Georgia Straight Issue 2368

May 9, 2013

Arts

Michael Audain expands size of art museum planned in Whistler

Two solo shows at the Contemporary Art Gallery complement each other in poetic ways

VIVO Media Arts Centre prepares to leave home on Main Street

Game-show host Darrin Rose is still a standup guy

Capilano University faculty plan rally as cuts loom

Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival says federal funding mostly restored

Tea: A Mirror of Soul is a strange but atmospheric brew

Blogs

News for Youse: Election race tightens, new Vancouver food carts, and Luongo starts in goal

West Vancouver asks people to kindly stay away from the moulting seal

CUTC Infect features hackathon contest at UBC

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors B.C. Buds Spring Arts Fair

Who'll stop the rain? John Fogerty and Bob Seger, that's who!

Photo of the Day: Granville Street

Video: Activist Brigette DePape shares a May Day poem in Vancouver

Transgender model Jenna Talackova to star in reality TV series

Christy Clark continues with the Margaret Thatcher schtick

News for Youse: Karl Lilgert trial winds down, NDP leads in new poll, and Canucks lose again

Canucks lose a 3-2 heartbreaker to the Sharks in overtime

Justin Bieber keeps them waiting in Dubai

Cory Schneider will start in goal in San Jose

Robert Downey Jr. reaches out to China

30 Years Ago: the Ramones at the Commodore, Johnny on the phone

Winners of the 2013 B.C. Book Prizes announced

News for Youse: BMO Marathon, NDP talks tankers, Liberals raise Labour Code, and Canucks in San Jose

Sharks push Canucks to brink of elimination with a 5-2 victory

News for Youse: Whistler's secret regime, Gordon Wilson rejoins B.C. Liberals, and Canucks thumped

Former Vancouver Giants captain Brendan Gallagher finalist for NHL Rookie of the Year

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors ARThritis Soirée

The Georgia Straight presents the Sheepdogs at Malkin Bowl

Shed suits and ties and save the planet?

Photo of the Day: The harmony between nature and man-made

The Georgia Straight presents Patty Griffin at the Chan Centre

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors A Circus in Wonderland

NSFW video for Nine Inch Nails' Broken EP surfaces after 21 years

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors rEvolver Theatre Festival

Video: Take a bike ride through 1970s Vancouver

News for Youse: One week until B.C. votes, doctor sues Liberal government, and Canucks on the edge

Rihanna brings out the boo birds in Boston

Photo of the Day: A different point of view

Legendary visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

Kanye West proves his enduring humbleness at Met gala

OpenMedia.ca: Is Bell taking over Astral to get millions in public subsidies?

Canucks start Cory Schneider in attempt to stave off playoff elimination

George Takei, Jesse Tyler Ferguson warn gays about assholes

Public library campaigns for a Hulk statue

Japan and Russia agree it's time to end the Second World War

AIDS Vancouver's 30 30 Campaign: Telling the story of Vancouver's HIV movement

Sharks eliminate Canucks with second overtime victory of the series

News for Youse: Canucks swept out of the playoffs, election voting begins, and a new dinosaur find

When We Were Good tackles teenage lesbian's sexual discovery

Squamish Valley Music Festival adds acts, announces single-day ticket sales

Hey guitar freaks: Ear of Newt is giving away Albert Lee concert tix

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors PEP Talks with Deborah MacNamara

David Bowie and Gary Oldman aim for maximum offense

Photo of the Day: Filling Kits Pool

Clueless Kelly Sutherland isn't the only one who hates the Canucks

WOWtv's Georgia Straight News: May 5, 2013

City & Culture

World Press Freedom Day: The Free Press Principle

Martyn Brown: Changing the face of change: the morning after the NDP’s win

Vancouver police search for woman connected to Pidgin protests

Video: Alexandra Morton wants British Columbians to watch Salmon Confidential

Ross Urquhart: Are refineries a viable alternative to pipelines in Canada?

Top 10 Endangered Sites list includes several Vancouver neighbourhoods

Gwynne Dyer: President Barack Obama, drone strikes, and Guantanamo Bay

West Side traffic circle leads to collisions between motor vehicles and cyclists

Environment dominates election campaign in Christy Clark's Vancouver-Point Grey riding

NDP Leader Adrian Dix puts Christy Clark's Vancouver–Point Grey seat in jeopardy

Right wing morality and the Adrian Dix campaign

Alain Vigneault's job on the line if Canucks lose Game 4

Kimball Cariou: Change is coming to B.C., but what kind?

Work Less Party's Mathew Kagis isn't afraid of the issues

Christy Clark endorser Gordon Wilson faced recent financial troubles

Fired doctor sues B.C. Liberal government, claims interference to protect party donors

Rebecca Ataya: Agencies that serve, push for adequate long-term funding for the vulnerable

Bradley Shende: New oil pipelines are risky business for B.C.

B.C. Liberal campaign manager steps down citing concerns about anti-gay voters

Martyn Brown: Beyond the latest opinion polls

David Suzuki: Defining progress differently

B.C. political parties detail health policies in Heart and Stroke Foundation survey

Eoin Madden and Torrance Coste: Salish Sea at risk of becoming a global carbon corridor

Daniel Veniez: Adrian Dix is the reason I'm voting B.C. NDP for the first time in my life

Gwynne Dyer: Israel takes sides

National Household Survey may have undercounted Chinese Canadians

It will only get harder for the Vancouver Canucks to turn it around

Report finds Vancouver's foreign property ownership fears are overblown

PiDGiN protest attracts notice from Vancouver-Mount Pleasant candidates

B.C. NDP election platform includes proposed urban aboriginal strategy

B.C. NDP godfather Bob Williams likes Adrian Dix’s slow approach

Report recommends adding Waldorf Hotel to Vancouver Heritage Register

Eric Doherty: Climate change is no longer an "environmental" issue in B.C.

Reasonable Doubt: "Access to justice" does not exist in B.C.

Understanding the narwhal: First contact

Food

Restaurants for Mother’s Day in Vancouver, from pho to fancy

New blueberry vodka goes down like a treat

MARKET by Jean-Georges Vancouver recreates James Beard House New York menu

Living

Target will open in Coquitlam, Delta, and Langley on May 7

DOXA 2013: I Am Divine director shows life can be far more than a drag

American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual faces mounting criticism

I'm not ready to divorce my shitty husband

Jacqueline Turner's The Ends of the Earth shows concise beauty

Great Canadian Craft Spring Fling caters to crafty cats

Eve Ensler discusses her memoir In the Body of the World in Vancouver

How to use Airbnb to find a place to stay when you travel

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 341

DOXA 2013: Director Stephen Silha delves into the dark side of James Broughton's Big Joy

Movies

DOXA 2013: Wrong Time Wrong Place searches for meaning in massacre

DOXA 2013: Sewer enthusiasts find beauty and redemption in Lost Rivers

DOXA 2013: The Great Hip Hop Hoax is stranger and maybe even better than fiction

DOXA 2013: Becoming Traviata takes a luminous behind-the-scenes look at opera

DOXA 2013: East Hastings Pharmacy provides a glimpse into a world few of us know

DOXA 2013: The Palace explores a relic of Poland's Communist past

DOXA 2013: The Mosuo Sisters tells a tale of two sisters torn in China

DOXA 2013: The tale of Tamil poet Salma beggars belief

DOXA 2013: Theatre guru Joe Papp gets the movie he deserves

New on DVD/Blu-ray: Cloud Atlas, Colorful, Dexter, Liz & Dick, Neighboring Sounds

DOXA 2013: Talking extreme particle physics ahead of The Circle screening

DOXA 2013: Rose Colored Glasses captures one of the art world’s greatest weirdos

DOXA 2013: Child soldiers to ice-cream dreams, Africa docs move and sweeten DOXA

DOXA 2013: Beatles’ former secretary has fab tales in Good Ol’ Freda

DOXA 2013: Ghosts in Our Machine director Liz Marshall imagines a kinder human-animal society

Music

METZ brings its noise-punk brutality to the Biltmore

Harlow MacFarlane is drawn toward the dark side

News

Birds and neighbourhoods the focus of local walks and talks for the next nine days

Tech

Club Penguin looks to expand mobile space

Heroes duke it out in Injustice: Gods Among Us

Quick-thinking Nanaimo teens thwart Playland thief