Georgia Straight Issue 2365

Apr 18, 2013

Arts

Vancouver asked to honour sculptor behind giant metal crab with plaque

Tom Cone honoured with theatre festival at Capilano University

Standing Wave's Vansterdam forges global connections

Local artist Parviz Tanavoli’s bronze gleams in Safar/Voyage

Lila Downs focuses on life’s milagros

Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life guarantees a thorough education

Mayor Gregor Robertson supports leasing the Larwill Park site to the Vancouver Art Gallery

Blogs

News for Youse: Telus in talks to buy Mobilicity, RBC apologizes to staff, and gold price falls

Photo of the Day: Panorama False Creek

PSY's new single, "Gentleman", sounds exactly like "Gangnam Style"

The National releases second single from Trouble Will Find Me

Long Table Distillery puts Vancouver gin and vodka on the map

NHL teams up with You Can Play to fight homophobia in sport

3:01 Pick Me Up: FRIDAY DANCE PARTY

Anonymous claims evidence of alleged perpetrators in Rehtaeh Parsons sexual assault

Stars LIVE at Coachella

Window Seat: Straight readers see transit as prime hook-up territory

Club members enjoy their fiction topless

News for Youse: Vaisakhi parade, Grant's law protests, and CBC pressured for tax info

Late Colorado goal sinks Vancouver Canucks

News for Youse: Homeless protest, ex-TV reporter appeals sentence, and Justin Bieber on Anne Frank

Holland Park vigil draws attention to 1919 British massacre in Amritsar

Photos: Marianas Trench, Anami Vice, Down With Webster at the Pacific Coliseum

Photos: World Ski and Snowboard Festival 2013 gets big air in Whistler

Photo of the Day: World Umbrella Dance

Caption the Campaign Photo: Christy Clark chats with students

Greenpeace places flag on the seabed at North Pole (photos)

Are these the best Justin Trudeau attack ads the Conservatives could come up with?

Tonight's ticket: Prince at the Vogue

News for Youse: Home prices fairly flat, sewage spill in Coquitlam, and Chavez's successor wins

Vancouver radio host completes Boston Marathon; avoids bomb blast

C.R. Avery takes on oil pipelines with poetry

The world's greatest rock guitarist wows 'em at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival

3:01 Pick Me Up: Fake Shark Real Zombie

The Georgia Straight presents Gold & Youth at Fortune Sound Club

Patton Oswalt's response to the Boston bombing

Tonight's ticket: Improv Against Humanity at Café Deux Soleils

Were Boston Marathon bombings a "false flag" attack? Massachusetts governor says no

B.C. election 2013: What to expect at the voting station

Social justice hub and community space Rhizome Cafe announces closure

Photos: Former police station painted with calls for social housing in Downtown Eastside

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors An Evening in Paris: An Affair to Remember

News for Youse: B.C. campaigns begin, condolences for Boston, and Canucks face the Blues

Dumped NDP candidate has "nothing to say" about hateful comments

Whitesnake brings its riff-riddled hard rock to Coquitlam this summer

Photo of the Day: Blue heron's landing

News for Youse: Campaigns underway, ricin letter to Obama, and gay marriage in New Zealand

The Last Bookshop celebrates the power of the written word

Iggy Pop—comic stooge, master ham

3:01 Pick Me Up: Azealia Banks

Canada can do better: Weekly update from OpenMedia.ca

American Graffiti stars head to Abbotsford; also, custom cars

New Zealand votes to legalize same-sex marriage and breaks into song

Images from Boston Marathon explosions

City & Culture

Former park commissioner Stuart Mackinnon runs for Greens in Vancouver-Fraserview

When Liberals look into Harry Potter’s Mirror of Erised, do they see Justin Trudeau?

Reasonable Doubt: Filing a lawsuit means giving up some privacy

Martyn Brown: Contract? What social contract?

Linda Reimer: Good credit for B.C.

Daniel Tseghay: New voices have the power to bring about positive change

Judy Darcy: NDP is committed to equalizing access to postsecondary education

Steve Kim: We can work together to achieve our goals

Christy Clark wants us to forget about those old B.C. Liberals

Justin Trudeau has to lay out more policies to attract progressive voters

Gwynne Dyer: Applying Parkinson’s Law to the North Korean nuclear threat

Petition calls for changes to B.C. liquor laws for music venues

Gil Aguilar and Gerardo Otero: Does Canada have unfree workers?

Explosions strike Boston Marathon

Regan-Heng Zhang: Put transit first

Françoise Raunet: Let me be a Green voice for Vancouver-Point Grey

Five unusual scenarios that could make this B.C. election a lot more interesting

B.C. Liberal platform proposes TransLink funding referendum

Christy Clark offers B.C.'s help after Boston Marathon explosions

President Obama says little yet known about attack in Boston

Dermod Travis: The confidence gap—restoring our trust

NDP candidate Dayleen Van Ryswyk steps aside over remarks on First Nations

Martyn Brown: The B.C. Liberals’ best hope

David Suzuki: Health effects from wind power unfounded

B.C. NDP to release election platform over the first week of campaign

Jerome Dickey: What a billion dollars will not buy us

Barinder Hans: A bad week for the oil sands

Chris Fjell: We are leaving our children with stunted futures

North Korea’s war talk obscures its dirty secret: political concentration camps

PiDGiN protesters given “criminal conduct warning” by Vancouver police

Vancouver police warn activists about "crossing the line" between protest and crime

Melissa De Genova seeks removal of Sarah Blyth as park board chair over tweet

B.C. election campaign platforms mostly bypass housing

Social housing replacement for Jubilee House proposed

Gwynne Dyer: The battle for Burma

Green Party of B.C. would legalize and tax marijuana

B.C. Liberals' proposed childcare registry would be useless, advocate says

Hundred-year anniversary looms for the Ghadar Party

Preliminary results of Vancouver homeless count show 273 people sleeping on streets

The Boston attack and other April 15 bombings

Vancouver Canucks will get a pre-playoff wake-up call

Auditor general terminates four employees after carbon-neutral report cites climate-change skeptic

Food

Where to get the flavours of New Orleans in Vancouver

Urban Fare launches grilled cheese bar

Red wines get friendly with food

Living

Metro Vancouver HIV and AIDS activist Ken Buchanan dies

Full Frontal exposes naked truths about masculinity and sexuality

Is there a safe, nonsurgical way to enlarge the opening of an uncircumcised penis?

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 338

Brisbane, Springbrook National Park among Australia’s unexpected attractions

Love Me 2 Times' Amelia Shaughnessy gives leather castoffs new style at Make It!

Get a bit wild with L.A.M.B. leopard-print heels

Movies

42 gets a lot of things right

Film producer hopes to show America Terry Fox's heroism and humanity

Times of India Film Awards 2013: Barfi!, Kahaani lead technical awards

Fartsploitation among the delights in The ABCs of Death

Animation at the heart of kids film fest shorts

Scary Movie 5's poo and penis gags induce half of one chuckle

Scott Hylands remembers Hastings Street in the '60s, acid for breakfast, and Sinatra tearing your nuts off

Darth Vader calls the Straight—really!

New on DVD/Blu-ray: Broken City, Gangster Squad, A Haunted House, The Impossible, Promised Land

First time feature Picture Day is something special

DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2013: Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming

Smart and funny Picture Day has roots in Degrassi

Music

Girl-group greats colour cute kids of Beach Day

Marianas Trench impresses more than just the bitches from the Georgia Straight

Tech

Geek Speak: Jen Riley, producer of EA Sports’ Yogify

Smartphone apps give geocaching a boost