5 Ways To Nirvana Through Art, Kimchee And Really Cheap Booze

The Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver (555 Nelson Street) opens a new group exhibition called Following the A Line this Thursday night. While the website description of the show might make you want to put a sharp hammer claw through your eyeball (total didactic nightmare), check out the opening reception just the same. This is a good line-up. Pretty sure they have a bar set up.

Or there’s “FLAKEY: The Early Works of Glenn Lewis”. “This exhibition marks the first in-depth investigation of the early works of Vancouver artist Glenn Lewis [...] whose socially engaged spirit helped incite the cross disciplinary and interactive practices informing west coast art in the late 1960s and 1970s.” Should be a cool body of work, but I think it’s also worth mentioning that this is the only thing going down this week that also involves a kimchee cooking demonstration. I have no idea what the connection is…but I’m pretty sure the best way to find out will be to hit the Presentation House Gallery on Saturday, September 11th. Check it.

Hit the opening reception for the new Pierre Coupey show, “Between Memory and Perception”, this Saturday, September 11, 7pm at Gallery Jones (1725 West Third Avenue). Coupey’s abstract works are at once muted and active. I’m partial to “Postscript: Rendition”, a 50 x 38 oil and beeswax work on prepared paper (sucks that it’s already old). Not that it has a terrific amount to do on the artists work, but if you’re writing a thesis on Comparative Aesthetic Temperaments in the Early 21st Century, it’s interesting to note that he was also a founding editor of The Georgia Straight and The Capilano Review.

The Grace Gallery is opening a show of Jennifer Mawby’s new works this Thursday, September 9 at 7pm (1898 Main at 3rd. It’s called The Sun, The Moon and the Stars. Jennifer looks to have it going on, so don’t miss out on…short version: an installation on the obsessive themes of love, loss, and conquest (full scoop here).

An opening/reception/exhibition showcasing Emily Carr’s Design, Media + Visual Arts Faculty goes down this Thursday, September 9, at 5:30pm in the North Building’s Concourse Gallery. “The annual Faculty Exhibition once again opens in conjunction with the start of the academic semester. This show offers a glimpse at the diverse range of interests and creative investigation of Emily Carr’s distinguished faculty, comprised of 61 regular and approximately 100 contract (non-regular) faculty members. The Faculty Exhibition affords an opportunity for both students and the public to appreciate the diverse areas of professional development of these educators, whose personal research and practice informs their teaching.” Details.

Zulu Report: Everything That You Need To Listen To This Week

Our friends over at Kitsilano’s Zulu Records once again present their weekly Scout feature, the Zulu Report. Within, staff from the West 4th music store provide The Track, the song that is on heavy rotation that week; The Playlist, which is pretty self-explanatory; The Gig, the must see show of the week; and The Glance, a view ahead to music on the horizon. From their ears to yours, enjoy…

The Track

!!!’s AM/FM video, directed by Black Dice, from the new album Strange Weather Isn’t It? (Warp).

On !!!’s fourth outing the band pulls out one of the classic rock moves by recording Strange Weather Isn’t It? in Berlin. Does this album sound particularly like a Bowie, Iggy or Lou album? No, not really, but that’s OK because Strange Weather is full of dense, rhythmic party bangers designed to carry from the late night right into the early morning, as this first single AM/FM makes clear. The colourful, psychedelic video was directed by NY art pranksters Black Dice, which brings !!! back to their roots as a Williamsburg loft project. It’s a great late summer video, guaranteed to make you feel like somebody slipped something into your drink. Enjoy. Read more

Smoke Break #691: When Pixels Invade And Take Over The Earth

(via Kuriositas) Patrick Jean’s new short depicts an all out 8-bit attack on New York City.

“I Looked Out The Window To See The Rain Turned To Snow…”

“The First Snow” by Reid Carrescia.

“I looked out the window late this afternoon to see the rain turned to snow—so I grabbed the Canon 7D and fired away.”

(via Likecool)

The New Logo For Kitsilano’s Refuel, Soon To (Re)Open On 4th

Scout broke the news a couple of weeks ago that Kitsilano’s award-winning Fuel Restaurant was going to go under the same reconstructive surgery that saw Parkside and Gastropod rebranded as L’Altro Buca and Maenam.

It has since closed, and now will transmogrify into Refuel, a casual restaurant of refined comforts at accessible price points. It opens on Wednesday (that’s the new logo to the left).

Times are tough, and when the going gets tough, the tough adapt. If they don’t, well…they die, and dying isn’t very tough, is it?  The change is a smart, necessary move, and the new food menu looks mighty fine, making Refuel a story of prudence I’m particularly looking forward to reading eating.

Hart House On Deer Lake Readies For Holiday Season Events

Hart House | 6664 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby, BC | 604-298-4278 | www.harthouserestaurant.com

News from Scout supporter Hart House

Vancouver, BC | Burnaby’s Hart House Restaurant is always a great place to celebrate life’s special moments. Our house is a welcoming retreat to enjoy the company of your friends and family during this festive time of year… Read more

Wine & Spirit Education (WSET) Programs At PICA This Fall

PICA To Offer Wine & Spirit Education (WSET) Programs commencing Fall 2009.

News from Scout Supporter PICA

(VANCOUVER, BC) – Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) is now an approved program provider for the WSET® (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) wine training programs and will commence its first intake in September 2009.

PICA has been providing quality wine study programs for a number of years, but this new partnership with London, UK based WSET will allow students to sit for the WSET exam and receive an internationally recognized certificate in Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced level wine studies. Read more

Ee-Aye-Ee-Aye-Ohh! “From Field To Feast” At Polderside Farms…

There’s a big, country-style dinner going down out at Polderside Farms on August 30th. I toured the farm and spent some time with farmers Virginia and Jens-Hugo Jacobsen a couple of years back with some chefs after they first went into production and was impressed by their operation (they’re really nice people, too). As recipients of last year’s Vancouver magazine Supplier of the Year award, they’re well loved by the local cooking community for their humane production of superb poultry (ever had the fried chicken at Fuel – wow). The dinner, dubbed “From Field To Feast”, sounds pretty wonderful. From the presser:

Dinner will be served on tables draped in white linen, under a marquee tent. Local wine and beer will be paired with each entrée. You will be serenaded by the award winning “The Wheat in the Barley”, a Celtic-rural blend that will set the mood for the evening while you enjoy the mouthwatering tastes of Polderside’s wonderful heritage chicken and duck, along with other organic foods from the Fraser Valley.

Click here for all the details.

The Most Superbly Gratuitous Post-Taste Music Video, Ever…

Major Lazer’s “Pon De Floor”. Directed by Eric Wareheim. Styling by Ammany Ahmad.

Hilariously indecent. If you have small children in the room, a limited sense of humour, a crass sensitivity, or trouble reconciling art with either satire or sex, stop here. Otherwise, be amazed…this video gets more and more ridiculous as the song continues. I’m still laughing, amazed that the internet hasn’t broken yet. What will Madonna do now?

On The Scout Ipod: The Best Tiny Venue “Live” Acoustic Gig, Ever

Michelle tuned me into this late in 2008, and I think I may have posted it on Scout before, perhaps in the Daily Viral. Nevertheless, it was the song of our recent Outstanding Road Trip, and I can’t get it out of my head. “It” is Bon Iver performing Skinny Love in front of twenty people with candles and wine inside a small Montemartre apartment in Paris. I really hope you find it as pretty dang electrifying as I do. Read more

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