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Get up close and personal with artists in their natural habitat this weekend as the Vancouver Art Attack offers you front row seats to witness their creative process.

Twenty artists will be taking part in this four-hour live art show where they will be “painting their art out” and creating an original work as the crowd watches on.

Once the artists have completed their masterpieces, their works will be auctioned off at a red carpet gala event in the evening, complete with live music and hors d’ouerves.

Taking part this year will be Brent Clowater, Fiona Tang, Jeff Wilson, Jolayne Devente, Shane Molina, AnnWillsie, Jace Kim, Olga Ryabalko, Bryan Coombes, Bill Higginson, Susie Cipolla, Peter Martin, Jim Park, Hajni Yosifov,

Rifflandia rocks the capital With 150 artists spread across 15 stages over four days, Rifflandia has come a long way since the Victoria festival’s first year in a tent outside McPherson Playhouse back in 2008.

Like every year, there’s plenty to keep the indie rock kids interested, with Death Cab for Cutie, The New Pornographers, Airborne Toxic Event, Dragonette, and Dum Dum Girls headlining.

There’s also a heavy emphasis on the classics, with acts like hip hop legends Del the Funk Homosapien and Kool Keith, as well as Jamaican first wave

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Ilya Viryachev, Mandy Tsung, Mike Soloman, Sean Karemaker, Ola Vola, and Thomas Tai. The event also features a roundtable discussion with Vancouver’s leading industry professionals.

Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. $5 from every ticket goes to the Vancouver Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Art, presented to one Emily Carr University of Art and Design student entered in the juried exhibition.

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ska pioneers The Skatalites (although only two of the original dozen or so members are still alive).

If you want to move your feet, perennial party-starter Girl Talk has you covered, as does Toronto dubstep duo Zeds Dead. Meanwhile, folksters Good For Grapes and Minto will keep the granola set swooning.

The main festival grounds will again be located at Royal Athletic Park where the big names will take the stage during the day, while more than a dozen venues around town will be hosting SXSWstyle showcases. Rifflandia.com –RM

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Street fest celebrates Shift-ing seasons The last remaining hours of summer are ticking down and the impending six months of darkness that constitutes the Vancouver winter are creeping ever closer. That’s why its important we squeeze as much fun as we can out the few sunny days we have left, OK? So grab your growler, saddle up your fixie, and head to Main Street this Sunday for one last splash. The 5th annual Autumn Shift Festival returns, bringing live music and good times to the entire Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood.

Live bands will be playing on three stages: At Beaumont Studios (316 West 5th), Antisocial Skateboard Shop (2337 Main), and the Studio East Sound Stage (in the lane west of Main between Broadway and East 8th).

For those just looking to shop,

there will be street vendor lined up and down Main all day, with a European style bazaar and marketplace.

The Heritage Lounge and Transportation Jamboree (sponsored by Easypark and TransLink) presents a collection of vintage cars and buses from Vancouver’s past, as well as FREE PONY RIDES! You’ll need to regain your strength at some point – y’know, from having so much fun – so stop by the Smoking Sausage BBQ Cook-Off for some delicious meat tubes (proceeds go to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank). There’s free cotton candy and popcorn too!

Don’t bother driving, bike valet services will be available all day.

The event runs from noon to 6pm, centred along Main from Broadway to E. 7th, and along 8th to Quebec.

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Safe Amp Society directors Jessi Zapton, Mark Pickersgill, and Ryan McCormick are hoping the City will consider their proposal for a permanent all-ages music and cultural centre in Vancouver.

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or kids who want to kick out the jams, or watch their friends kick out said jams, the options in Vancouver are few. The vast majority of music venues in Vancouver serve alcohol and are only open to those 19 years and older, and what underage venues do exist are often less than legitimate.

That’s why a group of local community-minded musicians and music lovers have set out to create an all-ages music venue where budding musicians and young people could have a safe, drugand alcohol-free environment to create and experience live music.

The Safe Amplification Society has been putting on all-ages shows at their rented Commercial and Venables location for the past year and a half, as well as workshops teaching kids how to put together their own magazine and screen print their own shirts.

The group’s directors are now hoping to find a permanent, subsidized home

with the help of the City of Vancouver, and Vancouver voters.

Ryan McCormick is one of Safe Amp’s directors, and says the non-profit society is hoping the City of Vancouver considers including the group’s proposal for a permanent all-ages music and cultural centre in the city’s 2015-2018 capital plan, which will be voted on as part of the municipal election on Nov. 15.

Currently Safe Amp rents space at Astorino’s banquet hall from the Britannia Community Centre, and must pay market rental prices. As a result, the nonprofit society has to rely completely on its 100-person-strong volunteer base to put on shows and run the space.

“Imagine a library, where all the librarians are volunteers, and the librarians then have to pay to market rent to keep the library open,” says McCormick. “The sheer volume of volunteer hours is really important to recognize, but you can’t rely on that forever.”

Safe Amp has put together a feasibility study for a permanent home, and it is the group’s hope the City of Vancouver will lease them one of the many city-

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McCormick said the ideal space would be close to secondary schools and public transit, and be in a neighbourhood where loud music would occasionally be tolerated.

Director Mark Pickersgill says having a permanent, affordable home would make the organization sustainable, giving Vancouver’s kids a safe place to experience music for years to come.

“The majority of the community see a benefit to what we do,” he says. “It’s a positive outlet.”

Volunteer coordinator Jessi Zapton says having paid staff would also allow Safe Amp to expand their workshop and after-school programming.

Inclusion in the 2015-2018 capital plan is just the first step, however. The plan will need to be approved by voters on Nov. 15.

“We have skate parks, and basketball courts, but I think an all-ages music venue is something the people of Vancouver would like to see,” says McCormick.

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aving spent more than 25 years in the music industry, Patrick Zulinov knows better then almost anyone how music can have a profoundly positive impact on someone’s life.

But while a good tune can brighten your day, in a clinical setting, music has the power to heal.

This weekend Zulinov is leading the 13th annual Music Heals Music Therapy Ride, which will see hundreds of musicians take part in a motorcycle ride from the Hard Rock Casino in Coquitlam to Whistler, in an effort to raise money for community-based music therapy services in BC. Music therapy – which can involve creating, listening to, and discussing music – has been clinically proven to improve cognitive functioning, motor skills, and emotional development.

Zulinov helped launch radio station Shore 104.3 FM in Vancouver, as well as the careers of countless artists with Sony Music Canada and Hyvetown Music, and says the Music Therapy Ride was a natural cause to support.

“As a group of people from the music industry who love to motorcycle, this is easy to get behind,” says Zulinov, who is also a director of The Music Heals Foundation and co-founder of the annual ride. “Music is the universal language, and sometimes I think we take that for granted. For kids stuck in hospitals, for elderly patients with dementia, there’s some fantastic things you can do with [music therapy].”

The event has raised for than $600,000 since it began in 2002, with proceeds administered by the Music Therapy Association of British Columbia, which awards grants to

deserving music therapists and care facilities.

The money raised from the Music Therapy Ride is also used to support the building, maintenance and continued use of mobile recording studios designed specifically for music therapists, called Bandwagons. These mobile studios contain recording software, sound processing equipment and a variety of musical instruments.

“It costs between $13,000 and $15,000 to make one of these, and a music therapist costs $15,000 per year for one day a week,” says Zulinov.

The Music Therapy Ride has funded the creation of two Bandwagons so far, the first of which arrived at BC Children’s Hospital in 2011. The second Bandwagon travels to various institutions around the Lower Mainland and recently made the trip to Vancouver Island for the first time.

The funds from this year’s Music Therapy Ride will be used to build a third Bandwagon and provide continuing financial support for Music Therapists’ services.

The ride takes place this Saturday, Sept.

13, and culminates with a barbecue lunch in Whistler at the Garibaldi Lift Co. with a live auction of autographed music memorabilia from the likes of Jack Johnson, Slash, and Serena Ryder. Joining the ride this year as the celebrity guest will be Canadian country music group The Road Hammers, who will be performing at the Whistler event.

The riders will also have a “presidential” escort from the Vancouver Motorcycle Police Drill Team, meaning the throng of rolling thunder won’t be stopping for red lights as they make their way through downtown Vancouver.

To donate or sign up for the ride, visit MusicTherapyRide.org.

The two-person mayoral races that have dominated city politics for more than a decade officially ended Sunday with COPE overwhelmingly endorsing Meena Wong as its candidate for mayor in the Nov. 15 election. The 53-yearold mental health worker and longtime community organizer will battle Mayor Gregor Robertson and NPA challenger Kirk LaPointe for votes in a multicultural city that has never had a female mayor or one of Chinese descent.

“I can’t believe that,” said Wong. “And we call ourselves a progressive city?”

Almost 200 COPE members endorsed Wong at the party’s nomination meeting held Sunday at the Japanese Hall in the Downtown Eastside. Party members also nominated eight council candidates, including former councillor Tim Louis and First Nations’ activist Audrey Siegl.

In running Wong, this is COPE’s first mayoral candidate since 2002 when Larry Campbell and COPE almost annihilated the NPA in an election night knockout that showed COPE’s political might.

Subsequent elections saw COPE’s standing on the civic scene diminish as Vision won majorities in 2008 and 2011. The Green Party also elected Adriane Carr to a council seat in the 2011 election.

Wong now has the formidable job of bringing the party back to its mainstream status by winning seats on council, park board and school board. School trustee Allan Wong was COPE’s lone elected official until he joined Vision Vancouver in December 2013.

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There’s a bully in all of us Vancouver Opera’s Stickboy takes Shane Koyczan from bullied poet to librettist

By Chris Sivak

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iscussion around the topic of bullying is far too often incapable of progressing past it’s surface element of jeers and tears.

Whether it be the anecdotes in our story telling, or the reality in our schools – we don’t often engage with the concept of being terrorized at a young age to the degree where we try to understand how it can create baggage the victims end up carrying for the rest of their lives.

Though it’s something that we’ll likely never fully eradicate – a war on bullying seems to have that same intangible quality as a war on terror or a war on Christmas – the swing of society’s discussion about bullying should at least leave one feeling hopeful that we are heading in the right direction.

Part of Vancouver Opera’s fall lineup addresses the subject with the premiere of Stickboy, a collaborative effort featuring the music of composer Neil Weisensel and the prose of spoken-word poet Shane Koyczan. Weisensel is a very active composer with more than a dozen film and television scores to his credit, while Koyczan has become somewhat of a household name after performing his piece, “We Are More” during the 2010 Olympics.

Performing contemporary opera is relatively

uncommon and commissioning new works is, by comparison, quite rare. But VO seems to be bucking that trend. Recent productions of John Adams’ Nixon in China, Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror Of Soul, and 2010’s commission of Lillian Alling, written by eminent Canadian composer John Estacio, seem to point to an artistic organization looking to develop and promote new works as well as established repertoire.

Koyczan’s novel in verse, Stickboy is the literary work from which VO’s commission derives it’s story.

“It’s my experiences growing up – what I went through.” says Koyczan.

“It’s how I started out being tormented at school, crossing that line, and becoming someone who torments others.”

It’s this idea of torment that might be how the work finds its legs on an opera stage.

The genre is almost as famous for entire casts killing themselves off as it is for being inhabited by characters that practically combust with agony and conflict.

“There’s a bigness about opera – there’s a grandness – that really accentuates the story,” Koyczan excitedly remarks.

“It just makes it that much more huge. Bullying as a topic is quite big, so in a way, this genre is very much what’s needed to show people that this is not a small thing happening in your child’s world.

It’s actually one of the most important issues to them.”

To do the subject justice, it seems a strain to imagine it on anything but a

downward spiral.

But a census of our fiction reveals that it’s been far more common practice to focus on the tumult of confrontation and for the cameras to turn away once the fur has flown. In a dramatic portrayal of the bully and the victim, there’s a sense of triumph and vindication in the wake of the defeated bully before we slumber into denouement and the credits begin to roll.

“When people talk about bullying, they think it’s this dramatic subject” explains Koyczan. “You can watch movies about it and they’re always characterized as dramas. But for anyone going through it; they’re being terrorized, they’re scared, they’re afraid; the genre is horror”.

Stickboy doesn’t focus on two titular characters gnashing their muscles in an epic schoolyard contest.

Conflicts are instead meted out in succession, some of them even seem trivial in isolation, but it is with painful inevitability that they add up to a whole that causes Koyczan’s protagonist to slowly erode as he becomes his enemy’s doppelgänger.

A topical subject like bullying, that happens everywhere to almost everyone, seems like a sure bet to strike a chord with audiences.

“Bullying – that’s something that’s touched everybody who went through the school system,” Weisensel confirms.

“My daughter, she was at a school where she was being bullied by another girl. It was right at the time that I got the commission.

It was almost too close to home.”

There’s bound to be excitement surround-

ing Stickboy’s premiere. A string of high profile teen suicides in the news have put the subject of bullying on everybody’s mind.

When so many people have the potential to connect with a performance piece, especially one done on an operatic scale, there’s the possibility of something really powerful happening.

Stickboy runs Oct. 23-Nov. 7 at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Tickets start at $65; VancouverOpera.ca.

Vancouver Opera 2014/15 season Carmen: Justly revered for its thrilling drama and its irresistible music, Georges Bizet’s classic opera is so rich in energy and passion, that it lives with audiences forever.

Sept. 27–Oct. 5 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Stickboy: The inner life of a young boy is at the heart of this moving and meaningful new opera by world-renowned spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan and composer Neil Weisensel. Oct. 23– Nov. 7 at the Vancouver Playhouse.

Die Fledermaus: Strauss’s melody-filled music, especially his famous waltzes, is effervescent and intoxicating.

Feb. 28–March 8 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sweeney Todd: Winner of countless awards, Stephen Sondheim’s musical is darkly comical and endlessly entertaining.

April 25–May 3 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Stickboy, an opera by world-renowned spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan (pictured) and composer Neil Weisensel, makes its world premiere at the Playhouse Oct. 23.

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Leaving convention on the cutting-edge floor Ballet BC continues to push its boundaries with risky commissions and hot guest choreographers

By Kelsey Klassen

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n dancers’ years, Ballet BC would be on the cusp of its career, just starting to feel the premonitory pains in its knees and pondering the bittersweet future of what it might do next. But instead, at 29, the internationally-acclaimed Vancouver dance company is leaping into its 2014/15 season with more focus and intention than ever.

Even the most ardent of fans may have lost count, but over the past five years, Ballet BC has commissioned a staggering 28 world premieres – an accomplishment of exceptional proportions on the Canadian dance front, and part of artistic director Emily Molnar’s much lauded vision to reinvigorate the struggling dance company since joining on in 2009.

Ballet BC 2014/15 season No. 29 • Nov. 6-8 See story.

The Nutcracker • Dec. 12-14 The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s uniquely Canadian retelling of this holiday classic.

Balanchine • Feb. 19-21 Miami City Ballet in an evening of masterworks by George Balanchine.

Trace • Mar. 26-28 Workwithinwork by William Forsythe; a Walter Matteini world premiere; and the reprisal of Medhi Walerski’s Petite Cérémonie.

RITE • May 7-9 Emily Molnar collaborates with Bocci’s Omer Arbel and Black Mountain’s Jeremy Schmidt. Gustavo Ramirez Sansano reimagines The Rite of Spring.

The last season saw seven entirely new creations unfolding on stage at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, setting up the 2014/15 season opener to contain the timely and celebratory 29th: White Act, a world premiere by fast-rising Spanish choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan.

“We take a tremendous amount of risk putting new works out because it’s the unknown, and we love that,” says Molnar. “And we love that we have an audience who’s willing to go there with us. I cannot imagine a better place [than Vancouver] in the country to be doing what we’re doing.”

Inspired by La Sylphide – one of the oldest surviving Romantic ballets – White Act fittingly explores society’s inherent temptation for the unknown and our insatiable desire to find true love, with dramatic consequences.

The program also includes a revisiting of 2012’s explosively kinetic A.U.R.A (Anarchist Unit Related to Art) by Italy’s Jacopo Godani, and An Instant, a poignant investigation of Wislawa Szymborska’s poem “Could Have”

by Vancouver-born choreographer and dancer Lesley Telford.

With each successive season, Molnar has tasked her dancers to create an environment where choreographers can come and conceive exactly the work they would have made if they had their own companies.

The risk has paid off, with returning patrons feeling rewarded by the repertoire, and the company reeling back from the brink of bankruptcy to post a $150,000 operating surplus in 2013.

Connor Gnam is entering his ninth season with Ballet BC. A fan of Molnar’s from his Arts Umbrella days when he was a student and she was the artist in residence, the hard-working dancer was a natural fit for a company that has been recognized for its versatility around the world.

“I have a real passion for doing everything I can to make sure the choreographer gets what they want at the end of the day. We work very short careers, so you can push really hard.

Sort of a ‘live for today’ mentality,” says the 27-year-old, who has performed works by William Forsythe, Jorma Elo, Itzik Galili, George Balanchine, Gioconda Barbuto, Medhi Walerski, and Vancouver’s own Crystal Pite – some

Ballet BC’s No. 29.

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of contemporary ballet’s most sought-after choreographers.

Gnam was inspired at the age of five to follow in the soft-soled footsteps of his older brother, James, who danced for Ballet BC before founding his own company, Plastic Orchid Factory.

“When I was a kid, my parents always joked that I thought my brother lived at the airport because we’d go pick him up there and drop him off there and that’s all I really saw for the first little while,” he recalls with a laugh.

“I grew up watching Ballet BC and I always wanted to work here. When the old director John [Alleyne] was here, I was really inspired by the way that he worked. Then he left, and I couldn’t have been luckier, because I remember when I was younger saying, ‘Man, if only Emily Molnar had a company, I’d love to work for that.’”

No. 29 launches Ballet BC’s 2014/15 season Nov. 6-8 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets start at $30; 1-855-985-2787 or Ticketmaster.ca.

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Vancouver Symphony celebrates ties to China

By Chris Sivak

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he effectiveness with which classical music was exported to China is something that’s difficult to overstate. Or perhaps, what actually neuters the hyperbole is more the enthusiasm and efficacy with which Chinese musicians took ownership of the tradition. China has become one of the world’s chief exporters of top tier classical music talent. Their top performers are greeted with rock star receptions wherever they go – at home or abroad – and ticket prices reflect a demand for – rather than an indifference to – what has often been called a dying art. It would be a selfimposed blindness if western practitioners weren’t looking to Asia for lessons on how to grow and nurture their art and it’s audience.

Our humble city’s leading purveyor of massed violins, the Vancouver Symphony, has begun celebrating these accomplishments every year with its Pacific Rim Celebration. It’s a natural fit for the organization given the city’s location and reputation as a cultural melting pot. Indeed, it would probably be a short sighted omission if it didn’t exist.

Says Caroline Markos, public relations associate for VSO, “Nowadays it would be a little bit odd. With our incredibly high population that celebrate the Chinese New Year, it’s probably equally in proportion to the people that celebrate Christmas. It’s another way to recognize the city that we live in. It’s a very natural thing to include”.

Returning to Vancouver is Chinese conductor, Perry So. Last March, So came to the rescue after Finnish conductor John Storgards was deemed too ill to perform. With little time to prepare, So led the VSO through a very thick program of Chopin, Sibelius, and a new work by Vancouver composer Dorothy Chang. The concert also featured one of Canada’s own stars of the ivory, Louis Lortie. Needless to say, it went very well and the organization was extremely grateful that he was able to step in.

“When a young conductor makes a good impression at the last minute they’re often invited back.” says Markos. “I think he did an amazing job for having such little preparation and there were a lot of people here who were curious what he would do if he had more time to prepare.”

Music is often described as a language – which suggests that it’s something that should be available to anyone.

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from but you can pick up an instrument and learn to play. And it’s just going to be another tool, another language to help say what you want to say and that goes for anybody anywhere in the world”.

Guest conductor Perry So will lead the VSO in a celebration of Chinese New Year Feb. 28.

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VSO 2014/15 season highlights Inon Barnatan • Sept. 27, 29 This rising star opens the season with the colossal Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1.

Classical Mystery Tour • Oct. 8 The world’s top Beatles tribute band.

Pacific Rim Celebration • Feb. 28 See story.

Lang Lang • Mar. 18 One of the world’s greatest pianists performs Mozart’s most beguiling piano concerto.

Spring Festival • Apr. 10-18 Devoted to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Yo-Yo Ma • May 1 The charismatic cellist makes his first Vancouver appearance in over a decade.

For the complete list of VSO concerts, head to VancouverSymphony.ca.

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7TH ANNUAL ACCORDION NOIR FESTIVAL: Squeezebox Confession: Join in this celebration of our deep, dark secrets. Headlining the evening is international accordion iconoclast Socalled, along with musical spectacular Pathetic Fallacy, and Dr. Jack’s Jackpot of Cabaret Curios. Thursday, Sept. 11 at 8pm at Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main. $15 at the door. AccordionNoirFest.com DESERT DWELLERS: Global bass music from Santa Fe, New Mexico, with Jay Michael and Raghunath Khe. Friday, Sept.

12 at 9pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $20 at Banyen Books & Sound, Beat Street, Highlife, Vtixonline.

EAST VAN SOUL CLUB: Legendary, vinyl-only monthly dance party, operated by DJs Slim Roy and Jonny Was. Friday, Sept. 12, 9pm at Biltmore Cabaret. $8 at the door.

SALIF KEITA: The Golden Voice of Africa acoustic tour. Saturday, Sept. 13, 8pm at the Vogue Theatre. Tickets from $36.

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INTERPOL: American rock band from New York City tours in support of new album, El Pintor, with Rey Pila.

Monday, Sept. 15, 8pm at the Commodore Ballroom. $49.50 at LiveNation.com, 1-855-985-

CHRIS THILE & EDGAR MEYER: The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts presents a unique collaboration by masterful musicians Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 8pm at the Chan Centre. Tickets and info at ChanCentre.com LA ROUX: English synthpop act performs with Midnight Magic. Thursday, Sept. 18, 8pm at the Commodore Ballroom. $30 at LiveNation. com, 1-855-985-5000, or any Ticketmaster outlet.

TEMPLES: English rock band tours in support of new album, Sun Structures, with Wampire.

Friday, Sept. 19, 8pm at the Commodore Ballroom. $22 at LiveNation.com, 1-855-9855000, or any Ticketmaster outlet.

JUNO REACTOR: A night of electronic dance music with DJs Pandemonium, Goa Pete, Solitare, Rahel Bellydance, and Smoke Noir. Friday, Sept.

19, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $30 at Highlife, Ignite Smoke Shop, Puff & GoaTranceMission.com CHET FAKER: Australian electronica musician tours in support of new album, Built on Glass. Monday, Sept. 22, at the Commodore Ballroom. $20 at LiveNation.com, 1-855985-5000, or any Ticketmaster outlet.

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three piece instrumental rock/ metal band from Chicago performs with The Atlas Moth.

Monday, Sept. 22, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $18 at Scrape, Zulu, Red Cat, and BPLive.ca THE ORWELLS: Rockers from Illinois play tunes from latest album Disgraceland, with Skaters. Wednesday, Sept.

24, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $18.50 at Highlife, Red Cat, Zulu, and TicketWeb.ca BROTHER ALI: Minneapolisbased hip hop artist, producer and community activist, with BAMBU and MaLLy. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $22 at TicketWeb.ca, as well as Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, and Beatstreet.

TWIZTID: American hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan, with Kung Fu Vampire, Aqualeo, Spread The Revenge, The Rappists, PsychWard Kids, and DoomSquad.

Friday, Sept. 26, 730pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $45 at Rebellion Tattoo and TicketZone.com THE VSO’S OPENING WEEKEND: Rising-star pianist Inon Barnatan performs the colossal Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in his VSO debut. Concert also features Richard Strauss’s famous Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra), an epic tone poem presented as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Sept. 27 and 29 at

Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $25$90 at VancouverSymphony.ca CHRISTIAN GERHAHER: The Vancouver Recital Society welcomes back the German baritone to open their 20142015 Season. Sunday, Sept. 28, 3pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets start at just $25. Purchase online at VanRecital.com or call 604-602-0363.

LEGENDS OF INDIA: A rare meeting of two of India’s top classical musicians, Shahid Parvez (sitar) and Anindo Chatterjee (tabla). Sunday, Sept. 28, 7pm at YORK THEATRE. Tickets $25-$45 online at Tickets.

TheCultch.com, or at Highlife, Banyen Books, and Kamal’s Video, or call to order at 604251-1363.

KOERNER QUARTET: Fresh on the heels of a recent Hong Kong summer residency, the Koerner Quartet returns to the Vancouver Academy of Music to perform their first concert of the 2014/2015 season, From Spillville to St. Petersburg. Sunday, Sept.

28, 2pm at Koerner Recital Hall at the Vancouver Academy of Music. $15 general admission. Reserve your tickets at KoernerQuartet.com.

THE SONICS: Legendary garage rock band from Tacoma, Washington, formed in the ‘60s perform with The Evaporators and The Flintettes. Thursday, Oct. 2, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $26.50 at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, Highlife, and NorthernTickets.com CAT POWER: American singersongwriter Chan Marshall on tour to support her latest release, Sun. Thursday, Oct. 2, 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $38.50 at NorthernTickets.com THE THURSTON MOORE BAND: Former Sonic Youth frontman performs with indie rock legends Sebadoh. Friday, Oct. 3, 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $20.00 at TicketWeb.ca. Also available at Red Cat Records, Zulu Records andHighlife Records.

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS: Vancouver’s indie rock darlings perform tunes from new album Brill Bruisers, with Pickwick and Cool TV. Oct. 3 and 4 at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets from $28.50 at LiveNation. com, 1-855-985-5000, or any Ticketmaster outlets.

MUSIC FROM THE OLD COUNTRY: GREAT BRITISH CLASSICS: VSO principal cellist Ariel Barnes makes his VSO concerto debut performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a thoughtful, serene, elegiac work composed in the aftermath of World War I. Oct 4 and 5 at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $22-$60 at VancouverSymphony.ca LILY ALLEN: British pop star performs. Sunday, Oct. 5, 8pm at Commodore Ballroom.

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UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS: ‘60s influenced psychedelic rock from Cambridge, UK, with Davana. Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $18.50 at Scrape and TicketWeb.ca CLASSICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Music of the Beatles: the VSO presents Classical Mystery Tour, the world’s top Beatles tribute band. Roll up for the Mystery Tour, it’s The Beatles as you’ve never seen them before – live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Wednesday, Oct. 8, 8pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $34-$65 at VancouverSymphony.ca ELUVEITIE: Celtic folk music modernized in a unique way with modern styled melodic death metal, with TYR and Metsatoll. Wednesday, Oct. 8, 7pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $25 available at Scrape and LiveNation.com DJ SHADOW & CUT CHEMIST: Pioneering turntablists perform with Edan and Paten Locke.

Thursday, Oct. 9, 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. $32.50 at LiveNation.com, 1-855985-5000 or any Ticketmaster outlets.

UBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Performs Wagner, Haydn, and Bartok.

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THE GROWLERS: California based rock band on tour to support their latest release, Chinese Fountain. Saturday, Oct. 11, 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $17 at Highlife, Neptoon, Red Cat, Zulu, and Ticketweb.ca SLOAN: Canadian rock legends play songs from their new double album, Commonwealth. Saturday, Oct. 18, 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $28.50 at LiveNation.com, 1-855-9855000, or any Ticketmaster outlets.

BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC ORKESTAR: The quintessential Balkan brass band has once again captured the mantle of “Leading Band in Serbia,” a title for which they have been crowned many times since the late 1980s. Their music, performed by a thirteen-piece strong orchestra, is wholly defined by their own gypsy lineage, whilst giving a knowing nod towards other musical and cultural backgrounds closely related to Romani traditions.

Saturday, Oct. 18, 8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets at NorthernTickets.com

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acclaimed Fiona Malena Flamenco Ensemble returns to Vancouver after the sold-out show Puertas last September.

Sept. 13 and 14, 8pm at The Roundhouse. Tickets from $25 at BrownPaperTickets.com or 1-800-838-3006.

BALLET PRELJOCAJ: French troupe presents Angelin Preljocaj’s Empty Moves (Parts I, II & III), set to John Cage’s Empty Words. Spare, contemplative and sensual, this absorbing work unfolds as an elegant counterpoint to the turbulent score.

Sept. 25 and 26, 8pm at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

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Sept. 27 to Oct. 5. Tickets at VancouverOpera.ca ON DEATH’S DOOR: PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME: The Virtual Stage presents Andy Thompson’s all-new ghoulish, interactive, roving theatre adventure at a top secret location in Vancouver. Oct. 7 to Nov. 2. Tickets start at $12.50 at TheVirtualStage. org/Tickets.

RENT: SING WITH SOUL: Produced by students Jaclyn Tsuei and Xiang Gu from Vancouver Film School’s Entertainment Business Management program. In collaboration with director Craig Decarlo and music director Christopher King.

Oct 9 to Oct 11 at the Orpheum Annex. For tickets, call 1-877-840-0457 or visit TicketsTonight.TicketForce. com

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Longtime bachelor Sir Peter Teazle has married the woman he adores.

Unfortunately, she may adore his fortune more! While the husband and wife navigate the tangles of married life, gossip and intrigue are the order of the day. A biting satire characterized by its attacks on hypocrisy, sexually promiscuous themes, and witty dialogue. Continues through Sept. 28 at the Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets from $16 at UnitedPlayers.com

QUANTUM: Compagnie Gilles Jobin (Switzerland) perform a piece inspired by Jobin’s artistic residency at the largest particle physics laboratory in the world - CERN in Geneva. Six dancers power through densely textured, sculptural choreography, to evoke the subtle balance of forces that shape our world. Oct. 16 to 18 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

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‘80s cult classic, this musical tells the age-old tale of five college kids who travel to an abandoned cabin in the woods. Boy meets girl, boy expects to get lucky, boy unleashes evil spirit instead. Oct. 22 to Nov. 1 at The Norman Rothstein Theatre. Tickets from $20 at EvilDeadMusicalVancouver.ca STICKBOY: The inner life of a young boy is at the heart of this moving and meaningful new opera by worldrenowned spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan and composer Neil Weisensel. Presented by Vancouver Opera. Oct. 23 to Nov. 7 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets at VancouverOpera.ca

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Aside from the fact that the play’s drama reflects an ongoing debate over the lack of objectivity in the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict, it is still a chilling and taut political-crime thriller that is an exciting piece of drama on its own merits. Nov. 7 to 30 at the Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets from $10 at UnitedPlayers.com EXPERIENCE AFRICA: The drummers and dancers of Adanu Habobo present the invigorating rhythms, songs, and dances of Ghana, West Africa. Adanu Habobo will be joined by spectacular guests dancer Awal Alhassan (Ghana/ Seattle) and Kurai Mubaiwa (Zimbabwe/Vancouver), as well as a high-energy brass band performing traditional songs with a jazzy touch. Nov. 29 at Roundhouse Centre.

Tickets at AdanuHabobo.com ARNALDO COHEN: Vancouver Chopin Society begins the fall season with Brazilian-born pianist Arnaldo Cohen, with an artist’s reception to follow. Nov. 30 at the Vancouver Playhouse.

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Orange is the New Blank

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Vancouver improv rockstar Briana Rayner makes her Fringe Festival début with the ensemble prison comedy Orange is the New Blank, based on the Netflix hit series of a similar name. Nolan Sage photos

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hose of you who can’t wait for the third season of Orange is the New Black to come out next summer can now get your fix at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.

From the minds of Vancouver comedy duo Virginia Jack comes Orange is the New Blank, an improvised prison show that’s criminally funny.

Like the TV show it is based on, Orange is the New Blank follows a diverse cast of female inmates as they struggle to stay afloat in prison.

A criminal past is the characters’ only constant, the rest hashed out on stage in an unscripted mix of off-the-top audience suggestions and plot improvisations. At their mercy is the token male, a prison guard (Brad Rossington of Second Storey Theatre) who plays both good cop and bad cop to laugh-out-loud dramatic irony.

At an Aug. 29 dress rehearsal, show creators – Leo-nominated actress Briana Rayner and 16-year improv vet Nicole Passmore – spent “time” with Diana Bang (hitting big screens soon with Seth Rogan and James Franco in The Interview) and Instant Theatre regular Julianne Hoyak.

Despite being short two members – Continuum actress Ese Atawo and Jamie Chrest of The Fictionals and the Bobbers Queer Improv Co. – for the night, the 45-minute show had all the

irreverent menace of the Netflix hit series.

As the actresses with the longest history together, Rayner and Passmore’s chemistry was palpable, goading each other over the line with the quirk of an eyebrow, a loaded inflection, or a lean just a little too close.

Playing the clueless newbie and malevolent chef, respectively, their scene in the prison laundry room with an imaginary washing machine was a propless clinic in physical comedy.

WE Vancouver sat down with Rayner and Passmore prior to their Vancouver Fringe début to talk improv and the time they actually went to prison: How did you get the idea for the show?

Rayner: I was watching [Orange is the New Black] and just loved the diverse set of characters. It’s a diverse female population and it’s just another great opportunity to explore a different set of stories.

And also expand the group of people that you work with, I’d imagine. Were you casting on stereotypes to some degree?

Passmore: Well.. yea…urgh…

Rayner: We are a part of a very talented pool of performers, and within that pool we also looked for diversity.

Passmore: First and foremost was, are they talented? Are they funny? Are they smart and engaging? All of those things.

And the secondary thing that we were up

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Passmore: Also our appreciation. Our love. And you get to say you were at the first one, and that can be the most risky one. Usually with improv that can give the most reward. When you really put yourself out there – and opening night can be one of those times – then the audience gets the reward of seeing a really powerful show.

front about was we wanted a diverse cast, in both ethnicity and sexuality.

And it’s hard to find in comedy, because the truth of it is it’s a lot of…white people?

Rayner: We’re two white brunettes…

Passmore: So we’re like, “Okay, we’ll be the two white brunettes in the show…

We can’t cast anymore of those!” [laughs]

Why Fringe?

Rayner: It’s a great opportunity to expose our cast to audiences that might not normally get to see our work. The Fringe also has a festive feeling, and people are always willing to take a risk on something new.

The audience or the players?

Rayner: Both. It’s just part of what makes it so exciting is you get to see these neat little creations that people have come up with, and people are willing to watch them just to try something different.

What is your typical audience?

Rayner: When it’s not Fringe we produce our own shows – we have a duo called Virginia Jack. We also do a show called Sex is Funny.

Passmore: We do a lot of these at either Havana or Little Mountain Gallery.

Crowds will end up being between 50100 people, and a lot of them are members of some sort of comedy community who want to come out and see that.

Anything you can tease our readers with? Is there a prison break?

Passmore: Oooh. Depends on the night.

Rayner: We will be heavily screwing with the prison guard. Also, [each show] we choose a different character to show their backstory, so you get the fun of seeing a different character each time.

“Inmate” Diana Bang stars in the improvised Fringe comedy.

There’s people beyond that, but we don’t often get just a random passer-by, and I think that’s the benefit of the Fringe.

Someone will just take a look and say, “Okay, I’ll go to that today.”

Picks of the Fringe?

Passmore: Peter n’ Chris. That’s ALWAYS an obvious choice because they’re Fringe darlings, but I saw their recent show, Peter n’ Chris and the Kinda OK Corral that they did at Sketchfest this year. SO good. It’s the only sketch show I’ve ever seen get a standing ovation, which I think says a lot.

You’re doing quite a few nights. Does the show get better as you go?

Rayner: Well it’s funny, because it’s not like after improvising for 12 years that every show is better than the last. [laughs] But I do think that, especially with an ensemble cast, as we become more comfortable and familiar with the rhythm, they do get tighter. They’re always good, but some nights are just more magical than others.

Show co-creator Nicole Passmore plays the “angry chef”.

What’s the beauty of being in the audience for opening night?

Rayner: I think you get to see the kind of attack that only comes from people being nervous. It’s the best driving force to know that you’re feeling nervous and therefore you care. You get that opening

Is this your first Vancouver Fringe?

Passmore: Yes! We’re new to the Fringe scene but we do a lot of [comedy and improv] festivals. We’ve done Philadelphia, Austin, Victoria, Vancouver, Portland with the group, and individually we’ve done all across North America.

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And you’ve said this was also inspired by the time you went to prison?

Rayner: That was an incredible experience. We were performing at a Christmas show at a women’s correctional facility in Maple Ridge.

Passmore: They took away our bobby pins and searched our bags. We had to have criminal record checks. And we passed! [laughs] We got through.

Rayner: We did the show in their gymnasium.

Passmore: And they had given us a list of things not to talk about, which included scenes about vacation, holidays – even though we were doing a Christmas show – and divorce. But that’s all they wanted to see scenes about. Every time we asked for suggestions they would yell out the exact things we weren’t supposed to talk about.

Maybe that’s how they ended up there in the first place...

Rayner: And we never did get our bobby pins back.

Orange is the New Blank finishes its run at Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial) Sept. 12 and 13. Times vary; head to VancouverFringe.com for more info.

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East Van’s cultural heart is pumping

By Robert Mangelsdorf

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he north end of Commercial Drive has become an artistic mecca in recent years, and The Cultch (formerly the Vancouver East Cultural Centre) has become its epicentre. Thanks to a whopping $2 million donation by longtime supporter West Coast Reduction Ltd. earlier this year, The Cultch is poised for years of growth following the recent renovations to its theatre at Venables and Victoria, as well as the $14 million reno of the York Theatre on Commercial, which it also operates. This season sees close to 20 productions coming to The Cultch’s Historic Theatre, the York Theatre, and the Vancity Culture Lab. “There’s something for everyone,” says Heather Redfern, executive director. “We’ll make you laugh, we’ll make you cry, we’ll make you think about something that maybe you’ve never thought of before.”

Among the highlights this season are The Daisy Theatre, the madcap work of renowned puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett and his resident company of more than 30 marionettes. No two performances will be the same, making this a performance to see more than once.

Broken Sex Doll is a hilarious sci-fi musical replete with singing, sex, and robots. It’s 2136 and the rapid pace of technological advancement has only been matched by a dramatic decline of morality. For ages 19+ except for matinees.

The one-person Fringe favourite Butt Kapinski comes to the Vancity Culture Lab. This filthy, funny, fully-interactive noir fantasy is riddled with sex, sin, shadows and subterfuge. TheCultch.com

Loon runs Nov. 18 to 23.

Historic Theatre The Daisy Theatre: Sept. 23 to Oct. 12 Butt Kapinski (presented at the Vancity Culture Lab): Sept. 30 to Oct. 11 Music Creates Opportunity: Oct. 21 to 26 The Four Horsemen Project: Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 Loon: Nov. 18 to 23 Dylan Thomas: Return Journey: Dec. 9 to 21 All That Fall: Dec. 29 to Jan. 17 The Fish Eyes Trilogy: Jan 27. to 31

York Theatre Broken Sex Doll: Nov. 12 to 22 Cinderella, An East Van Panto: Dec. 3 to 28

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Art Exhibitions STREETS: This exhibition brings street art inside. A group art show featuring local wheatpaste and stencil artists iHeart, Joy, Slingshot, Wrk(less), and MW Bowen.

Exhibition continues through Sept. 26 at Hot Art Wet City. Free to attend.

HotArtWetCity.com KIKU HAWKES, NORTH V. 2: Vancouver-based artist/ photographer Kiku Hawkes integrates direct scans of pressed wildflowers, collected during an arts residency in Northern BC, with screen grabs of digital maps of the area. Continues through Oct. 18 at Firehall Arts Centre Gallery. Free to attend. FirehallArtsCentre.ca SWARM: Over 20 artist-run centres and community partners will present exhibition openings openings, screenings, performances and talks demonstrating Vancouver’s diverse community of artist-run initiatives. Thursday, Sept.

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A map of the full festival programming and further details will be available soon at swarm.paarc.ca. Sept. 11 and 12 JÜRGEN PARTENHEIMER, THE ARCHIVE – THE RAVEN DIARIES: First solo exhibition in Canada of work by the acclaimed German artist. The exhibition will comprise of works on paper, text, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, much of it produced in Vancouver in spring 2014 during his residency as the Audain Distinguished Artist-inResidence, hosted by Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Opening reception Thursday, Sept. 11, 7pm at

Contemporary Art Gallery.

Exhibition continues to Nov. 9. ContemporaryArtGallery.ca YUJI AGEMATSU: Trash and waste become an artistic medium for Japanese artist Agematsu. Exhibition at Artspeak runs Sept. 13 to Oct. 25. Opening reception Friday, Sept. 12 at 7pm.

Artspeak.ca DON PYLE, TROUBLE IN THE CAMERA CLUB PHOTO SHOW: A photo show by Don Pyle (Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet), documenting the Toronto Punk Scene in the ‘70s, with a special Q&A. Features over 300 photographs and 200 flyers, ticket stubs and related ephemera, and presents a unique and rare perspective on the sorely under-documented Toronto scene. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 8pm at Fox Cabaret.

MICHAEL EDWARD MILLER, BSOD: young, emerging Vancouver artist presents his fourth solo exhibition, moving forward in his investigation of the history and impact of digital mass-culture. Opening reception Thursday, Sept.

18, at 7pm at the Robert Lynds Gallery. Exhibition runs Sept. 18 to Oct. 25.

RobertLyndsGallery.com DAVID WILSON, INTERSECTIONS (NEW WORKS): Paintings highlight Wilson’s traditional urban street scenes both on canvas and board along with a selection of looser deconstructed works produced on corrugated board. Opening reception Thursday, Sept. 25, 6pm at Kimoto Gallery. Exhibition runs Sept. 25 to Oct. 11.

KimotoGallery.com TED SEEBERG, CONTRASTING LANDSCAPES: Figurative-

abstract visual artist present his inaugural exhibition.

Artist reception Oct. 16 and 17, from 7-10pm at East Van Studios. Exhibition runs Oct. 15 to 19. TedSeeberg.com

Comedy ULTIMATE IMPROV CHAMPIONSHIP: Vancouver’s most dangerous improv pits two blood-thirsty teams of improvisers against each other in a non-stop timed challenge. At the end of each performance the audience votes who will be the Ultimate Improv Champion, with the winning team returning the following week to defend their title. Thursday, Sept.

11, 9:15pm at The Improv Centre – Granville Island.

VTSL.com KATE DAVIS: Appearances include The Mike Bullard Show, The Debaters, The Hubcap Comedy Festival and the Sudbury Comedy Festival. Sept. 11 to 13 at Comedy MIX in the Century Plaza Hotel.

TheComedyMix.com SCARED SCRIPTLESS: Using audience suggestions, our performers challenge themselves and the “rules” of the game. These multitalented improvisers take familiar styles and games and push them to their limits. Saturday, Sept. 13, 11:15pm at The Improv Centre – Granville Island.

VTSL.com IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY: The Fictionals present an interactive improv show based on the phenomenon that is Cards Against Humanity.

Thursday, Sept. 18 at 8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $6 in advance, $9 at the door.

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Darcy is one of the stars of CTV’s new multicamera series Spun Out. Sept. 18 to 20 at Comedy MIX in the Century Plaza Hotel.

TheComedyMix.com PAUL F. TOMPKINS COMEDY BENDER: A new series brought to you by The Sunday Service and Fox Cabaret. With special guest Alicia Tobin. Sept. 20 to 22 at Fox Cabaret. Tickets at EventBrite.ca TEEN ANGST NIGHT: Comedic reading series where everyday people read from their embarrassing old journals, poems, songs, essays, and more. Hosted by Sara Bynoe since 2000.

Tuesday, Sept. 23, 8pm at The Emerald. Tickets $10.

SaraBynoe.com/Shows/ Teen-Angst CHRIS PORTER: Best known for his third place finish on Season 4 of Last Comic Standing. Sept. 25 to 27 at Comedy MIX in the Century Plaza Hotel.

TheComedyMix.com HARLAND WILLIAMS: Known for his hilarious stand-up comedy and numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, Letterman, Conan, and more. One of the stars of the new hit sitcom Package Deal. Sept. 28 at Comedy MIX in the Century Plaza Hotel. TheComedyMix.com UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH COLIN MOCHRIE AND GUESTS: Canada’s best-known improviser teams up with Vancouver TheatreSports League in four spirited shows Oct. 3 at The Improv Centre and Oct. 4 at Performance Works (Granville Island). Tickets $50-$75 available at VTSL. com.

AN EVENING OF STANDUP COMEDY WITH NORM MACDONALD: Perhaps best known for his five seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Macdonald also wrote for the popular ABC sitcom Roseanne and starred in The Norm Show from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named Macdonald No. 83 on the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.

Saturday Oct. 4, 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets at NorthernTickets.com ORNY ADAMS: Featured in Jerry Seinfeld’s documentary, Comedian, appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Comedy

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Oct. 23 to 25 at Yuk Yuk’s Vancouver. YukYuks.com LAUGH GALLERY MONDAYS: Graham Clark (CBC’s Debaters, Stop Podcasting Yourself) hosts one of the longest running shows in town. The Laugh Gallery features the best and brightest comics in Vancouver at a great price.

Mondays at 9pm at Havana Gallery. EastVanComedy. com STREETFIGHT – AN IMPROV BATTLE ROYAL: An evening of hilarious improv comedy from 10 of Vancouver’s top improvisers. Round by gutbusting round your votes will determine who is the funniest on Commercial Drive. Sundays at 7:30pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $8 at the door.

THE INSTANT THEATRE COMPANY: New weekly 9pm show featuring long and short form improv and spectacular guests.

An action packed evening of comedy from East Vancouver’s darlings of theatrical improv. Sundays at 9pm at Havana Theatre.

Tickets $8 at the door.

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Saturday, Sept. 13, 6pm at The Imperial. Tickets at EventBrite.com.

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REINVENTING RADIO: An Evening with Ira Glass: The creator of This American Life talks about his program and how it’s put together, what makes a compelling story, where they find the amazing stories for their show, how he and his staff are trying to push broadcast journalism to do things it doesn’t usually do.

Glass mixes stories from the show, live onstage, combining his narration with pre-taped quotes and music, recreating the sound of the show as the audience watches. Saturday Sept.

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Sunday, Oct. 5, 1pm at Imperial. Tickets available at Ticketfly.com

VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST: The Vancouver Writers Festival (previously the Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival) is one of North America’s top literary events and attracts some of the world’s best writers. Internationally renowned and undiscovered authors mingle with readers of all ages in intimate and informal settings. The festival features a variety of conversations, panel discussions, on-stage interviews and musical collaborations. Whether you attend an author reading, poetry bash or passionate writers’ debate, you can count on stimulation and inspiration. Oct. 21 to 26.

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THE LOVE SONG OF R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER: The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and CDm2 LIGHTWORKS present a one-night only performance of The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, a “live documentary” created by Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green, who live narrates the film, accompanied by legendary indie band Yo La Tengo. Together, they set the stage for a remarkable evening exploring the life and times of R. Buckminster Fuller, the 20th century American futurist, architect, engineer, inventor, and author. Wednesday, Nov. 12, 8pm at The Vogue Theatre.

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here’s a little something for everyone this season from Arts Club Theatre. Celebrating their 51st year, the local theatre company has 16 productions lined up for its three stages, running the gamut from foul-mouthed puppets to classic musicals to brand-new plays.

The season kicks off with the production of 4000 miles at the Stanley Alliance Stage on Sept. 11, starring Nicola Cavendish as a sprightly 91-year-old New Yorker and Nathan Barrett as her 21-year-old grandson who shows up unannounced on her doorstep after cycling across the country.

“This is one of those shows I really look forward to,” says Bill Millerd, who has served as Arts Club Theatre’s artistic managing director since 1972.

Educating Rita, which opens the Granville Island Stage’s season on Sept. 25, is the story of a street-smart hairdresser who enrolls in a literature class and sparks a unique relationship with her world-weary professor.

At the Revue Stage, Blue Box debuts on Oct. 5. Based on writer and performer Carmen Aguirre’s remarkable life, this moving story begins during the Chilean resistance movement during Pinochet’s dictatorship, and follows her journey to present-day Vancouver.

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Stanley Industrial Alliance Theatre 4000 Miles: Sept. 11 to Oct. 12 Saint Joan: Oct. 23 to Nov. 23 Mary Poppins: Dec. 5 to Jan. 4 One Man, Two Guvnors: Jan. 22 to Feb. 22 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: March 19 to April 19 In the Heights: April 30 to June 7 Les Miserables: July 2 to Aug. 16

Granville Island Stage Educating Rita: Sept. 25 to Oct. 25 Avenue Q: Nov. 20 to Jan. 3 The Mountain Top: Feb. 12 to March 14 Farwell, My Lovely: April 2 to May 2 Godspell: June 18 to Aug. 1

Revue Stage Blue Box: Oct. 9 to Nov. 1 A Twisted Christmas Carol: Nov. 27 to Dec. 27 Bullet Catch: Jan. 15 to Feb. 7 Sister Judy: Feb. 26 to March 21

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Location, Location, Location – David Lam Park, seawall, False Creek, Elsie Roy School, Urban Fare, Canada Line to YVR & Yaletown all at your doorstep • Views of park, water & overlooking Yaletown, 962 sqft 2 large bdrms, 2 baths, granite counters, S/S appl, laminate floors, great floorplan – all rooms spacious, 1 parking, solid building, I/D pool, hot tub, caretaker & more! • Rent for $2300/mo. & great for families or wanting a waterfront lifestyle.

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CARNEY’S CORNER sePTembeR sPeCIal Upper floor one bedroom in concrete strata features bay window with skylight creating light airy feel. Open plan living/dining/kitchen great for entertaining and make decorating a breeze. Generous size bedroom, ample closet space, slider to covered balcony for al fresco dining & urban gardeners. Updated kitchen, bath, laminate & tiled flooring, custom closets & peekaboo view to False Creek Granville Isld. Pet & rental friendly. $284,900

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Shop Talk: Museum of Vancouver explores World War II fashion tail dresses, and fashions designed by renowned European couturiers, including Christian Dior, Hardy Amies, and Elsa Schiaparelli.

The exhibition also includes a dress from Ceil Chapman, who was reportedly Marilyn Monroe’s favourite designer and counted Elizabeth Taylor and Mamie Van Doren as famous clients. Lauren Bacall’s shoes, Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac’s dress suit and a suit from Miss Germany 1955 will also be on display.

From Rationing to Ravishing is the second installment in a continuing series of fashion exhibitions with Sayers and Jahnke. Sayers – who thinks of his exhibitions as lessons in history – claims, “No era is better illustrated

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rom jumpsuits to evening gowns, the latest historical fashion exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver will feature rare examples of haute couture and Vancouver-made clothing and accessories that reflect the changes that World War II had on society.

From the collections of guest curators Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke, and the vaults of the Museum of Vancouver, From Rationing to Ravishing will present more than 80 garments.

Highlights include wartime wedding dresses, Boeing Vancouver overalls, cock-

by an examination of its clothing than the period of World War II and the postwar years of recovery and rebuilding.“ During the war, fashion designers emphasized manliness; clothes were influenced by the need for practicality and economy. In peacetime, a womanly silhouette returned and then, in the 1950s, influenced by indulgence and amusement, designers made girlishness the rage.

The exhibition, running Sept. 18 to March 8, will also include family-friendly features, including an activity station for kids and adults alike, and the opportunity to try on period garments.

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The all-Canadian lookbook For its fall/winter 2014 lookbook, The Room assembled 20 Canadian photographers and four illustrators to interpret the season’s most coveted designer looks on one Canadian model. The result is 24 Designers. 48 Eyes., an incredible interpretation of images brought together in a limited edition 13x19 lookbook. The launch of the book coincides with the fifth anniversary of The Room, and is a celebration of Canadian talent.

Designer looks in 24 Designers. 48 Eyes. include Erdem, Prabal Gurung, Wes Gordon, Mary Katranzou, Thom Brown, Azzedine Alaia, and The Row. Model Meghan Collison served as muse to each of the 24 contributors, moving from one artist to the next every two hours over a five-day period. A traveling team including art director, hair and make-up artist and small video crew accompanied Meghan as each photographer took creative license with their look, choosing to shoot in-studio, outside, or, in one case, via Skype from New York.

“We tried to embrace and nurture talent in Canada,” says vice president and buying director, Nicholas Mellamphy. “The project really was all about discovery, just like it is in The Room.”

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The Museum of Vancouver’s “Ravishing” new exhibition revisits fashion trends of the 1940s and 1950s. Supplied photo devoted to the conservation of bees and other invertebrates, J.Crew worked with up-and-coming British illustrator Emma Smith to design a range of T-shirts for men, women, and children. Each will feature four hand-drawn illustrations of different species of bees, and 50 per cent of the retail price will be donated back to Buglife. The collaboration with Buglife will focus on promoting awareness about “the importance of bees for flower pollination to protect the greater ecosystem.” Crewcuts kids tees are $45.50, and men’s and women’s tees retail for $52, available at JCrew.com.

West End General Store Tea connoisseurs, trendy campers, and Wes Anderson impersonators take note: A hybrid between a tea house and Tofino beach shack has popped up in the West End, carrying whole-leaf and cold-brewed Oollo teas, fleecy Forest & Waves saddle blankets and illustrated linens, and whimsical Lemonni home décor and handy totes. The pop-up closes on Sept. 14, so hustle over to 990 Nicola to start styling the movie set that is your life. WestEndGeneralStore.tumblr.com

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Street Style: The double-duty dress A Good Chick to Know

By Jennifer Scott

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s we get ready to layer up and nail down our ‘must-have’ looks for fall, it begs the question: What are the key pieces that are going to make my wardrobe work this season?

I decided to head over to our local designer style source Wear Else to see what’s hot – and not – for Vancouver fall fashion.

The super adorable Alanna Kuznetsov, who has been a stylist with the boutique for the last two years, walked me through its top-sellers and trends as we played around with key items create a versatile fall look.

Vancouver fashionistas’ biggest ask for the season has been for a stellar dress – we’re not ready to hide our summer legs just yet – but local women are looking for an option with longer arms as we transition into cooler weather.

The top choice so far is an ultra chic Obakki piece; it has the desired arm length, and is figure-flattering with side ruching and a feminine scoop neckline.

This fab find, priced at $380, is the ultimate “Day-to-Date” dress for fall.

We played dress-up with the piece and a few other hot trend items to pull together our fave transitional looks for the dress.

Pink Tartan Power Stretch Jacket, $325 Trend: Basic black layering piece.

Michael Kors black pumps with metal detailing, $168 Trend: Gold.

Rebecca Minikoff Carry-all Bag, $495 Trend: Structured pieces.

Tadessa Starlight Sterling Silver Bracelet, $175 Trend: Beading.

Look 2: Night The simple silhouette of the dress allows the accessories to stand out for a stunning evening ensemble. I’m all about the texture of the jacket – it adds a rock ‘n’ roll glamour with an irresistibly touchable appeal (perfect for a first date!). The booties play up the edge of the outfit, and put forward a younger take on an awesome-for-all-ages sheath dress. This look makes flirty yet sophisticated seem totally effortless. Which is totally awesome.

Obakki Dress, $380 Trend: The perfect fall dress.

Alice + Olivia Andie Coat, $450 Trend: Faux furs.

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Clockwise from top: Wear Else stylist Alanna Kuznetsov; Stuart Weitzman booties ($598); Ela clutch ($221); Obakki dress ($380) paired with Alice + Olivia faux fur coat ($450). Rob Newell photos

Obakki Dress, $380 Trend: The perfect fall dress.

This look is our top choice for daywear, offering up a polished appeal perfect for the office; drab workwear need not apply – this combo has filled the position. The sleek cropped jacket keeps it elegant, while the gold detailing on the pumps amps up the edginess to create a fresh take for fall.

Stuart Weitzman Booties, $598 Trend: Exposed zippers/hardware.

Ela Clutch, $221 Trend: Minimalism.

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nyone with any sense at all understands that Granville Street is a maddening location during the weekend. As such, a great many locals avoid the Granville Strip like a house on fire full of rats.

However, there comes a time for everyone when they end up down there somehow. Say, you’re going to the Commodore Ballroom for a show. You want savour (or slam) a few pre-game pints. You wish you knew a safe haven to slip in to but, alas! You’ve neglected the area for so long you have no idea what’s good or bad. Here, now, is a list of bars, pubs and dives to get some reprieve from the Granville Strip madness.

The Morrissey Pub It’s dark, cavernous and the décor is oddly seductive. It’s somewhere you might spot a vampire – or maybe Dave Grohl who, legend has it, hangs out here whenever he’s

in town. The Morrissey’s for a more mature crowd – the type that likes their rock music heavy and their whiskey drinks stiff. It’s the sort of place that could very well exist somewhere between the Whisky A Go Go and the Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip, but thankfully is placed at the most remote end of the Granville Strip. 1227 Granville.

Johnnie Fox’s Irish Snug Cozy and authentically Irish in the beat-up, luckless sort of way. The booths could all use a reupholstering and the beer menu is rather trim, but otherwise it’s a fine place to watch a game on weeknights, debate the merits of Ulysses with a friend at lunch or get slobbering wasted with randoms on a Saturday night. Club kids normally avoid the spot, which is a plus, nor is there anything remotely pretentious about it, unless you consider “Closing Time” playing on the speaker pretentious. But we don’t. 1033 Granville.

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The Factory It’s a narrow, brick-lined hole-in-the-wall designed as a throwback to New York music venues of the 70s and 80s. This means faux-dank, faux-dirty, and dimly lit. But whatever, it’s cool anyhow.

All menu items are $5.95, and the clientele skews younger and more alternative, so, again, you won’t see crowds of Caprice kids slamming shots at the bar.

Expect Queens of the Stone Age, Motörhead, and the like playing at volumes not exactly favourable to lengthy discussions with the hard of hearing. 1017 Granville.

Cinema Public House Yes, it’s tantamount to sacrilege to claim a Donnelly joint as a reprieve from mindless Granville shenanigans, given the homogenization of bar and bro culture that the Donnelly Group seemed to be fostering. Lately, the Donnellys have upped the quality of their menus, their beers

and, by all appearances…it’s clientele? In any case, Cinema offers an impressive line of beers, great daily food and drink specials and an ambience that’s New York speakeasy meets Las Vegas strip club. The wings are delightful and, um, so are the waitresses.

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The Bottleneck This relatively new gem is located directly under the Commodore and occasionally shares coordinates events with the music venue (they’re throwing an afterparty for the Interpol show on Sept. 15).

It’s modern décor and quality menu items will appeal to wide range of patrons, though the masses evidently haven’t discovered the place yet, because it’s rarely packed.

Because the seating area is tucked in the back of the building, without any windows, it’s easy to forget after a pint or five that you’re even on the Granville Strip to begin with. 870 Granville.

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GM Anthony Sterne runs a great front-of-house crew, so service is excellent; knowledgeable, friendly and the up-selling is kept to a minimum. It makes for a perfect match to chef Keev Mah’s excellent renditions of the small but well-chosen menu.

Cocktails like the Girl Next Door ($12) are spoton. Broker’s gin with basil, honey, lime, and egg white make for a frothy, refreshing beverage that pairs well with the chilled sweet pea soup (now a tomato version in keeping with what’s in season). At $3, it’s the per-

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Italian sausage surrounds fior di latte and a runny egg yolk just waiting for you to poke it free (how this is achieved is a mystery), while a smoked egg white aioli offers a pleasant sharp contrast to the almost-overwhelming richness of the dish.

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A taste of Mistura in Peru Follow Me Foodie

By Mijune Pak

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ow! All eyes have been on Peru’s food scene in the last five years, and I finally see why. This “Gastronomical Capital of the Americas” leaves lots to return for.

Mistura is South America’s largest food festival and for the fifth year it was hosted in Lima, Peru. While Lima is home to extraordinary restaurants like Central, recently named Latin America’s Best Restaurant, street food is its pride and joy. Locals and tourists flock to the weeklong Mistura food festival to try over 200 food and drink stalls, along with a marketplace highlighting Peruvian products and ingredients.

As a first-time tourist in Peru with limited exposure to Latin American cuisine, Mistura was the ideal place to hit up as much street food as possible with a limited time frame. From beloved chains to independent restaurants it was hard to narrow down what to try, but with the quick list of “fast feasts” on Chowzter.com generated by journalist and chief Chowzter of Lima, Nicholas Gill, I was in good hands.

It also helped to have J. Rodrigo Vera Latorre, founder of Mikuy Gastronommic Tours in Lima, give a private tour of Mistura. From about 200 vendors I was able to try 36 items

Roll out the barrel in Whistler this weekend Javier Olano of Al Cilindro de Javi smokes potatoes in pork fat at the Misture food festival in Lima, Peru. Mijune Pak photo in the span of five hours. Not bad huh? From the 36, these were my top five: • Smoked pork from Al Cilindro de Javi: Pork is popular at Mistura and out of all the roasted/smoked pork I had, it was my favourite here.

It’s a Chinese-Peruvian style smoked pork served with potatoes smoked in pork fat and drippings. It’s marinated in over 20 ingredients with sweet and savoury flavours of soy, brown sugar, and five-spice powder. Where to try: Incomparable, but just as good on another level is BBQ Master’s Chinese barbecue pork in Richmond.

• Anticuchos de Corazon from Tia Grimanesa: It was awarded as one of the seven “Tastiest Fast Feasts in Latin America” at Chowzter’s recent awards in Peru. Grimanesa started her business on the streets and quickly became known for her Anticuchos

(grilled and skewered beef heart). Popularity and love from locals led to an eventual brick-and-mortar which draws a constant line up. This traditional Peruvian street food is one she’s perfected.

Where to try: El Inka Latin Deli in Burnaby or Silvestre Gusto Latino in Gastown.

• Leche de Tigre from El Veridico de Fidel: Ceviche is Peru’s national dish and I had more Leche de Tigre (Tiger’s Milk) than I did water.

It’s the leftover juices from the ingredients used to make ceviche. It’s pure bliss and the one here was my favourite.

Creamy and rich and full of seafood flavour with a nice citrus kick and some nonoverpowering heat. It gave Leche de Tigre new meaning.

• Chupe de Pescado from La Olla Arequipeña: This aromatic Peruvian seafood chowder is typically made with fish, but here it was with langous-

tines. It’s rich in flavour and creamy in texture without being heavy and it’s also healthy.

The tomato, onion and pepper soup base is made with added Peruvian vegetables, spices and herbs with a hint of Spanish influence, saffron. This is comfort food.

• Chicharrón from Sanguchería El Chinito: Sandwiches are a large part of Lima’s fast food culture and this is a local favourite. A roast pork (belly or shoulder) sandwich with boiled and fried yams and pickled onions is a standard menu item at sandwich shops, but they’ve mastered it here. The slices of succulent pork are tender and high and while adding yams may sound unusual, it adds a sweetness to for balance.

Where to try: Chicha on East Broadway makes a slider version of this popular sandwich or Silvestre Gusto Latino in Gastown.

By Robert Mangelsdorf

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ew things go together better than Whistler and absurd amounts of beer. Just ask any Australian.

That’s why this weekend might be the perfect opportunity to get out of town while the weather’s still nice, and sink your liver into the Whistler Village Beer Festival. More than 60 breweries are taking part this year with 200+ beers on tap. For the connoisseurs there will be seminars and workshops during the day covering the fine art of brewing, as well as the history of the most important beverage known to mankind (aside from water).

The real action is at night, however. More than 20 beer tasting and pairing events are planned for the four-day event, all within stumbling distance of one another in the heart of Whistler Village.

Most of the action will be centred around the Whistler Olympic Plaza where the main event takes place on Saturday from 1-5pm. There you’ll be able to sample the best beers by the top craft breweries from around BC, North America, and the world.

Of course it’s not all just fermentation-induced frivolity.

There are high stakes for the breweries entered in the Best in Fest awards. Other festivals give out cute medals, the Whistler Village Beer Festival gives out draft beer contracts: The top placing breweries in the Best in Fest contest as voted on by industry professionals will win contracts to pour their at Whistler pubs and venues like the Longhorn Saloon, Dubh Linn Gate, and Tapley’s Pub. More than 4,000 thirsty attendees are expected this weekend, with events running from Thursday to Sunday (Sept. 11-14). Check out WVBF.ca for details.

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Cinema verité Krista Rand mines painful divorce for award-winning Storyhive film Reel People

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By Sabrina Furminger

f Krista Rand’s performance in Lead and Follow comes across as gut-wrenchingly authentic, that’s because it is.

In the emotional short – one of 10 funded in part by TELUS’ Storyhive competition, which handed out $100,000 to Vancouver filmmakers this past spring – the actress and emerging screenwriter plays out a scenario she actually lived: A revelatory evening from the final days of her first marriage. “[My ex-husband] had an affair, and it was a real struggle to figure out how to stay and if I should stay,” says Rand, seated beside Lead and Follow director Orsy Szabo (co-writer and star of the critically acclaimed In The Deep) in a Kitsilano tearoom. “I was working in a restaurant at the time, and this film is based on this one night where I realized I had enough strength to walk away.”

It was Szabo who first prompted Rand to put pen to paper and knock out a screenplay, any screenplay; Rand’s impulse was to write about that night, then seven years behind her.

“The first time she told me the story, it was such a cinematic story,” says Szabo. “I could see it. It had a really clear beginning and a really clear end.”

The final script was close enough to reality that Rand was

Above: Krista Rand (on right) wrote and stars in the short film Lead and Follow, directed by Orsy Szabo (on left).

On right: A scene from Lead and Follow with actor Ian Tracey. able to bring some gritty emotions to her portrayal, but fictionalized enough so that everyone’s privacy was protected.

Still, the script demanded that Rand dive feet-first into a place of searing vulnerability. It’s a gutsy choice for a project that marks both her screenwriting debut and her first time in a leading role – although it’s hardly her first taste of the film biz.

Rand’s credit list reflects her innate versatility and passion for film: Producer of the awardwinning web series, The Last Falls of Ashes; director of A Night at the Theatre; actress on Mr. Young and Hiccups; make-up artist on Hitler’s Canadians; stand-in on Some Assembly Required and Sanctuary.

It was during her time standing in for Amanda Tapping on Sanctuary that she first encountered celebrated Vancouver actor Ian Tracey (Continuum; Da Vinci’s Inquest), whom she and Szabo later tapped to play the role of

the charismatic restaurant patron who turns Rand’s character’s head that fateful night.

“You’ll see him in a different light,” says Szabo. “You’re not used to seeing him as the romantic lead. He has some sexy moments in this.”

They filmed the bulk of Lead and Follow at Gastown’s The Diamond over two days last May. Dozens of familiar faces from the Vancouver film and television (including Leah Cairns, Lane Edwards, Sean Amsing, Matty Granger, Broadus Mattison, and David Lewis) converged to participate as cast, crew, and background performers.

For Rand, the experience of making Lead and Follow was as life changing as the events depicted in the film. “It just gave me more confidence, and to know that literally anything is possible,” says Rand.

It’s also given Rand the chance to revisit and move on once and

for all from that messy chapter in her life.

“These things happen in our lives, and they’re horrible, but you can get stuck in it and get really bitter, or you can choose to look at it and say to yourself, ‘well, that happened, and that was really awful, but I’ve learned something from it,’” says Rand, who remarried earlier this year.

“And that part of my life has made me what I am. In a strange way, I’m happy for all of it.”

Lead and Follow and the nine other Storyhive-funded films will screen at a special premiere party at The Imperial on Sept. 22, before beginning their regular rotation on TELUS’ Optik TV (and anytime on demand). For more, visit Storyhive.com.

VIFF unveils ambitious line-up

By Sabrina Furminger

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he Vancouver International Film Festival unveiled the line-up for its upcoming fest, and it sure is mighty: 355 films from 65 countries on nine screens at seven venues.

Included in the expansive schedule are nine film series (including Spotlight on France, Cinema of our Time, Arts & Letters, International Shorts, and Dragons & Tigers) and the largest showcase of Canadian films on the planet.

VIFF opens on Sept. 25 with Wild.

The latest from director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club) stars Reese Witherspoon as an emotionally-scarred woman who embarks on an 1,800-km hike. It’s got “Oscar favourite” written all over it.

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The following night is the Canadian Images Gala. This year’s film is October Gale, a psychological thriller starring Patricia Clarkson, Scott Speedman and Tim Roth from Cairo Time writerdirector Ruba Nadda.

The fest closes on Oct. 10 with Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s riveting film about an ambitious jazz drummer and his tough instructor that’s won awards and acclaim at Sundance and Cannes.

VIFF also revealed that they’re rebranding their film and television forum as the VIFF Industry Conference. Calling upon the talents of a diverse range of industry insiders like David Milchard (producer/actor, Convos with my Two Year Old), Shirley Vercruysse (executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada), and Nicole Perlman

VIFF 2014 will kick off on Sept. 25 with Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed

by JeanMarc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club). (screenwriter, Guardians of the Galaxy), they’ll explore topics like web series growth, crowdfunding, and transitioning from the indie world to the studio system. VIFF Industry runs Oct. 1-4.

This year’s VIFF is jam-packed.

They’ve got a 3D series. They’ve got a genre series. They’ve got a short film series. They’ve got films for audiences under 18. In truth, they’ve got films for every ilk of film-lover

under the sun – unless you don’t like films. In that case, they’ve got gourmet popcorn.

VIFF runs Sept. 25-Oct. 10. Find details at VIFF.org and right here in WE Vancouver.

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Little Terrors weaves a complex tale LITTLE TERRORS

Starring Om Puri, Armaan Kabli Directed by Maninder Chana

Canadian filmmaker Maninder Chana tackles faith and morality in his poignant new drama Little Terrors. Shot entirely in India, the film stars newcomer Armaan Kabli as Samih, a 13-year old boy originally from the United States, who is recruited by a terrorist organization to bomb the US embassy in Delhi.

Samih becomes increasingly conditioned during his stay at a training camp in Pakistan and is eventually sent to live with a Muslim family prior to the attack. Here, the boy’s unwavering commitment to the cause is challenged as the father of the household begins to question his mission.

Chana, who also crafted the story, demonstrates a keen grasp of the film’s complex themes and constructs an increasingly intriguing tale of fundamentalism gone awry. The director’s technical proficiency deserves credit as many shots are impeccably framed with the aid of Cabot McNenly’s gorgeous cinematography.

Minor issues do arise though; Kabli’s inexperience as an actor holds him back at times and an American journalist captured by Samih’s recruiters is painfully miscast, nearly ruining what should be some of the most powerful moments.

Marius Masalar’s otherwise effective musical score is heavy-handed at times and some less than stellar visual effects also hamper several key scenes, dampening the sheer force they were intended to convey.

Overall, these problems never overshadow the confident execution and sometimes fascinating script that Chana has created. Little Terrors, despite some flaws, weaves a powerful and straightforward character study with a plot that resonates in an often disturbing manner.

–Thor Diakow

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MC Pressure, MC Suffa, and DJ Debris of Australian hip hop trio Hilltop Hoods play the Commodore Ballroom on Sept. 12.

Hilltop Hoods battle Through the Dark Australian hip hop trio rebounds from personal tragedy

By Kelsey Klassen

W

hen Daniel Smith started writing a song about his son’s battle with acute myeloid leukemia, he didn’t know how it was going to end.

In February 2013, the Australian hip hop star carried his critically ill eight-year-old boy into the hospital, and spent the next six months sleeping next to him in a hospital bed as he underwent chemotherapy.

With the support of his longtime band mates Matt Lambert (MC Suffa) and Barry Francis (DJ Debris), Smith (otherwise known as MC Pressure) cancelled the Hilltop Hoods’ North American tour, shelved plans to record their muchanticipated seventh studio album, and finally made time to be a dad.

“He had been in [the hospital] for about a week when I started writing the song,” says Smith. “They had a bed in the room that he was living in; I pretty much sat there every night once he fell asleep, on my laptop, in the dark, just writing this song. I couldn’t

sleep. Pretty much my only release and way to deal with what was happening was to pour it into this song.”

He wrote and rewrote the lyrics almost 200 times as he waited anxiously for the outcome of his son’s treatment, until finally it got the ending he was hoping for: Liam went into remission, and has been healthy now for over a year.

Despite its ultimately uplifting message of perseverance and strength, however, make no mistake – “Through The Dark” is raw and real and infinitely more personal than most their previous work. And it will make you cry.

“Man, like, that song… it just punches you in your heart’s face,” says Lambert.

“His son is my godson, so when he played that… It’s a full-on song. I was super proud of him, not just in the way he performed as a dad all throughout the experience, but the song is a beautiful piece of work as well. I think it’s the best thing he’s ever written and it’s because it’s the most sincere thing he’s ever written. It’s a very earnest song.

Like, how the fuck are you not going to be earnest when you’re talking about your son’s sickness, you know what I mean?”

Still, the band had to talk Smith into singing the hook, rather than their usual practice of inviting in

a guest vocalist, and then convince him to put it on their latest album, Walking Under Stars.

But the groundbreaking band, which has worn the crown as Australia’s premier hip hop act for close to 20 years, has always been at ease breaking down barriers and genre clichés. The subject matter sits naturally next to life lessons about money and happiness (“Pyramid Building”), pain (the haunting “Live And Let Go” featuring Brother Ali) and family (“Won’t Let You Down”).

“That’s some grown man shit to care about,” laughs Lambert. “But the older you get the more you realize that’s all the matters. Even music for me, for most people, is temporary. At least a career in music. So as you get older the things that are most important come into focus I guess.”

Smith says they’re currently working “Through The Dark” into their live set, and it will likely be ready by the time they get to Vancouver to play the Commodore on Sept. 12.

But are fans of the prolific Adelaide act, which has been rapping about loving their fans, loving their lives, and getting drunk and falling in the gutter since the mid-’90s, ready for real life? These same fans had been waiting more than a year past the expected drop date for the

album – a continuation of 2012’s Drinking From The Sun. Would it meet their expectations?

The simple answer is it doesn’t matter; Walking Under Stars is one of the most exceptional, honest hip hop LPs of the year.

True to Hilltop’s doubleplatinum past, the album is a two-part deal. Alongside the more mature themes sits the ‘90s-inspired swagger of “Cosby Sweater”, a summer shout out to Biggie and Bill Cosby that rivals their breakout stadium anthem “Nosebleed Section”. As it gets blisteringly hot in their home country over the next few weeks, we Canadians will be curling up on our couches wearing nothing but Coogi sweaters and smiles.

Or practicing our 20-second handshakes, as eulogized in the impossibleto-ignore “The Art Of The Handshake” one track later.

“What happened to them?” says Lambert jokingly. “Me and Pressure have a bunch of handshakes. We’ve known each other since we were 12 years old, so we have a catalogue of handshakes. To do a song so earnest about something so stupid to me was a really funny idea.”

It’s all to be expected from a band that made a 65-minute zombie flick out of their 2009 album, State Of The Art. “We’re ticking all these

boxes of things that we want to do. We made an album with an orchestra.

That was fun as shit. And when we went to make the DVD for the last album, we thought, ‘Why don’t we make a zombie film…?’ It was literally one of those things, I do it because I can,” Lambert says with a laugh. “I’m a huge George Romero fan and just a fan of zombie films in general.”

But just when you start thinking the fun-loving, staunchly independent band might never fully embrace their elder statesmen status, you’re reminded that the Hilltop Hoods offer creative mentorship, studio time, and financial support to emerging Australian hip hop artists through their HTH scholarship initiative.

Which sounds vaguely similar to someone the band is looking forward to hanging out with when they hit town.

“Our friend [Mark] Brand lives in Vancouver,” says Lambert. “He’s a restaurateur. We like to hit his spot, Save On Meats? We actually call Vancouver, ‘Brandcouver’.”

The Hilltop Hoods play the Commodore Ballroom Sept. 12.

Tickets are $37.25 at Ticketmaster.ca.

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Lighten up!

Fibre Artist Sola Fiedler presents her Vancouver Tapestry at grunt gallery’s 30th Anniversary Party on Aug. 28. Inspired by Vancouver during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the tapestry took the 78-year-old more than 5,000 hours to weave, beginning in May 2009. OUT AFTER DARK is a weekly feature highlighting social and cultural events around Vancouver. Got an upcoming event? Email us at OutAfterDark@WEVancouver.com.

Preventing gang activity in BC ▾ MYTH: Once kids join a gang there’s no hope for them: Reality: With quick family, school, and police intervention, a youth can leave the gang without any serious consequences. The key is a coordinated and collaborative intervention as soon as some of the warning signs appear.

Better yet, everyone needs to work together to prevent youth and young adults from joining gangs.

Read more by downloading your copy of the CFSEU-BC Community Report at www.cfseu.bc.ca and on your Black Press website at: bc-anti-gang.com

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Re: Rants/Raves, Sept. 4 This rant is in response to the two people that wrote in about the pig slicing itself.

Oh my word! Can we lighten up just a tiny bit?

And may I also suggest that before you press ‘Send’ on your funky little laptop whilst you sit in some bland coffee house feeling ‘oh-so-superior’ because you’re probably drinking ‘fair-trade’ coffee, that you may actually consider rereading your trite message, instead of caving in to your sudden elitist indignation.

Quite simply, poor grammar is sloppy (as sloppy as, shall we say, a pig slicing itself?), and it poorly detracts from whatever half-assed message you are vaguely trying to comment on.

And I quote: “...you published a picture of a pig slicing himself (by the way, we don’t know it’s gender) to promote the Vancouver chili and barbecue festival, it was revolting and unethical.”

Take out the comma and continue with your thought as a comma suggests a pause in your thinking.

A period after that sentence would’ve been in order. If you were daring, you might have used a semicolon but I’m guessing that skill is beyond you. Perhaps in your caffeinated hyperworld, you may think that editing, re-reading, grammar, etc... are not needed to get your point across.

However, it actually makes you sound very much like an idiot thus detracting considerably from whatever pseudo-important message you were trying to impart.

As for the issue at hand, all grammar aside: Lighten the fuck up. It’s a silly little cartoon and I doubt that actual pigs go about slicing themselves up at random just as I would hazard a very good guess that not

All rants are the opinion of the individual and do not reflect the opinions of WE. The editor reserves the right to edit for clarity and brevity, so please keep it short and (bitter)sweet.

many people who are ‘fence-sitting’ on the issue of carnivore vs. herbivore would be really impacted by this image at all! I rarely read the WE anymore but I happened to see this and simply could not help commenting on the utter lack of proper usage of the English-fucking-language.

Please go back to grade school and enjoy a round of baby-back ribs on me while you’re at it! There is a divine smokehouse on W. Broadway – Memphis Blues – and I’m sure they’d love to accommodate you.

Now do excuse me while I tuck into some delicious barbecued pork chops.

–G Pick

Rude people get what they deserve Re: Rants/Raves, Sept. 4 Besides the rude comments you got, you missed the opportunity to emphatically state that in this day and age it’s totally unacceptable to hold the door for any stranger to your place of work or dwelling, and that if the rude piece of garbage does not have a so-called friend in the building, the police will be called. Nobody should be offended if they are not trying to con their way in to a building to cause more harm to others. Harm reduction can be a useful term in this case which is wrongly used by politicians and bureaucrats.

–Jeff

Still good people out there Thank you to the thoughtful person who recently left me a note of apology to explain their hungry dog. The dog was tied up to a bike rack at Hillcrest Community Centre (Nat Bailey). The dog chewed on two loaves of bread I had inside my bike bags. This kind person also left me $5.00 to pur-

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There still are good and considerate people.

–TJL

Get over yourself!

Re: Belle Gelateria eyes global expansion with new shop, Aug. 28 Get over yourself! The Bella Gelateria owner says, “At my level of being a World Champion, everything has to be perfect”. He then goes on to say “I don’t fit in... I stand out”.

Enough said.

–P.Taff

Police need to stop cell drivers Distracted drivers are causing a lot more accidents as you see them driving with spaces between cars as their attention is on their texting or cell phone But lets put the blame where it really belongs, on a lack of police enforcement of the traffic laws.

When you see a driver on their cell phone and they don’t try to hide the fact that they are using their phone, and with a police office watching but they do nothing you know drivers aren’t afraid of being caught.

It is time to get the police out of the coffee shops, off their fat asses, and do some traffic enforcement.

Vancouver Police are paid to do law enforcement, so why aren’t they doing it?

Also the Mayor is the chairman of the Vancouver Police Board and it is his responsibility to see laws are enforced, not to be encouraging citizens to break the law. Why is there no leadership at the top?

If I see at least 30 to 35 drivers a day on their cellphones you would think and entire police force would see one or two.

–John Adamson

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If you’d prefer to fly under the radar, this is that sort of car

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The steering wheel is the best-looking one this side of a Porsche Macan Turbo, a flat-bottomed, hefty helm with metallic spokes, and a GTI badge worked into the metal. The rest of the cabin now cants towards the driver like a 1980s BMW (in a good way), the red-stitched seats are comfortable and well-bolstered, and there’s a more modern looking touchscreen for audio and navigation functions.

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Thirty years ago, Canada got its first taste of a new kind of flavour: the hot hatchback.

Released in 1976 in Europe, it took nearly a decade to reach our shores, and even then it came in a slightly watered-down version.

It didn’t matter. This plucky little lightweight hatchback promptly set everyone’s pants ablaze with its scampering chuckability. You could fling it into a corner like a skipping stone and come out the other side with a grin so wide the top of your head was in danger of detaching.

There’s also quite a lot of room for a car that debuted as the performance version of the tiny little Rabbit. The trunk space is larger than that of a WRX sedan to start with, and then the split-folding rear seats and passthrough come into play to create an even-more-flexible cargo area. Or, leave it all buttoned up, and fit a rear-facing child seat or four adults with ease.

And ever since then, the GTI’s got fatter and faster with every generation. A more powerful four-cylinder engine, a narrow-angle V6, and finally turbocharging all debuted underhood, but the demand for greater refinement and more space caused this once-small car to balloon.

But no more. Here is the seventh generation GTI, and curb weights are on their way back down again. Power is up, chassis stiffness is improved, the interior is upgraded – the king of the hot hatchbacks is back.

Performance:

But that’s just the level of practicality that makes the regular Golf such a hot seller overseas. Built on the bones of a European family car, the GTI also needs a bit of steam for when its driver is alone on some winding back road.

Design:

In many ways, the GTI is the Porsche 911 you can actually afford. If you scroll all the way back to the two-box shape of the original, you can still see the same lines here: an upright stance, a large greenhouse, a usefully-proportioned hatchback shape.

That shove comes from a familiar powerplant: a 2.0L four-cylinder featuring direct injection and turbocharging. Here, redesigned to incorporate the exhaust manifold directly into the head, it makes 210hp at 4500rpm (not much of a bump there), and 258lb/ft of torque at just 1600rpm.

Compared to rivals like the Focus ST or the Mazdaspeed3, the GTI is considerably more subdued. A thin red strip accents the front end from headlight to headlight, and foglights peek out from behind the side strakes. The back sports dual exhausts, and there are small, tasteful red GTI badges on either side.

That’s an extra 50lb/ft of low end grunt over last year’s model, and it makes the GTI much more tractable and willing at street speeds to haul itself out of a corner or down and onramp with gumption. High-revving engines are fun too, but as a quick point-to-point car, the GTI’s new engine provides real-world speed without looking like you’re pulling a Vin Diesel.

The large, five-spoke 18” alloys tend to say the most about this car’s sporting intent, but the rest is a collection of performance hints, rather than shouty plumage. If you’d prefer to fly under the radar, this is that sort of car.

Grip is simply excellent, although later-release cars will be available with even more, thanks to a Performance Package that includes a true front differential, larger brakes, and a slight bump in hp. As it is, the GTI handles with aplomb, albeit with a little less feedback from the

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Inside the GTI, we find much the same story. No red seatbelts or endless swathes of tacked-on carbon-fibre trim here: just an all-black interior that’s a little too austere, if anything.

steering than in past hydraulically assisted systems.

Transmission choices include either a six-speed manual, which is far an away the most fun, or a six-speed dual-clutch automatic that does a good job in still giving the driver control while purring away happily in traffic.

As always, the GTI proves itself a jack-of-all-trades, tackling stop and go traffic with good sightlines and a comfortable ride, hitting up the highway with relatively little wind-noise, and then tackling a winding backroad with scrappy handling and a nose-full of boost. Essentially, it does everything you ask of it.

The only real caveat here is that the GTI might be a little too competent to have a lot of character. Like the current-gen 911, it’s so polished as to not have any of the rough edges that can make you fall in love with a car.

On the other hand, I just compared a family hatchback to a Porsche 911 twice. Enough said.

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For launch, VW Canada has requisitioned a batch of GTI’s that are fairly pricey, but very loaded. Bluetooth, dual-zone climate control, and a giant panoramic sunroof are all standard. Leather seating and a 5.8” touchscreen satellite navigation are optional.

Fuel economy is rated at 9.5L/100kms in the city and 7.2L/100kms on the highway for the DSG automatic, and slightly better for the manual. Surprisingly, and perhaps the cherry on top, is that the GTI will actually hit these mileage targets even if driven with a bit of spirit. Premium is recommended, of course.

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By Rob Brezsny • Week of September 11

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 2000 film Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays an American FedEx executive who is stranded alone on a remote Pacific island after he survives a plane crash.

A few items from the plane wash up on shore, including a volleyball. He draws a face on it and names it “Wilson,” creating a companion who becomes his confidant for the next four years. I’d love to see you enlist an ally like Wilson in the coming week, Aries. There are some deep, messy, beautiful mysteries you need to talk about.

At least for now, the only listener capable of drawing them out of you in the proper spirit might be a compassionate inanimate object that won’t judge you or interrupt you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As far as I know, there has been only one battleship in history that was named after a poet. A hundred years ago, the Italian navy manufactured a dreadnought with triple-gun turrets and called it Dante Alighieri, after the medieval genius who wrote the Divine Comedy. Other than that, most warships have been more likely to receive names like Invincible, Vengeance, Hercules, or Colossus.

But it would be fine if you drew some inspiration from the battleship Dante Alighieri in the coming weeks. I think you will benefit from bringing a lyrical spirit and soulful passion to your expression of the warrior archetype.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you go to a 7-Eleven convenience store and order a Double Big Gulp drink, you must be prepared to absorb 40 teaspoons of sugar. But what will be an even greater challenge to your body is the sheer amount of fluid you will have to digest: 50 ounces. The fact is, your stomach can’t easily accommodate more than 32 ounces at a time. It’s true that if you sip the Double Big Gulp very slowly – like for a period of three and a half hours – the strain on your system will be less. But after the first half hour, as the beverage warms up, its taste will decline steeply. Everything I’ve just said should serve as a useful metaphor for you in the coming week. Even if you are very sure that the stuff you want to introduce into your life is healthier for you than a Double Big Gulp, don’t get more of it than you can comfortably hold.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you surrender to the passive part of your personality, you will be whipped around by mood swings in the coming days. You will hem and haw, snivel and procrastinate, communicate ineptly, and be confused about what you really feel. If, on the other

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hand, you animate the proactive side of your personality, you are likely to correct sloppy arrangements that have kept you off-balance.

You will heal rifts and come up with bright ideas about how to get the help you need. It’s also quite possible you will strike a blow for justice and equality, and finally get the fair share you were cheated out of in the past.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his 1982 martial arts film Dragon Lord, Jackie Chan experimented with more complex stunts than he had tried in his previous films. The choreography was elaborate and intricate.

In one famous sequence, he had to do 2,900 takes of a single fight sequence to get the footage he wanted. That’s the kind of focused attention and commitment to detail I recommend to you in the coming weeks, Leo – especially if you are learning new tricks and attempting novel approaches.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard were the first explorers to reach the top of 4,810-metre Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border.

They were hailed as heroes.

One observer wrote that the ascent was “an astounding achievement of courage and determination, one of the greatest in the annals of mountaineering. It was accomplished by men who were not only on unexplored ground but on a route that all the guides believed impossible.” And yet today, 228 years later, the climb is considered relatively easy for anyone who’s reasonably prepared. In a typical year, 20,000 people make it to the summit. Why am I bringing this to your attention?

Because I suspect that you are beginning to master a skill that will initially require you to be like Balmat and Paccard, but will eventually be almost routine.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Those who invoke the old metaphor about the caterpillar that transforms into the butterfly often omit an important detail: the graceful winged creature is helpless and weak when it first wriggles free of its chrysalis.

For a while it’s not ready to take up its full destiny. As you get ready for your own metamorphosis, Libra, keep that in mind. Have plans to lay low and be self-protective in the days following your emergence into your new form. Don’t try to do loopthe-loops right away.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Scorpios are currently the sign of the zodiac that is least likely to be clumsy, vulgar, awkward, or prone to dumb

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): On a German TV show, martial artist Jackie Chan performed a tough trick.

While holding a raw egg in his right hand, he used that hand to smash through three separate sets of four concrete blocks. When he was finished, the egg was still intact. I see your next task as having some resemblances to that feat, Pisces. You must remain relaxed, protective, and even tender as you destroy an obstruction that has been holding you back. Can you maintain this dual perspective long enough to complete the job? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Squirrels don’t have a perfect memory of where they bury their nuts. They mean to go back and dig them all up later, but they lose track of many. Sometimes trees sprout from those forgotten nuts. It’s conceivable that on occasion a squirrel may climb a tree it planted years earlier. I see this as a useful metaphor for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. You are on the verge

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For over 2,000 years, Chinese astronomers have understood the science of eclipses. And yet as late as the 1800s, sailors in the Chinese navy shot cannonballs in the direction of lunar eclipses, hoping to chase away the dragons they imagined were devouring the moon. I have a theory that there’s a similar discrepancy

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You have cosmic permission to be bigger than life and wilder than sin. You have a poetic license to be more wise than clever. And you should feel free to laugh longer than might seem polite and make no apolo-

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in your psyche, Capricorn.

A fearful part of you has an irrational fantasy that a wiser part of you knows is a delusion. So how can we arrange for the wiser part to gain ascendancy? There’s an urgent need for you to stop wasting time and energy by indulging in that mistaken perspective.

gies as you spill drinks while telling your brash stories.

This phase of your astrological cycle does not require you to rein yourself in or tone yourself down or be a well-behaved model citizen.

In fact, I think it will be best for everyone concerned if you experiment with benevolent mischief and unpredictable healing and ingenious gambles.

mistakes. On the other hand, you are the most likely to derisively accuse others of being clumsy, vulgar, awkward, or prone to dumb mistakes.

I recommend that you resist that temptation, however.

In the coming week, it is in your selfish interests to be especially tactful and diplomatic. Forgive and quietly adjust for everyone’s mistakes. Don’t call undue attention to them or make them worse. Continue to build your likeability and fine-tune your support system.

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