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Editor's picks: Best events every day of the week, Feb. 3-10
Chromeo, the thrilling electro-funk duo from Montreal, performs material from latest opus Business Casual, Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, at the Commodore Ballroom.
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Playground listings: Feb. 3-10
Alexandra Cousteau Her legendary grandfather explored the world’s ocean wonders; today Alexandra Cousteau explores new ways to save them. “Water will be the defining crisis of our century,” she says, in lectures delivered around the world. Centre for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.
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Stage Listings: Feb. 3-10
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra » Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan is featured in works by Liszt, Wagner and Strauss. Orpheum, Feb. 5, 8 pm, Feb. 6, 2 pm and Bell Centre, Surrey, Feb. 7, 8 pm, 604-876-3434.
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Gallery listings: Feb. 3-10
Catriona Jeffries Gallery » 274 E. 1st, 604-736-1554. » Alex Morrison, sculpture, film, opens Feb. 3, 7 pm; to March 12
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Music listings: Feb. 3-10
Motorhead » British rock band performs songs from three-decade career, with Clutch and Valient Thorr. Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville, Feb. 7, 7 pm, $48.50, 604-569-1144.
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Editor's picks: Best events every day of the week Jan. 27-Feb. 3
Ra Ra Riot at the Biltmore Cabaret, Jan. 29: Syracuse, New York indie-rockers Ra Ra Riot bring their unique brand of party-ready chamber pop to the Biltmore with guest Givers. This tour is their first with new drummer Kenny Bernard, who picks up sticks from Gabriel Duquette, who played his swan song with the band on Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.
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Gallery listings: Jan. 27-Feb. 3
Richmond Art Gallery » 7700 Minoru Gate 604- 247-8300. » Last Riot: Video installation by Russian artist collective AES+F, opens Feb. 3, 7 pm; to April 3.
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Stage listings: Jan. 27-Feb. 3
Sound Machine » Company Drift gathers found sounds and mixes them with dance, theatre, audio and video to create a dreamlike world. Scotiabank Dance Centre, Jan. 27-29, 8 pm. Tickets $28/20, pushfestival.ca
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Playground listings: Jan. 27-Feb. 3
ArtStarts on Saturdays » Khac Chi ensemble shows kids all the music that bamboo instruments can make. ArtStarts (gallery for young people’s art), 808 Richards, Jan. 29, 11 am and 1 pm, artstarts.com.
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Music listings: Jan. 27-Feb. 3
Cake » Post-alt-rock band from California. Centre for Performing Arts, 777 Homer, Feb. 1, 8 pm, $46.50, 604-280-4444.
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Editor's picks: Best events every day of the week, Jan. 20-27
Interpol at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan. 27. The dashing rock all-stars from New York City kick off a North American tour with School of Seven Bells here in Vancouver. When it ends, they’ll tour Europe with Matthew Dear and, come summer, play a few gigantic stadium shows opening for U2.
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Gallery listings: Jan. 20-27
Vancouver Art Gallery » 750 Hornby 604-662-4700. » From the Collection: Unreal: Francis Bacon, Maxwell Bates, Matthew Brown, Marcel Dzama, Jock Macdonald, Myfanwy MacLeod, Luanne Martineau, Paul McCarthy, Jason McLean, Eric Metcalfe, Annette Messager, Sandra Meigs, Al Neil, Alfred Pellan, Marina Roy and Cindy Sherman, among many others, Jan. 22-Sept. 5.
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Playground listings: Jan. 20-27
The Bomb in the Wilderness: Nuclear Photography, the Atomic Age, and Canada » Art historian John O’Brian examines the place of photography in the construction of nuclear narratives since World War II. Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine, Tuesdays, Jan. 25-Feb. 8, 7 pm, with Symposium, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Feb. 4, 10 am-3 pm, mossl@interchange.ubc.ca.
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Stage listings: Jan. 20-27
La Marea (The Tide) » Nine stories focusing on Gastown and taking place in shop windows and on street corners, with character’s thoughts projected via surtitles, conceived by artist Mariano Pensotti of Buenos Aires, presented by Boca Del Lupo. Water St, Gastown, to Jan. 22, 7-9 pm, free pushfestival.ca
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Editor's picks: Best events of the week, Jan. 13-20.
Faces is an exhibition that explroes the myriad ways faces are represented. The show comprises 90 works from the Belkin archives along with borrowed works from Museum of Anthropology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the American Museum of Natural History Library. Paintings, photographs, sculpture and video by bill bissett, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, and Andy Warhol, among others, are presented. Opening at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Jan. 14 and running to April 10.
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Playground listings: Jan. 13-20
Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show » Tenth annual show offers entertainment, educational seminars and unique shopping in an upscale environment. Vancouver Convention Centre, Jan. 13-16, canwestshows.com/Taboo.
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Stage listings: Jan. 13-20
Circa » PuSh Festival presents the Brisbane-based physical theatre troupe’s “best of” performance at Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC, Jan. 19-22.
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Gallery listings: Jan. 13-20
Charles H. Scott Gallery » 1399 Johnston 604-844-3809. » The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part I: Rodney Graham and Tacita Dean explore the lighthouse, opens Jan. 18, 7:30 pm; to Feb. 20
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Editor's picks: Best events every day of the week, Jan. 6-13
Ambient music innovator Biran Eno, who has performed with Roxy Music and David Byrne and produced albums by Coldplay and U2, is also a visual artist. His sound and art installation 77 Million Paintings opens at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum today, and later tonight he delivers an illustrated talk about his ideas and inspiration at Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo. On Monday, he shares a version of that same talk here at the Vogue, Jan. 10.
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Playground listings: Jan. 6-13
Yoho National Park’s Spiral Tunnels » Parks Canada presents an interactive historical tale about a railway engineering feat that connected the nation. Richmond Public Library, Brighouse Branch, 100-7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, Jan. 6, 7:30 pm, free.
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