Georgia Straight Issue 2379

Jul 25, 2013

Arts

Vancouver New Music's 40th anniversary season pays tribute to past and electronic future

The Farnsworth Invention is an absorbing undertaking

The Diaries of Adam and Eve is solidly acted

Itee Pootoogook defies cultural stereotypes at the Contemporary Art Gallery

Dancer Andrea Nann looks back for new INK

Inspired lunacy makes VTSL’s Amazing Improv Race a real trip

Blogs

Five reasons Rob Ford is a way better dude than Naheed Nenshi

Vancouver Canucks release 2013-14 NHL schedule

See you on Twitter, Chuck Hughes

Photo of the Day: Purple aurora

News for Youse: Prices drop in B.C., cops under investigation, John Cummins quits, and Oprah ripped

Vancouver Folk Music Festival kicks off at Jericho Beach Park

Classical CD world rocked by loss of major distributors

Photos: Day 1 of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival at Jericho Beach

Photos: Day 2 of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival

News for Youse: Bikes before council, food carts for Surrey, and Alberta oil spills continue

Comic-Con video pays tribute to fallen Game of Thrones characters

East Van Garbage Watch 2013: Commercial SkyTrain station

Actor Dennis Farina dead at 69

Video: Whitehorse city council gets reality TV treatment in ad

Departure roulette: would you drop everything and go?

WOWtv's Georgia Straight News: July 21, 2013

Photo of the Day: A big yellow duck

Vancouver Frontrunners offer stories of hope in It Gets Better video

East Vancouver's Genderfest 2013 celebrates gender diversity

Ballet B.C. wows 'em at Jacob's Pillow

Jason Newsted pooh-poohs Megadeth influence and the idea of rejoining Metallica

Photos: Vintage Courtney Love at the Commodore on July 22, 2013

Fight Club to get a graphic-novel sequel

East Van Garbage Watch 2013: Commercial Drive

Video: How do Vancouver residents feel about alcohol at the beach?

The Georgia Straight presents John Legend at the Orpheum

News for Youse: Point Grey bike lanes debate, Strathcona protests bike lanes, and a vote on bike sharing

Photo of the Day: Kitsilano sunset

The Georgia Straight presents Wavves at the Commodore

Fiona Apple's masterful new video

News for Youse: Full buses, Pavel Bure jersey retirement, bike-share approved, and $1.15-billion deficit

Ai Weiwei brings his stunning dissident art to Canada, only it's in Ontario

Dance scene has it rough: it lags in funding, support, and research

Ryan Gosling as Batman? It could happen!

Washed Out gets back to nature in "Don't Give Up" video

Jane Austen is coming to a £10 bank note near you

Crazy "Ice Ice Baby" supercut takes Vanilla Ice to the movies

Use the new online tool for Your Digital Future: Weekly update from OpenMedia.ca

New trailer for Gravity is shit-your-pants-tastic

Photo of the Day: Water lily

Google’s Chromecast gives Netflix a boost towards the future

Portside Pub's Women & Whiskey offers a liquid education

Squamish Valley Music Festival Band of the Day: Jordan Klassen

Squamish Valley Music Festival Band of the Day: Ruckus Deluxe

Squamish Valley Music Festival DJs of the Day: Funk Hunters

Squamish Valley Music Festival Band of the Day: Dear Rouge

City & Culture

Cory Monteith’s death and Abbotsford drug users illustrate the dangers of stigma

Sarah Cox: Paddling for the Peace River Valley

Gwynne Dyer: Broken and bankrupt Detroit may yet make a comeback

Anne Murray: The creation of the Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust

OpenMedia.ca: Holes poked in big telecoms’ excuses for Canada’s high mobile rates

David Suzuki: What's the value of nature?

Vancouver city council approves public bike-share system

Point Grey bike debate draws a crowd to Vancouver City Hall

Roberto Luongo still looks like Team Canada’s starter at Sochi Olympics

Metro Vancouver unveils Heather Place redevelopment plan

Dock construction causes stir on Bowen Island

Push continues for longer neighbourhood planning process in Vancouver

Vancouver bike-share program worries owner of local rental business

Big Media’s push for extreme new Internet censorship rules stalls secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks

Food

How to get a Diner en Blanc invitation in Vancouver

Time to try something new from South Africa

Tantalizing options await at weekly Food Cart Fest in Vancouver

Wine and dine in the great outdoors at West Vancouver's Harmony Arts Festival

Connor Gabbott's ahi tuna and pesto add to a meal-sized salad made for the patio

Living

Inclusion Cafe: On creating LGBT–inclusive workplace environments

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 352

UBC study reveals East Asian teens in B.C. less sexually active but more high-risk

Pride Legacy Awards 2013 highlight bright lights of Vancouver's queer communities

Secrets of an opportunistically heteroflexible guy

Lynn Coady’s stories strike like a knowing glance

Rachel Gorenstein fine-tunes Rachel Mara line

Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection encourages exploration

Vancouverites unite to help a Palestinian doctor attend brain development conference

Multi-generational cruise to Mexico puts whole family in the same boat

Make a statement with J.Crew's fluoro-floral necklace

Movies

Your Kontinent: A giant Teddy Bear roams Bangkok's sex district

Why do babies poop so much? This man has the answer

Your Kontinent: Enlightened robots among the pleasures in Doomsday Book

International Buddhist Film Festival makes its Vancouver debut

Predictable R.I.P.D. gets the sideways thumb

Music

Sunny skies and eclectic performances warm the crowds at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Canadian acts shine as part of Vancouver Folk Music Festival lineup

Natalie Maines not quite ready at Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Black Flag rises above a Vancouver set with some spotty moments

Busking paid off well for Australia’s Blue King Brown

One Direction is great art

More solo goodness from the Capitol 6 camp

Courtney Love pulls one out of the fire in Vancouver

News

Chernobyl legacy: Forest fires and radioactive smoke

Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel among Canadian writers urging Israel to halt evictions

Tech

Vancouver's brick-and-mortar businesses doing big business online