The Five Points

The Five Points is coming soon to the Marine Drive Corridor of North Vancouver. The Five Points will be centrally located on 14th and Bewicke with easy access to shopping, nature hikes and bus routes to downtown or Lonsdale Quay/Sea Bus as well a quick drive up to Highway 1.

The Five Points will consist of 44 well designed 1, 2, and 3 Bedrooms homes over 4 levels, with the first floor being retail.  The buildings amenities includes a Multi-purpose room with bike tool, lounge, rooftop patio, Garden Plots as well a BBQ

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E. & O. E. This is not an offering for sale. An offering for sale may only be made after filing a Disclosure Statement under the Real Estate Development Marketing Act

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ARROW Sneak Peek: The Buck Truly Stops There

In a twist of ironic timing, art delivers a valuable life lesson, tonight on ARROW. A leader, faced with political opposition, tries to allay the fears of his constituents by holding a press conference. After a man is killed in service to others, cries of impeachment abound when Mayor Oliver Queen must take responsibility for […]

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Federer slips to disappointing Dubai defeat.

Federer slips to disappointing Dubai defeat. Roger Federer grabbed the headlines once again this time as he slipped to a defeat  in the

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Serena surprises two lucky tennis players

Serena surprises two lucky tennis players on Twitter Serena Williams is never far from the news but this week she popped up at local

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THE 100 Sneak Peek: Clarke Makes a Deal for Bellamy and Kane’s Lives

As Skaikru continues to search Becca’s Island for ways to avert the coming nuclear apocalypse on THE 100, their troubles are just beginning back at home with the Grounders. King Roan (Zach McGowan), who believes he’s been betrayed, is marching an army toward Arkadia, intent on taking their ship to save his own people. Clarke (Eliza […]

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Vintage Advertisements from Japan’s First Strip Show in 1947

the pamphlet for Japan’s first strip show in January, 1947 at the Teitoza theater (images courtesy Noboru Saijo via Asahi)

2017 marks the anniversary of a lot of things. But maybe one of the more unexpected is that it’s the 70th anniversary since burlesque dancing came to Japan. That’s right – in January of 1947 the first ever strip show was held in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district . And there’s a fascinating history, as well as vintage advertisements and documentation, that’s being showcased this month to remember the original tease.

According to cultural critic and media communications professor Noboru Saijou, Japan’s first strip show wasn’t at all what we might imagine it to be. At the time, women weren’t even allowed to work so there was a lot of uncertainty around what they could and couldn’t do. So the first strip show, held at Shinjuku’s Teitoza theater, was called a gakubuchi show (a “picture frame” show) and women would strike poses of famous nudes in art history like “The Birth of Venus” and “Perseus and Andromeda.”

Because the strip shows were held in-between other comedy and literary performances they became associated with literary figures in Japan like author and playwright Kafu Nagai and comic fiction playwright Hisashi Inoue. The theaters gave birth to a generation of Japanese actors and comedians like Beat Takeshi and Kiyoshi Atsumi whose careers began in the strip show theater.

The strip show theater went on to become a cultural phenomenon in Japan. One of the most well-known examples of comedians incorporating strip show culture into their act was Kato Cha’s skit (embedded above) in which he Boo Takagi are the wind and son, competing to see who can get the woman to remove her clothes. No matter how hot the sun would shine, no matter how strong the wind would blow, the woman wouldn’t strip her clothing. But then Kato has the idea to play smooth jazz music that was associated with strip shows and sure enough the woman begins to remove her clothing.

A 70th anniversary commemorative event is taking place on March 18, 2017 at the Asakusa Toyokan in Tokyo. You can read about it more here and get tickets.

a poster for the Rockza strip show theater, which is still in business!

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1. Vintage Fabrics from Around the World Transformed Into Clothing by Japanese Craftsmen
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3. Retro Japanese Boomboxes and a Pocketbook

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How ‘Bout Them Cowboys Mark Williams?

For years we bowled the Quaker State Open at Jeanie Hulsey’s Forum Bowl in Irving Texas. This was a great event, Jeanie was the perfect host. She would have a bunch of us stay at her apartment at Golden Triangle Lanes while during the tournament she stayed at the apartment at Forum Bowl. There are many great memories that come from that tournament. First let me say I”ve made a lot of good friends in Texas. I roomed with Skee Foremsky for years, Robert Lawrence who worked for Brunswick and I became very close. Too many people forget that Robert is a U.S. Open Champion. Del Ballard and I bet dinner every year on who will end up with a better record, The Mets or the Rangers. Dave Ozio is a good friend and one of the best talents to come out on tour. My hero is Bill Lillard, when you look up the word class in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Bill Lillard. And then there’s Mark Williams, Mark was on Brunswick staff for a lot of years. We became good friends, working together, exhibitions etc. One thing about Mark is he is one of the leading chop busters on the planet. He never misses the chance to get in a dig on somebody.

One year at the Quaker State Open we’re all in the paddock waiting for roll call for the pro-am. I had recently heard a good open ended joke. What I mean by that is you can change the punch line to tease whoever you want, any team, group or individual. I realized, here’s my chance to get one on Mark.

The joke goes like this… Three men die and go to heaven. In heaven they meet Albert Einstein, Einstein asks the first man What’s your IQ? The man says 161. Einstein says Really! Would you like to discuss the Big Bang Theory, creation of the Universe? The man says sure. Einstein says Stop by and see me.

He then asks the second man, what’s your IQ? the man says 172. Einstein says really! Would you like to discuss the theory of Relativity E=MC2? The man says yes, Einstein says stop by and see me.

He then asks the third man what’s your IQ? The man says 50. Einstein say 50? He thinks for awhile and finally says “How bout them Cowboys!!” Everybody laughs and as the laughter dies down.

Mark says, I don’t think that was very funny.. which make everybody laugh twice as hard.

We then go out on the lanes for the pro-am. We’re standing at the foul line waiting to get introduced. Mark is on one side of me and John Mazza is on the other, and then the miracle happens. One of John Mazza’s ams is wearing a Dallas Cowboys hat. As we introduce ourselves to our ams, I can hear Mazza talking to his. The guy with the hat asks Mazza, “Hey, how about those Cowboys this year?!” Mazza stars laughing, the gentleman says “What’s so funny?” Mazza came up with some kind of excuse, I had to walk over to Mark’s pair, he said you #%$*. What a great day!

As always you can’t make this stuff up.

cento anni’…Johnny Petraglia

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Bowling has been my life since I was 8 years old. What makes it so great is that it is you against the elements, and everybody can do it. There are no restrictions according to sex, race, age, size or religion. Politics are practically non-existent (201 beats 200, no matter who you are). Being a professional bowler for 40 years has been wonderful. Very few people get to do what they love for a living. I am one of the lucky ones.

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