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February 1, 2007
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Post a commentStraight List - February 1 - 8, 2007
THURSDAY
Events
Costa Rica marine turtle lecture
Jean Jang will discuss her research on Olive Ridley turtles in Costa Rica, including biology, life cycle, predation, and personal experiences and social interactions the local community has with the turtles at 7:30 pm at the Vancouver Museum (1100 Chestnut). Free.
www.naturalhistory.bc.ca/VNHS/
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Theatre: The Optimists
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Morwyn Brebner’s comedy about a quartet of Canadians discussing their hopes and regrets in Las Vegas. Rachel Ditor directs John Murphy, Anastasia Phillips, Scott Bellis, and Jillian Fargey. Runs until March 3 daily except Sunday at the Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston). Tix $25-36.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Ticketmaster, 604-280-3311.
The Optimists
www.artsclub.com/onstage/20062007/optimist.htm
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Alexis Puentes
Smithers in Northern B.C. may seem an unlikely place to find a world-class Cuban musician, but that’s where Alexis Puentes has been living since 2004. The singer-songwriter and guitarist—whose stage name is Alex Cuba—blends his homeland’s rhythms with jazz and acoustic pop in finely crafted compositions, and possesses an attractive and lightly smoky voice. Last year Puentes gained a Juno Award for best world-music album with Humo de Tabaco, and his latest release, Agua del Pozo, recorded in Havana and Victoria, is even better. Catch this rising star of the Latin scene tonight, (February 8) when Alex Cuba performs at the Media Club.
Alex Cuba Agua del Pozo
www.myspace.com/alexispuentesalexcuba
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SMOKIN’ ACES SMOKIN’ ACES Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Common, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, and Ryan Reynolds star in Narc director Joe Carnahan’s action flick about a Las Vegas performer who decides to turn state’s evidence and testify against the Mob. Link: http://www.straight.com/node/68200 Link: http://www.smokinaces.net/ Link:Movies
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EAST VAN REVOLUTIONARY KNITTING FRONT First meeting of new organization dedicated to creating social change through textileArts
. New knitters welcome. Tonight at 7:30 pm, 1545 E. 10th. Link: www.knittingfront.org Link:Events
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Talking Stick Festival Still looking to take in the Talking Stick Festival before it wraps up this weekend? For a one-stop buffet of all that’s on offer, we recommend the Talking Stick Performance Showcase tonight and tomorrow night at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, where bits of traditional aboriginal performance mix with a program of dance,Music
, comedy, and theatre. The sampler encompasses excerpts from Gabriel’s Crossing, about the Métis resistance, and El Pájaro, by Colombian aerial-dance artists Diana Casas and Carolina Van Eps. Link: http://www.fullcircleperformance.ca/content.asp?chapterID=4&subchapterID... Link:Arts
Time Out: http://www.straight.com/section/18Music
The Coast Jazz Society’s Time FliesMusic
festival SpontaneousMusic
-making doesn’t get much better than it does during the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society’s annual Time Flies festival, and this year’s edition of this instant-composition showcase will benefit from the presence of Phil Minton, who’s been developing his feral vocal moves since Mike Patton was a rug rat. He’s joined by an international cast of avant-gardists—including Seattle violist Eyvind Kang and British sax master John Butcher—at the Ironworks tonight through Saturday. Link: http://www.coastaljazz.ca/index.cfm?page_id=6&view=DETAILS&event_id=446 Link:Music
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World Community Film Festival Screenings of 34 documentaries about social justice. Tonight to Sunday at Langara College. Weekend passes $30, info 604-708-1495, ext. 116. Link: <Movies
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Naguib Mahfouz and the sources of his art Richard Harvey gives a lecture on the art and life of Naguib Mahfouz, in conjunction with neworldtheatre’s production of Adrift on the Nile at 2 pm, Vancouver East Cultural Centre (1895 Venables). Free, info 604-602-0007. Link: http://www.straight.com/article-68159/nile-pushes-dogma-buttons Link: http://www.neworldtheatre.com/ Link: Link:Events
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Valentine’s Symphony The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra serves up aMusic
al box of chocolates in its Valentine’s-oriented Love and Romance pops concert tonight at the Orpheum. Soprano Melanie Krueger and baritone Steve Maddock join the ensemble under Bramwell Tovey’s baton for a shamelessly romantic roster of well-knownMusic
. Georges Bizet’s Carmen Suite, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s "La Ci Darem la Mano" from Don Giovanni, Antonín Dvorak’s Romance in F minor, Op. 11, and a few pieces from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess should leave couples swooning. Link: http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/Concertpage.cfm?CFCONCERTCODE=06POPS4 Link:Arts
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REO Speedwagon As Wikipedia points out, REO Speedwagon is an American rock band which grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. REO Speedwagon hits include "Keep On Loving You" and "Can’t Fight This Feeling." Both songs are power ballads, the former being prototypical of the genre and appearing on the group’s most commercially successful album, Hi Infidelity, which also included the hit "Take It On The Run," a song that peaked at number five on the U.S. chArts
. Earlier REO songs "Ridin’ The Storm Out," "Golden Country," "Roll With The Changes," and "Time For Me To Fly" enjoy continuous rotation on classic rock radio stations. If you’re old enough to enjoy REO Speedwagon, you’ve probably never visited Wikipedia; now’s the time to bring those two solitudes together. REO Speedgaon plays the Boulevard Casino, 2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam. Tix at Ticketmaster, 604-280-4444. Link: http://216.81.76.231/calendar/calendar.asp?ID=8 Link: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/11003D69D09CEDB1?artistid=771449&majorc... Link:Music
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Mount Pleasant Kelly Rowan, Shawn Doyle, and Ben Ratner star in No More Monkeys Jumpin’ on the Bed director Ross Weber’s drama about three couples who find their destinies irrevocably intertwined after a little girl finds a junkie’s discarded needle in her Vancouver back yard. Link: http://www.christalfilms.com/officialsites/mountpleasant/ Link: http://www.straight.com/article-67150/filming-mount-pleasant Link: http://www.straight.com/node/67140 Link:Movies
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Valentine’s lap-dance workshop Aradia Fitness presents a workshop on movement, dancing, and bedroom confidence, this afternoon at 2:30-4:30 pm, Aradia Fitness. Fee $69 (plus GST), info 604-731-8070. Link: http://vancouver.aradiafitness.com/ Link:Events
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Peter Trower and Al MacLachlan Peter Trower reads poetry from Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys, and Al MacLachlan reads from his new novel, After the Funeral this evening at 6:30 pm, Montmartre Café (4362 Main). Free admission. Link: http://www.google.ca/maps?hl=en&safe=off&pwst=1&q=montmartre-cafe&near=V... Link:Arts
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Cradle of Filth Poor Cradle of Filth. They want so badly to be from Norway, the home of black metal. But alas, this band of merry Satanists is from Suffolk, England, the home of tea and crumpets. So to compensate for their geographical shortcoming, they’ve been known to pull off little attention-grabbing stunts like sporting I Love Satan T-shirts in the Vatican, where they were promptly shown the door by gun-toting soldiers. We can’t confirm exactly what kind of blasphemous merch they’ll have on sale for the goth-metal kids when they hit the Commodore’s stage on Sunday (February 11) to promote their latest recording Thornography. But we’re pretty sure it will involve Jesus, blood, and the female anatomy; in fact, we’d be willing to bet a mint first-edition copy of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible on it. Link: http://www.cradleoffilth.com/ Link:Music
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You Never Bike Alone Feature-length documentary about how cyclists are changing the face of Vancouver this afternoon at 2 pm, Pacific Cinémathèque (1131 Howe). Tix $8. Link: http://www.icycle.ca/ Link: http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca Link:Movies
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Panel discussion on global warming We Need Some Bright Ideas! Now! features Heather Harrison of Kwantlen University College’s philosophy department, Philip Austin of UBC’s earth and ocean sciences department, Dan Rogers from the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation, and Ian Bruce of the Suzuki Foundation. Plus a screening of Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth, 6:45 pm, Ridge Theatre (W. 16th & Arbutus). By donation (reservation required), info 604-739-9206 Link: www3.telus.net/gwforum Link: <Events
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Theatre Cares One thing about the theatre community: those folks know how to have a good time. Theatre Cares Week, which raises cash for a variety of AIDS organizations, begins today and runs until next Monday. This year’s entertainment includes a staged reading of Noel Coward’s classic comedy, Hay Fever, next Friday (February 16) in Christ Church Cathedral. Dean Paul Gibson will direct Patti Allan as a diva named Judith Bliss. Other stars include Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Bard on the Beach, and comedienne extraordinaire Beatrice Zeilinger.Music
al accompaniment will be provided by none other than Bramwell Tovey, director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Link: http://www.theatrecares.com/home.htm Link:Arts
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Wintersong Festival features a songwriter’s café (with Norman Foote, John Mann, Babe Gurr, and Shari Ulrich), and concerts with Laudate Singers and FESO, the Buddy System,Music
a intima and Mad Pudding, Real Time and Espiritu Vocal Ensemble, and Vancouver Men’s Chorus with the Good Noise Gospel Choir. Runs until next Saturday (February 17) at various West Vancouver venues. Link: www.wintersong.ca/ Link: <<Music
preview of Shari Ulrich to go up 8/2/7>> Link:Music
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The Painted Veil Edward Norton and Naomi Watts star in director John Curran’s adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic novel about a young English couple in the 1920s who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where the wife falls in love with someone else. Rated PG. Link: http://wip.warnerbros.com/paintedveil/ Link: http://www.straight.com/node/61283 Link:Movies
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Lecture on Clam Gardens Necessary Voices presents a free talk by Judith Williams on the recent revealing of and search for acceptance for ancient aboriginal mariculture on the Pacific Northwest Coast this evening at 7:30-9:30 pm, Alice MacKay room, Vancouver Public Library (350 W. Georgia). Link: http://www.necessaryvoices.org/ Link: http://www.straight.com/node/60398 Link:Events
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VisualArts
: The Tickle Trunk Project The Tickle Trunk Project is gender-bending photos of writer and performer Michael V. Smith by David Ellingsen, runs until next Saturday (February 17) at 8 East Cordova. Link: http://www.parkingspot.com/ Link: http://www.straight.com/blog/john-burns/whats-in-your-tickle-trunk-littl... Link:Arts
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Neko Case The title cut of Neko Case’s most recent album, 2006’s masterful Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, is a rebuke to all of humankind for paving over the natural world without a second thought for what’s being lost. Or maybe it’s not about that at all. Case is reticent when it comes to dissecting her evocative lyrics. And it’s just as well, because frankly, we like a little mystery with ourMusic
, and Case’s songs—which continue to take Americana in experimental new directions—have that in spades. Join Case and her band at the Commodore tonight and let your imagination run free. Link: http://www.straight.com/article/case-strips-it-down-0 Link: http://www.nekocase.com/ Link:Music
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Partition Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, and John Light star in Love on the Side director Vic Sarin’s drama about a soldier who resigns his post with the British Indian Army and finds his peaceful new life shattered when a new border is drawn between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan in 1947. Rated PG. Link: http://www.straight.com/article-68178/love-and-war Link: http://www.straight.com/article-68201/partition Link: http://www.partitionthemovie.ca Link:Movies
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