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Dolphins, orcas, and whales perish by dozens at Vancouver Aquarium

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What following is a list of "known cetacean [large sea animals] deaths" at the Vancouver Aquarium. It was provided to the Straight by Peter Hamilton, founder and director of the Lifeforce Foundation.
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Blog - Quickies

Lululemon founder Chip Wilson celebrates his own funeral

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Chip's Not Dead Yet Photo & Video Gallery
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Straight Talk

City releases new EcoDensity proposals

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The revised versions of the EcoDensity Charter and its proposed actions are available for public review at www.vancouver.ca/ecodensity. City planning director Brent Toderian told the Straight that the documents reflect citizens’ input stressing the importance of housing affordability, amenities, transportation infrastructure, and the need to respect the voices of various neighbourhoods.
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Movie Notes

Blade Runner futurist docks in Vancouver

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The Vancouver chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics will host an iconic guest at its fifth-anniversary celebration on Wednesday (May 14)-Blade Runner’s visual futurist, Syd Mead.
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Straight Choices

Ideas of Note

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The term interactive often suggests the digital world, but sometimes it’s best to use a more straightforward way to convey an important idea. The Outpost: Asian Canadians Reframed, an exhibit running until Friday (October 19) at the AMS Art Gallery in UBC’s Student Union Building, uses Post-it notes to explore preconceptions about the Asian Canadian community.
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Straight Talk

Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson apologizes for drunk driving

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Personal Statement from Councillor Tim Stevenson(Councillor Stevenson read the following at a news conference on Monday, July 16th, after pleading guilty to a charge of driving while impaired)
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Straight Talk

Will Coun. Tim Stevenson explain why he didn't tell anyone about the impaired-driving charge until today?

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Two-term Vision Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson will make a brief statement this afternoon (Thursday at 3 p.m.) about a guilty plea in relation to a 2006 impaired driving charge. The Vision media release was sent at 12:54 p.m. July 16, and reads as follows:
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Straight Talk

Straight bags two nominations

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Two Straight contributors have been nominated for prestigious journalism prizes. Daniel Wood is a finalist in the society category of the National Magazine Awards for "Passion and the pulpit", a May 11-18, 2006, cover story focusing on the human rights of gay priests. The National Magazine Awards will be presented in Toronto on June 15.
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Music Features

The best of everything

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Our ever-opinionated music scribes sound off on the 10 albums that rocked their worlds in 2006.
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Arts

Some twisted hits top the Fringe fest pack

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Boyhood visitations from Satan, teens who fall for monsters, and shaving cans that sing sea chanteys make for wildly funny fare
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Straight Talk

Straight scoops three magazine awards

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The Georgia Straight picked up three Western Magazine Awards at a July 7 dinner at the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel.
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Arts Notes

Stettner steps in

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The Vancouver Playhouse has announced Jon Stettner as its new general manager.
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Books

Writers' chats break all that brainy silence

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The writing craft is often seen as a solitary one, and certainly writers need a bunch of shush.
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Style Watch

Main Street makes moves downtown

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Some of the Main Street 'hood's hippest indie stores left their East Side digs for the bright lights of downtown on June 15.
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Payback Time

No complaints this week

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Everyone was evidently too busy planting grass seed this past week to complain about the music section.
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Book Choice of the Week

BC Book and Magazine Week

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The book world's hopping this spring like Peter Rabbit on a chocolate bender. April 22 to 29 is BC Book and Magazine Week; its focus on helping newbies turn pro should keep the tickets flying. Anosh Irani is the featured guest at the CBC Radio Studio One Book Club on April 29 with his new novel, The Song for Kahunsha (Doubleday Canada, $29.95). Read an interview with Irani here next week.
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Payback Time

No complaints this week

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Everyone was evidently too busy sending Payback Time e-mails offering cheap Cialis, Photoshop, and penis-enlargement patches to complain about the music section. You know what that means: next week's Payback Time jackpot swells to six discs. You can voice your impotent rage by snail mail or by sending a no-spam e-mail to payback@straight.com.
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Arts Notes

Delgado sails away

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Vancouver Maritime Museum executive director James Delgado is leaving the institution after 15 years. He'll depart June 30 to join the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, headquartered in Texas and Bodrum, Turkey.
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Arts Notes

Setting it straight

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The image of the artwork Weeping Volcano Woman that ran with last week's Visual Arts review of the show called Manawa at the Spirit Wrestler Gallery ("Native art bridges an ocean", March 2-9) should have carried two artists' names: Norman Tait and Lucinda Turner both created the sculpture.
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Movie Notes

Setting it straight

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Last week, we incorrectly identified Vanessa Kwan as Out on Screen's new executive director. She is the new director of programming. Drew Dennis is the executive director.
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Arts Notes

Foreshadowings of Fringe

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Perennial favourites like Scotland's Jem Rolls, England's Screwed and Clued, and Australia's Jonno Katz will again appear at this year's 22nd annual Vancouver Fringe Festival (September 7 to 17 at venues centred on and around Granville Island).
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Arts Notes

Beaver goes AWOL

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The very shortest of short-form writing contests came out short something else at the Emily's Monkey Collective's first annual First Line competition: its trophy. The Silver Beaver, the nonfiction event's version of the Stanley Cup, went missing during the January 19 tournament at the Brickhouse to see who could pen the best single sentence. That meant winner Geoff Olson went home empty-handed.
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Straight Talk

Straight Nominated

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Straight contributing writer Ben Parfitt has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Parfitt's Straight cover story last July 8-15, "Killing Fields", is a finalist in the One of a Kind category. The article examined the risks of sour-gas leaks to workers in northeastern B.C.
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News and Views

How the Straight Got Clean

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Months ago, when Georgia Straight art director Matt McLeod began working on a redesign of the paper, he sought a sleeker, cleaner look. He wanted bolder headlines. He felt there needed to be more white space around the lead pages of major articles. And he was dedicated to enhancing readability without tampering with the articles.
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