Cover photo by Liz Rosa
Stylist, Crystal Carson

Georgia Straight Issue 2425

Jun 12, 2014

Arts

Arts Notes

Vancouver city council will vote on funding B.C. Artscape organization to create more cultural spaces

Arts Notes

Cirque du Soleil's Totem gets its costume pieces back

Arts Choices

Richmond's Doors Open shares art, culture, and heritage

Arts Notes

Park board expected to vote on Trillium North Park Artists Garden

Arts Notes

Sculpture of Capilano University president still not returned to art instructor

Theatre Reviews

A dynamic cast buoys Briana Brown’s The Concessions

Theatre Reviews

The Marriage of Figaro doesn't live up to its vision

Arts Notes

Art Institute of Vancouver students make Super Mario out of 3,000 cans of food

Arts Features

Joe Rogan does not play by the rules

Arts Notes

Vancouver Art Gallery gets 556-photo donation

Arts Notes

Ballet B.C. says goodbye to dancers and hello to several new faces

Arts Features

Violin star James Ehnes weighs in on music education

Arts Notes

Amid teachers' dispute, Vancouver International Children's Festival sees attendance slide by 28 percent

Arts Choices

Colonial at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

Visual Arts Reviews

Urban aboriginal youths claim their space at the Museum of Anthropology

Arts Choices

Jen Kirkman at the Comedy MIX

Arts Notes

Bracken Hanuse Corlett tells stories through Year of Reconciliation bus stop art

Arts Features

Summer arts festivals let audiences get in on the action

Arts Features

Pencils meet performing art at the Vancouver Draw Down

Arts Notes

Studio 58’s 49th season starts with Kosmic Mambo and ends at the Elbow Room Café

Arts Notes

Vancouver city council approves $4.5 million in cultural capital grants

Blogs

Straight Presents

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors Apocalypse WWI

News

Bike to Work Week sees record number of cyclists in spring 2014

Music

Concert pic of the morning: Needs at Music Waste at the Cobalt

Sports

Photos: Vancouver starts one-year countdown to FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015

Music

What's in Your Fridge: Madchild

Life

Twitter idiots start leaving hidden beer, weed around Vancouver

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day: Take a moment

Life

When Asian people say the stuff white people tell them

Movies

Star Wars and Disney make strange bedfellows

Ear of Newt

Warren Haynes lays a little reverb on the U.S. national anthem

LGBT

How Mississippi diners respond to kissing gay couple

News

Vancouver police launch crackdown on drivers talking on cellphones

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Classic apartment building sells for $11 million

Tech

Photos: Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2014 unleashes robotic dog and other geekery

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: From the fridge straight into the blue bin

Politics

Broadbent Institute brings democracy advocate Ana Maria Archila to Vancouver

Music

Photos: Music Waste 2014

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: What doesn't disappear eventually becomes art

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Ed Chapman’s two o’clock shadows

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Someone’s always fixin’ to thrill

Straight Presents

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the Vancouver Draw Down 2014

Straight Presents

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the 2014 Vancouver Taiwanese Film Festival

Books

George R. R. Martin’s Rogues is a mixed bag

Arts

Centre A fosters intergenerational and intercultural space for Chinatown

Life

Men tweet support for women's rights with #AllMenCan

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Driver side mirror─'nother one bites the dust

Life

East Van Garbage Watch: Three bags of trash in an alley

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Arrested development

Music

Concert pic of the morning: Jezabels at the Imperial

Books

Calgary more well-read than Vancouver in Amazon.com ranking

Straight Presents

The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day: We need a shade

Straight Presents

The Georgia Straight presents Jack White at Deer Lake Park

News

Councillor Geoff Meggs won’t recuse himself from public hearing on Concord Pacific project

Food

Photos: 2014 VCBW Beer Festival

News

Yaletown shooting leads to gunfire outside Science World

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: How Rick rolls

Music

Concert pic of the morning: Timber Timbre at the Commodore

Tech

Bitcoin ATM coming to BCIT campus in Burnaby

Life

Ad recreates consequences of driving using a cellphone

Homeless in Vancouver

Homeless in Vancouver: Van Aqua whales gone wild! (we wish)

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day: Lions Gate reflections

Life

Video investigates ongoing problems at Fukushima ground zero

LGBT

Oilers captain first pro athlete to march in Edmonton Pride parade

Music

Pemberton Music Festival announces additional acts, reveals daily lineups

Food

The Fat Badger restaurant brings proper British pub grub to Vancouver

LGBT

Quebec hockey goaltender Charline Labonte comes out as lesbian

Travel

Taiwan lures cycling tourists with huge infrastructure investments and showers at police stations

City & Culture

Commentary

Joy Alexander: Public schools are under attack and need support

Commentary

Kai Chan: How could the Joint Review Panel get it so wrong on the Enbridge pipeline?

Commentary

Reasonable Doubt: How do we solve a problem like domestic violence?

Straight Talk

NPA councillor George Affleck explains why he's not running for mayor

Commentary

Graham Anderson: It’s time to end No Fun City in Vancouver parks

Straight Talk

Vancouver councillor Kerry Jang criticizes New Brunswick professor’s anti-Chinese screed

Straight Talk

Integrity B.C. objects to corporations covering the tab for B.C. Liberal diners

Commentary

Antinuclear activist Harvey Wasserman accuses corporate media of Fukushima cover-up

Straight Talk

B.C. Court of Appeal ruling finds tenant responsible for an odour that landlord says never existed

Commentary

Gwynne Dyer: Redemption in Kosovo

Straight Talk

F-35 plane controversy: UBC's Michael Byers links single engines to higher risk of fatalities in the Arctic

Straight Talk

Eight workers to be fired after Mercy for Animals Canada releases video of abuse of cattle in Chilliwack

Commentary

Michael Aird: Reframing the B.C. teachers’ labour dispute

Commentary

Dermod Travis: Financial reporting season opens at city halls across B.C.

Commentary

Mark Mitchell: Opportunities for road safety education and engagement

Commentary

Katherine Day: Improving our “backyard” parks

Commentary

Sammie Jo Rumbaua: Creating inclusive and welcoming parks and community centres

Straight Talk

Councillor Geoff Meggs accused of “bias” before public hearing on Concord Pacific project

Commentary

Catherine Evans: Voting is a subject better learned at 16

Commentary

Naveen Girn: I believe in a vibrant and inclusive Vancouver

Commentary

Ian Ross McDonald: Running to run

Commentary

David Suzuki: Pipeline spills are good for the economy

Straight Talk

Chip Wilson votes to dump the chairman of lululemon athletica

Commentary

Yaletown shooting victim Paul Dragan earns praise for helping cycling community

Commentary

Coree Tull: The power of sport in building healthy, active, and engaged communities

Letters

Build off-leash areas and the dogs will come

Letters

Plundering public resources hurts future generations

Letters

Reader accuses Margaret Atwood of cultural appropriation

Letters

Cormorants under siege from jackhammers

Commentary

One parent’s take on the B.C. teachers’ strike

Straight Talk

Sex worker protest planned in response to Bill C-36

Municipal Election

Vision Vancouver prospects reveal views on whales in captivity at aquarium

Straight Talk

Slavs come together at Robson Square

Straight Talk

Accused killer of transgender woman January Lapuz pleads guilty to manslaughter

Straight Talk

No such thing as a typical john, says researcher

Straight Talk

Kwantlen Polytechnic University announces fifth campus

Straight Talk

NPA maverick Ken Charko sits out mayoral candidate vote

Straight Talk

Yaletown shooting leads to attempted murder charges against former employee of victim

Straight Talk

Lawyers vote to tell B.C. law society benchers not to endorse Trinity Western University's law school

Commentary

Gwynne Dyer: ISIS rises in Iraq

Sports

International study of homophobia in sport needs Canadian respondents

Straight Talk

Real Housewives of Vancouver daughter Mia Deakin reportedly shot

Commentary

Vision Vancouver 2014 nomination candidates in their own words

Real Estate

Gardens go communal in Southeast False Creek

Food

Food Notes

Whistler's Araxi Longtable dinner slated for Vanier Park

Food Notes

Vancouver park board expands food-cart program at parks and beaches

Food of the Week

Beach Bites casual fare at Kitsilano’s Hapa Izakaya

Dining Features

Cheer on the FIFA World Cup at these Vancouver establishments

Dining Features

Summertime cookbooks offer culinary diversity

Uncorked

From B.C. and beyond, Rieslings that shine

Dining Features

Summertime food fest fun in Vancouver

Cooking

Rain or Shine Homemade Ice Cream owner shares a favourite summertime dessert

Living

Travel

Air transport deal likely means more flights between Canada and Philippines

Savage Love Podcast

Dan Savage Podcast Episode 398: A "free" trip to the Caribbean... with the boss

Kool Thing

Lululemon's print tank top brings the garden to yoga wear

Transportation

Honda’s hatchback struggle

Book Reviews

Crime and high society mingle in Eve Lazarus's Sensational Vancouver

Book Reviews

David Adams Richards offers small-town realism in Crimes Against My Brother

Book Reviews

andrea bennett takes a direct route in Canoodlers

Book Reviews

David Sheff's Clean takes a tour through drug and alcohol addiction in America

Book Features

Literary events light up Vancouver

Book Features

Bend the spines of these summer books

Health Features

M.D. Reimar Banis touts energy medicine

Style Features

Green Circle Salons gives hairstyling an environment-friendly makeover

Health Features

Forest and the Femme Society takes Downtown Eastside women to the great outdoors

LifeStyle Features

At the Deighton Cup they’re off to the races

LifeStyle Features

Taking a leap into skydiving in Whistler

Health Features

Have fun, raise money, and improve your health at summer fundraisers

LifeStyle Features

The Georgia Straight guide to Summer in the City

Book Features

Displacement anchors Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

Book Features

Fact and fantasy make music in Sean Michaels's Us Conductors

Savage Love Column

I don't want to graduate high school a virgin

Outside

North Shore mountain bike trails get smoother as cyclists get older

Style Features

Head to the beach in local swimsuit designs

Movies

Movie Reviews

The Fault in Our Stars goes big the right way

Movie Reviews

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon made with sweet affection

Movie Features

Vancouver film events offer a cinematic summertime escape

Movie Features

Vancity enters the great war with Apocalypse WW1

Movie Features

Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States looks for the truth

Music

Reviews

Music Waste hits its stride while showing some East Van pride

Music Features

Chad VanGaalen puts metal to the pedals

Music Choices

Gareth Emery at the Commodore

Music Features

Hard Rubber Orchestra changed Darcy James Argue’s outlook

Music Features

How Pelican bounced back from the burned-out abyss

Music Notes

Spores remember the Forgotten Rebels at LanaLou’s

Music Features

Reticent Hiromi Uehara comes alive with her trio

Music Features

Jolie Holland is happy with her cult status

Music Notes

UBC plans to ramp up number of licensed concerts if liquor-licence amendment is approved

Local Motion

TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival features two musical takes on the Komagata Maru

Music Features

Music fests worth hitting the highway for

Music Features

Spirit Animal will teach you to get the funk out

Music Notes

Top 12 PEAK Performance Project artists announced

Music Features

Summer music festivals and concerts heat up the season

News

News Features

B.C. NDP leader John Horgan says Christy Clark needs to do LNG math

News Features

Vancouver Coastal Health reveals plan to expand supervised injection services in city

Tech

Tech

Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2014 highlights interactive libraries

Tech

Geek gatherings span Bitcoin to 3-D printing in Vancouver