Georgia Straight Issue 2404

Jan 16, 2014

Arts

Odysseo's horseplay is a two-way street

Kitty Nights celebrates six years at the Biltmore

Paintorialism at Initial Gallery

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival plies Water Music

Walking Projects: “Vancouver, crawling, weeping, betting” matches wine with words

The Cultch wants West Coast Reduction’s name on York Theatre

PuSh Festival: Mixtape puts a smart new spin on old salon music

PuSh Festival: Usually Beauty Fails rocks the dance stage

PuSh Festival: Rabih Mroué's Nothing to Lose digs into war-making and picture-taking

PuSh International Performing Arts Festival celebrates a decade of theatrical daring

PuSh Festival: Norman Armour and Joyce Rosario reveal fest's best bets

PuSh Festival: Gob Squad's Kitchen time travels back to the Warhol era

Bunny masks, video cameras help Super Night Shot open PuSh Fest with a bang

Measure for Measure at Pacific Theatre

PuSh Festival: Tanya Tagaq wrestles with feelings about Nanook of the North

PuSh Festival: Danse Lhasa Danse pays tribute to the late, beloved Quebec chanteuse

PuSh Festival: A Brimful of Asha takes on the mother of all subjects

Your guide to the 2014 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Blogs

Concert pic of the morning: Madchild at Fortune Sound Club

Homeless in Vancouver: Ouch, that looks painful

Homeless in Vancouver: The return of pagers—now with straps

Made in Taiwan exhibition attracts appreciation from UBC academics

Homeless in Vancouver: My two bits worth of a $20 I found

Photos: Train derailment sends coal into Burnaby creek

Homeless in Vancouver: Dumpster collection truck versus the balcony

Homeless in Vancouver: A total surprise and disappointment

Homeless in Vancouver: Predicting the future of computers is kid's stuff

Quentin Tarantino seeks Bruce Dern?

40 years ago: Newt's top 30 rock albums of 1974

Stupid Rex Murphy quote of the month: Protest is a “moral disease”

Concert pic of the morning: The Luyas at Electric Owl

Video: Neil Young condemns oil sands developments, comparing their effects to Hiroshima

Photo of the Day: 541 seconds of this morning

TransLink’s ugly Compass card could use an art contest

Pope Francis condemns abortion in State of the World address

Bitcoin gift cards to go on sale in Edmonton

Infographic: How many scientists still reject climate change?

Vancouver's cranes in winter

HTML500: Hundreds invited to learn HTML and CSS for free in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Abbotsford council votes to do less harm

Crying baby at Alinea prompts debate on baby-ban at fine dining restaurants

Toronto's civic leaders agree: Rob Ford stinks

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Danse Lhasa Danse

Homeless in Vancouver: Welcome back, raccoon eyes; what took you?

Justin Bieber mansion raided by police following report of egg attack

Video catches car flipping while driver is busy texting

Video: High wind destroys condo

Concert pic of the morning: J. Cole at the PNE Forum

Were these Vancouver rockers hypno-programmed to kill?

Michael Geist: ISPs push for two-tier Internet based on data caps

Photo of the Day: Behind the scenes

J.B. MacKinnon and David Stouck named as RBC Taylor Prize finalists

Watch the tar sands doc Neil Young calls the most devastating thing that you will ever see

Freshly born Satan baby terrorizes Big Apple

Homeless in Vancouver: Too close for comfort

Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars shows off his signature Gibson guitar

#Bieberomelette: Does being egged make you an egger?

Liquor store worker creates “Women of the Straight” mural

The not so Fantastic Four

More media layoffs, this time at the Globe and Mail and National Post

City & Culture

High avalanche risk in North Shore mountains due to new snow

First Nations activist Ambrose Williams says Canada is “police state”

Aaron Jasper and Melissa De Genova spar over Killarney seniors centre

Two girls sexually assaulted walking to school in Delta

Matt Horne: B.C.’s LNG quiz gets failing grade

Investors warned about binary options trading sites by B.C. Securities Commission

Back in Lack, the Canucks fashion a 2-1 victory over the Blues

Coal train derailment in Burnaby linked to heavy rainfall, which was in the forecast

Delta police update description of suspect in sexual assault

Gwynne Dyer: Egyptians head to the polls again for a constitutional referendum

Lynn Headwaters Regional Park closed due to entrance debris

George Heyman: Lower Mainland transit stuck in B.C. Liberals’ policy gridlock

Sidney RCMP officer facing child porn charges

COPE to nominate mayoral candidate in June

Abbotsford city council to consider amending bylaw that restricts harm-reduction services

Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce considers court action to stop Point Grey Road bike route

David Suzuki: Film underscores need to address climate change

Komagata Maru monument pisser won’t face charges

If cyclists must put on helmets, why not drivers?

Prime minister rocked by Neil Young's tar-sands blast

Is the Komagata Maru pisser related to a cop, judge, or politician?

Community-amenity contributions divide Vancouver park board

B.C. Human Rights Tribunal dismisses discrimination complaint against strata council

Vancouver equality activists plan West End vigil in support of LGBT rights in Uganda

Marcella Szel replaces Nancy Olewiler as TransLink board chair

Vancouver senior describes how Chinese Exclusion Act ripped her family apart

COPE’s left front

Open letter: Unions should be on same side as climate change protesters

Food

Kwantlen Polytechnic University launches beer-brewing diploma

Bistro Wagon Rouge keeps it real with down-to-earth French fare

From Portugal to the Okanagan, wines with love

Burgoo restaurant owners share their recipe for a gooey grilled cheese sandwich

Secret Location's Jefferson Alvarez is creating 300 dishes in 30 days of set menus

Living

Fitness World founder Henry Polessky dies

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 377: Testing your sexuality

The difference between a lover and a mother

The Palestinian territories' first youth hostel welcomes backpackers to Ramallah

Inner Fire's Leah Emmott takes a light-hearted approach to yoga wear

E-cigarette controversy ignites with talk of ban at Vancouver Coastal Health facilities

Movies

American Hustle, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and Matthew McConaughey win Golden Globes

Zev Asher remembered at Cinematheque

Her doesn’t just phone it in

The fablelike Rocket an unforgettable firework

The Invisible Woman is a tale of two ladies

Ralph Fiennes romances The Invisible Woman

Jack Ryan challenges Chris Pine

Vancouver director waxes psychological with Oil Sands Karaoke

Oil Sands Karaoke hands a mike to Fort McMurray

Music

The Yale Hotel's long-time owner decides to let the blues club go

Panic! At the Disco's Brendon Urie doesn't mind the spotlight

String Fling returns to Vancouver

Punk rocker Ani Kyd finds a trip-hop vibe

Jake Bugg at the Orpheum Theatre

Mutual Benefit at the Cobalt

Cloud Control threw away its music-making rulebook

Woodpigeon’s Mark Andrew Hamilton finds a life beyond the ordinary

Happy accidents shaped the sound of Body Parts

Typhoon grew because Kyle Morton can’t say no

Influential guitarist Kelly Churko remembered

Winterruption goes indie

News

U.S. switch to natural gas has slashed power-plant emissions

How Newsweek's "global cooling" story got its legs

Tech

CES 2014 wows gamers with Steam Machines, Project Christine, and more

Google broke Canadian privacy law with targeted health ads, commissioner says