| Open Theatre Company | Kiss & Run | Machete + The most CURRENT listings & Ballistic Snaps! West Side Story On Stage September 17th - October 1st Volume 12, Issue 18 Issue 12, Volume 1st October - 17th September this issue The Gemini Awards Weezer and Hurley and Hurley Celebrating The Lotis Centre Canadian Television Rants, Riffs and Roars for 25 years September 17th - October 1st, 2010 SfaNSahipson! Back to School Style from BalliStic Let ThE celebRaTions bEgiN ... aNd continue! PhotograPher: Phonse King CURRENT | Page 2 September 17th - October 1st, 2010 current team Editor Contributors Joshua Jamieson Richard Burnett [email protected] Tim Conway Gina Gill advertising Sales Tara Lehman [email protected] Jonny Hodder Alison Murray Production & design Skye Tostowaryk Joshua Jamieson Josey Vogels Debby Winters distribution Kevin Woolridge Barry Ross Publisher Cover Photo: John Lauener Marketing Services Ltd. www.currentmag.ca P.O. 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He was asked gramercy Riffs: it’s heartbreak of long-time if he would stay on for three months until Christmas. “Who knew heartbreak could be so much fun? Browne pal, The Christmas of 2010 will be his 27th at Fred’s. Hearing this album is like being 12 years old, it’s the David Lindley; first day of summer and your brand new friend has one of the In April this year Tony organized and hosted one a swimming pool. SPLASH!! Call Me is arguably the great unsung of the best Record Store Day shows in the country discs best track and Ambulance is fiercely compelling heroes of featuring a half dozen of Canada’s finest acts. but Linda is a killer opener screaming ‘invitation’ with guitarists Recently he was the recipient of a JUNO courtesy it’s sparkling energy. No argument, the best pop / who rules this stellar performance. This is a shining of Six Shooter Records for a decade of dedicated rock release by a Newfoundland band this year, not example of how to make fresh and vital a classic support for St. John’s JUNO winner, Amelia Curran a weak track, this disc explodes and swirls with hit repertoire spanning decades.” whom he calls his “pride and joy.” songs throughout.” gaslight anthem: american Slang black Keys: brothers “Thin Lizzy, Springsteen, The Clash and Hold Steady “Led Zep, Sly Stone, Hendrix, King Floyd and all shoot to mind upon hearing this recent release Delphonics, it doesn’t sound quite like any of them from last year’s New Jersey ‘buzz band’. They may but embodies the spirit of all of them. Sounds tricky, not be America’s best rock and roll band but this this keys and bass dominant release with its fuzz- spirited album has its tantalizing moments. Had it wah wah guitar tones and infectious R&B grooves come out in 1978 it would be screaming from car captures ‘lightning in a bottle’ channelling a sound radios all summer long, hail hail rock n’ roll.” reminiscent of late 1960’s early 1970’s.” Robert Randolph & The family band: We Walk This Jackson browne & david Lindley: 2006-Love is Road Strange-Live in barcelona. “Latest masterpiece from steel-guitar virtuoso “Jackson Browne’s merits as a songwriter likely shimmers like beads of sweat on perfect skin in the spots him in anyone’s Top 20 lyricists of the past 40 hot noonday sun. This album oozes with soul and years - crafty, evocative and periodically epic in style wraps around you its deep, rich blues/gospel beauty. and content. Recorded live in Barcelona with a host Easily one of the top releases this year.” of Latino musicians-extraordinaire, it’s pure bliss. CURRENT | Page 4 September 17th - October 1st, 2010 CURRENT | Page 5 September 17th - October 1st, 2010 Word UP rant and roar Like True NewfoundLaNders By gina gill It’s the little tales that All of Stapleton’s choice of words and expression bring Newfoundlanders allow a connection with the reader and helps them together. The history all sit back, relax, take a hard look at themselves and and culture is exposed most of all, laugh. through a variety of stories - yarns Stapleton has the rare ability to take unobvious as they’re known, situations and relate them to the public in a gut- which are accurately wrenching hilarious manner. In Confessions of expressed by Berni an Aging Ingénue, Stapleton is disgruntled by an Stapleton in Rants, expensive thong she purchased to match a just as Riffs and Roars. pricey bra. After wearing the thong to bed, “when Stapleton has the I woke up this morning, it had disappeared. I may ability to reach out to all need surgery to take it out.” It’s a true look on what branches of the island, with a variety of short stories. women face as they find themselves getting older. As Stapleton enters her forties, not only is she getting Stapleton is a Newfoundland actor and playwright “wrinkles and zits at the same time” but her humour is who manages to see the bright side of people’s more crass and realistic. everyday lives. Laughter is a definite anecdote of her writing, even during the more serious sides Throughout the book, the stories get better and of the stories. All the situations and scenarios in better - although it does not matter what order the Stapleton’s stories differ, as do the variety of dialects stories are read, you develop a connection and and Newfoundland vocabulary. In a Maid Like Me, understanding to Stapleton. Rants, Riffs and Roars is the narrator wonders what a strumpet is a decides “I’ll like a fresh cup of coffee, a stop and smell the roses strumpet her all the way down the beach and back,” - a great look on life. Reminding everyone to laugh at referring to Tillie, the user of the word, strumpet. You everyday, and take all the serious habits and make know your mother has threatened to “fill in the blank” them into a story. you right up the shore when you have disappointed her to no end. This book can truly be judged by its cover - a guarantee to rant and roar. daTiNg kiss and run TO COmmiT or not COmmiT, ThaT iS ThE question By tara lehman Commitment-phobia is up for grabs in the battle towards the footloose, fancy-free lifestyle you allow of the sexes. Society likes to pigeonhole men and yourself. Some people aren’t made for long-term women into the Mars vs. Venus categories, which relationships and there’s nothing wrong with that. declares men as commitment-phobes and women What would be wrong is to stay in a relationship as commitment-holics. But, times have changed and because you feel it’s the socially acceptable thing to men no longer have the monopoly on commitment do or convince yourself being single is the lifestyle fears. More women don’t feel the urge to settle you want because it’s too much work to deal with down immediately for reasons such as delayed your commitment issues. If you’re single, picky, and motherhood, being career-minded and the desire indecisive, there’s a chance you’re a commitment- to be financially independent. What’s interesting is phobe and either don’t realize it, don’t care or don’t that men will admit they have a fear of commitment want to admit it. The under-lying feeling with all far easier than women will. Women are taught they people afraid of commitment is that they like the idea should want a relationship, family and the house with of having a relationship, but are terrified to discover the white picket fence. So, when they find themselves what they have to give up in the process. running from a perfectly good relationship, they’re either in denial that they are a commitment-phobe Being commitment-ready is a state of mind. It means or they don’t want to advertise it. Men on the other having realistic expectations and self-knowledge hand can be quite proud of being single. There is a about what you’re willing to compromise to make certain air of unattainability that comes along with that a relationship work, because like it or not, there’s attitude and women, for some odd reason, are often always going to compromises of some sort and attracted to that. when you find the right person, the compromises won’t be terrifying at all. How do you know if you’re Being single is a lifestyle that has great perks, so a commitment-phobe? I’ll touch on that in the next if it’s a conscious choice and it works for you, then issue of Current! don’t be afraid to admit it. People giving themselves permission to be single is a somewhat recent Tara runs D8 Night, arranging speed dating events, phenomenon, not a disease, and don’t doubt that blind dates, online consultations and more.