Get your chopsticks out for the 10th anniversary of Gung Haggis Fat Choy.

Former Rolling Stone staffer James Howard Kunstler is no friend of trendy architecture or urban planning—just check out the ruthless drubbings he doles out in the Eyesore of the Month section of his Web site (www.kunstler.com?).

Dahr Jamail pursued the story that few others dared to chase. In 2003, weary of the U.S. media’s perceived failures in covering the war in Iraq, Jamail set off for Baghdad. The result is his book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail will give a talk next Saturday (December 8) at the Planetarium (1100 Chestnut Street) at 7 p.m. One of the few truly independent U.S.

Social-justice activist and journalist Michele Landsberg comes to town Sunday evening (November 25), as part of the Chan Centre’s Fall Speakers series. Part of a family of progressive dynamos (she’s married to former UN special envoy Stephen Lewis, and is the mother of broadcaster and filmmaker Avi Lewis and mother-in-law of writer Naomi Klein), Landsberg will discuss her years on the frontlines of debates over gender equality, education, and human rights. Stephen Lewis will also speak.

It’s not often that you get a chance to hear two of the world’s leading biologists expound on work supporting Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. On Tuesday (November 20) at 7:30 p.m., Peter and Rosemary Grant—who have spent 35 years in the Galápagos Islands studying generations of finches—will give a free lecture in Room 100 of the Wesbrook Building (6174 University Boulevard, UBC).

Vancouver is hosting two international events aimed at developing strategies for educating children and youth on how to be peaceful as individuals, and peace builders as citizens.

Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire comes to the Chan Centre (6265 Crescent Road, UBC) on Sunday evening (November 4) for a talk on his now-famous experiences as a UN commander who tried unsuccessfully to stop the horrific events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Pumpkins for the poor, No Olympics on Stolen Land

The term interactive often suggests the digital world, but sometimes it’s best to use a more straightforward way to convey an important idea. The Outpost: Asian Canadians Reframed, an exhibit running until Friday (October 19) at the AMS Art Gallery in UBC’s Student Union Building, uses Post-it notes to explore preconceptions about the Asian Canadian community.

Maybe you once thought that National Earth Science Week was something only for folks who go to work in lab coats, but with climate change a daily issue in the media, were all becoming amateur (and fairly nervous) earth scientists. UBCs department of earth and ocean sciences celebrates the week by offering a daylong open house at the Pacific Museum of the Earth (6339 Stores Road). From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Recovering our history, Solving domestic violence

PRIVATE PROPERTY Maybe seeing The Bourne Ultimatum has you jumpy about little security cameras trained on your every move. Maybe you’re freaked out by the way democratic governments around the world seem increasingly blasé about digging through the facts and figures of their citizens’ personal lives—and about how many of those facts and figures are floating around on the Internet.

If you thought Vancouver was a wealthy city, it’s got nothing on Abu Dhabi, capital of the largest of the seven United Arab Emirates. Former Vancouver director of planning Larry Beasley is overseeing a major redesign of this city of 1.6 million. Loquacious Larry was always the most articulate manager at City Hall, and on Sunday (September 16) beginning at 5 p.m. at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, he’ll share his insights about trying to transform Abu Dhabi into the cultural capital of the world.

A dark chapter of Vancouver's past returns to the streets of Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside on Friday (September 7), with a guided, 90-minute walking tour along the route of the Anti-Asian Riot that took place exactly 100 years ago. CBC's Margaret Gallagher (above) and Michael Barnholden, author of 2005's Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Rioting in Vancouver , will lead the Memorial Riot Walk to seven of the crucial locations of that infamous day.

Ian Reid, case manager for the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, is coming to the West Vancouver Memorial Library (1950 Marine Drive) next Thursday (September 6), to talk about the war-crimes trials of late Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic and former Liberian president Charles Taylor.