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GREATER HAMILTON’S INDEPENDENT VOICE AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VOL. 25 NO. 33 Haze COMPLETE ENTERTAINMENT FREEFREELISTINGS EVERY THURSDAY GOOD BOYS • BORDERLINE ME • DEAD TIRED • THREAT SIGNAL • NATIVE WOMEN’S CENTRE • REAL ESTATE • ASTROLOGY 2 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW VIEW AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 3 Photo by: Tony DiCasa 05 LITERARY INSIDEROBIN ZEE THIS ISSUE AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 08 COVER WOOLY MANTIS FORUM FOOD 05 PERSPECTIVE Joe Biden 10 Dining Guide 05 LITERARY Boarderline Me MOVIES MUSIC 16 REVIEW Good Boys 08 Hamilton Music Notes 17 Movie Reviews 11 Live Music Listing ETC. 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HAMILTON, ONTARIO L8P 1K2 HAMILTON’S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE SINCE JANUARY 5, 1995, VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER USING VEGETABLE OIL-BASED INKS 4 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW [FEATURE] by MICHAEL TERRY This is already looking to be an man at this point, and you can hear him that will present the biggest difficulties BIDEN BEGINS TO BREAK untenable approach. As time marches using crutches of speech like ‘look, here’s to Joe making it all the way to the gen- on, Biden gets older, somehow rapidly the deal’ on the countless occasions he eral election. Like Trump, he keeps AS THE WEEKS mercifully tick by in the Biden’s campaign for him, and he moves aging as the days go by. His blunders are loses his train of thought. His campaign demanding that we all come to see that embarrassingly long race for the back into a seemingly comfortable unlike Trump’s, in that they don’t has decided they need to start limiting the old days really were great. He speaks Democratic Presidential nomination, front–runner status. This is happening embolden Biden supporters, but rather his public appearances, particularly in of a bipartisanship that hasn’t existed for Joe Biden’s lead has somehow managed for a lot of reasons. First, the length of make them cringe. Trump is chaotic by the later hours of the day, a telling move decades, and speaks of it as though it to hold up. The pattern goes a little the campaign makes this sort of inconse- design, Biden is just slipping, and we can that will be incredibly costly as attention actually benefited most Americans. His something like this; Biden polls some- quential shuffling inevitable. Most peo- all see the results. He closed the latest ramps up in the new year. belief that America simply has to go where just above 30 percent, then, peo- ple simply cannot pay attention for long debate by trying to get people to his Despite what the numbers suggest, it back in time is in keeping with the fact ple actually see the man, and his poll enough. Biden and his team (and his website, only to speak out a number peo- already feels like Biden’s campaign is that he, like many of us when we age, numbers go down. This is at its most friends in the media) relentlessly bang ple could text to donate. Days later, he running on fumes. That might go some react to being out of step with the times pronounced in the immediate aftermath the drum of electability, claiming Joe is proclaimed that ‘poor kids are just as distance to explain why the leaks are by leaning on nostalgia. Things weren’t of the latest round of debates. First, he the safe bet. This works in concert with bright as white kids’. Attempting to coming fast and furious. In recent days, better Joe, you were. Of course you was bodied by Kamala Harris over his the constant fear of Trump, to help work a crowd into a frenzy he bleated we’ve heard that Obama actively tried remember the days when you’d call up opposition to school busing. In the most Biden, through no work of his own, that Americans want ‘truth over facts’. to talk Biden out of running for office. your GOP brethren for a favour roman- recent round, he suffered more through appear to be the surest way to move on Politics aside, Biden truly does not look When that failed, he reached out to tically. You were younger, you had the his own incoherence. His numbers dip from the Trump disaster. For now, this like he knows what he is doing. He can Biden’s advisers to plead with them to energy for the fight, the ability to play for a time, and then weeks of looks like the only thing approaching a barely string a thought together. Any not let Joe embarrass himself. His wife the game, the ability to get through a far–too–rosy press coverage stabilizes strategy from the former Vice President. type of complexity is utterly beyond the basically raised the white flag on any sentence, maybe even a full paragraph. attempt to make people enthusiastic To be clear, this isn’t simple ageism. [LITERARY] by ALLISON M. JONES about the prospect of her husband as Opponents like Bernie Sanders and President. She so much as admitted that Elizabeth Warren are both also in their other candidates were better, but begged seventies, but go watch them speak. BORDERLINE ME, BEYOND THE EDGE voters to fear the polls, and just accept Honestly compare their ability to think, that all that matters is Trump’s defeat. explain, make connections, to what Mommy’s Cigarette, the one woman show resonating as a possi- His brain surgeon took to Twitter to let Biden is able to bring to the table. The bility for Zee’s own storytelling. Marshall connected her with everyone know that Joe’s brain is in tip gap is so severe, it’s honestly embarrass- Tracey Erin Smith of Toronto’s SoulOTheatre and, some time top shape. Always a good sign! Already ing to watch. If this keeps up, America later, Robin mustered the courage to enroll in a series of Smith’s having to come out and say something may well find that Biden was actually workshops. They helped Zee make some key breakthroughs in like, ‘look we know you might be wor- the least electable of the top tier candi- framing her story. ried about Joe’s cognitive capacity, but dates. They may have to cringe–watch Then came the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s gallery minis- let me tell you it’s fantastic!’ Does not as he stumbles to the finish line, closing eries, and “there was no turning back. I hired my long time bode well. out his years of service with a humiliat- friend Learie McNicolls to direct and had an absolute blast Ultimately though, it will be the ing defeat to the man he’s come to think rehearsing. David [Brace] at B Contemporary Gallery was just combination of his horrible campaign- of as his nemesis. Hopefully, we won’t so wonderful. We had great audiences, mostly sold out, and I ing and his deadeningly cynical message have to find out. V met so many other performers along the way.” She went on to write another solo show, No Dick Pics Please, that she performed Photo by: at the 2017 Fringe. Sammy Birkett Five years later, Robin has performed BorderLine Me many times over. “One of the things I contemplated was extending VIVACIOUS, QUIRKY, AND frankly undeniable, Robin Zee was the play, but I decided to leave it alone and shift into writing born in Montreal to an ‘artistic, dysfunctional’ family. Her own [the book],” a process she says took over a year. “I went over art, encompassing mixed media, theatre, comedy, has been a many notes, tackled the writing of my life in chunks, working practice of self expression and a conduit for healing. She was daily on it for months and months.” named Emerging Artist in Performance at the 2015 City of “I [felt] as if I opened Pandora’s box sometimes, and [that] I Hamilton Arts Awards, not long after premiering her first solo must have been nuts to take this on. However, if I didn’t, I think show, BorderLine Me, at the Hamilton Fringe.