youth "A Really Really Neat Show" 43 Pounds doesn't really bar any holds, either If an audience demands a scene based on sexual passion, then that's whal they'll get. Did 1 mention that the entire that isn't completely denying current lifestyle), they sweat (and therefore stink), but they're consistently funny. Don't let mc leave you with the impression that these guys arc just a bunch of especially funny hums getting a quick buck from doing whal any one of us could. They have a continuous soundtrack, effective and modem, they have structure and organization, they have an intermission (if that's important to any of you), and hey. they even have a motto! All in all, when you get out of your seat after the odd I "i hours you feel happy Hut you saw them, happy thai you sang their song with them (which is also horribly ridiculous, by the way),relievedto have avoided their biting wii as they roamed the audience for easy-humour scapegoats (should you be so lucky), and. most of all, you'll need a break from laughing! lor a local (yet surcl) expanding) coined} troupe by the name of 43 Pounds of Wasted who goi together al a North Shore high humour-loving person in their not-so-right favour, here, and do take that into account. However, if you. like me. love Monty Python, this is definitely a group to check out. They have strutting Frenchmen, leaping ladies, homosexual Rambos, f fish. . c br.is> bin lal. This should I Ilici This group doesn't have an air of superiority about them, they don't look down on us. They arc just like us-- imperfect, prone to giggling at inappropriate moments, they lei loose an occasional swearword (thank God, a group The Akin to Gary Larson's Far Side comic variety of things in a direct and decidedly silly manner. Maybe the best thing about them is that they use methods that all of us potentially could. Things like the wellknown concept of theatre sports arc easily Side-splitting, actually. 1 think hilarious is another word for il Pascal Cuk will be graduating from Handsworth Secondary School in the spring. We hope that this is only thefirstin a series of occasional articles from him about youth and the arts. Thanks to Celine Kaufman for hooking us up. e r 11 a g e A Waterfront Transformed s (he Cit < > l No sidents r develop and ·revitalize' Lower Lonsdale, attention is often, and naturally, focused o the waterfront. So the exhibit A Waterfror Transformed at the North Vancouver Museum is timely indeed. The role of a Museum and Archives is to document change. Nothing epitomises change and development in North un the of l he erfroi tid V-, Narrows Bridges. The Waterfront Transformed is pari of an ongoing research project into the history of the waterfront. Talks by Museum Director. Robin Inglis. scheduled for March '94 al Capilano College, are another aspect of this research project. Company, now both gone but significant memories of friends in the Historical Society and investigations of charts of the Inlet, many of which pinpoint company names and locations now long vanished under fill and new construction. Using photographs from the Archives* collection and from other institutions, the Museum's exhibit gives visitors a chance to se what the waterfront was like and when the changes occurred. And of course, change continues. The closing of the Cassiar and White Pan Wharves and the piles of din to be used for fill in the gap between them and the Pioneer Grain Elevator herald a new beginning on that part of the waterfront. In addition, there will inevitably be major changes on the old Wallace/Burrard/ Versatile site. Tracing how the waterfront has changed in the 2()th century is .i fascinating process and you can do it for yourself by visiting A Waterfront Transformed, on now through June, 1994. And it this inspires you to want to volunteer for the Museum, read elsewhere in this magazine aboul the Volunteer Fair. the lapan Wharf built and when did il disappear? And w hat of Vancouver Creosoting and the Home Brothers SI A m Acc... J w F . i . 1994