http://scoutmagazine.ca Vancouver Talking Points and Freshly Picked Intel Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:27:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last one was Habit, correctly named by reader Travis. Your guesses in the comments after the leap, if you please... http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/09/08/another-grippingly-nasty-game-of-guess-that-restaurant/ by Sean Orr | Surrey mayor calls for light rail. Sometimes I get scared when politicians start to make sense. I start to think there is something else behind it, like maybe she's friends with a light rail impresario. "Yo man I got a warehouse full of this light rail, ... http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/09/08/tea-two-slices-on-publishing-rumours-and-yes-dostoyevsky/ 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 ... http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/09/08/5-ways-to-nirvana-through-art-kimchee-and-really-cheap-booze/ The film, called FLAMMA (A Basic Need), is by Dutch artist Helmut Smit. FLAMMA harks back to one of humanity’s basic needs: making fire. I thought it would be interesting to go into IKEA as if I was a primitive human being and make fire using products found there. The project ... http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/09/07/how-to-burn-all-your-ikea-crap-without-matches-or-a-lighter/ I was on the Urban Rush television show again today and hosts Michael Eckford and Fiona Forbes were ribbing me about working two nights a week as an expediter at Gastown's L'Abattoir (if you didn't already know, I'm there researching for a Vancouver magazine story on restaurant service that is ... http://scoutmagazine.ca/2010/09/07/ah-so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-scared-of-alexandra-gill/