’s what you do,” she continues. “You basically start your life from zero, but with the memories that you have from your culture.” Most local listeners have some idea of what Cuban music sounds like, if only through exposure to the Ry Cooder–produced Buena Vista Social Club album, and the concert tours that followed its 1998 Grammy win. Great though that recording was, however, it gave only a partial
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An all-star band will take audiences on a tour of Cuba’s musical evolution from colonial to contemporary times in Afro-Cuban Dimensions. Yoel Ortega photo.
and somewhat nostalgic picture of the Cuban music scene. In contrast, Yera and music director Israel “Toto” Berriel aim to track Cuban music’s evolution from the colonial era through to the present day, with help from an all-star band. Afro-Cuban Dimensions is based “on a combination of songs that Toto’s had in his mind for a really long time,” Yera explains. “There’ll be some traditional Yoruba songs, and also some classics from Cuban music—not just the Afro-Cuban side, but more like contradanzas. Repertoire from the 19th century, but with some modern arrangements for sure.” There’s little doubt that the music will be entrancing: although Berriel now lives in B.C., he’s a 12-year veteran of Cuba’s leading rumba group, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. Another stellar percussionist, Puerto Rico–born Sal Ferreras, has been
enlisted to narrate the show, explaining how Cuban music emerged from the larger societal merger of African and European spiritual practices. “We want to take people’s hands and say ‘Okay, let’s jump into this culture and travel, right now,’ ” Yera says. “I really want people to f ly with the music and the dance and the storytelling. So it’s not just a concert, but more like the kind of show where you’re sitting and enjoying the music and enjoying the dance and understanding a little bit more about what AfroCuban culture is about. “And then,” she adds, “there will be a dance party!” The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presents Afro-Cuban Dimensions: A Musical Journey From Cuba to Canada at the Vancouver Playhouse on Saturday (October 31).
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er loss happened almost 30 years ago, but composer Joelysa Pankanea is only now working through it in music. She was just 14 when her father died, following a long battle with brain cancer. The disease was first diagnosed in Kenya, where her family lived at the time, and he was still suffering from its effects when they moved to Vancouver when Pankanea was 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to communicate loss in our family,â&#x20AC;? Pankanea explains to the Straight over the phone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The loss of my father was really met with silence. It took us a long time to even acknowledge it.â&#x20AC;? But this weekend, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll finally explore his death, and the cycle of grief that followed it, in a new chamber work as part of All Souls, a weeklong series that honours the dead at Mountain View Cemetery. Organized by the Little Chamber Music Series That Could, the concert teams vocalist Dory Hayley with five topnotch musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Pankanea on percussion, Mark Haney on double bass, Marina Hasselberg on cello, Mark McGregor on flute, and Molly MacKinnon on violinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to play The 5th Stage, a 14-minute, wordless song cycle that traces the phases of grief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I learned about the stages of grief, I looked back and said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what you go through,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? says Pankanea of the progression first proposed by Elisabeth KĂźbler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually had the idea based around these cycles for probably 10 years,â&#x20AC;? adds the artist, who is best known for the evocative scores she creates for local theatre shows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then, when Mark [Haney] asked me to do something for All Souls, I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is the perfect place.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Pankanea says the process of going back to such a painful time in her life was at times difficult, and she admits tears were shed as she revisited photos and memories. Adding to the challenge was the fact that Pankanea almost always bases her music on
theatrical texts, but here she had to work without words. The final composition, she admits, is a haunting pieceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not unlike a lot of her scores. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My sound very naturally is haunting and moody and I would really attribute that to the struggles I had when I was younger,â&#x20AC;? she observes. Pankanea tried to be true to exactly what each stage of grief felt like to her as she was going through it. One of the most difficult to evoke through music was denial, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things I remembered was the environment: how you can be sitting in the worst tragedy of your life and the environment just continues.â&#x20AC;? For the idea of bargaining, she worked the cello off the violin, the lower instrument eventually expressing a sort of bitter resignation. For acceptance, she made sure to work in the sombre strains of the alto flute, an instrument that comes to represent depression in the piece. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even when you do accept this awful thing that has happened to you or your loved ones, it still wafts in,â&#x20AC;? she says of the sadness. In sections, she uses the natural reverb of the cavernous yet intimate Celebration Hall at the cemetery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That space sounds unbelievable,â&#x20AC;? she says. But The 5th Stage is not all darkness: Haneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving bass acts like the pulsing life force throughout the work. And Pankanea stresses that, just as the project has been hugely healing and therapeutic for her, she wants her song cycle to help others as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope people will be able to pull something from it,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sad topic, but I do feel itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been very positive. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had the idea to write this for a long time, and it comes now, at this time in my life, where my life is good,â&#x20AC;? she adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve passed that stage. My family talks about it more now. And writing the piece has been completely cathartic and really healing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a gift Mark gave me.â&#x20AC;? The Little Chamber Music Series That Could presents The 5th Stage in the Celebration Hall at Mountain View Cemetery at 7, 8, and 9 p.m. on Friday (October 30). All Souls events continue until Sunday (November 1).
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A well-executed ode to the upper-middle class You can admire The Dining Room without necessarily liking its characters; The Damage Is Done explores intergenerational trauma TH E AT RE THE DINING ROOM By A.R. Gurney. Directed by Chelsea Haberlin. A Western Gold Theatre production. At the PAL Studio Theatre on Friday, October 23. Continues until November 8
The Dining Room is a well-craft-
2 ed toast to people I don’t like.
In A.R. Gurney’s play, over 50 characters rotate through a single dining room in an expensive home. As scenes from the lives of various families—from the Depression up to the early ’80s—overlap, it becomes clear that the script is a tribute to a supposedly vanishing socioeconomic group: upper-middle-class New England WASPs. Gurney sometimes takes digs at this group’s foibles, including its obsession with social standing—a patriarch is outraged when Binky, from the club, calls his brother a fruit—but, mostly, Gurney waxes nostalgic about the good old days. Sure, these people are uptight, Gurney seems to be saying, but I love ’em. But what if you’re not in that group? There are several maids in the play, but only one comes close to being a full character. Family members treat Agnes with the same combination of affection and obliviousness that’s the fate of many a family dog. I have no doubt that Gurney intends the melancholy in this footnote, but it’s still a footnote. Overall, The Dining Room is a myopic celebration of privilege. Still, the scenes interlock like expert joinery, and the script is often witty: one of the rich old guys tells a grandson that he went to Europe—and hated it. “I took along a trunkload of shredded wheat,” says the adventurer. “Came back when it ran out.”
Keith Martin Gordey and Alen Dominguez take on myriad roles in A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room. Marlee Walchuk photo.
The Dining Room premiered in 1982, and, for a while, every regional theatre on the continent was producing it. Why mount it now? Presumably, because six actors get to play multiple characters and that’s fun. On the acting front, director Chelsea Haberlin’s production is a mixed success. As the shreddedwheat moneybags and, later, as a son anticipating the grief that his father’s death will bring, Keith Martin Gordey is a model of focus and restraint. On the other end of the spectrum, Kate Dion-Richard overplays almost all of her roles, including one of the maids.
Elsewhere, Haberlin swings wild with her choices and scores both hits and misses. By setting an exaggerated style, she coarsens the wit of the most clearly comic scenes. On the other hand, she has cast a couple of people of colour in this paean to white entitlement, which is satisfying. And although this play doesn’t need an extra scene, Haberlin’s decision to bookend the evening with references to a museum is justifiable. Glenn MacDonald’s dark, woody set is handsome, and John Webber’s lighting is warm. I don’t care about selfish WASPs, but they leave a lovely afterglow.
THE DAMAGE IS DONE Written and conceived by Rita Bozi, with additional insights by Ken Cameron and Gabor Maté. Created and directed by Ken Cameron and Rita Bozi. At the Cultch’s Historic Theatre on Tuesday, October 20. No remaining performances
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In The Damage Is Done, Rita Bozi examines her dysfunctional family. Under communism, her parents lived fearful lives in Hungary. When they moved to Canada, her father became a man who broke his silence only > COLIN THOMAS to rage, and her mom, who openly
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disdained him, filled her life with cooking and the racket of a blaring radio. Years later, Bozi’s older brother was still incapable of creating an independent adult life. For Bozi, visits home to Hamilton were a form of torture best preceded by getting stoned. Bozi’s theatrical treatment of this material is unfortunately abstract. On-stage with retired therapist Gabor Maté, who, in real life, helped her to work through her family issues, Bozi explores the idea of intergenerational trauma. It’s a potentially interesting frame, but, as a writer, Bozi fails to fill it up. Watching The Damage Is Done, I had so little access to the characters’ vulnerabilities, complexities, and charms, so little sense of why Bozi would even want to love her mom and dad—beyond the generic reason that she’s their daughter—that I didn’t like or care about any of them. The climax of the story is an explanatory therapy session. The show’s physicalization is also flat. Maté’s presence on-stage is largely superfluous: the script would be more focused and forceful if Bozi handled all of the material herself. And the production’s use of video is unsophisticated: Bozi tells stories while Maté, sitting at a table behind her, places objects on a table, and images of those objects are projected onto a screen. But the imagery is obvious: Bozi likens her parents to hornets, and Maté dutifully hauls out a plastic hornet. Slowing things down even further, Bozi repeatedly delivers her family’s dialogue in Hungarian, then translates it into English. By the end of the evening, compassion begins to peep through, which makes it easier to remember that The Damage Is Done concerns the lives of real people. It takes too long to get there, though, and the payoff is slight.
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Last, Stan and Charmaine, a married couple crushed by a nationwide economic meltdown, are living in their car and fighting off nightly attacks from armed marauders. Desperate, Stan sells his blood, only to fi nd it isn’t worth much. Charmaine keeps the couple in gas money by working in a bar that caters to drug dealers and prostitutes. But just as the reader settles into this gritty tale of financial heartbreak, the novel shifts gears—and literary genres—when Stan and Charmaine move into a closed community called Consilience where, bizarrely, residents spend half their time in well-appointed suburban homes and half their time in prison, guarded by their erstwhile neighbours. In Consilience, we learn, corporate America hopes to profit from the chaos of financial collapse. There is, however, precious little profit to be wrung from a prison in which inmates live parttime in suburban luxury, and the reader is not surprised to learn that the scheme is a cover for more nefarious activities involving selling the body parts of condemned prisoners, building highly realistic sex robots, and reprogramming the brains of women to turn them into sex slaves. All this might work if Atwood were truly invested in probing the dystopian world she has created, but in The Heart Goes Last, which
The loopiness of Margaret Atwood’s fictive world creates needed humour.
began as a serial for the online site Byliner, she seems content to use Consilience primarily as a stage for a clumsily constructed sex comedy. Much of the novel focuses on a largely humour-free sexual roundelay in which Stan and Charmaine swap partners with the couple who live in their home during the months they are locked up. At times, the sheer loopiness of Atwood’s fictive universe injects some much-needed humour. One character, a former prostitute, has her mind reprogrammed, but due to a glitch falls madly in love with a blue teddy bear. Stan, tasked with letting the world know of the horrors of Consilience, is spirited out in an Elvis Presley costume and lands in Las Vegas, where he falls in with a group of men working as Elvis-themed escorts for lonely older women. But there is too much narrative dead air between the jokes and insights in this oddly sex-obsessed late novel by one of Canada’s most venerated literary icons. > MICHAEL BOURNE
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Show gives Pethick his due VISUAL AR TS JERRY PETHICK: SHOOTING THE SUN/SPLITTING THE PIE At the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 10, 2016
Gabriel Lippmann, the Nobel physicist who invented an early process of colour photography; Ludwig Wittgenstein, the renowned philosopher who also designed an aviation propeller; Peter Pitseolak, an Inuit historian and documentary photographer— these individuals, and a seemingly eclectic range of others, make metaphoric appearances in the work of the late Hornby Island artist Jerry Pethick. Also evident is a wonderfully eccentric range of forms and materials, from a runaway elephant fashioned from rolls of carpet underlay to a Stone Age fertility figure composed of used light bulbs to a stack of old tires stuck with small mirrors and topped with a precariously balanced limb made out of a tree branch and aluminum disks. Spectra foil, Styrofoam, sulphur, hay bales, wine bottles, a wasp nest—Pethick was adept at repurposing the homely, the unlikely, and the inexpensive into sculptures, pictures, and installations. By these means, he explored the vagaries of
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representation and the histories of art, optics, and photography. Born in London, Ontario, in 1935, Pethick studied and practised art in London, England; researched holography in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and cofounded a holography school in San Francisco before settling on Hornby Island with his wife and son in 1975. His creative achievements are celebrated in a large retrospective exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Curated by Grant Arnold, it traces the distinctive path of Pethick’s career and the eccentric nature of his practice—part intellectual rigour, part optical experiment, and part goofy humour. Pethick’s overarching interest in visual perception, in the scientific, cultural, and linguistic systems that structure the way we see the world, led him to produce a body of work much admired by curators and fellow artists but, until now, little known to a wider public. The show includes the artist’s early experiments with assemblages, thermoplastics, holographic art, and “integral” or “fly’s eye” photography inspired by Lippmann’s earlier research. Although Pethick gave up holography because it was too cumbersome a way of making images, he continued to pursue and expand ideas relating to integral photography, creating the “photo arrays” for
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Jerry Pethick often repurposed unlikely and homely things into works such as 1990’s Out of the Corner of an Eye.
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which he is best known and of which four are present in this show. Consisting of carefully calibrated rows of serial photographs viewed through corresponding rows of Fresnel lenses (cheap plastic lenses with concentric grooves), stuck together with dots of silicone, the arrays create, from a certain viewing distance, a large, unified image floating in space—a three-dimensional photograph. Because of the low resolution of the lenses, the image has a slightly blurry or unfocused quality, which Pethick observed was a metaphor for the way memory affects perception. Most of the photo arrays have corresponding sculptural elements. In Wheelbarrow/Cabin, for instance, the photographic image of an old wooden building is complemented by a sculpture made out of stacked firewood and large glass cylinders. The transparent cylinders are organized in a way that represents an oversized wheelbarrow, while the “space” around this form is defined by the solid and opaque wood. Here, as elsewhere in the show, Pethick amuses us with the homeliness of his materials while challenging our understanding of our ingrained perceptual systems. Again, this is the characteristic paradox of his practice: conspicuously low-tech means at the service of highly sophisticated ideas. > ROBIN LAURENCE
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COCK Rumble Theatre presents Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award–winning play about a gay man who accidentally falls in love with a woman. Oct 29–Nov 8, Performance Works (1218 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix $30-10, info www.rumbletheatre.org/.
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THEATRE 2JUST ANNOUNCED PEOPLE The United Players present director Adam Henderson’s version of Alan Bennett’s play about a down-on-his-luck aristocrat who is forced to make some unusual decisions. Nov 5-29, Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery). Tix $12-22, info www.unitedplayers.com/. A CHRISTMAS STORY, THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a festive musical about a young boy’s quest for an official Red Ryder carbineaction BB gun. Based on the 1983 film. Nov 5–Dec 27, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
2OPENINGS SPRING CAME TO ST. PETERSBURG Director and playwright Alex Lazaridis Ferguson’s creation examines the world through the lens of artists like Margaret Atwood, Beyoncé, and Leonard Cohen. Oct 28–Nov 7, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www.sfu.ca/sca/events/details/springcame-to-st.-petersburg/.
OFF-LEASH Contemporary musical set in an urban dog park, where passions emerge, competition ensues, and tensions erupt. Oct 30–Nov 8, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $35, info fugue.biz/. PETER ‘N’ CHRIS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HUNGRY HEART HOTEL Comedy-sketch duo Peter ‘n’ Chris present a family-friendly homage to murder mysteries. Oct 30, 8 pm; Oct 31, 8 pm; Oct 31, 2 pm; Nov 1, 2 pm, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $35/25/20, info www.anvilcentre.com/. RED ROCK DINER 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. Nov 2-3, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Info www.kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/2119/. 3...2...1 SpeakEasy Theatre presents Nathan Cuckow and Chris Craddock’s play about two men who skip their best friend’s funeral. Nov 3-8, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Info www. speakeasytheatre.ca/. NIRBHAYA The Cultch and Diwali Fest present a story based on real-life experiences and a violent incident that shocked Delhi and the world. Nov 3-14, York Theatre (639 Commercial). Tix from $30, info www. thecultch.com/events/nirbhaya/.
THE INCOMPLEAT FOLKSINGER The Other Guys Theatre Company presents Mark Hellman in a one-man show that tells the story of folk singer Pete Seeger through the artist’s own words and music. Nov 4-14, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $22-32, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/. I AM THE BASTARD DAUGHTER OF ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Play about a 10-year-old girl who nurses a secret obsession for Engelbert Humperdinck. Nov 4-8, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $15-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.
2ONGOING 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/. SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN Pacific Theatre presents the Midnight Theatre Collective’s play about a pastor who attempts to bring his backwater congregation into the modern age of 1938. To Nov 1, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $22.99-29.99, info www.pacifictheatre.org/
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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
PEOPLE’S LAW SCHOOL: JUSTICE THEATRE The Justice Theatre of the People’s Law School will be presenting a live performance of a drama highlighting the issue of bullying and the internet. Oct 29, 2-3 pm, People’s Law School (900 Howe). Free admission, info www.public legaled.bc.ca/. KLASIKA Barbara Adler and Ten Thousand Wolves present a new musical about Czech tramps and Canadian rodeo queens. Oct 29-30, 8 pm, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (149 W. Hastings). Tix $22/11, info www.tenthousandwolves.com/ klasika-stops-on-the-way/2015/10/11/klasikatickets-are-on-sale-boo-yeah/.
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Nov 5-7, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Salons (649 Hamilton). Tix $30-90 (including service charges), info www.balletbc.com/.
LOST SOULS Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret is promising to transform the Britannia school grounds into a “trickster’s paradise” for this year’s Parade of Lost Souls. The beloved annual event off the Drive happens this year on Halloween night. Expect jesters, crows, and shape shifters, along with music, stilt walking, and the troupe’s trademark array of artful surprises starting at 7 p.m. As usual, the Pot people announce the parade route at the stroke of midnight the night before via Facebook. A ticketed, adult after-party happens at the hall at Astorino’s (1739 Venables Street) starting at 9 p.m.
season/2015-2016-season-3/mainstage/ smoke-on-the-mountain/. THE DINING ROOM Western Gold Theatre presents A.R. Gurney’s play, which takes a look at the lives of 50 characters whose most important life decisions centre around the dining-room table. To Nov 8, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero). Tix $25, info www.westerngoldtheatre.org/. TENDER NAPALM Twenty Something Theatre presents Philip Ridley’s play that re-examines and redefines the language of love. To Nov 8, 8-10 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $18-28, info www. twentysomethingtheatre.com/. 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 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/.
DANCE 2JUST ANNOUNCED BALLET B.C. PROGRAM 1 Ballet B.C. presents a World Premiere by Belgian-born choreographer Stijn Celis, the Canadian premiere of Solo Echo by Vancouverbased choreographer Crystal Pite, and the return of the critically acclaimed 2014 world premiere of Twenty Eight Thousand Waves by resident choreographer Cayetano Soto.
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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/.
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2THIS WEEK DANIEL LEVEILLE 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.daniel leveilledanse.org/en/accueil/. THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER Belgian choreographer Jan Martens presents a work that sees eight dancers move through patterns of geometrical precision. Presented as part of The Dance Centre’s Global Connections series. Oct 29-31, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $30/22, info www.thedancecentre.ca/ events/global_dance_connections/. CELEBRATE DIWALI AT THE LIBRARY Highlights include South Asian dance performances by UBC Bhangra Dance (Nov 1, 1 pm) and Mandala Arts and Culture (Nov 8, 1:30 pm). Nov 1, 1-2 pm; Nov 8, 1:30-2:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch (350 W. Georgia). Info www.vpl.ca/. ALL SAINTS’ DAY SWING DANCE Dance to live swing music played by Impressions Big Band, with vocalist Peter Juric. Nov 1, 7-10 pm, Britannia Community Centre, The Hall (1739 Venables). Tix $10, info www. arokismusic.org/saints-day-swing-dance/.
MUSIC 2JUST ANNOUNCED WARNER BROS. PRESENTS: BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II George Daugherty conducts percussionist Joseph Pusateri, pianist-guitarist Stephanie L. Smith, and the VSO in a program of music accompanied by Looney Tunes animation. Nov 7, 7:30 pm, Nov 8, 2 pm, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $29-69, info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. FAURE REQUIEM, A CHORAL MASTERPIECE Bramwell Tovey and Graeme Langager leads soprano Nathalie Paulin, baritone David John Pike, the Phoenix Chamber Choir, the UBC University Singers, and the VSO in a performance of works by Stravinsky, Haydn, and Fauré. Nov 21, 23, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info 604-876-3434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
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Barltrop, cellists Charles Inkman and Ariel Barnes, and pianist Chiharu Iinuma perform works by Morlock, Ibert, and Tchaikovsky. Oct 28-29, 7:30 pm, Nov 1, 2 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Info 604-8763434, www.vancouversymphony.ca/.
JORGE LUIS PRATS Cuban classical pianist performs music by Villa-Lobos, Albeniz, Cervantes, Chopin, and Ravel. Presented by the Vancouver Chopin Society. Oct 30, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $30-45, info www.chopin society.org/.
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KITS CLASSICS+WORLDS BEYOND Chamber music by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann performed by pianist Monica Pfau, oboist Geronimo Mendoza, clarinetist Johanna Hauser, bassoonist Gwen Seaton, and French hornist Richard Mingus. Nov 1, 4-5:30 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Free admission, info www. sjcommunitysquare.org/events/.
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MUSICAL MORNINGS IN THE GALLERY Music by the Koerner Quartet (Nov 3), Janelle Nadeau (Jan 19), Maestro Behroozinia, Ramin Bahrami, and Hamin Honari (Feb 23), Novo Ensemble (Mar 29), and Orchid Ensemble (Apr 19). Nov 3; Jan 19; Feb 23; Mar 29; Apr 19, 9:30-11:30 am, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver). Tix $10/7, info www3.gordonsmithgallery. ca/Gallery/programs/musicalmornings/ Pages/default.aspx. RINA LIDDLE European musicians Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez, and Raphael Wallfisch perform music by Arensky, Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff. Nov 3, 8-10 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $48/15, info ow.ly/TLSCU.
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CZECH RODEO Sometimes, all it takes is interesting subject matter. That’s certainly the draw for Klasika, the new musical romp by Barbara Adler and Ten Thousand Wolves that’s said to be inspired “by Czech tramping, Canadian Rodeo Queens and the experience of becoming an accidental documentary subject”. That’s good enough for us. For those who need more, the work is actually based on the time when Czech-Canadian writer and musician Adler travelled to the Czech Republic, hoping to immerse herself in the century-old Czech subculture called tramping, and eventually hooked up with Czech filmmaker/musician Jan Foukal in his own quest to find tramps. The show, which debuts at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU Woodward’s on Thursday and Friday (October 29 and 30), features a full, 14-member multidisciplinary ensemble. Don’t leave before the dance party that follows each show, with the Johnny Horton Remix, a high-energy countrydance band led by Adler. SPOOKY HALLOWEEN ORGAN MUSIC Take in spooky organ music and readings in a Gothic church, with performers in costume. Oct 30, 7:30-9 pm, St. Andrew’sWesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Free admission, info www.rcco.bc.ca/. A HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR John Morris Russell conducts vocalist Carman J. Price and the VSO in a program of spooky music by Grieg, Mussorgsky, Van Heusen/Kahn, Koehler Arlen, Lane, Williams, Debussy, Berlioz, Lloyd-Webber, Gounod, and Coleman/Kern. Oct 30-31, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouversymphony.ca/. THE GALLERY SINGERS The Gallery Singers present the music of Orlando di Lasso. Nov 1, 3 pm, Redeemer Lutheran Church (1499 Laurier). Tix $18/9/kids under 12 free, info www.gallerysingers.ca/. CAROLINE GOULDING Classical violinist and pianist Wenwen Du perform music by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, and Bartók. Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society. Nov 1, 3 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix from $25, info www.vanrecital.com/.
EAST VAN COMEDY Improv and standup comedy with Instant Theatre Company (every Sun at 8 pm) and Graham Clark’s Laugh Gallery (every Mon at 9 pm). Every Sun and Mon, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $5-10, info www.east vancomedy.com/. 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. 2TRIXX Oct 29-31 2ILIZA SCHLESINGER Jan 14-16 2BRYAN CALLEN Jan 21-23 2DEBRA DIGIOVANNI Jan 28-30
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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. 2ANDREW ALBERT Oct 29-31 2BOBBY LEE Nov 13-14 2GODFREY Dec 4-5. LAFFLINES COMEDY CLUB 530 Columbia St., New Westminster, 604-5252262, www.lafflines.com/. 2GERALD GERALD GERALDSON Oct 30-31 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Halloween Monster Match (every Sat, 8:15 pm); Improv After Dark (every Fri, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu, 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every every Wed, 7:30 pm; Fri, 9:30 pm); Throwback TheatreSports (every Thu and Fri, 7:30 pm). Oct 28–Nov 4, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.
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account. Oct 30, 8-10 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/6, info www. hotartwetcity.com/grahamclark2/.
MOUNTAIN MONSTER MASH Vancouver comedians Brad Dorion and Amber Harper-Young host spooky comedy by Alex Sparling, Randee Neumeyer, Dylan Williamson, Mark Nesbitt, Fatima Dhowre, and Brent Constantine. Oct 30, 8-11 pm, Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th). Tix $5, info www.facebook.com/ events/393542947521302/. NIGHT OF THE LAUGHING DEAD Night of horror comedy with headliner Gerald Gerald Geraldson and guests Dylan Rhymer, Fatima Dhorwe, and Alex Sparling. Oct 30, 9-11 pm, Lafflines Comedy Club (530 Columbia Street). Tix $20, info www.lafflines.com/. HALLOWEEN MONSTER MATCH The Vancouver TheatreSports League presents an evening of Halloween-themed comedy by two costumed improvisers. Oct 31, 8:15-11:55 pm, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $2533, info www.vtsl.com/show/halloween/. MERMAID CLUB COMEDY Live standupcomedy show featuring Stefan MacNeil, Brad Dorion, and Dylan Williamson. Nov 2, 8-11 pm, Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir). Tix $5, info www.facebook.com/railwayclub comedy/.
2JUST ANNOUNCED AIR INDIA (REDACTED) Turning Point Ensemble celebrates its 10th anniversary with a theatrical experience of music, voice, poetry,and projections based on the bombing of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985. Nov 6-11, 8 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $29-39, info www.turningpointnsemble.ca/. 10TH ANNUAL LOUIS RIEL DAY CELEBRATION An evening of Métis dance, music, and culture featuring Yvonne Chartrand in Eagle Spirit, Louis Riel Métis Dancers, Andrea Menard, Don Amero, JJ Lavallee, Sandy Scofield, and Greg Coyes. Nov 14, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15/10/5, info www.vnidansi.ca/.
2THIS WEEK DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL Twelfth 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, various Vancouver venues. Tix free to $25, info www.heartofthecityfestival.com/.
(149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www. sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/20152016Fall/heartofthecity.html.
INCLUSION ART SHOW AND SALE Recent creations of more than 150 artists who are working independently or in studios supported by community living agencies across Metro Vancouver. Oct 28, 5-8 pm; Oct 29, 11 am–8 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Admission by donation, info www.inclusionartshow.com/.
MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut, 604-736-4431, www.museumofvancouver.ca/. 2CESNA EM, THE CITY VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, BEFORE THE CITY (one of three unified 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. exhibitions that connect Vancouverites 2NEXT: A SERIES OF ARTIST PROJECTS with the ancient village and burial FROM THE PACIFIC RIM (Vancouversite upon which Vancouver was built. based artist Christos Dikeakos considHighlights include soundscapes, oriers the economic and cultural values ginal videography, and family-friendly involved in transactions of Northwest interactivity) to Dec 30 Coast art) to Jan 31 2THE GUND COLLECTION: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL ART FROM THE NORTHWEST OUT OF TOWN COAST (exhibition features a group of historical and contemporary First Nations 2THIS WEEK artwork from the Northwest Coast, drawn ANTIMATTER [MEDIA ART] Premier from the Collection of George Gund III) showcase of experimentation in film, video, to Jan 31 2THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN audio, and emerging time-based forms. OF THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY To Oct 31, Deluge Contemporary Art (636 (explore the conceptual design for the Yates St., Victoria). Info www.antimatter.ca/. new Vancouver Art Gallery, created by Herzog & de Meuron) to Jan 24
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KOOZA Cirque du Soleil presents writerdirector David Shiner’s production that uses acrobatics and clowning to tell the story of a loner in search of his place in the world. Oct 29–Dec 27, Concord Pacific Place (88 Pacific). Tix from $45 at www.cirquedusoleil. com/, info www.cirquedusoleil.com/. HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL AT SFU WOODWARD’S Take in a fashion show, film screenings, and a dance-troupe performance as part of the 12th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. Oct 30–Nov 1, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
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RUSSELL PETERS Canadian actor and comedian performs on his World Famous tour. Nov 4-6, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). The event also runs Nov 7-9 at the River Rock Casino Resort. Tix $129.50/119.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www. hardrockcasinovancouver.com/. WHY? STAND-UP AT TANGENT CAFE Monthly comedy show hosted by Brent Constantine and Jacob Samuel. Nov 4, 9-10:30 pm, Tangent Cafe (2095 Commercial Drive). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/ WhyStandUpComedy/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BILLY CONNOLLY Scottish comedian, musician, presenter, and actor performs on his High Horse Canadian tour. Nov 9-10, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $59.35-81 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. JERRY SEINFELD Just for Laughs presents the American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his starring role on the popular sitcom Seinfeld. Nov 13, 7 pm, 9:30 pm, Nov 14, 7 pm, 9:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix $79-125 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Gerry Dee hosts comedy by Cristela Alonzo, Robert Kelly, and Graham Chittenden. Nov 20, 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $49.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketfly.com/.
LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK WAYZGOOSE Local presses and book artists will showcase their work in this celebration of print and paper. Includes demonstrations throughout the day in paper marbling and book binding. Oct 31, 10 am–4 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION Awardwinning authors Renée Sarojini Saklikar and Aislinn Hunter discuss how they approach the difficult subjects of personal, cultural, and historical trauma. Nov 1, 2-3:30 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info 604-5153837, www.turningpointensemble.ca/. OPERATION HUSKY REMEMBRANCE FILM & BOOK EVENT Join filmmaker Max Fraser and author Mark Zuehlke for a one-time-only event this fall to honour Canadian veterans of World War II. Nov 1, 2-5 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $22.80, info www. hootmotionpics.com/. VPL AND CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA BOOK CLUB Meet Cathy Ace, author of The Corpse With the Platinum Hair. Nov 2, 6:30-8:30 pm, Alma VanDusen Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. SONIA: THE LIFE OF BOHEMIAN RANCHER AND PAINTER SONIA CORNWALL Author Sheryl Salloum reads from her new book Sonia, about the life, times, and art of Sonia Cornwall. Nov 2, 7-8:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library Oakridge Branch (191–650 W. 41st). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/. KITSILANO POETRY GROUP Explore your creative side by joining a free community poetry group. Nov 3, 6:30-8 pm, Arbutus Coffee (2200 Arbutus). Free admission, info www.facebook.com/kitspoetry/. A WOMAN OF NOTE: BOOK LAUNCH AND PERFORMANCE Local author Carol M. Cram launches her new novel, Woman of Note, about a woman composer in 19th-century Vienna. Nov 4, 7-8:30 pm, Alice MacKay Room (Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.
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Matea Sarenac, Peter Ricq, and Adam Fink of Gang Signs tried in vain to sing an a cappella rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”, but Chairman Mao proved too distracting. Brendan Meadows photo.
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his TV projects, his work as a visual artist, and his membership in the popular electro-pop duo Humans, Ricq admits that he doesn’t have much time left over for collaborative writing sessions. Most of Gang Signs’ songs start life as his home demos. He makes it clear, however, that Geist was very much Vancouver’s Gang Signs balances EDM and indie a group effort, giving much of while exploring the human side of horror movies the credit to his bandmates and to producer Hayz Fisher, who To listen to the songs on Gang Signs’ recent- lent his six-string skills to the project. ly released full-length debut, Geist, you’d never guess “I’m not the best guitarist,” Ricq insists. “At the what inspired them. The slightly detached, reverb- studio, Hayz just being that much better—like, BY JOHN L UCAS treated vocals; the skeletal guitar lines; the digital more precise than me—just makes the song clearer. rhythms bolstered by powerful live drumming—it When I write the songs, I do it with a sampler and all adds up to something eminently danceable and a guitar. And then adding Adam’s drumming, the slightly dark, but certainly not bat-cave black. real drums on top of the synthetic drum machines, You might be surprised to learn, though, it just makes it way bigger, and it achieves things that most of the LP’s lyrics started out as Peter that I would not be able to do personally, because Ricq’s ruminations on ’80s horror films. Gang of my limitations as a producer. When I sing my Signs’ main songwriter and singer (he shares parts, I also kind of sing in a higher voice, and I tell vocal duties with Matea Sarenac) has done his Matea, ‘Okay, that’s what you’re going to be doing.’ share of writing for the screen, as the creator And to actually hear her sing her parts, it’s like, of the animated series The League of Super Evil ‘Oh, wow, this is way better than how I sing.’ ” and Freaktown. Who better, then, to explore the Geist is the long-awaited follow-up to the selfthemes found in classic fright flicks? titled Gang Signs EP released in 2012. Accord“ ‘Antidote’ is about The Fly,” Ricq reveals dur- ing to Fink, the band took a very DIY approach ing a conference call with the Straight and Gang to that recording. Signs drummer Adam Fink. “ ‘Stay Awake’ is ob“When we did the EP, it was done really quickviously about Nightmare on Elm Street. They’re ly,” he recalls. “Peter did a lot of the tracking at all sort of adaptations of what the story could home, and then we basically took all the tracks have been, or the way I would have liked them that he did and spent a day in the studio and laid to be. They’re not, like, straightforward, exactly down a ton of drum parts. And we really liked what happens in the movie.” how that came out. It was a really simple setup. “Peter’s take on them comes not so much from It was two mikes on the drums, and then we had the horror aspect of it, but the relationship aspect a room mike that we compressed the shit out of.” of it,” notes Fink. “In these extreme situations, “And another mike in the hallway,” Ricq adds. the kinds of things that people would do for each “For something that we at the time felt was a little other in those situations, which I always thought more electronic,” Fink continues, “I really liked the was an interesting look at it.” fact that it was aesthetically kind of lo-fi, not like Ricq does all of the songwriting, with the excep- something that you would really hear in nightclubs.” tion of the haunting “Tonight”, to which Sarenac Geist ups the stakes in terms of fidelity, but contributed lyrics and vocal melodies. Between it retains the crucial balance that makes Gang
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Astoria in ’09, you have bragging rights. These days, that local act’s main man, the now New York–based Mac DeMarco, plays more upscale venues, like the Commodore, where he headlines two sold-out shows this weekend. Behind the gap-toothed mugging and tomfoolery lies a songwriter of sensitivity and depth. Mac DeMarco plays the Commodore Ballroom on Friday and Saturday (October 30 and 31).
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Peter Ricq of Gang Signs sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.
On Gang Signs as a “side project”: “Whether it’s a side project or not, we never approached it that way. It was just like, ‘Hey, let’s have fun. Let’s do this. Let’s go all out.’ We never had, like, restrictions.” On the songwriting process: “I usually write the songs really quick, and then I show the band, and they pick and choose which songs they prefer. I like how it is now, because I just don’t have much time, and this is the fast way to do it. But I will definitely give Matea [Sarenac] another song or two to do that [contribute lyrics] with.” On the evolving live show: “When we play live, we try to give the songs a bit more energy, and we started adding more electronic, dance-y parts at the ending of some of the tracks.”
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Signs what it is: not quite an EDM act, but not exactly an indie-rock band either. “I think we’re lucky in that we fall in between those two things fairly organically,” Fink says. “We’ve done shows with the Ballantynes and Fucked Up and Owen Pallett—more of a band situation. And we’ve done shows with more of that EDM-producer-type vibe—guys with synths and laptops. I’ve felt pretty lucky that, for some reason, both of those audiences seem to respond to the aspect of the band that they want to respond to, be it the live-band thing or the more electronic side to it.” Gang Signs will have more opportunities to make connections with audiences, with some dates in Montreal and Toronto later this month and a U.S. tour in the works. All that time on the road should give Ricq plenty of time to catch a few more ’80s thrillers on Netflix. -
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MARIANAS TRENCH ASTORIA (604) There’s no upside to half-assing things once you’ve got a few records in the iTunes store. Marianas Trench embraces that idea wholeheartedly on Astoria, which takes its name from the town in The Goonies, not the beloved dive bar on Hastings. The quartet’s fourth full-length kicks off with the seven-minute “Astoria”, all razor-wire guitars, crashing drums, and singer Josh Ramsey announcing “Whatever doesn’t make me stronger kills me.” If you think that’s great, wait until things wrap up with the stringheavy “End of an Era”, which proves Ramsey and company have outgrown the emo-punk tag once and for all. This drama-drenched chronicling of personal dark days is a devastating statement. -
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ot that Leon Bridges is complaining, but the past year has put him through the kind of changes best described as overwhelming. Such are the challenges that come with having one of the most authenticsounding retro-soul hits since Amy Winehouse staggered out of North London with Back to Black. When the Georgia Straight catches up with the proudly old-school crooner, he’s in Toronto on tour to celebrate his stunner of a debut, Coming Home. Since the album’s release this summer, his life has been a blur of live shows, long days on the road, and endless interviews, with four out of five journalists wanting to know how Bridges sounds like a man beamed in from ’60s Motown. Considering that, not that long ago, the 26-year-old was bussing tables and working the dish pit in a Fort Worth, Texas, eatery, the breakout star has had to master a new set of skills in a short time. “Really, it’s just about me learning to be a performer on-stage, like more than me just singing songs,” the low-key but charming Bridges says, speaking on a cellphone. “There’s also doing interviews and all that kind of thing, which I never expected. For me, it’s just been about doing it, and while I’m doing it, giving it my all. I mean, it’s not too bad, but it’s definitely different, meeting all kinds of people. It can actually be a lot to deal with at times because I’m a real chill person. But I guess it’s good, because that means people are excited.” Folks have definitely been excited since Bridges surfaced in 2014 with two songs on Gorilla Vs. Bear, the stripped-down R&B of “Coming Home” and the organ-soaked “Better Man” leading to an avalanche of interest, including calls from labels of
You can try to cop his retro style, but Leon Bridges has one thing you don’t—his very own DeLorean time machine.
all sizes. There were also suggestions from various industry types that he fix something that clearly wasn’t broken; while Bridges’s cool restraint is one of the defining traits of Coming Home, he was told more than once he needed to be less like Sam Cooke and more like James Brown. If that made no sense to him, that’s because the son of a churchgoing mom and a Curtis Mayfield– loving dad wasn’t exactly a wild child growing up. There was no partying, and no ripping it up with friends in garage bands. “I never did that—I didn’t even pick up a guitar until four years ago,” Bridges says. “I didn’t know of any blogs or know any of the classic
bands or songwriters.” Bridges’s initial foray into singing had him performing at open-mike nights in college backed by beats from his iPod. When embracing his inner Usher didn’t totally feel right, he went further back in time. A growing fascination with all things retro led him to change up his appearance; Bridges today is becoming famous for looking like he just stepped off a periodauthentic runway, all freshly pressed ’50s-vintage slacks, blindingly buffed shoes, and double-starched shirts. As part of that descent into the past he immersed himself in the work of icons like Cooke and Marvin Gaye. It’s those giants who loom large on Coming Home, a proudly analogue
Bridges says of the crew that helped him on Coming Home. “It’s all about arranging a song to where the singer shines. Even though Daptone Records’ stuff is amazing, before we went into the studio, we were like, ‘We don’t want to lean towards a Daptone kind of thing where it’s all boom-boom-boom.’ We were more into really capturing how the songs started out, which was with me and an acoustic guitar. “Austin and the guys took that and made it into a bigger picture,” he continues, “which is what you get on the record. They could have easily gone in and done all sorts of guitar solos and stuff, but I feel like it’s all very chill. And because of that, I feel like it’s a really great introduction for me.” Coming Home has taken off in ways that Bridges never dreamed; after slaying audiences at South By Southwest earlier this year, the singer has been on the road constantly, playing major festivals on both sides of the pond, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts, and piling up the kind of reviews that suggest a major talent has arrived, seemingly out of nowhere. The challenge right now, as Bridges goes from undergroundsoul buzz act to mainstream success story, is finding the time for the things that he used to do. Not that he’s complaining. “I get to do things like clothesshop every now and then when I have time, but when I don’t I have a guy out in L.A. who collects a lot of vintage clothing,” he says. “When I’m busy, I just call him up with ‘I need belts and trousers and blazers.’ He’s a cool cat.” In the fantastically retro world of Leon Bridges, he’s not alone. -
record marked by sun-splashed horns, shimmering organs, and Bridges’s soul-drenched vocals. The album has him working with members of Fort Worth indie stalwarts White Denim, both behind the board and on the studio floor. While that band’s Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block specialize in a blend of driving math rock and tightly wound psychedelia, they also knew how to capture one of soul music’s most cherished eras. From the gospel-kissed “Shine” to the rollicking gin-mill swinger “Twistin’ & Groovin’ ”, Coming Home is a record that recalls a time when any singer worth his gold records was Leon Bridges plays the Commodore on a first-name basis with his tailor. “We believe in great songwriting,” on Tuesday (November 3).
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one of the most stunning records of 2015, Natalie Prass isn’t among them. Reached at a tour stop in Tucson, Arizona, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter says what’s amazing her most these days is something simple: the fact she’s not standing in someone else’s shadow. For years, Prass did just that, her musical gigs including touring as the keyboardist for indie-rock queen Jenny Lewis. Even after recording Natalie Prass, the fledgling solo artist didn’t expect to give up her day job. Speaking on her cell, she says: “I think it’s just my personality, or maybe just because I’ve been playing music for so long and working so hard at it, that I don’t expect anything from it anymore. I just do my work, and then hope that it works out. I certainly didn’t think, ‘This will be a success and I’ll be on tour all year.’” Instead, Prass has found herself with a packed schedule since the release of her record, her days spent doing interviews, her nights taking the stage as a headliner. In hindsight, she should have seen it coming. Guided by producer Matthew E. White (who’s a friend from her teenage years growing up in Virginia), Prass made a record that fuses baroque chamber pop with the kind of art-weirdo jazz flourishes that keep Tom Waits in cigarettes and bourbon. “Bird of Prey” starts out with a stomping bass line and then takes flight on threeday-bender horns and tornado-alley strings, while “Why Don’t You Believe in Me” is wounded soul stripped down to doom-tastic bass and drums. Even if your listening habits start with Sufjan Stevens and end with Owen Pallett, the beautifully adventurous Natalie Prass will make you feel like you haven’t heard it all before. That uniqueness had a lot of people telling Prass to dumb things down for the mainstream.
myself for. But I’m really happy I’m sound. Michael spends time building busy and doing my own music. It’s def- synth sounds: that’s his passion, and initely been more rewarding.” mine is writing.” > MIKE USINGER The combination works. Heavy on dramatic keyboards and churning Natalie Prass plays the Biltmore rhythms, The Fool mixes art cred with Cabaret on Saturday (October 31). dance-floor appeal; superficially it’s pop, but beneath its glossy surface it is, as Weaver says, a concept album about love, betrayal, and personal growth. “I hope to only do that,” she stresses. “I’ve always respected records For living proof that sisterhood that felt like whole records.” is powerful, look no further The story here is also Weaver’s own. “It feels like a breakup album, than Ryn Weaver’s video for “OctaHate”, the first single from the rising I guess, but for me it was more a indie-pop star’s The Fool. In it, she breakup into freedom, and into findindulges in a messy and affection- ing myself, and then finding someone ate food fight with her real-life best who loved me for me,” she explains. “I friend—who would have to be a good really got lucky—and then I realized friend indeed to put up with hav- how much I love my freedom. I’d sort ing her elegant velvets smeared with of given it up for the first guy, and I found it was tougher for me with that chocolate cake and papaya. But if you know the back story, it second guy, no matter how important gets better: Weaver and her gal pal once he was. The last song on the record unwittingly shared a boyfriend. That [‘New Constellations’] kind of brings cheating cad is long gone, obviously, you back to this place of, I don’t know, but the two women bonded over their ‘Maybe I’m not ready. Maybe I’m too betrayal, with the more musically in- comfortable being free. Maybe I’m clined one turning her heartbreak and just young and wild.’ ” She laughs and continues: “I feel like recovery into an exceptionally polished debut album. And while The Fool that’s the story of the modern woman, benefits from the production input of the modern babe. We have more opporA-list producer Benny Blanco, Passion tunities than women did before. There’s Pit main man Michael Angelakos, and less of a stigma around the life choices “Boom Clap” supernova Charli XCX, that we make, and because of that we’re starting to be able to really live life.” the lyrics are all Weaver’s own. It’s an opportunity that she’ll hap“I write songs, and then I bring them to the people I work with,” the whip- pily seize. “I love smart, sassy women,” smart 23-year-old says, on the line she explains, citing Joni Mitchell, Joafrom New York City. “Or else I’m in the nna Newsom, and Fiona Apple as her room and I’m writing with them, but artistic inspiration. “Back in the day, the songs are still my babies. They’re they would have been called dames. polishing it, for sure, but they’re not Those are the kind of women I’ve algenerating. What they do is, like, I’ll ways related to—and they somehow play a chord and I’ll play it on a dinky happen to be incredible lyricists as keyboard, and then Michael will go, well, so I’ve got a lot to live up to!” > ALEXANDER VARTY ‘Let’s make it sound more like this.’ And then he’ll make a sound and I’ll go, ‘Oh, that’s a little too bright.’ So it’s Ryn Weaver plays Venue on Sunday like we work together to engineer the (November 1).
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When she’s not making music, Natalie Prass is part of an exclusive trackand-field team. Very, very exclusive. As in, she’s the team’s sole member.
“I’m not really a trend person,” she says. “I do what I want to do, instead of what other people think I should do, and I’m kind of stubborn that way. People on the business side of things want to hear stuff that’s popular and will get them a lot of money. My kind of retro-sounding songs, or whatever you want to call them, aren’t for everybody.” They will, however, resonate with those for whom life is full of drama, not just musically but also on the personal front. Tellingly, the first line Prass sings on the record is “I don’t feel much/Afraid I don’t feel anything at all,” in the regal “My Baby Don’t Understand Me”. “I was really struggling,” Prass admits. “I wanted to be a successful musician, even though I wasn’t quite sure what that meant. I wanted to be a
songwriter and to get recognition—to make this my career and my life. And I didn’t want to work at stupid jobs anymore. I was also in a relationship with the guy that helped me finish a lot of the songs—I get hung up on lyrics a lot, and he helped me fill in some gaps. “I was so in love with him and I was putting all this pressure on being a musician, and I wasn’t happy or handling stuff very well,” she continues. “I was just a kid in Nashville, where you’re surrounded by all these people who are really successful making music. I felt stuck, and I wanted more.” With Natalie Prass, she’s got it, even if it was the last thing she expected. “I honestly kind of thought I’d still be in Jenny Lewis’s band, playing with her and then doing my own thing on the side,” the singer admits. “That’s honestly what I thought and was preparing
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Jan Foukal and Barbara Adler (pictured here in Foukal’s film Amerika) enjoy tramping into the woods, but only if they can still get hot lattes and free Wi-Fi.
Barbara Adler’s Klasika tells tales of tramping
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hey say there are two sides to made it to the Czech Republic, in the every story—but to get the summer of 2014, she was somewhat let full, stereoscopic vision of the down by what she discovered. saga behind Barbara Adler’s “The tramps I was meeting, they new musical, Klasika, you’ll have to were not quite living up to my idealwait until Czech director Jan Foukal’s ized version of what tramps were,” Amerika hits the Whistler Film Fes- she explains. “Many of them are older tival in December. And even then it’s now, and they don’t necessarily go out hard to say if you’ll know exactly what into the woods so much; sometimes it was you’ve heard and seen. it just looks like a bunch of nostalgic “I am the most unreliable of nar- people getting together and drinking rators,” Adler tells a bunch of beer and the Straight with singing their faa laugh, reached vourite songs from Alexander Varty at home in East the past. Which is Vancouver. Coma totally beautiful pounding that, apparently, is that thing, but it didn’t really have the same Klasika finds Adler on-stage, hiding kind of energy—that utopian energy behind her accordion as part of the that we were talking about before.” band. There is also a character called She did, however, meet Foukal, who Bára, a Canadian researcher roped into quickly retooled the HBO documenstarring in a Czech director’s docu- tary he was working on into somementary film. thing other than cinéma vérité. “We Bára, Adler notes, is “kind of an kind of improvised this strange staged idealized version of me, if I were five documentary where I play kind of like foot two and blond”. Adler is close to a fictionalized version of myself, and six feet tall and a brunette. he plays an awkward, fictionalized And then there’s someone named version of himself, and we go through Barb the Bootfitter, whose function is the woods of the Czech Republic never explained. meeting tramps,” Adler says. Are you beginning to get the Any residual utopianism, she adds, picture? inhabits the joy she finds in workWhat we do know is that Klasika ing with her friends, who make up is both a brand-new musical from Klasika’s cast, band, and crew. the spoken-word artist, songwriter, “That’s what drew me to trampand musician, and part of Adler’s ing, definitely,” she says. “That idea thesis for Simon Fraser University’s that you could make your own kind MFA program. Weighty theoretical of freedom or your own kind of fun considerations around the politics for really cheap. You take what you of representation form the produc- have, you take what your available tion’s subtext; a fantastic cast of sing- resources are, and you go out and do ers and musicians, including vocalist something with it.” Leah Abramson and drummer Skye With Klasika, that “Hey, let’s put Brooks, provide its extremely accom- on a show” spirit even extends to inplished surface. And we also know venting new instruments. that the show deals with the curious “The music itself, I think, is pretty phenomenon of Czech tramping, a unconventional, because I have this subcultural undertaking related to interest in the musicality of lanthe well-known German obsession guage,” Adler says. “But then there’s with all things Wild West, but less this other big element of sound depolished and more makeshift. sign, which is mostly expressed in “This interest in going into the our use of field recordings. We even outdoors and reconnecting with na- ended up building an instrument to ture, and also the romanticization of play the field recordings; it’s really a the North American wilderness, is MIDI controller in a beautiful guipretty common throughout Europe,” tar. Paul Paroczai, who plays Honza Adler explains. “And sometimes the [Foukal’s alter ego] in the show, cut a way I like to think of it is that there big hole into the guitar and put a lapare German versions of a lot of these top and all sorts of little buttons into things, but the Czech version is the it, and then used MaxMSP to proslightly less obnoxious version. When gram really quick-triggering samples I describe tramping a lot of people of the field recordings. compare it to the German fascination “Of course, part of it is totally with [Wild West author] Karl May, just a theatrical device,” she adds. and the Indian enthusiasm, and there “Tramps play acoustic guitars. are definitely tramps and woodcraft- Our version of a tramp plays an ers in the Czech Republic who like to acoustic guitar that happens to appropriate that kind of wear. But, play crickets and sheep sounds and as a culture, it’s much less about re- recorded voices.” creating some kind of culturally appropriated historical thing, and more Barbara Adl er & Ten Thousand about this experience of finding some Wolves present Klasika at SFU Woodkind of escape or freedom in the for- ward’s Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre on Thursday and est with your friends.” Adler admits that when she actually Friday (October 29 and 30).
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Newsom sticks to her guns RECORDING S JOANNA NEWSOM Divers (Drag City)
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We find out what’s in DJ Sipreano’s fridge Hello, folks, my name is Kevin James Howes (aka Sipreano). I’m a 40-year-old champion of marginalized music and culture who’s been active on the Vancouver music scene since the mid-1990s as a crate digger, vinyl DJ, writer, lover, fighter (as in “Don’t give up the fight!”), drummer, naturesound advocate, and producer. WHO ARE YOU
Terminator X, the S1Ws, and producers the Bomb Squad. Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy Ty Scammell, a local record dealer who passed away in 2004 from cancer, perhaps informed my musical aesthetic more than anyone else. Ty was an old-school Vancouver hippie with a heart of gold and curator of one of the world’s most incredible psychedelic record collections. One day, I asked Ty what his favourite record was. He pointed over to his handmade wooden cabinet brimming with the holiest of holy grails and told me to grab his British, Decca-label copy of the first Thin Lizzy album. It’s been one of my ultimate jams ever since, the perfect combination of youthful spirit and a sensitive and wise introspection. Needless to say, it was a massive honour to help re-release this record with Light in the Attic in 2012.
LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT After Michael Jackson, the next cataclysmic gig for me was the Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head tour stop at the Commodore Ballroom in 1992.…NYC– based opening act the Fu-Schnickens dropped the heaviest bass that I had ever heard in my life. There were also at least three serious fistfights in the audience and a full-blown mosh pit for the Beasties’ hardcore numbers. I don’t know if it was Mike D and Ad-Rock’s generosity or sheer luck, but life has WHAT’S IN YOUR FRIDGE Fruits and vegetables. This is a no-brainer. never been the same. Fruits and vegetables are delicious and TOP RECORDS People often ask part of a well-balanced diet, plus they me, “Sip, how many records do you make you feel good! And we all want have?” Well, I have thousands and to feel good, right? Well, we should all they are all tops in my book. Still, count ourselves blessed to have access there are a handful that I can’t stop to affordable and healthy food here in spinning, year in and year out. Vancouver, available at any number of Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of old-school grocers like Norman’s Fruit Millions to Hold Us Back I feel blessed & Salad or the popular Vancouver to have been exposed to Public Enemy farmers markets that proudly support during their most impactful era in small-farm production. the late 1980s and early 1990s. Call Butter. While I prefer fresh, natNation of Millions the Sgt. Pepper’s ural tastes, from bread to lobster, of the 1980s if you will, but instead butter can certainly make things of melodic and nostalgic envelope- better. Well, richer, anyway! pushing via lysergic London, we have hard-core black American militancy This is a condensed version of What’s and densely sampled netherworlds in Your Fridge. For the full, riotously of hard-hitting sound manifested by entertaining version, go to www. Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, straight.com/music/whats-your-fridge. CANADIAN PACIFIC BLUES SOCIETY PRESENTS
Decemberists and Devendra Banhart, and orchestration was made trendy by the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Andrew Bird. This meant that Joanna Newsom’s oddball opuses fit right in with the zeitgeist, and albums like 2004’s The Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys helped to define the era. While many other freak-folk artists have since embraced new styles or faded from view, Newsom sticks to her guns on Divers, which is another ambitious effort filled with flowery arrangements, pastoral poetry, and the singer’s one-of-a-kind, warbling vocals. Opener “Anecdotes” layers her signature harp-plucking with cinematically swooning strings and fluttering woodwinds, while the harpsichord-driven “Goose Eggs” is a piece of Renaissance Faire cosplay. At other points in the 11-track LP, rock influences make their way into the mix: the slinky swing of “Sapokanikan” is boosted by boomthwacking drums, while the similarly rhythmic “Leaving the City” is given a sense of urgency by its distorted electric-guitar licks. There’s even a sweetly meandering synth in the traditional cover tune “Same Old Man” and spacious, atmospheric textures in “You Will Not Take My Heart Alive”, which serve as intriguing points of contrast in these baroque soundscapes. Given that it’s been five years since Newsom released 2010’s epic-length Have One on Me, it would have been fair to expect her to evolve with the times and emerge with a completely new sound. Instead, she seems every bit as kooky in 2015 as she did in 2004, and this makes Divers all the more engaging.
We still haven’t forgiven Joanna Newsom for the role she played in scaring that poor tyke shitless in that MGMT video, nor for marrying Andy Samberg.
slapping together a mix of jittery guitar-slinging, an upbeat mechano-click of drums, and Berninger’s fresh-squeezed optimism in the face of winning the lottery. “I’m the Man to Be” brings the guy back to earth. Prior to the album’s release, Berninger explained that this tune is taken from “the perspective of a pathetic self-aggrandizing rocker”, and it smacks of depression and withering self-importance. Above a sleek and sly arrangement, he twists his usual baritone boom into a quirky mid-range musing on life while engaged in a “sticky” autoerotic asphyxiation session. There are moments of musical jubilation on Return to the Moon, from the piano-dipped shuffle of “Sleepin’ Light” to the Soft Cell–style electro stomp “Need a Friend”, but Berninger still offers up glumness behind the mike. On “Sad Case”, a nearly National-modelled piece of minor-key rock, the singer reports of his psyche: “It takes a lot of time, and it takes a bit > ALEX HUDSON of crying to get your mind off.” While the EL VY album allows EL VY Berninger to escape his routine and explore a different musical backdrop, Return to the Moon (4AD) it still has him dabbling in bum-out Return to the Moon may be lyricism. For fans of the National, it’s a curious name for EL VY’s a welcome return. > GREGORY ADAMS debut disc, but there are some similar sensations lifting off from the indierock super duo’s first full-length af- JILL TOWNSEND BIG BAND fair. Featuring the National singer Legacy: The Music of Ross Taggart Matt Berninger and Ramona Falls/ (Cellar Live) Menomena member Brent Knopf, it Every other CD that comes this mixes some of the sunnier aural texway is billed as a labour of love— tures of the latter’s projects with the dry and damaged wit that the former and, given the grim economic realities of the modern music industry, that’s delivers in his main gig. The record goes for broke with the probably just about right. But love, as good vibes up front, the title track a tangible presence, is rarely as clearly
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felt as it is on this new CD, which glows almost from beginning to end. I’m qualifying that statement because Legacy’s two opening numbers, “Don’t Call Before 10” and “Light at the End of the Tunnel”, make for a deceptively low-key way to kick things off, being more cool and polite than emotionally fervid. But things pick up from there as the musicians warm to the task at hand—honouring the music and memory of the late saxophonist, pianist, and bandleader Ross Taggart. Dozens, if not hundreds, of threads of connection run through this album. For one, Taggart played tenor sax in trombonist Jill Townsend’s band for more than a decade; for another, the first release on saxophonist Cory Weeds’s prolific Cellar Live label was a Taggart quartet date. A witty, somewhat larger-than-life presence, the musician has been widely missed since his death from renal cancer in 2013. Here, though, the mourning stops and the celebration begins shortly after the last poignant chords of “Tunnel” fade into silence. “T.V. Lunch” packs boisterous bebop swagger and sets the tone for the rest of the disc. It’s not hard to imagine the musicians swapping Taggart stories between takes, and smiles have most definitely replaced tears by the time the assembled players swing into the paradoxically cheerful “B.B.’s Blue Blues”. For some, giving Taggart the last word—via his solo piano rendition of a tune he wrote for Townsend, “Apple Cider Vinegar”—might start the waterworks flowing again. Still, it feels good to hang out with Ross, and 18 of his best friends, for one last time. > ALEXANDER VARTY
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RICH AUCOIN Canadian indie-rock musician tours in support of latest release Ephemeral, with guests the Elwins. Nov 13, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.mrgconcerts.com/.
NITE*MOVES WITH DJ YELLA (OF N.W.A) DJ, producer, and founding member of N.W.A. Nov 7, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees), info www.biltmore cabaret.com/.
WILDHONEY Baltimore dream-pop band tours in support of latest EP Your Face Sideways, with Other Jesus and TV Ugly. Nov 18, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www. mrgconcerts.com/.
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REPTAR Alt-rock band from Athens, Georgia, performs with guests Breathers. Dec 11, Media Club (695 Cambie). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees), info www. mrgconcerts.com/. SAINTSENECA Ohio indie-folk band tours in support of latest release Such Things. Jan 31, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix on sale Oct 30, 10 am, $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. CLASSIFIED Nova Scotia rapper tours in support of upcoming release Greatful, with guest Sonreal. Feb 27, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). The show will also run Feb 28, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, at the Vogue Theatre. Tix for both shows on sale Oct 30, 10 am, $30 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
PATTY GRIFFIN You can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. Patty Griffin has collaborated with the likes of Mavis Staples, Robert Plant, and Emmylou Harris. Make no mistake, though—the Austin, Texas–based singersongwriter doesn’t really need anyone’s help. Blessed with the ability to write songs that aim straight for the heart—and a voice to match—Griffin is a heavy hitter in her own right. On the other hand, if validation from Griffin’s peers is what it will take to get you out to see her play the Commodore Ballroom on Monday (November 2), consider that her songs have been recorded by such folks as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Solomon Burke, the Dixie Chicks, Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert, and Jessica Simpson. And if Griffin’s music is good enough for Jessica Simpson, it’s good enough for you.
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FINGER ELEVEN Alt-rock band from Burlington, Ontario, plays tunes from latest album Five Crooked Lines, with guests Head of the Herd and YUCA. Oct 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix at www.ticketmaster.ca/.
WE HUNT BUFFALO Local rockers tour in support of upcoming release Living With Ghosts. Oct 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Cobalt (917 Main). Tix $12 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
SOULECTION HALLOWEEN Music by Chris McClenney, the Whooligan, Orijanus, Andres, Cherchez, and LeChance. Oct 30, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $15-20, info www.fortunesoundclub.com/.
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN The Georgia Straight presents Canadian pop-rock singer-songwriter touring in support of latest release Old Cheetah, with guests Fiona Bevan and the Passenger. Oct 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $29.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.com modoreballroom.com/.
MAC DEMARCO Canadian singer-songwriter tours in support of latest full-length release Salad Days and EP Another One, with guests Alex Calder, the Courtneys, and Walter TV. Oct 30, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm; Oct 31, doors 2:30 pm, show 4 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/.
DEMI LOVATO AND NICK JONAS American pop sensations perform on their Future Now: The Tour. Aug 24, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix on sale Nov 7 at www.livenation.com/.
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PEAK-A-BOO Music by Five Alarm Funk, Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party, BESTiE, and Can I Live. Oct 30, 7:30 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. DAVID BRAID Jazz pianist-composer performs with “A” Band and NiteCap. Oct 30, 8 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $30/27, info www.capilanou.ca/centre/. CARNIVAL OF LOST SOULS Celebrate Halloween with local rock ‘n’ roll bands Reverend Heathen Strangefellow and the Vaudeville Circus, Warless, Year of the Wolf, Bone Daddies, and Still Spirits. Oct 30, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $15, info www.rickshaw theatre.com/.
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MOVIES REVIEWS THE ASSASSIN Starring Shu Qi. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 61
If there’s a more beautiful movie released
2 this year, I don’t even want to see it. There’s
only so much the eye can take, and veteran Hou Hsiao-hsien—who won the top directing prize at Cannes this year—serves up such a visual feast in The Assassin, it would feel greedy to ask for more. Heavily inf luenced by the more stylized auteurs of Europe’s new wave, the veteran director spent a quarter-century, with films like A City of Sadness, delving into convoluted memories of Taiwan. He has also worked in French, English (both, in Flight of the Red Balloon), and Japanese, and has even made a period piece, Flowers of Shanghai, set in the 1880s. Here, he travels further back, to a Tang Dynasty tale of a female assassin out to avenge betrayals and stir up, or sometimes ameliorate, conf licts between Weibo province and the imperial court.
Into the heart of an assassin
In Hou Hsiao-hsien’s visually ravishing wuxia epic The Assassin, Shi Qi portrays a nearly mute woman who was kidnapped as a child and trained to become a killer.
Donoghue’s best-selling novel into a devastatingly effective piece of entertainment. The front section takes place in the room of the title, Hou Hsiao-hsien serves a visual feast with The Assassin; actually a reinforced suburban The Creeping Garden brings fungi and friends into focus shed where Ma (Brie Larson) has been imprisoned for seven The nearly mute, black-clad Nie Yinniang (ether- years by her captor, Old Nick (Sean Bridgers). Raised eally beautiful Shu Qi, of Journey to the West and inside “Room”, five-year-old Jack (Vancouverite The Transporter), was kidnapped by a mysterious Jacob Tremblay—incredible) has no concept of the nun (Fang-yi Sheu) before she could wed her cous- world beyond a single skylight. Abrahamson imbues in, handsome lord Tian (Crouching Tiger, Hidden his miniature universe with a child’s phantasmaDragon’s Chang Chen). For political reasons, Tian goria of meaning, while sidelong glimpses of Ma married a princess from another clan, but loves reveal a fraying caregiver relentlessly protecting the his concubine more deeply. The two women look emotional health of her child. This is already stunning stuff, but Room raises similar and, indeed, most characters have doppelgängers of some sort. Furthermore, some stories the ante with its second half, following an escape— are repeated from different angles, heightening a no spoiler here—that constitutes the 10 most stressconfusing sense of psychological fragmentation ful minutes any viewer will be asked to endure in a cinema this year. Once free, Jack and Ma are met that rubs up against the tale’s ornate formalism. The spectacularly costumed characters speak in with anything but the relief she dreamed of, even classical cadences, suggesting the pitchy declama- inside the sensitive embrace of the family home tions of Chinese Opera, and they pose in gorgeous with Grandma Nancy (Joan Allen). In the end, Room is really about the impostableaux. Hou, who shot this on 35mm film, draws on the language of silent-era cinema, Kurosawa’s sible choices we face as parents, where the right samurai epics, and Jim Jarmusch postmodernism, decisions are just as easily the wrong ones and and blends in world music and disturbing sound the stakes are too great to contemplate without effects. Rhythm, coloration, and even screen for- imperilling our sanity. How Abrahamson and mats are constantly shifting, and the slo-mo im- his uniformly amazing cast achieve this almost ages are unpredictably punctuated by bursts of imperceptible subtext deserves to be seen. If noisy violence. The settings alternate between Room is also faintly manipulative—Stephen sublimely lit interiors and misty landscapes that Rennicks’s score too often underlines the obgive the characters majesty while dwarfing their vious—a key scene involving a heartless, if incisignificance. This does not make for an easy sive, journalist played by Wendy Crewson is rife with the kind of painful, grown-up ambiguity watch, but it is an unforgettable one. > KEN EISNER that’d make Steven Spielberg’s head pop. > ADRIAN MACK
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controlled Peter Sarsgaard), whose studies in obedience made him the Alfred Kinsey of fascism. Turns out there’s a sliding scale for sadism, too, mostly dependent on levels of official encouragement. In the early 1960s, Milgram hired actors to react to fake shocks administered by the real subjects, who thought they were punishing people for failing impossible memory tests. This was especially meaningful in the moment just after Adolf Eichmann was executed for his role in the Holocaust. Milgram’s work revealed how easily humans can be induced to torment each other, even in seemingly egalitarian societies, as long as someone claiming authority takes responsibility. He wasn’t widely thanked for this insight, and later switched to more benign explorations regarding the tenuous connections between people; Milgram popularized the “six degrees of separation” concept that has since come to suggest a celebrity-infused form of empathy. Throughout, the director uses rear projections, direct audience address, and other well-designed distancing devices, perhaps more than they are strictly needed to merge theatre and science—especially when we are talking about someone played on TV, in 1976, by William Shatner. Winona Ryder’s role as his inquisitive wife feels like a slightly missed opportunity, and there’s no telling why she was so unflatteringly shot. But the movie itself, which includes some nods towards Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, is a rewarding experiment in reaching profound conclusions that not everyone will like.
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TRUTH Starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 61
Long ago, Robert Redford played Bob Wood-
2 ward, a gutsy newspaperman who helped
bring down Richard Nixon but who has since cozied up to the power elite. Here, he’s Dan Rather, a TV icon who talked back to many presidents until With 2014’s Frank, director Lenny Abrahamgetting handed his head for tackling George W. Indie auteur Michael Almereyda has tackled Bush during his fellow Texan’s second presidenson took Michael Fassbender and made him vampires (Nadja), numerous documentar- tial bid, in 2004. spend an entire film with his million-dollar jawline concealed inside a papier-mâché head. Based ies, and even Shakespeare, with a high-tech HamThe focus in Truth, however, is really on 60 on that caper, Abrahamson is either insane or a let. But he’s never pulled off anything as clinically Minutes producer Mary Mapes, played superbly genius—probably the latter, since Frank was such disturbing as Experimenter. This stylishly shot by Cate Blanchett as a hard-drinking, Xanax-popa blast—but the Irish filmmaker prevails against an effort looks at the life and work of Ivy League re- ping newswoman already under official scrutiny even greater set of risks with Room, turning Emma searcher Stanley Milgram (portrayed by a tightly see page 59
Starring Brie Larson. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 61
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Starring Peter Sarsgaard. Rated G. For showtimes, please see page 61
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CAVE PICTURES In a 1988 interview, Nick Cave ami-
ably chided filmmaker John Hillcoat for exploiting his growing fame in order to get Ghosts… of the Civil Dead financed and made. Cave cowrote, scored, and takes a small but electrifying part in the little-seen film, a seriously brutal and stylish prison horror-drama that mingles Foucault with a prescient take (for 1988) on modern surveillance culture and the mutating prison-industrial complex. In the same interview, Cave also confided his love of cinema above all else. He obviously made his peace with Hillcoat, eventually penning screenplays for both The Proposition (2005) and Lawless (2012). Ghosts… gets a rare screening at the Vancity Theatre on Thursday (October 29).
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Six degrees of WTF
GHOST MATERIALITIES Or Halloween for
the more politically freaked-out? Combining scenes from both Ghosts… of the Civil Dead and They Live, artist Jem Noble examines the nightmarish consequences of Reagan/Thatcher–spawned globalization, at the Vancity Theatre on Thursday (October 29).
THEY LIVE Still outta bubble gum and kicking
ass after 27 years, John Carpenter’s sly, low-budget quickie is a brilliant assault on the trance effect of consumerism, and a hell of a lot more fun than reading Louis Althusser. Bring your special glasses to the Vancity Theatre for a late screening on Saturday (October 31).
ROSEMARY’S CURSE Maybe it’s apocryphal, but it’s been claimed that filmmaker Roman Polanski and wife Sharon Tate dined with Robert Kennedy the night before his assassination. At the same dinner were Manchurian Candidate director John Frankenheimer and Charlie Manson’s friend Mama Cass. The Polanskis’ tragic encounter with Manson was just a year away, while Kennedy met REEFER RICHES You might discern the his own Manchurian candidate 24 hours later. Another suspiciously future of B.C. in this CBC doc, which looks at the robotic killer, Mark Chapman, would shoot John Lennon outside the cannabis industry in Washington and Colorado, Dakota Building, where Polanski had filmed Rosemary’s Baby 13 where all-out legalization means you can get your weed minus all that nonsense about “insomnia”. years earlier (and let’s not get started on the Beatles/Mia Farrow Airs on Thursday (October 29). connection). Coincidence or not, it all contributes to the dark mojo surrounding Polanski’s still-terrifying feature, screening at the Cinematheque on Friday and Saturday (October 30 and 31). OCTOBER 29 – NOVEMBER 5 / 2015 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 57
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RED MOON ROAD The Rogue Folk Club presents Winnipeg folk-roots trio, with guests the Wahs. Oct 30, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $20/16, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15103020/.
ORPHEUM THEATRE 601 Smithe, 604665-3050. 2BAHAMAS Nov 11 2GLEN HANSARD Nov 12 2VANCE JOY Jan 12 2BLUE RODEO Jan 26 2LEON BRIDGES Mar 15 2RAFFI Apr 23
NATALIE PRASS Nashville singer-songwriter tours in support of debut self-titled release. Oct 31, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 650 Hamilton, 604-665-3050. 2THE CULT & PRIMAL SCREAM Nov 15 2PUSCIFER Dec 2 2TWENTY ONE PILOTS Apr 10 2RAIN Apr 20
THE INTERNET Los Angeles-based soul collective tours in support of latest release Ego Death. Oct 31, doors 7 pm, show 7:30 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix $20/15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. CARLO MARCHIONE Guitarist performs a solo recital. Oct 31, 7-9 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $35/25/20, info www.van couverguitar.org/events/carlo-marchione/. AFRO-CUBAN DIMENSIONS: A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM CUBA TO CANADA The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre presents a concert examining the musical history of Cuba through performances by Israel Berriel, Pablo Cárdenas, Peter Dowse, Miguelito Valdés, Danay Sinclair, Paul Bray, Mario Allende, Ilhan Saferali, Salvador Ferreras, and Danais Yera Guerra. Oct 31, 8 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $30 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife Records and www.brownpaper tickets.com/, info www.vlacc.ca/. 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/. CATURDAY CREW: INFECTION Halloween party features an interactive DJ, dance, theatre, and music by Space Laces, Pretty Much?!, Kermode, Reflektor, and Caturday Crew. Oct 31, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20, info www.rickshawtheatre.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/. HAUNTED CIRCUS Music by Season to Attack, Ghost Body, Mausiki, and Quartered. Oct 31, 8 pm, Hindenburg (23 W. Cordova). Tix $15, info www.imuproductions.com/. DEATH BY DJ Party features a HulaHoop dance-off, a costume contest, and music by Michael Fraser and the Black Dog String Quartet, AM Terror and Break Monster, and 44-Minute Salad. Oct 31, 9 pm–2 am, Grandview Legion (2205 Commercial). Tix $15, info www.facebook. com/events/516286768533890/. THE HAUNTING ON HASTINGS 2 Halloween party features cash bars, prizes for best costume, and music by DJs Citrus, EPQE, Sean Evans, Branzei, and Dips. Oct 31, 9 pm–3 am, The Korean Cultural Centre. Tix $25-30, info www.hauntingonhastings.com/. HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY Music by 100 Proof, the Staggers & Jaggs, the Milk Pipes, and the Eleven Twelves. Oct 31, 9:25 pm, Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir). Tix $12, info www.imuproductions.com/. RYN WEAVER American indie-pop singersongwriter tours in support of premiere release The Fool, with guests Holychild and Astr. Nov 1, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. ANDRA DAY: CANCELLED American soul-blues singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Cheers to the Fall. Nov 2, doors 8 pm,show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Refunds available at point of purchase.
REPUBLIC 958 Granville, 604-669-3214. House, hip-hop, EDM, chart, and reggae. Open nightly from 10 pm to 3 am.
PATTY GRIFFIN The Georgia Straight presents American folk-rock singersongwriter, with guests Darlingside. Nov 2, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $37.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.commodoreballroom.com/. G.E.M. Chinese pop superstar performs on her first-ever North American tour. Nov 3, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix from $48 to $198 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. LEON BRIDGES The Georgia Straight presents American gospel-soul singersongwriter touring in support of upcoming debut release Coming Home. Nov 3, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees). SOLD OUT. IN THE VALLEY BELOW Los Angelesbased synth-pop duo tours in support of debut release The Belt. Nov 3, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $13 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. PARKWAY DRIVE Australian metalcore band tours in support of upcoming studio album Ire. Nov 3, doors 7:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $28 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Zulu Records, and www.rickshawtheatre.com/. 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/. LUNA New York City-based indie-rock band. Nov 4, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. L7 Los Angeles-based rock band reunites, featuring an all-original lineup. Nov 4, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $39.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.
2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS A$AP ROCKY AND TYLER, THE CREATOR The Rocky and Tyler tour comes to Vancouver, with guests Danny Brown and Vince Staples. Nov 10, doors 6:30 pm, show 7 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $29.50-65 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/. THE WEEKND Canadian indie-R&B singer-songwriter performs on his Madness Fall Tour. Dec 2, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way). Tix $39.50-99.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. MUSE English alt-rock band performs on its Drones World Tour, with guests
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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 ALEXANDER GASTOWN 91 Powell, 778-379-0407. Gastown club, lounge, and live music venue featuring weekly club nights and various concerts. 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 2HOW THE GROUCH STOLE CHRISTMAS: THE GROUCH & ELIGH Nov 19
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ASTORIA PUB 769 E. Hastings, 604-254-3636. Dudette Sun, Live Fast! Mon, Their Satanic Majesties Request DJs Tue; local and touring bands and DJs Thu-Sat. 2BOUNCE: 90S HIP HOP/RAP/R&B HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY Oct 29 2WAKE, BURNING GHATS, SKULL VULTURES, HOPELEUS & KLANDESTIN Oct 30 2THE MATADORS Nov 21 AT THE WALDORF 1489 E. Hastings, 604253-7141. Three separate rooms, including Tiki Room, Tabu, and the Hideaway. 27 DEADLY SINS Oct 30 2HALLOWEEN AT THE WALDORF Oct 31 2DADDY AND THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, FULL FORCE FUNK Nov 7 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. 2DRINK.DINE. DANCE. SERIES Oct 29 BILTMORE CABARET 2755 Prince Edward, 604-676-0541. 2YONATAN GAT Oct 30 2NATALIE PRASS Oct 31 2HALLOWEEN BONE-US BASH! Nov 1 2ANDRA DAY: CANCELLED Nov 2 2IN THE VALLEY BELOW Nov 3 2LUNA Nov 4 2THE MOTORLEAGUE Nov 6 2NITE*MOVES WITH DJ YELLA (OF N.W.A) Nov 7 2DJ ANJALI AND THE INCREDIBLE KID Nov 10 2KATE BOY Nov 17 2BLITZEN TRAPPER Nov 20 2JON BRYANT Nov 27 2HEALTH Dec 7 2KIASMOS Dec 12 2AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI Mar 22 BIMINI PUBLIC HOUSE 2010 W. 4th, 604733-7116. Twenty-four taps of rotating and interesting craft beers. Pub trivia Mon; beer club Tue; Wing Wed; dance party Fri-Sat; happy hour 3-6 pm. BLACKBIRD PUBLIC HOUSE & OYSTER BAR 905 Dunsmuir, 604-899-4456. Bistro and public house with oyster bar, barbershop, Scotch bar, and live music Wed-Fri. Open daily at 11 am. Happy hour 3-6 pm. CHARLES BAR 136 W. Cordova, 604568-8040. Gastown sports bar features nine-foot HD screen and DJs on weekend nights. Wavy Fridays with DJs Seko&Marvel; Back & Forth Saturdays with rap, R&B, and club classics. CINEMA PUBLIC HOUSE 901 Granville, 604-694-0202. Pub featuring craft beer and cocktails, pub food, late-night menu, and weekend brunch. DJs all night Wed-Sun. Happy hour 3-6 pm. COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2WE HUNT BUFFALO Oct 29 2THE SLOTHS Nov 5 2NSFW: HIP HOP MEETS STRIPTEASE VOL. 14 Nov 7 2BRONCHO Nov 14 2JOANNA GRUESOME Nov 15 2GARDENS AND VILLA Nov 17 2ELEPHANT STONE Nov 19 2NIKKI LANE Nov 21 2KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS Nov 22 2BELL WITCH Dec 3 2TACOCAT AND SALLIE FORD Dec 12 2PITY SEX
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for her award-winning work exposing U.S. atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison when she happened upon another make-or-break story. It was already widely suspected that Bush ducked what little duty was expected of him during the Vietnam War. But shit got specific when a retired military man (Stacy Keach here) handed Mapes a folder of documents describing which strings were pulled to get the future war president both in and out of the Texas Air National Guard. With Karl Rove’s tricksters busy smearing actual war hero John Kerry at the height of the Iraq debacle, the story aired, causing an instant sensation six months before the election. The keyboard warriors of the thennew blogosphere quickly picked the documents apart, thus providing an introduction to the world most of us live in today, with cascades of noisy minutiae obscuring larger stories of national import. Alongside Topher Grace and Elisabeth Moss, the supporting cast features Houston-born Dennis Quaid, who might have made a more convincing Dan Rather. And the film, shot in Australia by writer-director James Vanderbilt—better known for his scripts for Zodiac and the last two Spider-Man movies—sketches out Mapes’s motivation too soon and too simply. Still, its lessons sting. Less an ode to broadcast journalism than a requiem for its demise, the too tidily titled Truth indicts a society that has almost giddily surrendered its right to ask tough questions. > KEN EISNER
VICTORIA Starring Laia Costa. In English and German, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 61
the same name. Still riffing on Tony with no reservations, he now plays the rudimentarily named Adam Jones, a once-top chef who lost it all to the usual excesses. Happily, writer Stephen Knight and director John Wells spare us the sordid details. Instead, they pick things up when the newly sober Jones returns to London from a self-imposed Louisiana exile, ready to start over with friends and enemies. These are sometimes the same people, as various colleagues and rivals sniff out how much trouble the guy is carrying with his custom knives. Among many, there’s the French colleague (The Intouchables’ Omar Sy) whose girlfriend Adam poached back when he was always baked, and the stylish competitor (Matthew Rhys) who can’t seem to escape his epicurean shadow. The maître d’ (Daniel Brühl) at the Paris restaurant Adam ruined now runs his own hotel, and he agrees to let the swaggering American—who already has two Michelin stars and speaks pretty good French and Italian—launch his new spot there, as long as he stays clean and sees a shrink (Emma Thompson). The movie hardly needs psychological intervention, because Burnt (which was going to be called Chef until Jon Favreau’s food-truck movie came along) is itself a kind of culinary therapy. Cooper is suitably intense as a kitchen tyrant serious about eating and self-improvement. And the moment he adds a female line chef (his American Sniper colead Sienna Miller) to his Dirty Dozen–like crew, it’s more than obvious where his redemption will come from. The ingredients are just what you expect, but Wells and company manage to concoct 100 minutes of palatable entertainment. Of course, you will be hungry less than an hour later.
> KEN EISNER
BURNT Starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 61
Ten years ago, Bradley Cooper
2 played a character called Jack
Bourdain (seriously) in a short-lived TV series called Kitchen Confidential, spun off from that bestseller of
Undying killers who drive As-
2 ton Martins. A secret society of
wizards in Manhattan. Beating hearts torn from living chests. Michael Caine calmly explaining how it all works. On paper, this sounds like ridiculous fun. Perhaps it should have remained on paper. Were it a fantasy novel, or a popup book, one could groove on The Last Witch Hunter’s production design and setting, which postulates that white-magic wizards allow an immortal outsider, Kaulder, to catch
might have worked, but the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director was ditched early in production, and his replacement Breck Eisner’s main idea is to shoot handheld in tight close-up. I am not sure why we are supposed to like Kaulder, apart from his car and his dreams, beautifully lit by veteran cinematographer Dean Semler. He comes off as a burly, swaggering knowit-all, effortlessly finding clues and repeatedly rescuing good witch Chloe (Rose Leslie). Leslie, though, plays Chloe as so conflicted and likable that she gives the movie its actual beating heart. She might be more magical than anything Kaulder can stab. > RON YAMAUCHI
“ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE DECADE.” RICHARD ROEPER,
“‘ROOM’
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“TWO OF THE BEST
HOURS OF THE YEAR.”
A documentary by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Rating unavailable. For showtimes, please see page 61
The word slime is rarely at-
2 tached to anything good. And
when it shows up next to mould, it sounds even worse. But that’s no reason to miss the many delights of The Creeping Garden, a documentary that pulls you down to ground level and makes you feel happy about the 80-minute trip. Frequently seen, if noticed at all, some kinds of slippery fungi, lichens, and slime moulds are actually single-celled creatures that live together in massed societies of almost infinite variety, in constantly shifting response to changing environments. They survive virtually everywhere in symbiotic rapport with bacteria, plants, and animals. Their human friends include British codirectors Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, who give us an intimate view of this almost-secret world, which turns out to be both fascinating and startlingly beautiful. Building a hypnotic flow of psychedelic microscopy and time-lapse imagery, Grabham and Sharp (which sounds like a particularly dangerous law firm) also do real science. That means spending time with various mycologists, microbiologists, and amateur naturalists, all of whom display far more affection for their subjects than you would expect. Scientists are beginning to find ways to harness, or at least understand, mouldy methods of producing energy and signalling ecological threat. The most intriguing stuff comes from visual artist Heather Barnett and composer Eduardo Reck Miranda, who induce the colourful protozoa to participate in art and, believe it or not, music of persuasive eeriness. Additional soundtrack efforts from experimental guitarist Jim O’Rourke (formerly of Sonic Youth) underscore the connection with hoary sci-fi movies like The Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This time, however, the slime gets top billing. > KEN EISNER
“AN
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celona-born Laia Costa, falls in with a group of German louts after a night of Berlin partying (and who doesn’t love to shoot a stroboscopic dance floor?), things go from dumb to dangerous as she gets snared in a plot her new friends are too stupid to avoid. The premise here is that everything happens in real time, in a single, unedited take. But really, so the fuck what? All the most impressive stuff was done in writer-director Sebastian Schipper’s advance work; everything from that crowded club to surprisingly empty streets had to be locked down before the camera could be turned on. Of course, that’s true for all movies, and 138 minutes is just too long for viewers to remember why they’re supposed to be so wowed. Ultimately, any feature lives and dies by its story, and this one is scheisse. The four dudes Vicki Barcelona gloms on to are repellent, and their apparent leader (young TV veteran Frederick Lau) is a charisma-free loser whose only visible connection to her is that they both speak a little English. That’s no help to us, because the emotionless dialogue consists of improvisational riffing by actors who have nothing interesting to say to each other. Beyond that, two hours plus spent with our dark-haired heroine reveals little about her personality, other than abysmal decision-making skills. Basically, the movie’s bid for Dogme-style authenticity is crushed the moment Victoria explains that she’s a failed musician and then demonstrates it in a piano-playing scene so obviously faked they should have killed the camera right there. At that point, however, there’s still 90 unedited minutes to go.
Starring Vin Diesel. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 61
the few black-magic exponents that surface from time to time. These are kept in a sprawling jail under a New York cathedral, where they are biding their time… for now. This is a fun idea. But movies are supposed to move. We want to follow characters that we like and who grow in relation to each other. Instead, The Last Witch Hunter jumps into the action with Kaulder (Vin Diesel) dispatching foes with ease. It’s as though the filmmakers thought that we were already at home, watching this on PVR, jumping from action scene to action scene. With the crazily inventive Timur Bekmambetov behind the camera, this approach
> KEN EISNER
When a transplanted Spaniard THE CREEPING GARDEN
2 called Victoria, played by Bar-
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Room filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson (left) sings praises about his star, Vancouver actor Jacob Tremblay (right).
Director finds Room to grow > B Y A DRIA N M A C K
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arenting is hell, and no one escapes from childhood unscathed. Filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson already knew this going into Room, his masterful adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel, in which a woman imprisoned by her rapist for seven years is forced to bear and then raise a child inside a reinforced garden shed. Both the film and the book are apt to prompt a crisis of parental guilt for those who glean its subtle metaphorical reach. As Brie Larson’s Ma discovers— along with her mother, Nancy (Joan Allen)—there’s no real way to know if we’re making the right choices for our offspring, and even the best intentions can double back into disaster. “I think about that a lot,” says Abrahamson, talking to the Straight from Toronto, where Room, opening Friday (October 30), was filmed. “I have a seven-year-old and a fouryear-old, and one thing I wasn’t expecting when I imagined parenthood was just how conflicting it can
be and how uncertain one is about the effects of your actions, and the impossibility of not losing your temper sometimes. So this film was definitely a way of amplifying those anxieties, because obviously the decisions Ma makes, and what she forces her boy to do, is so extreme. And yet it’s justified in the way that we all justify things, which is ‘Well, it’s ultimately for his own good.’ Or so we think. We’re never really sure.” With a soft chuckle, the Irish writer-director adds: “It’s that Philip Larkin poem I love. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.’ It’s a brilliant description.” Mercifully, Abrahamson did anything but fuck up his new film, which added the most-popular-Canadianfilm award from this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival to a growing slate of raves and honours. It’d be wrong to overlook the wall-to-wall brilliance of its performances in this regard, particularly the astonishing connection between Brie Larson and Vancouverite Jacob Tremblay, only a
tender eight years old when filming began. “What a find. We wouldn’t have had a film without him,” says his reverent director. “Jake’s a real actor. He’s not just a kid who’s comfortable in front of a camera.” Not surprisingly, the Oscar buzz is already on, but Abrahamson also concedes that not everyone is eager to enter his Room. He recalls overhearing a woman at the Telluride Film Festival urging a friend to see the movie everyone else was talking about. “It’s not what you think,” she told her. “It’s amazing, it’s so weirdly uplifting!” “It has challenges in terms of persuading an audience that this is actually not a grim film, this is ultimately an emotionally rewarding or cathartic film,” says Abrahamson, expressing some relief at Room’s tested and seemingly sweeping appeal. “There’s been such a huge emotional reaction to the film, often by people you really wouldn’t expect it from, like hard-bitten agents and studio people,” he says. “I was tempted to suggest a tag line for the film: ‘Reduced grown agents to tears.’ ” -
> BY ADRIAN MACK
One of the consistently great actors in American film, Joan Allen takes a tough supporting role in Room. As Grandma Nancy, she has to play a woman who welcomes a five-year-old grandson she never knew she had into her home, along with a daughter she believed was dead. The threetime Oscar nominee spoke to the Straight from Toronto. What are you trying to convey about Grandma Nancy? She’s traumatized too, isn’t she? I thought about the kind of help Nancy tried to get after the abduction. Did she become an activist? Some people respond differently. Some parents get lost. I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and I knew this one family, a highschool boy was killed in a car accident, and his mother became a hopeless alcoholic. She could never, ever face it or get over it. And that happens. I think Nancy managed to keep her life. I think she’s a survivor. The line between hurting or helping your kids—where is it? I am a parent, and you can do as much as you can, you can do the best you can, but to me it’s such a crapshoot. You have a child, and it’s the biggest gamble in the world. There are outside forces that you just have no control over. This is at its most extreme in Room, you know, where Nancy’s daughter was just on a corner and a guy happened to say whatever. But I do love the scene where she says, “Mum, if you hadn’t told me to be so nice all the time…” Have you seen Room with an audience? I was at Telluride last weekend and I saw the finished product with an audience there, and oh, wow, it was great. It was really, really extraordinary, people standing, clapping, crying. People have been very moved by it. It’s a huge testament to Brie [Larson], Jake [Tremblay], and Lenny [Abrahamson]. And I know I’m in there, but they worked together so closely. Don’t sell yourself short! Brie had to go through a lot of stuff. She’s very disciplined. My hat’s off to her. Jake did a beautiful job, but his character is more okay with the way things are. It was Brie that had to go to hell and back. The depths she went to? That wasn’t easy. -
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OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, and Anthony Mackie star in Manglehorn director David Gordon Green’s drama about an American woman who is sent to the war-torn lands of South America to help install a new leader. Rated PG. 108 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster, Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford Surrey, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas TRUTH Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, and Dennis Quaid star in writer-director James Vanderbilt’s drama about the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush’s military service and the subsequent firestorm of criticism it ignited. Rated PG. 121 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas and SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas VICTORIA Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, and Franz Rogowski star in Sometime in August writer-director Sebastian Schipper’s thriller about a young woman who discovers a dark side to her flirtation with a local guy. 138 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
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THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca 2BARBARELLA Fri 7:00; Sat 9:30 2ROSEMARY’S BABY Fri 9:00; Sat 7:00 2THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN Sun 6:30; Mon 8:30 2THE STATE OF THINGS Sun 8:45; Wed 6:30 2YOUSSOU N’DOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE Thu 7:00 VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/ theatre 2LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Fri 10:30; Sat 4:00 2THE ASSASSIN Fri 6:30; Sat 7:50; Sun 3:00, 7:00; Mon 1:00; TueWed 6:30, 8:40; Thu 8:10 2THE CREEPING GARDEN Fri 8:40; Sat 6:00; Sun 5:10; Thu 5:30 2THEY LIVE Sat 10:00
Billy "The Great" Hope, whose unorthodox stance, the so-called “Southpaw,” consists of an ineloquent, though brutal, display of offensive fighting…one fueled by his own feelings of inadequacy and a desperate need for love, money and fame. The reigning Junior Middleweight boxing champion has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.
SPECIAL EVENTS WIM WENDERS: A RETROSPECTIVE The Cinematheque celebrates the career of master German filmmaker Wim Wenders with a major retrospective of his work, the first presented in Vancouver in more than two decades. To Dec 23, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.thecinematheque.ca/.
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THE BIRDS Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film about a group of birds who begin to attack people in a small Northern California town. Oct 29, 6:45 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre.ca/. GHOST MATERIALITIES: UNDISCLOSED FORCES AND THE NEOLIBERAL SUBJECT An essay-performance and screening by Jem Noble, featuring artist-edits of Ghosts of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat) and They Live (John Carpenter). The full length version will screen after Noble’s presentation. Oct 29, 7 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9, info www.viff.org/. GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD Actorwriter Nick Cave’s Australian prison drama is the feature directorial debut of John Hillcoat. Oct 29, 8:45 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9, info www.cineworks.ca/attend/event/133/. TROLL 2: IN HECKLEVISION Claudio Fragasso’s 1990 horror film about a group of evil goblins who attack a vacationing family. Oct 29, 9:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
HALLOWEEN CINEMA 1968 STYLE The Cinematheque celebrates Halloween with Roger Vadim’s sci-fi sex farce Barbarella and Roman Polanski’s deliciously disturbing Rosemary’s Baby. Oct 30-31, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info 604688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca/. HALLOWEEN DRIVE-IN AT THE RIVER DISTRICT Fresh Air Cinema presents outdoor screenings of The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Lost Boys. Oct 30, 6-11:55 pm, River District Vancouver (3650 E. Kent). Tix $20 per car (eight occupants maximum), info www.halloweendrivein.ca/. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS The musicalcomedy cult-classic film about a plant that comes from outer space and demands to be fed human flesh. Oct 30, 10:30 pm; Oct 31, 4 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9 (plus membership fee), info www.viff.org/theatre/. BURNABY MOUNTAIN RESISTANCE: HOW IT WENT DOWN Screening of the feature-length documentary about the Burnaby Mountain movement, how it started, who’s involved, what happened, and what’s next. Oct 30, 6 pm, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey campus (12666 72nd Ave., Surrey). Admission by donation, info www.facebook.com/ events/191177671217214/.
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THE EXORCIST Screening of William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic about an evil spirit that possesses a young girl. Oct 31, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $8/6, info www.riotheatre.ca/. THE BUFFY MUSICAL! Sing along the the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical. Oct 31, 12 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $15, info www.facebook. com/events/1657429934471439/. ATTACK ON TITAN: PART 1 Director Shinji Higuchi’s action-drama sees humans fight monstrous Titans for their very survival. Oct 31, 1:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/. RAISING SH*T: BUD OSBORN FILM SCREENINGS Screening of films by Bud Osborn, the poet laureate of the Downtown Eastside. Includes “Linda Gains”, “For Bruce Eriksen”, “Keys to Kingdoms”, and “Down Here”. Oct 31, 2 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/ events1/2015-2016Fall/budosborn.html. ATTACK ON TITAN: PART 2 Director Shinji Higuchi’s action-drama sees humans fight monstrous Titans for their very survival. Oct 31, 3:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www. riotheatre.ca/. ESTATE, A REVERIE Director Andrea Zimmerman’s film celebrates the resilience of people who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Oct 31, 4 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Free admission, info https://author.sfu.ca/cf. THE SHINING Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of the horror novel by Stephen King. Oct 31, 6:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www. riotheatre.ca/. HALLOWEEN John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 horror film sees an escaped psychotic murderer stalk a bookish teenage girl and her friends. Oct 31, 9:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www.riotheatre.ca/. THEY LIVE Screening of John Carpenter’s 1988 film about a man who discovers that the powerful elite is an alien race feeding off of the apathy of human beings. Oct 31, 10 pm, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Tix $11/9, info www.cineworks.ca/attend/event/134/. FROM DUSK TILL DAWN Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 horror flick sees two criminals and their hostages seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires. Oct 31, 11:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www. riotheatre.ca/. THE 17TH ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS: MATINEE Animated shortfilm competition features work by filmmakers like Don Hertzfeldt and Amanda Palmer. Nov 1, 12:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10-20, info www.riotheatre.ca/. NOVEMBER DOCUMENTARIES AT WESBROOK VILLAGE Screenings of Under the Sea (Nov 1), One Life (Nov 8), Arctic Tale (Nov 15), Winged Migration (Nov 22), and Animals Are Beautiful People (Nov 29). Nov 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 1:30-3 pm, Wesbrook Welcome Centre (3378 Wesbrook Mall). Free admission, info www.discoverwesbrook.com/posts/discover-animals-november-documentaries-at-wesbrook-village/. BIKE SHORTS HUB Cycling presents an afternoon of local and international short films about bikes. Nov 1, 1:30-4 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $10-15, info www.bikehub.ca/.
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UNDER THE VOLCANO John Huston’s 1984 film examines a day in the life of an alcoholic British consul whose selfdestructive behaviour is metaphorically intertwined with the unsettled, shifting state of civilization and his own crumbling marriage. Nov 1, 3:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $10/8, info www. riotheatre.ca/.
“MERU THRILLS... WORTH SEEKING OUT ON THE BIG SCREEN.” ALAN SCHERSTUHL, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“ENGROSSING... HAIR RAISING... A NAIL-BITER.”
THE 17TH ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS Animated short-film competition features work by filmmakers like Don Hertzfeldt and Amanda Palmer. Nov 1, 6:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $20/15, info riotheatre.ca.
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VANCHAN DARK - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL SCREENING Monthly series at which 10 director’s webisodes will be chosen to be viewed in front of a live audience but only five will be asked to continue with a new episode into next month. Nov 1, 7 pm, Beaumont Studios (316 W. 5th). Tix $8, info www.vanchan.ca.
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EXPERIMENTER Cymbeline writerdirector Michael Almereyda’s historical drama tells the story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who conducted a series of radical behaviour experiments in 1961. Nov 1, 9:15 pm; Nov 2, 6:45 pm; Nov 3, 6:45 pm; Nov 4, 9:30 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info riotheatre.ca.
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GOODNIGHT MOMMY Screening of the film about nine-year-old twin boys who start to question their mother’s identity. Nov 2, 3, 9 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
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IT HAPPENED HERE Join Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Centre and Uppity Girl Productions for a screening of documentary It Happened Here. Nov 3, 6:30-10 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $16.90, info www.eventbrite.ca/e/it-happened-heredocumentary-screening-tickets-18621855471/. ARCADE FIRE: THE REFLEKTOR TAPES Film recontextualizes the Arcade Fire album Reflektor. Nov 4, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www. riotheatre.ca/. VANCOUVER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The longest running Jewish film festival in Canada encourages multicultural interaction while presenting comedies, feature dramas, thrillers, documentaries, and shorts. Films on offer include Yidlife Crisis, The Singing Abortionist, Closer to the Moon, Vice Versa, Torah Treasures & Curious Trash, and Raise the Roof. Nov 5-12, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas (2110 Burrard St.). Tix $12-144 (plus membership fee), info www.vjff.org/. VANCOUVER ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL The 19th annual eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine film programs include 37 feature-length and short films of all genres, with English dialogue or English subtitles, from the Asian diaspora. Nov 5-8,
Cineplex Odeon International Village (88 W. Pender). Tix $8-15, info www.vaff.org/.
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CINEPLEX FIFTH AVENUE CINEMAS 2110 Burrard St., Vancouver, 604-734-7469, www. cineplex.com 2MERU Fri-Sun, Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15; Mon 2:10, 4:40, 10:00; Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00; Thu 2:00, 4:30 2REMEMBER Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 2ROOM Fri-Wed 12:15, 1:00, 3:15, 4:00, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00; Thu 12:15, 1:00, 3:15, 3:50, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00 2STEVE JOBS Fri-Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 CINEPLEX ODEON INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE CINEMAS 88 W. Pender, Vancouver, 604-806-0799, www.cineplex. com 2BRIDGE OF SPIES Fri, Sun-Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 2BURNT Fri, Sun-Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 2GOOSEBUMPS Fri-Thu 4:45 2HOME Sat 11:00 2HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Fri, Sun-Thu 3:50; Sat 3:45 2JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS Fri, Sun-Thu 1:40, 4:40; Sat 11:30, 2:20, 5:00 2OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Fri, Sun-Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00; Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 2PAN Fri, Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:25; Sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:20 2REMEMBER Fri, Sun-Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Sat 11:05, 1:20, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 2ROCK THE KASBAH Fri, Sun-Thu
7:35, 10:15; Sat 7:45, 10:25 2TRUTH Fri-Tue, Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10; Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 2VICTORIA Fri, Sun-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; Sat 12:25, 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 2THE WITNESS Fri-Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45
OMNIMAX THEATRE 1455 Quebec St., Vancouver, 604-443-7443, www.scienceworld.ca/omnimax 2DINOSAURS ALIVE! Fri-Thu 1:00 2HUMPBACK WHALES Fri-Thu 12:00, 2:00
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RIO THEATRE 1660 E. Broadway, CINEPLEX ODEON PARK & TILFORD Vancouver, 604-878-3456, www.riotheatre. 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, 604-985-4215, www.cineplex.com 2HOTEL ca 2ATTACK ON TITAN: THE MOVIE -- PART 1 Sat 1:30 2ATTACK ON TITAN: THE MOVIE TRANSYLVANIA 2 Fri, Mon, Thu 7:20, 9:45; Sat 9:45, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45; Sun 1:40, 4:30, -- PART 2 Sat 3:15 2THE EXORCIST Fri 11:59 7:20, 9:45; Tue 4:30, 7:20, 9:45; Wed 9:45; 2EXPERIMENTER Sun 9:15; Mon-Tue 6:45; Wed 9:30 2FROM DUSK TILL DAWN Sat Stars & Strollers Thu 1:00 2THE INTERN Fri11:15 2GOODNIGHT MOMMY Mon-Tue Wed 9:50 2JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS 9:00 2HALLOWEEN Sat 9:15 2THE SHINING Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 4:10, 7:00 Sat 6:15 2UNDER THE VOLCANO Sun 3:30 2OUR BRAND IS CRISIS Fri, Mon, WedThu 6:45, 9:30; Sat 10:00, 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30; SCOTIABANK THEATRE VANCOUVER Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30; Tue 4:10, 6:45, 9:30; 900 Burrard St., Vancouver, 604-630-1407, Stars & Strollers Thu 1:00 2PAL JOEY Sun www.cineplex.com 2CRIMSON PEAK 12:55 2SPECTRE Thu 7:00, 10:15 2STEVE Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35; Sat 11:00, JOBS Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 6:50, 9:45; Sat 9:15, 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35; Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25; Tue 1:35, 4:40, 10:40; Wed 1:45, 4:40, 9:45; Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 10:35; Thu 1:45, 4:40, 10:40 2THE INTERN Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50; Sat 4:05, 7:00, CINEPLEX PARK THEATRE 3440 Cambie 9:50; Mon, Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00; Tue St., 3440 Cambie St., 604-709-3456, www. 1:15, 4:05, 10:00; Wed 1:15, 4:15, 10:00 2THE cineplex.com 2THE ROCKY HORROR LAST WITCH HUNTER Fri-Sat 12:35, 2:55, PICTURE SHOW Fri-Sat 12:00 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Mon, Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50; Tue DUNBAR THEATRE 4555 Dunbar St. at 30 Ave., Vancouver, 604-222-2991, https://www. 1:05, 4:25, 7:00, 9:55; Wed 1:05, 3:55, 7:25, 9:50 2THE MARTIAN Fri 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, facebook.com/DunbarTheatre 2HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 Mon 4:30 2THE INTERN 10:05; Sat-Sun 3:40, 6:55, 10:05; Mon 1:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05; Tue 1:30, 3:40, 10:05; Wed Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:40, 7:00, 1:20, 4:10, 10:05; Thu 3:40, 10:05 2PAL JOEY 9:35 2SPECTRE Thu 7:00, 10:20
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savage love I am a straight, married, 38-yearold woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Th ree years after we were married, we found out that he was HIVpositive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of him cheating. We worked through that and remained married. Recently I saw a message from a woman saying, “Call me or I am calling your wife.” I identified myself, and she and I spoke briefly. I asked her how long they were having a relationship, and she told me since January. I did not mention his status. I confronted him, and he claims she is a crazy stalker. He says there was a brief fl irtation but then she became clingy and “crazy”, and he did not know how to tell me without compromising our relationship. He blocked her calls and emails. He is undetectable, and we use condoms. He has never tried to not use a condom when we have had sex. In the state where we live, a positive person who does not inform a person of their status before having sex faces up to five years in prison. I have brought this to his attention. He is sticking to his story that he did not have sex with her. I do not believe him. We met with a therapist last week, only for a placement consultation. We did not mention his status. Th is is my biggest issue: I don’t think we can work through
> BY DAN SAVAGE
our problems without honesty. I need him to come clean and admit to me—and our therapist—that he had sex with this woman. If he does, I believe the therapist will be legally obligated to report his behaviour to the police. I am preparing myself for divorce, something he doesn’t know, and while I don’t want to have him arrested, I feel we need the therapy in order to respectfully co-parent— and lying to a therapist or omitting the full truth seems crazy. > SEEKING TRUTH ABOUT THIS UNPLEASANT SITUATION
“Where to start?” asked Peter Staley, the legendary AIDS activist, founding director of the Treatment Action Group, and long-time board member of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. “I’ll leave the relationship issues to you, Dan, but isn’t the level of distrust here the most toxic part of the story?” The level of distrust does strike me as toxic—but seeing as your husband cheated, STATUS, and not for the first time, your distrust is understandable. What I don’t understand is your desire to see your husband sent to prison. You don’t want honesty (he doesn’t seem capable of that), you don’t want to “work through your problems” (your marriage is over), you just want your soon-to-be ex-husband to rot in jail. But since you don’t want to call the police yourself—you don’t want your fingerprints on this—you want to con your husband (with my help!) into telling “the full truth” to a therapist who will have to call the police.
“STATUS really does appear to be plotting her revenge here,” said Staley. “Divorce, checking her state’s HIV criminalization laws, drawing her husband into making a confession that could land him in prison.” And the instrument of your revenge—laws that require HIV-positive people to disclose to their sex partners—are unjust and unworkable. “I stand with every public-health organization, including UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, in abhorring HIV criminalization laws like the one STATUS cites,” said Staley. “We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else. Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good. Stigma rises. Fewer people disclose. Jilted partners use the laws to lash out.” That’s exactly what you sound like, STATUS: a jilted partner who hopes to use an unjust law to lash out at her soon-to-be ex-husband. And while you have cause to be angry (serial adulterers suck), you don’t have grounds to destroy your husband’s life. And you can’t rationalize your plot based on the “danger” your husband presented to the other woman. Your husband is taking his meds and has an undetectable viral load. That means he’s effectively noninfectious. So even if he didn’t use condoms with this woman—and you don’t even know for sure if he was fucking her (and he’d be a fool to admit to you
that he was)—he didn’t put her at risk of acquiring HIV. “There’s a great organization called SERO (seroproject.com/) fighting these laws,” said Staley. “Their website is fi lled with frightening cases of people with HIV rotting in jail for supposed nondisclosure, even when no transmission occurred. There are no similar convictions for nondisclosure of hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, herpes, etc., some of which can kill. People with HIV are being singled out by legislatures trying to ‘protect’ the public from ‘AIDS monsters’ created by local TV stations looking for ratings.” Follow Peter Staley on Twitter @ peterstaley and Facebook at face book.com/peterstaley/.
My boyfriend of two years and I broke up because I found out that he was having sexual relations with anonymous men he contacted through Craigslist. My ex will not admit to being bisexual. He claims that he has these urges only when he smokes marijuana. But through our computer history, I caught him watching gay porn at times when I knew he had not smoked marijuana. I check CL periodically, and he is still posting ads regularly, even though he denies this and insists that he has the situation under control. Disturbingly, he is also dating women. I think this is dangerous because there is such a strong chance that he will give these women an STD, such as AIDS, and destroy both of their lives. Since I am the only person in his life who knows his secret, I feel some sort of responsibility.
I am very emotionally troubled by this knowledge, and I don’t feel right about ignoring this. > ANXIETY INFUSES DISTRESSING SITUATION
Your ex is obviously bisexual—or if not, AIDS, then his heteroflexibility is downright acrobatic. But policing your ex’s sexual identity, his love life, and his Craigslist presence is Not Your Job. Knocking dicks out of his mouth is not your responsibility, and you are not responsible for alerting other women to the porn, the personal ads, the dicks, and the laughable excuses. (Contrary to an infamous Reddit thread, marijuana does not make men “temporarily gay”.) You could, however, speak to your ex as a friend—a creepy friend who cyberstalks him, but still a friend. You could urge him to accept that, even if he isn’t bi, he needs to own up to not being entirely straight, either. If he’s going to engage in risky sex practices with men—and you don’t know that he’s doing that (he could be using condoms correctly and consistently)—he should talk to his doctor about getting on PrEP, aka pre-exposure prophylaxis, aka Truvada. Then, having said your piece, you can butt the fuck out of his life with a clear conscience. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with rival podcaster Debby Herbenick about condoms and PrEP…for ladies. Find the Savage Lovecast (Dan’s weekly podcast) every Tuesday at www. straight.com/ . Email: mail@savage love.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 25, 2015 WHERE: Kingsgate Mall Shoppers
YOU: tall blonde natural beauty, me bald red beard bouncing at the Railway Club Fri evening Oct 23. I was being all biz, just starting work at the club, you were asking me questions but I was too rigid to follow up with conversation. Q: Is that your friend on stage? After asking me about a pool table. Well I’d love to play some pool against you somewhere else some time :) Please stop back in Fri/Sat nights and I’ll be sure to notice you
I was waiting in line behind you at the Kingsgate Shoppers when I overheard you comment to the cashier that this lotto ticket was such a waste of 5 dollars and that you never did this, but for some reason you felt compelled to buy it. I commented that I just spend 4 dollars on chocolate instead. You laughed when I made fun of the type of lotto ticket you were buying - Letter to Santa - and then I wished you good luck. I wish I could have helped you scratch it. Want to try our luck?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 23, 2015 WHERE: West Valley Market I caught your eyes in the checkout line at west valley on Tuesday. You have dark hair, olive skin, and a gorgeous natural look. I’m tall and have long hair (maybe in a bun). I looked for you outside to say hi but you were long gone. Let’s get in touch.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 20, 2015 WHERE: starbucks
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 19, 2015 WHERE: BATW Hastings/Cambie You’re the handsome barista at BATW on Hastings always wearing a hat. I come get coffee pretty often, and you ask about my writing and we talked about Joy Division. Normally your eyes and smile make me happy. This time, your eyes looked tortured and there was no smile. Take you out for a drink and make you feel better?
INSTANT CRUSH AT 250 HOWE
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 19, 2015 WHERE: 250 Howe street I was making a delivery at 250 Howe and you were waiting for the elevator, I noticed you immediately, red shoulder length hair in a black dress. I didn’t want to stare so I was occasionally glancing and realized you were doing the same thing. I went on to a different elevator and right before the door closed our eyes met and we smiled. Instant crush. I was wearing a toque, blue windbreaker, black jeans and a large messenger bag.
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ENJOYED TALKING TO YOU A FEW WEEKS AGO AT KITS BEACH ABOUT ‘FRIEDA’
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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 supermodel 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 :)
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You’re the decision-maker on Friday. The best picks should prove easy and obvious. Saturday/Sunday can keep you catering to others, but you’ll get the goods out of it too. Mercury in Scorpio sharpens your smarts and keeps you better focused. You’ll convey and communicate more
effectively, too. Thanks to Venus/ new Venus/Mars cycle can lead you to Mars, that fresher, more dynamic, a better job, solution, or inroad. Keep and sexier you is now ready to test- researching, keep asking questions. drive. CAPRICORN LIBRA December 21–January 20 September 23–October 23 Whether Halloween is On Friday, get out and your thing or not, it’s an easy-access, get your jollies. On Halloween you open-pass weekend. Enjoy it social, may be under obligation, but you’ll chill out, cozy up. Sunday may get get something out of it too, so it’s all something extra cooking. Watch for good. Monday begins a set-it-into- Mercury into Scorpio to prompt a new motion week. Mercury’s quick trip line of thinking. The transit also bodes through Scorpio helps you to make well for the money chase. Venus/Mars better use of your money and talents. favours travel, the hunt, and romance. The new Venus/Mercury cycle sugAQUARIUS gests you’re wise to take more time to January 20–February 18 study, heal, and reflect. Saturday through Monday SCORPIO can stir it up in some synchronistic October 23–November 22 way. You’re sure to feel this bringSatisfaction guaranteed: it-back-to-life transit as a positive. you’ll know how to play it right with Mercury in Scorpio helps you to get folks and for yourself this Hallow- yourself better organized and to get een weekend. Monday/Tuesday, stay it more under control. Also setting performance-driven. For the next you on a productive upswing, Venus/ couple of weeks, Mercury in eagle- Mars now begins a new fi nancial and eye Scorpio loans you an added edge. relationship fi x-it chapter. Your emotional radar stays at peak. PISCES Venus/Mars now calls for you to February 18–March 20 revamp goals, consider additional On your own or hosting options or new angles, and improve the party, home is the best place to be your game. Friday night. One way or another, HalSAGITTARIUS loween tugs on the heartstrings. SunNovember 22–December 21 day is great for catch-up, and for taking Friday is your better pick it as it comes. Mercury in Scorpio loans for a social night out. Saturday/Sun- you added sexy, physical stamina, and day is best devoted to family, quality mental prowess. Quick on the uptake, time with your lover, and personal nothing gets past you! catch-up. For the next few weeks, Mercury in Scorpio keeps you busy with Book a reading with Rose Marcus at work, health, and fix-it matters. The www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/.
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