Georgia Straight Issue 2415

Apr 3, 2014

Arts

Roxanne Duncan named new managing director at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Executive director Howard Jang leaving Arts Club Theatre Company for SFU

MADtv’s Bryan Callen looks back on a life on the move

Danny Bhoy at the Vogue

Verses Festival of Words celebrates all things verbal

Gesamtkunstwerk introduces art under, and above, the Granville Street Bridge

Nikolai Korndorf Quartet and Emily Carr String Quartet at Western Front

L’Orchestre d’hommes-orchestres's Cabaret brise-jour is universal and timeless

Ghosts in Baghdad leans into its melodrama

Alexander Gavrylyuk and the VSO tackle Rachmaninoff at first annual Spring Festival

Rocco's choreography puts you ringside

Blogs

Homeless in Vancouver: Great white painting

Homeless in Vancouver: City hall with the "icing" turned on

Will free transit be part of the COPE election platform?

The Show designer spotlight: noda by Connie Leung

Concert pic of the morning: Black Lips at the Rickshaw

Photo of the Day: Convocation Mall

The Georgia Straight presents Devo at the Commodore

Lucais Syme opens Cinara restaurant

Rick Mercer signs three-year deal with CBC

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Cabaret Brise-Jour

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the Vancouver South African Film Festival

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors C.R. Avery’s book launch at the Verses Festival of Words

Primal terror is key to In Fear's masterful nightmare-making

Homeless in Vancouver: A postdiluvian post

30 years ago today: Billy Idol plays UBC, rails against convention

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: The truth about radiation biohazards

Who wants to kill Femen's leader?

Concert pic of the morning: The War on Drugs at the Biltmore

The Show designer spotlight: PAUSE. by Kady Chong

Homeless in Vancouver: The last Canadian dollar bill

Homeless in Vancouver: The South Granville alms race

Photo of the Day: Kitsilano rainbow

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors ROCCO

MapleCoin touted as national cryptocurrency of Canada

Art Institute of Vancouver ranked as top 10 game design school by the Princeton Review

Former D.O.A. guitarist Dave Gregg reportedly dead

DiverCine 2014: Francophone films from screwball comedies to survival stories

The Georgia Straight presents the Fray at Malkin Bowl

Vancouver LGBT pioneer ted northe dies at 76

Concert pic of the morning: London Grammar at the Commodore

Gorilla Food to open Powell Street location on April 5

Transgender model Geena Rocero on coming out at TED2014 (video)

Jimmy Stewart harnesses the wild at Blacktail Florist restaurant

The story behind kale-centric Gastown shop Brassica & Co.

Electric Company Theatre and Kidd Pivot team up for an artistic match made in heaven

Homeless in Vancouver: Beautiful sunshiney day

Horror in Vancouver: On the set of the soaking-wet sea-beast saga Deep Rising in 1997

Caption the Political Photo: Christy Clark and Stephen Harper have a chat

Terminal City Tabletop Convention comes to Burnaby

Apparently, you’re not supposed to touch the bus driver (video)

The Georgia Straight presents the CBCMusic.ca Festival at Deer Lake Park

Photo of the Day: Water

SFU talks about fourth campus—in space (video)

Concert pic of the morning: Kid Ink at the Commodore

Photos: Raise the Rates protest marks seven years since last welfare increase in B.C.

Photo of the Day: Another Vancouver lane

25 years ago today: the Dickey Betts Band plays 86 St. Music Hall, with Warren Haynes on slide guitar

Doctor Who gets dirty at the Rio Theatre tonight

Sled Island returns a year after Calgary flood with a lineup including Spiritualized, St. Vincent

The Show designer spotlight: nowhere by Elisa Medina

Hole is back with its classic lineup

From the vaults: A 1999 interview with Hole's Courtney Love

City & Culture

Agricultural Land Reserve changes could impact B.C. cities

Al McKay: Why I am proud to be a chaplain for the Portland Hotel Society

Gwynne Dyer: What happens if Libya splits in two?

Doctors warn the Trans Pacific Partnership could mean higher drug costs in Canada and abroad

Nicole Malette: What is bullying and what is not?

Edward Haddon: It’s time to "commit sociology" when talking about class in Canada

"Sanctuary city" proposal among dozens of policies to be considered by COPE members

Gwynne Dyer: Documenting the blindingly obvious effects of climate change

April 1 marijuana regulation changes unlikely to bother B.C. licence holders

Green Party of Vancouver puts forward four city council nominees for November election

Erin Flegg: On white people and going home

COPE to push for a public vote on whale captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium ahead of 2015 review

Environmentalists attack Christy Clark over role in Enbridge lobbying firm

David Suzuki: Supporting wind power makes sense

Andrew Weaver: Bill 4: the Park Amendment Act—what next?

Class-action lawsuit would let Canadians with cellphones sue the government for surveillance

Burns Lake defendant rejects defamation settlement offer

Marpole community plan to go before Vancouver council

Disabled parking spot upsets majority of owners at Victoria condo

Advocates insist on aboriginal involvement and diversity in a new PHS management team

Peter Wood: What good is a provincial park if it doesn’t protect the land?

Should absentee owners pay for affordable housing?

Pregnant server’s complaint against Maverick’s Sports Lounge gets okay to proceed

Vancouver votes to move ahead on Engaged City Task Force recommendations

Vancity board snubs former city councillor Ellen Woodsworth

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip says federal research cuts could spark land conflicts

Food

Cute little Basho Café is made for lingering

Re-up BBQ's fried chicken is bewitching

Chez Christophe's chocolatier makes easy chocolate truffles for Easter

Malbecs and more wines, Argentine and otherwise

Living

Nifty for Fifty returns to Heritage Hall on April 6

LaineyGossip's Elaine Lui gets personal in Listen to the Squawking Chicken

Taiwanese seniors set example with marathon cycling trip to Vancouver, Burnaby, and the USA

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 388: Dad, whose panties are these?

Tourism officials hope to boost Canadian travel to “fun” Philippines

Floral-print kimono blouse has a vintage feel

From cat eyes to cool colour, spring specs go creative

The rush to make the so-called female Viagra is on

The Frackers reveals how wildcatters spawned an oil and gas revolution in the United States

Arundhati Roy explains how corporations run India and why they want Narendra Modi as prime minister

My boyfriend revealed to me that he is a trans man

Movies

Odd-couple character clichés abound in Cas & Dylan

Jodorowsky’s Dune offers a glimpse into what might have been

Jodorowsky’s Dune documentary has mystic power

Arrogance gets measured in The Unknown Known

Bethlehem shows devastating effects of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

VSAFF: Albie Sachs' Soft Vengeance tells South Africa's peaceful path of resistance

VSAFF: Apartheid reverberates in edgy Vancouver South African Film Festival

DiverCine 2014: The Auction portrays Quebecois farmer torn between farm and family

Afflicted is a creepily fun trip

Vancouver horror duo Clif Prowse and Derek Lee find fresh blood in Afflicted

All human (and pony) life comes to DOXA 2014

Noah is a potboiler of biblical proportions

For Richard Harmon, Reel 2 Real's a family affair

Music

Future Islands explore emotions on Singles

Dum Dum Girls’ Dee Dee Penny has left her baggage behind

Jill Townsend Big Band revisits a jazz landmark

Psychedelic resurgence does Dead Meadow a world of good

Instant Playlist - April 2 2014

NO’s triumphs are rooted in questioning and pathos

Temples’ psych pop is a homemade affair

Democracy is key to Young the Giant's success

Kings of Leon play by the numbers in Vancouver

News

Ex-cop Mike Morris chairs probe of Independent Investigations Office of B.C.

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief protests Pacific Trail Pipelines project

Fracking fuels the B.C. government's liquefied natural gas gambit

Tech

Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone and three new Gear watches coming April 11