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Scout List: Where To Buy Cheap Used Bikes & Watch The Goonies

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The main objective of this website is to scout out and promote the things that make Vancouver such a sweet place to be. We do this with an emphasis on the city’s independent spirit to foster a sense of connectedness within and between our communities, and to introduce our readers to the people who grow and cook our food, play the raddest tunes in our better venues, create our most interesting art, and design everything from what we wear to the spaces we inhabit.

The Scout List is our carefully considered first rate list of super awesome things that we’re either doing, wishing that we could do, or conspiring to do this week. From our calendar to yours…

I love the sound of this – the inaugural Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films‘. The goal here is “to inspire and stimulate people to explore their relationship with the ocean.” Check out the line up for Friday and Saturday. You’ll likely walk out of the theatre inspired and stimulated.
April 16 + 17 | 7pm | Hollywood Theatre | $16

Access Gallery opens its new space this week with the launch of Raymond Boisjoly’s first solo exhibition The Ever-Changing Light!
April 16 | 8pm | 437 West Hastings | FREE

Fair Trade in the Wine Industry – Join Fair Trade Vancouver to learn about where your wine comes from.
April 16 | 7 pm | Rhizome Cafe | FREE – donations welcome

Nostalgia night at the Rio – take yourself way back with a double feature of The Goonies and Stand By Me.
April 16 | Midnight | Rio Theatre | $10 – 8 if you wear a costume.

Get off your computer, stop downloading tunes:  International Record Store Day is coming. Get yourself into your local disc slingers  and make a difference by BUYING SOME VINYL – or a CD, a t-shirt, or maybe even tickets to an upcoming gig. Support those who enrich your life by keeping you dialed in to the treble and bass. Red Cat is going big with performances by Aunts and Uncles, Dan Mangan, Ladyhawk and Loscil. Zulu will have a few tricks up their seasoned sleeves, too.
April 17 | All Day | A record store near you.

UK pop legends The Wedding Present, celebrate and perform their classic 1989 album “Bizarro” at the Biltmore.
April 20 | 8pm | Biltmore | $20

Afternoon lecture with Ammiel Alcalay at Artspeak. “Speakeasy: Writing and Contemporary Art…How does writing, as a practice, inform contemporary art and vice versa?”
April 17 | 4pm | Artspeak | FREE

Opera Pro Cantanti invites you to grab a seat in the audience for their newest production: Verdi’s Rigoletto.
April 18 | 7:30 pm | Cambrian Hall | $15

And now for something completely different…the annual Ocean Concrete Open House. Unleash your inner Tonka with tours, talks and your annual window of opportunity to climb into trucks and big wheels.
April 17 | 9 am – 5 pm | Ocean Cement – Granville Island | FREE

If you know a kid, have a kid, or were once a kid – you might want to check out Carousel Theatres production of Frog and Toad. Dig it.
April 17 – May 8 | various times – check website| Carousel Theatre | Count on $25

Take a bike ride through scenic streets lined with cherry blossoms from Vanier Park to Van Dusen Botanical Gardens. There will be live entertainment and a vegetarian (?) barbecue.
April 17 | 10 am | $10 |Hit the Great Rides website for details

This is the tip of the week. Don’t have a bike and really wishing you did? The Ukranian Church in Strathcona is holding a used bike sale on Sunday – used and vintage bikes starting at $20 (added value: there’s also a perogy lunch going down). I struggled long and hard about spilling this one as I’m looking to score. Don’t say I never did anything for you…
April 18 | 11am | 805 E Pender (Corner of Pender and Hawkes) | FREE

Pawnshop Diamond plays the Biltmore with David Newberry and James Lamb.
April 18 | 7 pm | Biltmore

“What do Al Gore, science fiction, gothic cathedrals and roller coasters have in common? All come together in ‘Malls R US”, a feature documentary by Helene Klodawsky, with a multiplex of reflections and revelations on one of North America’s most popular institutions: the enclosed shopping centre.” Get the full scoop here.
Apr 19 | 7pm | VPL | FREE

Vancouver Slam Poetry Finals. This will be amazing. Do yourself a favour and grab a pair of tickets.
April 19 | Door 7 pm, Show 8 pm | Rio Theatre | $15

Lecture of the Week: Active in Action: New principles for a sustainable world. “How do we take the principles of active living, combine them with active transportation and expand our ideas and concepts to achieve a fully sustainable world?”
April 21 | 7 pm | SFU Harbour Centre | FREE

Heritage Vancouver offers you the chance to check out the coolest suite at one of Vancouver’s landmark buildings: the Marine Building. Hanging in its penthouse will cost you (tickets are $100) but it’ll be a one of a kind experience (plus your ticket comes with wine and hors d’oeuvres).
April 22 | 5:30pm | Marine Building – 2000 – 255 Burrard | $100

Lastly – catch the Rennie Collection Speaker Series with by Los Angeles-based artist Richard Jackson at Emily Carr.
April 22 | 7 pm | Emily Carr | FREE

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late-may-2009-169Michelle Sproule grew up in Kitsilano and attended Bond University in Australia and the University of Victoria before receiving her graduate degree in Library Sciences from The University of Toronto. She lives by the beach in Vancouver and enjoys wandering aimlessly through the city’s shops and streets with her best friend – a beat up, sticky, grimy, and uncooperative camera.

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