< ¥ aniudtin — Yvgar ; t 0 span y £1557 MARINE Drive West VANCOUVER 8913-0610 toam-iopm Mon.-Sat, | (behind new North Shore Credit Union) od OG Shae each “Television 4 our Community’ PLUGGED IN! North Shore _ includes: highlights of the “Who's Got Game” basketball challenge, an interview about the importance of MedicAlert bracelets, keeping your garden in shape with Communities in Bloom, local _ Police participants in a fund-raising relay for the Special Olympics, Home Ideas tips with Barb Lunter and Stay Fit with Clyde McRae Host, Allen Billy from North Shore Rescue. Sunday, July 20 at 6:30pm. _Repeate Tuesday at 7 & 10pm, Thursday at pm anc! Seturday at 2:30pm. . THE INVESTMENT SCENE | Join Chris Tidd and his guests for up-to-date discussion of the latest market trends. Tuesdays at 7:30 & 16:30pm Repeats Wednesdays at 6:30pm, Thursdays at 1:30pm and Sturdays st 3:00pm COUNCIL COVERAGE Monday July 21-7pm -Disirict of North Vancouver Repeats Saturday July 26 at 8:20am ROGERS Community 4 + Punch Cigars 2-5pn) Sundays Fiddler -. under the THEATRE Under The Siars enjoys another season at Stanley Park's Malkin Bowl. Fiddler on the Roof alter. nates nighily with Bye Bye Birdie. Watch for North Shore actors Margot Leviton (right), Steven Aberia, Don Jabour and JoAnn Pezarro in Fiddier. They | next take the stage Saturday, duly 19. Tickets: 280-4444. Ferry Building Gallery: Women’s Work: Uncommon Threads. Exhibition of textiles by Ros Aylmer, Barb Head, Anne Love and Fran Solar, To July 27. Solutions: Healing Through Women’s Art. Seven women artists share their experiences of heal- ing. Opening reception July 29 at 6 p.m. Artist’s dialogue July 29 at 11 a.m. and August 5 at 7 p.m. Gallery hours: noon to 8 p.m., closed Mondays. - North Vancouver City Hall: WW. Holmes: Canadian, Irish and English Scenes. To July 31. Presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. Business hours. North Vancouver District Hall Japanese Paper Cutting. W. David Brierley. To July 31. Susan Punter: Bronze Cast Sculpture. To July 31st. North Vancouver Museum and Archives: Fire! Firefighting through the ages. A major exhibit See more page 23 " HENRY Watson is _used to girl talk. The Deep Cove resident is ~ producer of Can-Am Women of Comedy, a comedy show currently touring Vancouver Island and the Mainland. ;. ; When the 15-passenger..” Can-Am van rolls into town ' tomorrow for the final perfor- Lower “mance of the tour, he'll have spent cight days on the road in the company of women. ‘No problem;'says the’ 50- year-old actor-comedian, speaking from home before his departure. He has four sis- ters, a wife and two daughters so he knows what to expect. : There’s only one hitch. ° Of the seven women of comedy on board. — four from Canada, three from the U.S. — one'is eight-months pregnant. “We've, got’ the hospitals mapped: out between here and Port. ".* to debut in September. He'd also like to.lan Hardy, ” he savs with Boy Scout aplomb. Tomorrow-night’s performance at the Web™ Cafe, 390 Hastings St. in Vancouver, starts at 9 p.m. The comedy show will be videotaped for . television and “webcast” live over the Internet. kk Mary J. Blige — Share My: —_ World A (MCA 1997) .__IN mass media terms months .is a J. Blige’s May release, Share My World, is probably already headed for a muscum and archives near you. Unless the label can find another hit to send it back up the charts. Given the material, that is an unlikely scenario. This is Mary J. Blige you understand, so there is lots of good stuff going on, but some- thing’s missing as well. When the CD came out the New York singer was all over the media explaining to whoever would listen that she was a changed woman, Unfortunately by making moves to three, NORTH. Vancouver-based comic Anna Gustafson: _ one of seven Women of Comedy performing th Saturday at the Web Café in Vancouver. - pitch i it to Rogers Comedy Network, expected: the show on Canadian and U.S. networks. Tickets for the July 19 performance $10 in auvatice through Ticketmaster at 280- A444, Watson’s goal is to produce.a pilot and: = — Layne Christensen please, the: PR R people Blige seems to’ ‘have affected her fundamental approach to making : sound. Or she just got lost in the mix. Mary J.. Blige has always: been more of. ‘method actor than a Pop construct — chan ing the rules changes the whole game. Less - professional maybe, but that’s also part part of the pleasure. The unknown." pte She ni trying to be all things to all pe ve My World is less than it Suld be. Production teams from New York, Chicago, Minne: and Los Angeles contributed to the project coordinated by legendary Public Enemy pto- ducer Hank Shocklce. They bring the noise but they also bring the baggage of too many cooks in the kitchen. Sometimes, usually with lesser artists, this approach works, Interesting sidenote: the best song on cast- | coast Mary’s CD was produced by L.A’s Babyface. Net Gon? Cry was first heard on’ the Wasting to Exhale soundtrack but it gets a bet- ‘ter placement here. It closes things down. — John Goodman