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CAMBIE IS A MESS * BISON * THE PIPETTES * MUSIC FOR SUMMER
* A BRUNCH REVIEW * 14 DAYS
THE PIPETTES
SPECTRES OF PHIL SPECTOR.
CURTIS WOLOSCHUK
PERFORMS THE SEANCE
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THE PURPLE THIZZLE:
JESSICA SMITH GETS THE LOW
DOWN ON WHAT MAKES THE
PURPLE THISTLE UNIQUE
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ate October of last year I was in
a hoop house at Garden of Eve Farm,
knee deep in nightshade vegetables. “All of
these need to go,” said Chris Wallbrecht.
“Pick all the peppers and eggplants, even the
small ones, and then pull up the plants. We’ll
dump the compost in the chicken coop.”
A dozen of my fellow cityslickers and I had
driven two hours out of New York City to the
very end of Long Island to pick pumpkins and
help out for an afternoon on Chris’s farm,
which had grown the vegetables we’d been
eating all season in our Community-Supported Agriculture project, or CSA.
The hoop house we were standing in, a
simple construction of clear plastic stretched
over rows of metal hoops that helps to extend
the growing season, was about 20-feet wide
and 80-feet long.
It took about an hour to pick the eggplants
and peppers, which came in many more
shapes and sizes than usually found in stores,
and clear all the remaining plants so Chris
could put in a winter crop of spinach and
lettuce greens.
It felt good to be in the country, to sing a
little, to have an excuse to wear a flannel
plaid shirt.
Chris was astonished by how quickly we
got the job done. “That would have taken
me days,” he said. What was a fun bit of
agritourism for us was a huge help for him
and his tiny, two-person five-acre farm.
He took us on a tractor ride of the property
and we picked out pumpkins before heading
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PRINCE GEORGE?
RHIANON BADER LEARNS OF
A CURIOUS HOUSING IDEA
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Out of City Housing
MLA Mayencourt proposes a new approach to
addiction recovery.
Swallow
Tooth and Dagger asks: “What are you taking
and why?”
A private members bill to compensate cambie businesses goes nowhere.
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Cambie Follow-up
P. 6
Do you know who your food comes from
Community Supported Agriculture is a way
of truly engaging with where your food
comes from but, as Anna Stevenson finds out,
that can be hard to come by.
14 Days
Sean Orr’s famous wit illuminates a
fortnight’s news.
Music
Life
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P. 10
Sunday Morning Chowdown
A dedicated true reporter, Duncan M. McHugh
goes on the road to explore the devastatingly
hard-core breakfasts of Seattle.
P. 5
Dancing with myself about architecture
Curtis Woloschuk reveals that he’s never
actually been that fond of summer.
P. 10
G33K!
Chris Eng likes anthropomorphic mice with
Who are these people I keep seeing on all these
posters: Bison.
Saelan Twerdy manages to elicit barely more
than grunts and shrugs from our local Bison.
swords, but that’s okay.
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P. 8
The Art of Grant Writing
Jessica Smith discovers what makes
alternative education tick at the Purple
Thistle
The Pipettes
Curtis Woloschuk talks to the puppet-master
behind the retro-awesome power girl group.
And he’s pleasantly articulate, using such
words as ‘ex nihilo’ which we had to look up.
Sweet load of nothing.
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Joe Green takes advantage of the empty street this weekend to work on his painting “For Cambie”
BC Legistature turns a deaf ear to MLA Robertson.
by Michael LaPointe
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In legislature on May 28th, Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson introduced an initiative to compensate
Cambie Street businesses suffering due
to Canada Line construction.
As reported in the May 15th issue of
Tooth and Dagger, more than thirty
businesses have closed on Cambie as a
direct result of construction. Remaining
stores claim losses between 40 and 70
percent . Before legislature adjourned
until October, Robertson proposed a
private member’s bill titled the Small
Business Fairness and Protection Act.
Under the Act, the provincial government would provide businesses with
grants equivalent to their property taxes. “Property tax has gone up 20 percent this year,” stated Robertson, “while
business has gone down.” The Act also
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News
14
Days
Vancouver’s news for
the fortnight of
May 29 - June 12, 2007
Don’t Mess With Fraser
Heights
Surrey Residents out-NIMBY
Vancouver by firing paintballs at a sex-offender’s
house, uttering threats, and
by holding a big “once a pervert always a pervert” rally at the local high school.
Paul Callow, who served 20
years in jail for sexual assault, says he is fully recovered and concerned for the
safety of his family. Witnesses saw a jalopy packed
full of young NASCAR fans
wearing straw hats, blasting
Kid Rock, chewing on some
knee-jerky, and shouting slogans such as “Git R Done”.
Sean
Orr
Riverview Hospital to house
the 1,500-plus people living
with diagnosed and untreated mental illness on the
streets of Vancouver. It will
be the first Olympic venue
to be done under budget
and ahead of schedule.
with it.
The Greatest Displace on
Earth
A Room With a View?
A 50-metre observation tower has been proposed as a
tourist attraction for Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth
Park, the highest point of
land in the city. However,
the trees surrounding the
park’s viewpoints have matured and now block some
of that view. That’s great,
now all they need is giant
fans to blow the smog out
of the way.
A new international study
shows millions have been
displaced by the Olympics.
Study? Yeah, by who? Experts? Pfft. They are so totally biased. But VANOC on
the other hand... It released
its own report card. Surprisingly, they got straight As.
Wow, I thought they were
doing kinda bad. Oh well, if
VANOC says VANOC is doing
great, that’s good enough
for me.
Special Olympics
Don’t just stand there
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan says the Provincial
Government may be considering re-opening parts of
The Straight reports that the
City of Vancouver has put up
two “No Loitering” signs on
the Main Street sidewalk in
front of the Carnegie Community Centre. Um, you do
know that there is a massive
police headquarters about a
block away, right? No, but
you’re right, those signs
will totally work. I know everytime I see a No Loitering
sign I quickly cease in all
my dealings of opiates and
proceed to the nearest designated area. Meanwhile, a
Vancouver man was tackled for “jaywalking while
black”. Welcome to civil
city.
Insite outta sight?
“Science says safe injection works. So why shut
it down?” Scientists? Fuck
those guys with their independent, objective, coldhard facts. Nerds! While FOI
requests have revealed that
the federal health minister
was against the idea from
the start, based on science
of course, not an ideological
agenda, silly.
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Hasta La Vista, Ice Caps.
While Campbell was slutting it up in photo-op heaven with Schwarzenegger,
the Governator is not considered so green friendly at
home. Get out! Next you’re
going to tell me he isn’t actually Danny DeVito’s twin.
Fawlty Leader
German right wing chancellor Angela Merkel chastises Harper on Kyoto. Don’t
mention global warming. I
did, but I think I got away
T.Paul Ste. Marie
1966-2007
Poet, actor, Main Street impresario and walking anachronism T.Paul
Ste. Marie died suddenly Thursday, May
31, 2007, of natural causes. The man’s
intense presence was presaged by his
trademark greaser pompadour, marking
him out from a crowd like a shark fin
in a kiddie pool. His absence will be felt
by members of Vancouver’s poetry, burlesque, rockabilly and lowbrow art communities, whose events he often MC’d
and endlessly promoted in his hepcat
carnival-barker style. Building a public profile through Tony & Tina’s Wedding and The Living Closet, he achieved
his largest audience through his longrunning music and spoken-word openmic series, Thundering Word Heard.
His many friends and fans are diligently compiling a book in his memory, as
well as planning of a memorial concert.
Find further information about these
efforts and the man’s achievements at
http://tpaul.burnbc.com/
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Out-of-city-housing
Want Housing?
How about a whole town?
Is Mayencourt recognising an innovative opportinity, or is his plan
disguised to ship abusers to Prince George before 2010?
by Rhianon Bader
An innovative addiction recovery
program in Italy may inject some
fresh ideas into solutions for B.C.’s
substance abuse, mental health and
homelessness problems, says MLA
Lorne Mayencourt.
The 75 percent success rate
achieved in San Patrignano, Italy, a
self-sufficient town designed entirely to help substance abusers recover,
has inspired Mayencourt to pursue
a similar project at an air base near
Prince George. The Vancouver-Burrard MLA hopes to develop this project into a version suitable for an
urban setting.
“I think that it’s time for us to
break out of the box that we’re in,”
Mayencourt said earlier this month.
“We have 1,000 beds for addictions in
the province. There are 6,500 addicts
in the Downtown Eastside alone...
We’re barely scraping the surface.”
In the past 30 years, San Patrignano
has gone from one recovering addict
to 2,200. Residents sustain the town
by growing the majority of their food
and are taught the skills to make
high-quality goods that are sold internationally. The town has a hospital,
restaurants, schools and other establishments found in an average town.
>>Cambie cont’d
includes a provision for the government to grant emergency, interest-free loans to failing businesses.
The bill, however, did not get far. When contacted on
June 7th, Robertson said, “The reaction was absurd. The
government is in total denial.” Despite major media coverage of the Cambie closures on May 28th, Minister of Transportation Kevin Falcon responded to the proposal with,
“We don’t pretend there’s not an impact, but the fact of
the matter is that there’s no difference in the number of
empty businesses today than there was before this project
started. It hasn’t changed by one.”
Now that legislature is adjourned until the fall,
Robertson has little expectation for the Small Business
Fairness and Protection Act. “Realistically, there’s not
much hope,” he admitted. “In six years, [the government]
hasn’t passed a single private member’s bill, no matter
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Mayencourt sees potential for something similar in B.C.
“Homelessness, mental health and
addictions are bound up tightly together. There’s hardly any disconnect,” he said. “Yet as a province, and
as a government, we try to deal with
them as separate problems. What
happens is that nothing really gets
that much better.”
However, on June 6 City Council
unanimously approved a revised Supportive Housing Strategy for Vancouver Coastal Health’s Mental Health
and Addictions Supported Housing
Framework, which aims to provide
2,200 additional units throughout
the city over the next 10 years.
While it remains to be seen whether the provincial government will
help fund this initiative, some previous statistics show that supportive
housing offers a stable environment
for its residents that dramatically
reduces costs in other areas of the
health system, such as emergency
room visits and hospital bed use.
Mayencourt, who worked for two
years in the Downtown Eastside,
said 2,200 units is substantial but
not good enough. He emphasized
that while the amount of support
that’s available matters, there are
flaws in our system that need to be
addressed.
“With the treatments we offer,
80 percent of the people who go
through them fail... Why? Because
we don’t support them. We expect
a life of addiction,” he said, noting
that the average stay in San Patrignano is two years.
With the Italian model’s combination of longer treatment, a sense of
community and self-worth gained
from useful skills, Mayencourt hopes
it will present new insights on overcoming the isolation and challenges
facing those with mental illness and
substance abuse problems in B.C.
how good the idea is.”
Instead, said Robertson, change is going to have to come
from the grassroots. “I can’t do anything until October at
best,” he stated. “It’ll be a ground campaign here in Vancouver to ramp up pressure.” Meanwhile, Robertson hopes
to meet with Carole Taylor, Finance Minister and Langara MLA, who holds roughly half of the suffering businesses in her riding.
Elsewhere, rumours of a class-action lawsuit are already
circulating. “It is a possibility,” said Robertson, “but it’s a
sad sign if it comes to that level of desperation. We hope
it doesn’t have to be forced into the courts.”
Until legislature resumes, the small businesses of Cambie Street are on their own. Construction is only now
commencing the “big dig” on Cambie, meaning the
neighbourhood has not yet experienced the worst. “Given the pressure the businesses are under,” said Robertson,
“we’ll probably lose a bunch more in the months to come.
There’s no sign of relief in sight.”
Sunday Morning
Chowdown
Duncan M. McHugh
A B R U N C H R E VI E W
The Hurricane Cafe
2230 7th Avenue, Seattle
(206) 682-5858
I
recently found myself in Seattle in desperate need of a greasy breakfast. It happens.
I’d spent the previous day at a music festival eating prepacked sandwiches, which over the course of a day, formed
into balls of bread, cheese and wilted lettuce in my cramped
backpack. So I wanted to go all out on breakfast. Should you
find yourself in a similar situation, you could do a lot worse
than the Hurricane Café near Seattle Center. But be warned,
it’s not for the faint of heart.
The Hurricane Café is a bit like a decommissioned Denny’s that’s been relocated to a warehouse. It’s kind of dirty
and dark, and the rock music they pipe in echoes in its
cavernous space – the sort of place that’s probably better
at 4 a.m. than at noon. On the bright side, they have arcade games, plenty of copies of The Stranger, and breakfast
served around the clock. Strangely, they also have a giant
LCD screen over the kitchen that displays text messages.
I ordered the “Country Benedict,” and it did not disappoint. The CB replaces the eggs Benedict’s traditional
English muffin with biscuit, the canonical ham with sausage patty, Hollandaise with country gravy and keeps the
poached eggs, which – as far as I could tell – is a really
greasy roux with mushrooms. It’s rare that one finds a dish
that so deftly balances abhorrence and appetite. It was delicious and exactly what I had been craving.
While I was able to polish off my breakfast and a pancake
I ordered on the side, my brunch companions had difficulty. Their weaker constitutions became bogged down by the
volume and fat content of the food. Admittedly, the hash
browns were pretty industrial strength. The only other person to brave a dish with country gravy later recommended ordering it as a side, allowing the food to be dipped into
– rather than slathered in – gravy. Oh, and he also recommended you get a Coke to wash it down. I got by with coffee.
The service was good, with coffee re-filled regularly and
overcooked eggs replaced promptly and cheerfully. All in
all, it was the exact breakfast I wanted. And once I get the
angioplasty done, I’ll be all set to do it again.
Word to the wise, there’s no door on the men’s room bathroom stall. Pace yourself accordingly.
Price: $15 (including coffee and tip)
Lineup: None
Vegetarian options: Sort of
Soy milk: Not a chance
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Things we have in stock, that you probably won’t find elsewhere. Also, that are awesome.
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Chris Eng
NINJA - BRIAN CHIPPENDALE
Lightning bolt member and founder of the famed Fort
Thunder art collective barfs out a giant book of stylized
ninja comics that he started at age nine and continues in
this masterpiece of neon mythic cartoon onslaught.
ISLAND FOLD ZINES
Luke Ramsey’s Island retreat is turning out a fine limited
collection of artistic collaborative books that range from
absurd comic fantasy’s to beautifully rendered minibooks.
Featuring such artists as Jutin B. Williams, A.J. Purdy and
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T
here comes
a time when,
unless you are a furry, you are expected
to put your storybooks about animals
aside – most likely
somewhere between
10 and 12. At this point you graduate into
more adult fare like VC Andrews and Stephen King and have no time for anthropomorphic cats outwitting wildebeests while
flying miniature hang-gliders. I mean, really, that’s dumb kid stuff. Who’d want to
read that when they could read about incestuous families living in creepy Victorian manors and/or demonically-possessed
vacuum cleaners.
But David Petersen, author of Mouse
Guard: Fall 1152 (Archaia Studios Press)
has rejected this line of thought entirely. He has created a graphic novel chock
full of cute, anthropomorphic mice yet
quite clearly not aimed at the elementary school crowd. Unlike Brian Jacques’s
Redwall series (which it has been accused
of ripping off, since both feature mice
with swords), Fall 1152 leans more toward
the dark atmosphere of Watership Down
and features an intrigue-filled tale of conspiracy and murder.
Where the graphic novel gets most interesting, though, is in the interplay between
art and story. Petersen takes care not to let
one tread on the other’s feet and the result is a book filled with page after page of
amazingly rendered drawings which languidly tell a story of corruption and rebellion – never rushed, never compromised,
keeping its eyes firmly fixed on the main
story and never diving too deeply into the
individual characters’ lives. All of this has
the singular effect of creating a dream-like
atmosphere where you do actually believe
that Mice need to protect themselves and
their borders from the predations of weasels, snakes and crabs.
This, of course, is what we all believed
when we read our various favourite childhood books, and what we’ve somehow allowed ourselves to forget. With that in
mind, then, when our nieces and nephews, and sons and daughters come to us
and say, “I don’t want to read The Cricket
in Times Square again – that’s for babies,”
it’s our civic duty to press a copy of Mouse
Guard: Fall 1152 into their hands, because
we all have to grow up sometime, but nobody said we have to lose our sense of
wonder and certainly not by reading stories about incestuous lamps.
NEWS:
_Unless you have no contact with the in-
ternet at all, you are probably aware that
LiveJournal recently exploded in a SNA-
FU of truly magnificent proportions. Essentially, a somewhat shadowy and
questionable group, ostensibly crusading for children’s rights, convinced the
LJ powers that be to initiate a mass banning based on a blanket keyword search.
While scouring for keywords like “lolita” and “rape” had the effect of removing a small amount of genuine pedophile
hangouts from LJ, it also managed to persecute hundreds of completely legitimate
fan-fiction groups, Nabakov forums and
rape relief organisations in the process.
Bottom line: pedophiles suck, and sweeping infringements of people’s right to free
speech based on accusations flimsier than
cotton candy suck too.
_The self-published indie comic juggernaut known as Strangers in Paradise has
finished a decade-long run with the release of issue 90, earlier this month. This
is not nearly as long as Cerebus’s 300 issue record, but on the other hand it’s a lot
more straightforward and a lot less misogynistic. Kudos.
_Speaking of things that started a decade
ago, My one-line announcement of the
forthcoming Starcraft 2 in the last issue
has somehow propelled the original Starcraft box set back to #5 on the PC games
sales charts. This doesn’t happen. Gamers
aren’t backward compatible; they don’t
play old games – they keep their eyes
glued to the horizon, always looking for
the next big thing. I think this is some
kind of sign. What’s next? I’ll tell you: human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.
_Producer Ron Eick has announced that
Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica will be the
last, and as sad as I’ll be to let go of one of
the best science-fiction shows of the last...
well, ever, it’s still good to see that Eick
has learned the lessons handed down by
Calvin and Hobbes – go out on top and always leave ‘em wanting more.
JUST RELEASED:
_You may want to don that new Jimmy
Olsen “Countdown” t-shirt this week
(the one that makes it look like he’s coming out of your pants), because the Jack
Kirby Fourth World Omnibus V.1 is coming
out, and all devoted Fourth World fans
know that DC villain extraordinaire Darkseid first appeared in the pages of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen. After you’re done
being a colossal fanboy, you can sit back
for a motherfuckin’, cocksuckin’ good
time with Deadwood: The Complete Seasons 1-3. Then, when you’re all drunk,
surly and foul-mouthed, watch the Powerpuff Girls Season 1, because there’s no cowboy palate-cleanser like our sheriffs from
Townsville.
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Living in New York, I had the chance to be involved with several
different Community-Supported Agricultural projects. It has
changed my perspective on community organizing, capitalism
and food production – not to mention the kinds of food that I eat.
Coming home to Vancouver, I thought surely there would be
CSAs here too. But while there are indeed many organizations
doing good things related to food and farming – from farmer’s
markets to urban gardening – CSA is barely on the table.
Do you k now who your food
comes from?
What is CSA?
Community-supported agriculture recognizes that every purchase of food involves not only
vegetables and dollars, but also land, people,
and relationships. In a CSA, members pre-pay
for a share of a farm’s produce for an entire season and receive a weekly delivery of a variety
of fresh fruits and vegetables, often picked the
same day. This money gives the farmer income
at the beginning of the growing season to pay
for such things as seed and repairs.
It also provides financial security for the farmer. Selling at a farmer’s market is capricious,
subject to the whims of consumers and the
weather. There’s no guarantee the tomatoes harvested that morning won’t have to be brought
home again unsold.
In contrast to a market, where consumers have
control over how much and what to buy, being part of a CSA means you take what you get –
that is, what the farmer is growing at any given
time. If there is a bumper crop of spinach, members leave with armfuls of it, and their weekly
newsletter will likely be full of recipes for what
to do with the abundance. If there is drought
and the snap peas fail, members don’t get snap
peas.
What they do get, however, is increased awareness of seasons, weather, the volatility of farming, and the great pleasure of fresh, local food
– as well as the chance to try new things. My
CSA introduced me to a ton of greens I’d never
used before, including mizuna, Tokyo bekana,
medicine greens and lacinata (or dinosaur) kale,
and many more.
Although individual CSAs vary, members typically pay $400 to $500 per season, generally June
to November. This works out to about $20/week,
for which members receive seven to 10 kinds
of vegetables per week- enough to feed two to
three people. Some CSAs offer fruit, flowers,
meat, eggs and dairy products as well.
The CSA movement began in the 1980s and
has grown in popularity since. Many regions
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have organizations to promote CSAs and match
farmers and city groups. Since 1995, a Quebec
organization called Equiterre has helped to set
up CSAs with 90 farms that provide organic food
to more than 7,500 families all over the province. In New York City, Just Food has helped to
set up more than 50 CSAs since 1994. Even an
organization in Vancouver, Washington, VancouverFood.org, offers eight different CSAs.
Where in Vancouver?
So what’s up in this city? Vancouver’s Farm Folk
City Folk, an organization that works on issues
related to local, sustainable food systems, lists
three CSAs in the GVRD on its website. But for a
city that’s so into sustainable agriculture and so
closely surrounded by farmland, I was surprised
to find so few options.
Part of the challenge seems to be the delivery-box schemes that are so popular here, and
the general boom in the idea of “organic” as a
catch-all phrase for “good.” Already an alternative to regular shopping at a grocery store, box
programs such as Small Potatoes Urban Delivery
(SPUD), and Organics@Home have gotten consumers used to the idea of organic but not the
idea of local, or seasonally available. Both programs will source local ingredients when possible, but also offer a complete array of organic
tropical fruit, and non-local foods when they’re
not in season locally.
David Catzel, a farmer at Fraser Common Farm
who is starting a small CSA this year, said box
systems and the idea of organic offer consumers an incomplete picture, inadvertently leaving
CSAs by the wayside. “There are so many box
schemes in Vancouver that offer organic food.
People are really concerned about their own
health, they think organic is healthier. However,
they don’t give any thought to whether flying in
organic pineapple is good for the environment.”
Indeed, in terms of gas miles, protecting local
farmland, biodiversity and another endangered
species, buying locally or joining a CSA are a lot
by Anna Stevenson
friendlier on the environment than shipping in organic mangoes from Chile.
CSA v. Organic
In addition to the chance to have a relationship
with the person who grows your food, CSA is a different kind of economic model.
There are no middlemen and little packaging
or processing, save a few twist-ties. You’re paying
to preserve farmland, and quite often you’re paying for organic or IPM cultivation techniques (integrated pest management, a low-chemical model of
farming), which might have smaller yields and be
more labor and cost intensive, but keep the water
and air around your farms and the animals that live
there (including humans) healthy and safe.
So why aren’t farmers in Vancouver leaping on
the CSA haywagon? It seems that part of the answer is economics. Paul Healey, a farmer at Hanna
Brook Farm in Maple Ridge who is starting a CSA, is
only offering 10 shares this year instead of his entire business. “It’s just not worth it financially,” he
said. “I can make way more money selling to whole-
salers.” However, he did say he was eager to connect with people interested in becoming part of his
farming community.
David Catzel is also starting a small CSA this summer, which he feels he could grow to 80 members
in the next few years. This year alone he’s had over
200 inquiries to join his CSA, but he wants to make
sure he can grow enough to cover standing orders
with restaurants, as well as CSA members, before
expanding.
A wholesaler won’t come out to your farm and
help you harvest eggplants or raise funds to buy
a crib for your new baby. CSA members do both.
That’s part of what “supported” means. And when
you know the person growing your food, you care
about it and what you’re eating.
Supermarkets offer the illusion of abundance and
food security, but agriculture is precarious, and being part of a CSA can help remind you that food
grows in the ground, and that it’s possible to create
the kind of world and community you want to liveand eat-in, one CSA at a time.
CSAs that deliver to the GVRD
· Yarrow EcoVillage Farm – Chilliwack
yarrowecovillage.ca/farm/index.html
· Changing Strides Farm Ltd. – Surrey
eatwellguide.org/viewsourcedetail.cfm/prmID/22487
· Nathan Creek Organic Farm – Abbotsford
nathancreek.com
· Hanna Brook Farm
(CSA sold out this season) – Maple Ridge
778-862-8226
· Fraser Common Farm (Organic Produce and Land
Co-op) and The Glorious Garnish and Seasonal Salad Company Ltd.
(CSA sold out this season) - Aldergrove
Find out more
· Farm Folk City Folk – ffcf.bc.ca
· Your Local Farmers Market – eatlocal.org
· Just Food – justfood.org
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Life
The Art
of Grant
Writing
Drop into the Purple thistle, #260 – 975 Vernon Dr. in east Vancouver.
words and photo by Jessica Smith
Forcing young people to go to regular school is like trying to “colonize mold into a grid,” says Devon McKellar,
co-ordinator of the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth arts and
activism space in East Vancouver.
The Purple Thistle offers free classes in drawing, publishing, film photography, bicycle mechanics and animation.
It also provides access to a dark room and a computer lab
with internet and a variety of animation software.
There are painted canvases on the walls, with more resting against the furniture and on the floor. A table at the
front displays zines created at the centre and graffiti covers the lockers, which people in need use as a safe storage area.
A leather jacket with the words “Skid Row” on its back
hangs over a messy but well-stocked art supply nook.
McKellar says she is wary of people who use the term
“Skid Row” to glamorize poverty.
“We cater to low-income people,” says McKellar, whose
students at the Purple Thistle are often far from rich.
The school was founded by McKellar and a group of kids
from Windsor House, an alternative school in North Vancouver.
Generally, alternative schools are for elementary and
high school students who don’t fit well into the “grid” of
the public school system. They usually have less strict curricula decided on by the students themselves and a less hierarchical-power structure between students and teachers.
Some are private, others are funded by school boards.
The group of Windsor House grads wanted to keep their
free education going after high school and decided to create “an alternative college,” says McKellar. “They got to-
gether with their friends who were drop-out punks or
whatever, and they worked with Matt Hern for a year figuring out what they wanted.”
Matt Hern is a Vancouver author with a PhD in urban
studies. He and the original Purple Thistle collective started the school in 2001 in a small one-bedroom apartment
on Commercial Drive. “By the end of the second year we
had plaster of Paris all over the walls. Everything was covered in graffiti, and it smelled like punks all the time. It
was just so cool,” says McKellar.
The Purple Thistle, now located in a loft near Clark and
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Venables, isn’t affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and it doesn’t grant degrees.
Hern taught the other Thistle members how to
write grants to get government funds for art and
education projects. Grants, as well as the odd donation, provide all the funds for art supplies, administration and the $2,000-per-month rent. The
total cost of running the school is about $80,000 a
year, says McKellar.
Grants come from the Vancouver Foundation,
the City of Vancouver, Industry Canada, VanCity,
the John Hardie Mitchell Foundation, BC Hydro,
Arts Now and other sources. A grant for the photography program covers a portion of the rent for
the dark room and supplies. Another grant covers the production of a zine and the publishing
course. Also, Human Resources & Social Development Canada runs a program in the space that
pays for one third of the Thistle’s rent.
McKellar has taken over the administrative duties from Hern, whose education and experience
was needed to get the centre up and running, she
says.
“It’s not the easiest thing for a youth to write a
grant,” she says. “They’ve got no CV, they’ve got
no degree behind them or anything. It’s really
hard for them to get credibility. Somebody from
the Canada Council [for the Arts] will go, ‘What
the hell? You don’t have any cred. I’m not going
to give you 10 grand.’”
Recently, Hern has been away from the centre, and it has grown independent of him, which
McKellar says has its positive side. People used to
need him to run everything and even saw him as
a “Daddy Thistle,” she explains.
“Now, it’s when we need a degree to stick on
something that he comes in,” she says.
McKellar invites artists and mentors to drop by
the Thistle if they need a space to work or some
help writing grant a application.
Dropping by the Thistle was critical for McKellar a few years ago, she says.
“When I first started coming here I was in college, and it was the worst thing in the world for
me. I was going through a lot of personal stuff,
and I was not sure what I was doing with my life.
I felt really dis-empowered, and I was pretty angry,” she says, admitting she “cracked and quit
school.”
“I was like, ‘I don’t have a support network anymore, and I don’t really have an income. I don’t
have anything to do with my time. I don’t have
anything to do with my life. What the hell have I
been doing.’ I was at an all time low.”
Coming to the Purple Thistle made her realize
that it wasn’t what she was studying she hated it
was just school.The “grid” or “school/work/prison/military” system didn’t work for her, she says.
“The Thistle really helped me figure out that
if I’ve got problems in my life, I feel powerless,”
McKeller says. “But coming here made me realize
that it’s my fault, and I can fix it.”
The Purple Thistle Centre can be found online at purplethistle.ca.
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Tooth and
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the subjective
pharmacology of a
generation, and a city.
Vancouver, here’s
what you’ve been
taking:
Resveritol
I take this because some random science tells me it will make me live
longer. Apparently, it’s the ingredient in red wine that helps you live
longer. I plan on living a long time. I get the stuff from a bodybuilding
supplement company in the States. They sell it as an anti-estrogen supplement. Those dudes are totally freaked out about the possibility of
getting tits. I am not so freaked out though. I take two pills a day every
morning. It has absolutely no effect. I have noticed no changes, and going a day without taking it doesn’t even register.
“Spike”
The same company as the above produces a line of stimulants also for
bodybuilders. These are similar, but not equivalent, to ephedrine. Taking these is not unlike biking up a long hill: the shakes, the speedy
speech, the rush of blood to the head. Taking one pill makes me cold
all over, and I have to put on a sweater even on the hottest days. I type
faster and more accurately. However, I feel the need to switch tasks
constantly, and my ADD nature kicks in more than ever. I am competitive and sometimes argumentative. I don’t like to be around new people when I have just consumed some because I don’t want to come off
as a jerk. I have run out and do not have any more.
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Results will be presented in each issue of Tooth and Dagger. If you wish to submit the
contents of your “medicine cabinet”, please email: [email protected]
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Music
Dancing with myself about architecture
Who are these people I keep
seeing on all these posters?
Summer listening: The Clientele, Lucky Soul, and Voxtrot
And so this is summer
Curtis Woloschuk
I
’m an autumnal soul at
heart. There’s little choice, really. Spring makes me sneeze, summer makes me sweat and winter
just makes me more awful.
While declaring my allegiance is
all well and good, it still leaves me
with three unsatisfactory seasons to
contend with. It occurred to me recently that perhaps
appointing an uplifting soundtrack for summer might
offset the onset of pit stains and “Hot enough for you?”
refrains.
As an aside: The object of my affection recently enquired what the happiest song I’d ever written was. After much deliberation, I decided on “Summer Cold” – an
ode to being ill. I later revised my selection to “Trapline,”
which features an animal chewing off its own leg. That
was the answer I stuck with. Point being, I have a tough
time letting the sun shine in.
Consequently, my immediate infatuation with Lucky
Soul’s unabashed bubble gum stylings came as a surprise. “Struck Dumb” introduced me to the Londoners
and left me appropriately gobsmacked. In search of aural
insulin to temper the saccharine onslaught, I tried “Lips
Are Unhappy” on for size. Alas, the moment vocalist Ali
Howard cooed “Shake! Shake! Shimmy!” I found myself
pondering, “I wonder if this band has any Kool Aid that
needs drinking?” Revelling in Motown and Northern
Soul influences, the group’s gloriously overwrought debut, The Great Unwanted, can anticipate a long tenure
on my headphones.
However, just as Lucky Soul suggests that “One Kiss
Don’t Make a Summer,” one album doesn’t constitute a
soundtrack. For nighttime accompaniment, I’ve turned
to The Clientele, whose recent God Save The Clientele
fulfils their longstanding promise to deliver a “60s sunshine pop” album. Whether it be the lilting “Here Comes
the Phantom,” slinky “Bookshop Casanova” or acidwashed “The Garden at Night,” these are the ideal melodies to guide one’s twilight wanderings.
Of course, what would summer be without a little disappointment over unfulfilled promise? Months ago, I
would have wagered my entire allowance on Voxtrot’s
self-titled debut being this summer’s institution. Instead,
the band seems in danger of fulfilling their own lyric: “I
used to be your biggest fan/Now I find that you are slipping in my estimation.” With one exemplary song (“The
Start of Something”) and three solid EPs already to their
credit, the twee Texans simply seem stretched a little
thin creatively on their first full-length record.
At the very least, “Kid Gloves” features the plum line:
“Cheer me up, cheer me up/I’m a miserable fuck.” Now
that’s a summer sentiment even an autumnal soul can
get behind.
The 8 Track
Hear it for yourself ! Visit www.the8track.com and feast
your ears on Lucky Soul, The Clientele, Voxtrot, The Pipettes and Monster Bobby.
Without a word to (Music) Waste
KELLARISSA: Eerier than expected. Well (and weirdly) played. BIBLE BELT: Born again! Best banter of the
festival. PRECIOUS FATHERS: These strapping daddies
aren’t afraid to discipline. E.S.L.: Kicking it old country.
Remind me of when I was a dziewczynka in Warsaw.
BLACKBERRY WOOD: Festival founder Kris Mitchell
gets his boots dusty. THE CHOIR PRACTICE: Further
portents that a Godspell revival is nigh. THE PUBLIC
OR THE PRESS: Maybe my maki was just off but I’m
pretty sure Mike White is in this band. THE NATIONAL SHIELD: If Malkmus and Nilsson bred, it wouldn’t
be pretty but it sure would be poppy.
SERVING MOST OF YOUR CURTIS WOLOSCHUK
NEEDS EVERY OTHER WEEK
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June 12, 2007
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photo by Derek Ramsey
Bison
by Saelen Twerdy
What are your names and your instruments?
braad:drums
Maasa:bass
daan:guitar/vocals
jaames:guitar/vocals
Explain the name of your band.
A huge stoic beast that could kill you, if it wanted.
Previous band affiliations (if any).
Doctor Chocolate
Name three of your favourite albums.
Jawbreaker ‘24 Hour Revenge Therapy’ / Jawbreaker ‘Bivuac’
/ Jawbreaker ‘Unfun’
Describe your influences.
Riffs. The dying planet.
If you were to fight under a banner,
what would the banner say?
Yous fuckses, shuts the fucks ups.
Any interesting celebrity encounters?
Keanu Reeves said “dude” to my face.
Ideal show experience?
Everyone free and living – and drunk of course.
What’s the best band name ever (existing or non).
Jesus Fucking Christ
Any recordings coming up?
Album on Forest Records at the end of June.
What do you want on your tombstone
(assuming you’re all buried together)?
If we are all buried together, dig me up and throw me in the lake.
THE HIT
of the week
“I Feel Like Dying”
Lil’ Wayne
This is how we felt when the
Sens collapsed in the Stanley
Cup finals. In Metro the other
day there was a sports column by
some guy who said the Senators
were over after this playoff run.
That’s not news, that’s what
Ottawa fans have been saying for
10 years, so fuck you Metro!
Music
It’s Alive!
Monster Bobby fashions
a girl group Frankenstein
with The Pipettes
by Curtis Woloschuk
Hyperbole tends to run rampant in record labels’ artist
biographies. Such is the case with Monster Bobby, whose
“one-sheet” identifies him as a “musical activist” in Brighton, England. The man himself sees things a little more
humbly. “I’ve been putting on gigs in Brighton and playing in bands and doing zines and things for about ten
years now,” he clarifies. “So, I suppose that constitutes
some sort of ‘activity.’”
One of the “things” Bobby busied himself with was a
club night christened Totally Bored. Seeing the reaction
that just playing classic girl group hits incited, a grander concept began to take shape for the impresario. He
shares, “The Pipettes, or some version of that idea, had
been a sort of pipe dream knocking around in my head
for several years.” Ultimately, collaborator Julia ClarkLowes convinced Bobby to act on the impulse. After a few
permutations, The Pipettes became a reality.
Intellectualising ‘schtick’
Clad in polka dots and boasting vibrant vocals and brazen
charisma, the trio of Gwenno, Becki and Rose constitute
The Pipettes proper while the four-piece, all-boy Cassettes
(with Bobby on guitar) hold the backline. Despite the distinguishing monikers, they consider it a seven-member
enterprise. “We’re all here to try and fulfil a concept,” suggests Rose. “We’re aspiring to be a pop band. We’re not
interested in being cool or culty or any of that.” Bobby
readily condemns the “dreadful, chest-beatingly earnest
cock rock” that currently constitutes “indie” in the UK. As
Rose suggests, “It seems kind of irrelevant and quite contrived in its own right. I think we’re quite honest with
where we’re coming from.”
Indeed, The Pipettes were designed to churn out hits
and wrest back the charts from the Gloomy Guses of the
world. A listen to 2006’s We Are The Pipettes leaves one
utterly baffled as to why the band isn’t already a household name. Singles like “Pull Shapes” and “Your Kisses are
Wasted on Me” contain more hooks than a well-stocked
tackle box. Furthermore, as the vocalists willingly volunteer, they’re “the prettiest girls you’ve ever met.”
Admittedly, the group’s old school aesthetic and fashion
sense are occasionally dismissed as “shtick.” “Again, it’s
this whole idea of what’s real or what’s true,” Rose says
wearily. “We use these references as a starting point. As
a template to express some of the things we want to say.
Not to just be a rehash or a pastiche.”
“Can you give me a single example of something being
created ex nihilo?” questions Bobby. “Any kind of originality requires a careful and patient study of the existing
forms or else you will find yourself unconsciously replicating them in the most boring and pedestrian manner.”
In this vein, The Pipettes utilize the traditional “girl
group” model to channel contemporary concerns, attitudes and “small truths.” “Forty-five years of history have
passed (since the Phil Spector era),” observes Rose. “As
young women, we’re in a position to express ourselves in
a much broader way than girls were back-in-the-day.” And
Frankenstein’s Monster, Austin Powers’ Fembots, or something more?
so, whereas The Crystals and Ronettes were wont to pine
and swoon, The Pipettes are more inclined to recount: “I
left you alone; At four in the morning; Not a stitch to wear;
‘Cause you ignored my warning.” (“One Night Stand”)
Given their love of bold proclamations, it’s odd to hear
Rose suggest that the band is only now finding their form.
“We know ourselves so much better,” she says of their
three-year learning curve. “We’re much more confident.
Each of us is less afraid to take risks. Hopefully, that will
carry forth to the second album.”
Bobby’s Permanent Record
While The Pipettes look forward to the North American
release of their first album (August 28 on Cherrytree) and
a summer of European festivals, their founder also has
his own calendar marked. Monster Bobby’s debut solo
disc, Gaps, will be out July 17 on Hypnote. He admits that
it feels “bloody great” to finally have a record to call his
own. “It’s been really nice to do something just the way I
wanted to without having to appeal to anyone else’s tastes
and sensibilities.”
From all accounts, Bobby tends towards concise pop songs
with occasionally unwieldy titles. For instance, “The Closest
Experience to That of Being With You is the Experience of
Taking Drugs” is an endearing two minutes of acoustic guitar, dodgy synthesizers and heartfelt vocals. “What I’m aiming for, I suppose, is to get that same sort of mix of humour
and pathos as you might find in a Charlie Chaplin film,”
suggests Bobby. “My subjectivity as a songwriter is very fluid and polymorphously perverse. I’d say I’ve got at least
three or four different voices on the album.”
Sonically, Gaps draws from the “primitivist electronics”
of the KPM music library and BBC Radiophonic Workshop
and evidences Monster Bobby’s affection for composers
John Cage and Cornelius Cardew. Other esoteric influences include “the Sonic Arts Union, the Musique Concrète of
Schaeffer and Henry and also traditional English folk music, of the Anne Briggs, Topic Records school.”
“I’m pretty proud of it and it’s turned out pretty well exactly how I wanted and expected it to,” surmises Bobby.
Then, in a refreshing disclosure from the man intent on
sending The Pipettes into the pop stratosphere, he confides, “I’ve no idea what anybody else is gonna think of it.”
The Pipettes, Smoosh & Monster Bobby play The Plaza on Friday,
June 15
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TOOTH and DAGGER up and coming • send your events to: [email protected]
MUSIC
WORKSHOPS
COMMUNITY
both sessions, $60/$50
THU, JUNE 14TH
Midnight Mass
JUNE/JULY
50 Years of Janus Films
WED, JUNE 20TH
This every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the
Check the Cinematheque calendar for de-
month can be a bit confusing. FYI this is the
tails, but the line up is as solid as their chairs
drunk-dial each other.
Intro to Bike Mechanics for Women
(Boys Welcome Too!)
2nd Thursday. The 4th will be in 2 weeks.
are uncomfortable to sit in for a double bill.
THURS, JUNE 14TH
Learn to be a safe, reasonably self sufficient
Grandview Park
Pacific Cinematheque
cyclist. Learn the easiest way to fix a flat,
Meet 11:45, ride at midnight
A feast for historians of early 90s indie rock
Jazz Fest: A User-Friendly Guide to
Improvised Music
when tires and rims are wearing out, how to
SAT, JUNE 16TH
and enjoyers of pleasant songsmiths alike.
Kevin McNeilly, a UBC English Prof writing
maintain your drivetrain (and what a drive-
Main Day Street Fair
SUNDAY, JUNE 17TH
Bizzaro Film-O-Rama: Sisters (Brian
DePalma)
VIVO (1965 Main), 8:30PM,
a great deal about jazz and postmodern-
train is). Max class size of 5. To register go to
Live music at 28th ave (Mohawk Lodge,
$12
ism, examines selected works by innovative
www.jettgrrl.com or call 604.255.5097
Swank, Bella + more), dead music at 27th
contemporary improvisers performing at this
Jett Grrl Bike Studio (243A Union St)
ave (DJs), something for the kiddies at 26th
year’s jazz fest.
6:30-8:30PM,
ave (crafts, face painting, a fire truck!!! etc.)
Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch)
$42.40 (money back if less than satisfied)
and multicultural dance at 23rd ave with
SUN, JUNE 24TH
sidewalk sales along the way.
Ladyfest Vancouver 2007: Tea Party
Intimate + Interactive Workshops
10AM-6PM
Running a Record Label, DIY Bike Maintenance, Drag King! how-tos, Money Man-
Commercial Drive Community Car
Free Festival
agement (even if you have none), Alternative
After 11am, cars will be looted and burned
Ways to Shape Up, DIY Zine Culture
save for the hood ornaments which will be
Roundhouse Arts Centre (181 Roundhouse
collected along with the scalps of the driv-
Mews)
ers. After the bloodshed there will be a music
11:30-2pm
stage, a story telling stage, hockey games, a
MON, JUNE 25TH
DJ stage, a bicycle area, and a kids-zone.
Intro to Pro Tools
12 noon -6PM
This one day workshop provides an over-
TUE, JUNE 19TH
view of Pro Tools 7.1 LE and DV Toolkit2. It
will focus on audio post-production tech-
Dunsmuir/Mellville Bike Route
Opening
niques, including recording/digitizing, cre-
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouyesye-
ating a timeline, editing/trimming, timeline
syesyes. There will be a cake cutting cere-
automation (including FX automation), sig-
mony, cake eating ceremony, tour of the
nal flow, audio compression and final out-
bikeway, prizes and refreshments.
put.
Cathedral Square Park (Burrard and Dun-
e d u c a t i o n @v i vo m e d i a a r ts .co m o r
smuir)
604.872.8337 to register
4-6PM, bike tour begins at 5:45PM
VIVO 5-10PM,
THU, JUNE 21ST
$130/$105
49TH Avenue Bike Route Opening
WED, JUNE 13TH
Keren Ann, Jason Hart
witness one of the greatest American musi-
VIVO 6-9:30PM
The Cobalt, 10pm,
TUES-FRI JUNE 12TH-15TH
National Campus and Community
Radio Conference
The Media Club
$16.50 advance +s/c, 8pm
$7
Radiophiles descend upon Vancouver and
Bird Costumes, Aerosol
Constellations, LSDJ, Concrete Cutter,
Mediocre Pain
THU, JUNE 21ST
Julie Doiron, Calvin Johnson, Rose
Melberg
The Cobalt, 10pm, $5
CiTR Presents: Stinkmitt, Great Aunt
Ida, The Pack
How does one segue from Great Aunt Ida
to Stinkmitt?
Railway Club, 10PM, $8
THU, JUNE 14TH
Architecture in Helsinki, Yacht,
Trevor Risk
Likely sold out, but this term is meaningless
cians around I don’t know what will.
Bend Sinister, fake shark real zombie,
Go Ghetto Tiger
This event is presented by our best friends,
Nerve Magazine!!!
The Plaza Club, 10PM,
7pm, free
Bike Mechanics for Women: Brakes
$10
Great class for the fledgling mechanic who
to the creative.
FRI, JUNE 22ND
wants to get intimate and interactive with
Richard’s On Richards
The People Versus, The Death Rays
their rim brakes. Learn about different rim
$15.50 advance +s/c, 8pm
The Cobalt, 10PM,
brake systems, how to tell when your brake
$5
pads are wearing out, proper replacement of
Gang Gang Dance, Ariel Pink
jump+dash, Hey Everyone!, Trembling
pads/cables/housing. Hands on workshop
Richard’s On Richards
Hoko’s Sushi, all ages, 9PM,
with a max class size of 4, taught by a cer-
$5
tified woman mechanic in relaxed environ-
FRI, JUNE 15TH
$14 advance +s/c, 9pm
ment. (Men welcome too). To register go to
Gwen Stefani, Akon, Lady Sovereign
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD
For attending this show I would call you a
fool for buying such expensive tickets but
Vapid, Big Digits, Cheerleader Camp,
White Lung, B-lines
then be secretly jealous. All proceeds going
The Cobalt, 10PM, $5
towards the Harajuku Girl Rescue Fund.
SUN, JUNE 24TH
The White Stripes, Dan Sartain
GM Place, 8pm, $49.50/65.50/79.50+
www.jettgrrl.com or call 604.255.5097
Jett Grrl Bike Studio (243A Union St)
6:30-8:30PM,
$42.40 (money back if left unsatisfied)
THU/FRI JUNE 14/15TH
Digital Photography
The Pipettes, Smoosh, Monster
Bobby
Deer Lake Park, 6:45pm, $49.50+
The Veils
Plaza Club, 7:30pm, $14.50+
knowing how to use it? In this workshop
Plaza Club, 9pm, $12+
participants will learn how to manipulate
SAT, JUNE 16TH
Tim McGraw, Faith Hill
Shearwater, Jonathan Inc.
ISO settings (sensitivity of “film”), when to
Richard’s On Richards, $14+
use spot metering or regular metering, how
GM Place, 7:30pm,
Tired of having amazing technology and not
$69/89/119+
THU, JUNE 28
Three Inches Of Blood, Bison, Jaws
CiTR Presents: The Tranzmitors!, The
Fish Net Stalkers, The Sick Fits
Richard’s On Richards
Railway Club, 8:30pm,
$8/10
to use aparture priority and shutter priority, how to set white balance, and how to
Father Zosima presents: Stefan Udell,
Tim Olive, Jeffrey Allport
$16+
It’s summertime, and what better way to
June 15 – July 11 / Curated by Katie Davis
celebrate than by going the beach...and
DADABASE (183 East Broadway at Main),
then going to Little Mountain Studios for a
8:30pm-11pm
MON, JULY 2
drawing sesh.
Amos Lee
FRI, JUNE 22
8:30PM,
Little Mountain Studios (195 East 26th at
The Commodore Ballroom, 9:15pm
FUSE
suggested donation $5
Main), 8pm
This all night art party is billed as a “unique
FRI, JUNE 15
adult event.” Are you thinking what I’m think-
Animatron 2007
ing?
Little Mountain Studios (195 E. 26th) 8pm
VAG (750 Hornby), 6pm-6am
siasm, but we’ll trust him.
Access Artist Run Centre (206 Carrall)
WED, JUNE 20TH
Richard’s On Richards
$20.75+
$22.50+
Eugene Chadbourne, Darren Williams,
Ron de Jong, Creep Sects
mance.
Gaff Gallery (684 E Hastings)
SUN, JUNE 17TH
9pm, $5
SUNDAY, JUNE 24TH
Bizzaro Film-O-Rama: Blood & Black
Lace (Mario Bava)
A gorgeous, gothic, vibrantly Technicoloured
masterpiece from Italy’s godfather of horror.
Widely considered the original giallo film, it’s
also one of the best. If you’ve never experienced Bava before, there’s no better place
to start.
Gaff Gallery (684 E Hastings), 9pm
$5
Ladyfest Vancouver 2007: Chick
Flicks
Screening “Don’t Need You”, a documentary tracing the origins of Riot Grrrl, “It’s At 34
Leibig”, a documentary about a community
squat in Berlin and “Ladies Only” indie music videos.
Blim, 8pm
Tisdall Park (49th Ave near Ash)
Ben Frey: An Honest Way of Lying
is the official Father Zosima Head of Enthu-
opinion) Margot Kidder’s best ever perfor-
to be had.
ART
Band of Horses, A Decent Animal
bly surreal climax, and (in Dave Bertrand’s
onize. Cake, tours, prizes and refreshments
THU, JUNE 14
Do_ink
calls this totally unmissable. Mr. Henderson
Awesome use of split-screen, an incredi-
route is there the time seems right to col-
com or 604.872.8337 to register
SUN, JULY 1
cock movie to not be directed by Hitchcock.
often, but who knows, now that the bike
The National, The Broken West
Richard’s On Richards
glory days, and pretty much the best Hitch-
route! Not that I’m around 49th avenue
answer session. education@vivomediaarts.
FRI, JUNE 29
An early, pre-Carrie classic from DePalma’s
Sweet manna from heaven! Another bike
do post processing. The workshop will be
hands-on, with an extensive question and
$15+
TUE, JUNE 19TH
To quote a myspace post, Lee Henderson
FILM
4-6PM, bike tour begins at 5:45PM
Chadborne invented the electric rake. If that
is not enough to get you to come out and
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