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BC Business (January & February).
This month humourist Ken Hegan hires a (clearly confident) career coach. Dig the Rubbermaid heir turned green investor who's relocated here. Rob Howatson files a memo to PR hacks everywhere: "Magazine editors love media kits, the bulkier the better-they make excellent pile drivers to tamp down all the other press releases in their recycling box." Check out the kiddie investors, all of 10 years of age, who are rocking five-figure returns. Columnist Denny Boyd delivers a memorable bitch-slap to Conrad Black: "Conrad, can you say 'Rosebud'?" Trendspotter Bill Good, meanwhile, manages to marvel at the run on coffeehouses in Vancouver, even doing double-duty to reassure us that "soda fountains, they're not coming back."
Last month, there was real meat in a hard-as-nails Q&A with Premier Campbell. For his part, Denny Boyd goes crusading, wagging a finger at Big Sugar. A story relates how to break bad news in the brave new frontiers of biotech. Front-of-book pieces range far and wide, from barrelmaking to aerospace. An inventive feature on change agents finds them in business, law, media-even in academe. Bcbusinessmagazine.com.
Monday (January 28 - February 4)
It's a cineaste scrap! The Island's alt-weekly gleans some dirt from the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival. In a departure from last year's John Waters love-in, organizers are eschewing celebrity draws for the fest's 10th year, but there is blood boiling over the event's lead slot going to a Danish film. Canuck filmmaker Carl Bessai extends his claws: "Every other country has great respect for its [own] cinema, and our cinema is respected widely abroad, but our own damn festivals ... should be leading off with a Canadian movie. What country are we living in? Why do we always make foreign films ... a priority at our own damn festivals?" Damn, he has a point. In a deft editorial jab, Alisa Gordaneer waxes drolly on the cinematic clichés of "political intrigue, organized crime and money laundering, featuring high-level government officials and their insider connections." Mondaymag.com.
The Nerve (February)
The Nervelanders continue to stir the pot. A biting concert review takes the form of a stockholder report: "Those board members who expressed concern earlier that the company's investment of thousands of dollars of flashpots, dry ice and fire effects have only to regard the graph (see fig. 1) which shows that, far from being an unnecessary addition to the overall presentation, the pyrotechnics helped reinforce identification with the Nickelback TM brand and further enhanced the belief amongst consumers that they had experienced an actual rock concert event." A great piece uncovers local rawker Meegan Maultsaid, who "started the Rock for Choice Vancouver chapter, a benefit that helps fund women's health clinics." This month's "band slut" profile asks a blind drummer how often he falls off the stage ("'It all depends on the amount of booze and how fast it goes down,'" he says). A columnist reveals for the curious Nerve's shades-of-Felix Dennis editor: "Brad sits in an overstuffed chair gesturing with a pipe before a roaring fireplace and women in gossamer tunics waft about spritzing the air with atomized baby tears." Thenerveonline.com.
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