Georgia Straight Issue 2422

May 22, 2014

Arts

Langley Fine Arts School at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Ethos Collective at the Orpheum Annex

Espresso at Pacific Theatre

Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nominations announced, with Pacific Theatre joining the big companies in the lead

Cirque du Soleil's Totem sails along on dream logic, complete with apes and amphibians

DVote offers a duet of differences

Dan Quinn at the Comedy MIX

AYRE: Early Music Remixed at St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church

Yarilo Music Ensemble’s Timeless Circles at the Orpheum

Vancouver International Children’s Festival works its puppet magic

Quebec theatre poses the big questions to little ones at the Vancouver International Children’s Festival

ArtsScene Vancouver's boardLink Live connects local arts organizations with young professionals

The stakes are low in Spamalot

Cross-cultural Firehall Arts Centre season to span Africa to China to First Nations

Hip-hop and theatre meld in Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of

Blogs

Homeless in Vancouver: Chalk dinosaur—not quite life size

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Spur Vancouver

Oil spill defiles strip club in Los Angeles

Concert pic of the morning: Skinny Kids at the Biltmore

NextBC celebrates local tech companies and innovations at Science World

Andrew Garfield plays trans woman in Arcade Fire's "We Exist"

Philippines: Study finds increased LGBT tolerance but abuse persists

Homeless in Vancouver: Another chalk drawing…so a-Dora-ble

Homeless in Vancouver: Who can resist a Jenga tower?

Homeless in Vancouver: The early birds get my sandwich

World's scariest airports revisited

Homeless in Vancouver: "The reactor core is lovely tonight!"

Lowrider spotted on Richards Street in Vancouver

30 years ago today: Tony Carey calls from Tulsa to plug Some Tough City

Homeless in Vancouver: On the outskirts of Slumberland

Concert pic of the morning: Failure at the Rickshaw

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to play Vancouver after release of new album

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors The Art of Stealing

Homeless in Vancouver: An olden golden bicycle

Pete Yorn recalls his "mindblowing" time working with the Farrelly Brothers on Me, Myself & Irene

Homeless in Vancouver: Reflects well on their ingenuity, hopefully

Riding the Amtrak Cascades makes sense for many reasons

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Komagata Maru 1914-2014: Generations, Geographies and Echoes

Pemberton Music Festival announces pre-event performances

Poutine and hashtag added to Merriam-Webster dictionary

Homeless in Vancouver: VGH now offering medical care for bicycles

Photo of the Day: The falls

Homeless in Vancouver: China bans Windows 8 from government PCs

The New Yorker explains Vancouver real estate is all about rich people parking cash

Concert pic of the morning: Lindsey Stirling at the Vogue

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors City Opera Vancouver’s Pauline

Homeless in Vancouver: Public restrooms are so stressful

Pink Floyd to release 20th anniversary boxed set of The Division Bell

Culver City Salads crowdfunding solar-powered food truck

Arts Umbrella's Paxton Ricketts hits the Nederlands Dans Theater big-time

Bitcoin ATM comes to Steamrollers on Robson Street

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle of Wight to be released on Blu-ray

Photo of the Day: Walking under the laburnum tunnel

Hey guitar freaks: Brian Setzer to release Rockabilly Riot: All Original

A tweet sees Vancouver police FOI process enter the digital age

City & Culture

RCMP report records 1,181 incidents of missing and murdered aboriginal women

Meredith Elliott: A place for live theatre in Canada

Restaurateur Colin Shandler to challenge Gregor Robertson for Vancouver mayor

Bud Osborn memorial sees Insite founder remembered for fighting the good fight

New supportive-housing site set to open on Burrard Street in Vancouver

TEPCO to pipe Fukushima groundwater into Pacific

Vancouver police arrest man in Oakridge sexual assaults

Gurpreet Singh: Stephen Harper celebrates the victory of his right-wing cousin, Narendra Modi

Cystic fibrosis: the unknown, and most common, fatal inherited disease in Canada

California Coastal Commission downplays fears about Fukushima-derived ocean radiation

Gwynne Dyer: Can India surpass China as Asia's fastest growing large economy?

Lessons for Canada from the election of Narendra Modi and the BJP in India

David Suzuki: Transit investments drive positive change

Bob Rennie speaks about housing affordability, the wealth of seniors, immigration, and David Suzuki

First strikes by teachers in Lower Mainland next week will be in Vancouver and New Westminster

Gwynne Dyer: A new Longitude Prize

May 24 Vancouver Aquarium protest part of a global campaign to free whales

False Creek Residents Association is second neighbourhood group to take city to court

Bill Vander Zalm suspects Canadian government is geo-engineering climate

TransLink ain’t so bad compared to transit in other cities, Taras Grescoe says

Michal Rozworski: Forget global superstar, Vancouver’s housing troubles start at home

Food

Get cooking with The Canadian Craft Beer Cookbook

Beer industry in B.C. not what it used to be

How to pair beer with food: from burgers to oysters and more

Parallel 49 ruby ale adds pizzazz to chef Brett Turner's pulled-pork tacos

Give these new beers a try—you’ll be glad you did

Living

The complications associated with a perineal urethrostomy

Urban air increasingly linked to heart disease

Eco-Run tests fuel economy

Illusion and reality mingle in The Confabulist

Craft beer, scenic parks make a mellow Tacoma trip

Central City Brewers + Distillers boss Darryll Frost promotes new SFU research project on autism

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 395: Savage Love's first Second Opinion

Movies

The kid in you won't feel a thing from Godzilla

Curate the Rio lets audiences decide what to watch

Krzysztof Zanussi gets metaphysical

Paraguay’s 7 Boxes delivers a powerhouse of a package

Godzilla director Gareth Edwards praises Vancouver

Fading Gigolo is an uneasy time

Fading Gigolo's John Turturro took Woody Allen’s advice

Dignity dissolves in The Love Punch

Final Cut rolls out a century of storytelling

Two Vancity film offerings will do your head in

Stress Position is taut and blackly comic

Cruel & Unusual keeps it clever and grim

Music

Local rap crews Too High Crew, Rap Goofz, Forgetful Jones party hard

There’s no I in team GOASTT

Nothing plays Electric Owl

Pink Mountaintops’ Stephen McBean goes primitive

Long-running Mogwai still prolific after all these years

Sex With Strangers dials up the rock

Parquet Courts gets dense on Sunbathing Animal

Pete Yorn keeps things flowing free without a set list

Brody Dalle at Venue

Poppy Family Experience to headline West 4th Avenue's Khatsahlano fest

Instant Playlist - May 21 2014

News

Antipoverty advocates question City of Vancouver's plan to reduce poverty

HUB Cycling wants Powell Street separated bike lane

Tech

First Nations to South Park get into games