Today » Sat Sun Mon 6°C 5°C 7°C 9°C EVENTS GUIDES BEST OF VANCOUVER NEWS MUSIC ARTS LIFE MOVIES FOOD CANNABIS CONFESSIONS I SAW YOU GOLDEN PLATES MORE Life TOPICS LIFE » 65 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, January 26 by Steve Newton on January 25th, 2018 at 2:00 PM 1 POPULAR ON STRAIGHT.COM 1 Your horoscope for January 25 to 31, 2018 2 Let’s talk about: God proving she's a Smiths fan, good riddance to Rush, and Ed Sheeran building his own town while you eat air for dinner Free screening at Mount Pleasant Library of Steven Soderbergh’s 2017 heist comedy Logan Lucky. 3 Martyn Brown: And the winner of the B.C. Liberal leadership debate was… Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 65 John Horgan events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, January 26. 4 Vancouver's first vegan cheese shop set to open soon in Mount Pleasant CONCERTS with several plant-based products 5 Closure of 10 Safeway stores in B.C. reflects intense competition in Metro Vancouver grocery trade Vancouver blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, and actor Jim Byrnes performs a fundraiser at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre, with proceeds to First Impressions Theatre. Vancouver folk-rock band Hollow Twin plays an EP-release party at the Biltmore, with guests Little Crow and Porteau. Musical legend Django Reinhardt’s unique take on the “hot” jazz guitar brought to life by Capilano University’s “A” Band, NiteCap and faculty guest performers in this tribute show Join in on the Celebration at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts. VANCOUVERSEE EVENTS | RICHMOND Coastal Jazz presents Canadian-American trio MGB--composed of pianist Matt Mitchell, YOUR GOOD FORTUNEDISCOVER drummer Jim Black, and guitarist Gordon Grdina--at the Western Front. American indie-electronica band Passion Pit plays the Commodore, touring in support of 6 Patti Bacchus: Renaming its latest album Tremendous Sea of Love. Crosstown elementary a chance for Vancouver School Board to do the Rogue Folk Club presents Italian acoustic guitarist-vocalist Beppe Gambetta coheadlining right thing St. James Hall with Australian indie-folk artist Liz Stringer. 7 Jack White Alan Matheson, Bruce Meikle, and Craig Scott perform original compositions and jazz announcement shows classics by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Stan Kenton, Milt Jackson, and Jerome Kern once again he has little time for the world's at UBC's Roy Barnett Recital Hall. concert cretins Vancouver punk/psych promoter Art Signified celebrates its five year anniversary with 14 8 Canada ranks second bands over two nights at the Rickshaw Theatre. best country in the world, while among nations leading disapproval of Donald Trump BENEFITS 9 Victoria father dies in The eighth annual Scotiabank Vancouver Canadians Hot Stove Luncheon at Fairmont accident at Richmond Hotel Vancouver supports the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation. trampoline park 10 The mad genius of Takashi Murakami seizes the Vancouver Art Gallery CHRISTMAS HOLD THE MOMENT See thousands of lights adorning the Capilano Suspension Bridge, canyon, Treetops Adventure, and Cliffwalk at Canyon Lights. ETCETERA Calgary illusionist Ryan Pilling performs at a magic/dinner show at Floata Seafood Restaurant emceed by Jeff Christensen. Eastside Flea Spring Market at the Ellis Building features over 50 local vendors, rotating food trucks, seasonal drink specials, and artisan showrooms. The Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary Celebration Book KIDS' STUFF This beautifully produced co!ee-table book brings together over 100 of Georgia Straight's iconic covers, along with short essays, insider Presentation House Theatre and Mexico’s Marionetas de la Esquina present the Canadian details and contributor reflections, putting each premiere of playwright Amaranta Leyva's puppet show Sleeping Beauty Dreams. of these issues of the publication into its historical context. FOOD & DRINK BUY NOW The Dine Out Vancouver Festival features 17 days of guided dining adventures, cocktail master classes, B.C. VQA wine brunches, neighbourhood food tours, global guest-chef collaboration dinners, and special menus at participating restaurants. Ocean Wise executive chef Ned Bell presents a three-course menu featuring dishes from VSO New Music The love his cookbook Lure at the Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise Pop-Up Café. concert Rachel Everyday, when I walk Barton Pine down the street, or sit As part of Dine Out Vancouver, the Olympic Village Food Tour is a two-hour tour that In the Orpheum lobby at a co!ee shop or on visits five culinary spots and showcases the history and stories of the False Creek Flats. before the concert we the bus, or go to class, smiled in recognition I... that we'd seen each other... FORUMS MORE I SAW YOUS » MORE CONFESSIONS » Explore the impact of a Trump-led U.S. Policy on Mexico and the strategies for countering it, with commentary by Stephen Hunt of the Western United Steelworkers Union, at SFU Harbour Centre. READ LIKE A LOCAL STRAIGHT NEWSLETTER COMEDY Get the latests events and news updates Your email American comedian Sean Patton performs the second of three nights of standup at the the News: Weekly top stories Comedy Mix. the List: Contests,events and prebuys Comedian Brian O'Gorman performs the second of three nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Yes, I consent to receive communications from the Georgia Straight Comedy Club. Canadian improvisational comedians portray a fictitious male-stripper troupe at Centennial Theatre's The Comic Strippers. ARTS ETCETERA The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival showcases visionary, genre-bending, startling, and original work by international, Canadian, and local artists at various Vancouver venues. UBC Improv and UBC Slam are featured in a night of comedy, music, and dance at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Spend an evening alongside artists and art-lovers while taking in your choice of eight shows at Club Push, running at the Fox Cabaret and New Westminster's Anvil Centre. Visual artist, illustrator, writer, teacher, and facilitator E. Andrea Klann leads a monthly networking salon series focusing on professional development for artists at Ferry Building Gallery. MUSIC Sibling act Cheng2 Duo, composed of pianist Silvie Cheng and cellist Bryan Cheng, interprets pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Arensky, Scriabin, and Glazunov at Pyatt Hall. Violinists Maria Larionoff and Joan Blackman, violist David Harding, and cellist Eugene Osadchy perform works by Haydn, Shosakovich, and Borodin at West Point Grey Unied Church. Organist Denis Bedard performs his own pieces, as well as music by Bach, Gigout, and Dubois, at Holy Rosary Cathedral. The Vancouver Chamber Choir and guest conductor Timothy Shantz present an evening of music by Esenvalds, Sisask, Debussy, O’Regan, Palestrina, Brahms, Ryan, Elgar, Monteverdi, and Jonathan Dove at Dunbar Ryerson United Church. THEATRE Six women turn tradition on its head in Hot Brown Honey, a production that's equal parts theatre and social activism, mixing dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease, and song, at the York Theatre. Keltie Forsyth directs She Kills Monsters, a dramatic comedy featuring homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and '90s pop culture, at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Pi Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival present the English Canadian premiere of The Events--David Greig's play inspired by the 2011 attacks in Utøya, Norway--at Russian Hall. The Sidekick Players Club presents Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's play about the lifelong correspondence of two childhood friends, at Tsawwassen Arts Centre. United Players presents Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim's musical about friendship, compromise, and the high price of success, at Jericho Arts Centre. Family-friendly performance at North Van's St. Martin's Hall of Shaken Not Stirred: A James Bond Panto, a tale full of spies, kidnapped princesses, and a secret sinister organization. Arts Club on Tour presents a performance at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre of Misery, William Goldman's play based on the Stephen King novel about a novelist who is rescued from a car crash by a fan. Dark Glass Theatre presents a performance at Pacific Theatre of Ruined, the story of a bar that strives to remain neutral ground during the Congolese civil war. GALLERIES True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlights the enduring legacy of Scandinavian design principles in Canada through works by Niels Bendtsen, Bocci, Karen Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Thor Hansen, Andrew Jones, Janis Kravis, molo, Carl Poul Petersen, Rudolph Renzius, and Marion Smith. Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery features more than 90 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculpture highlighting both the richness of the Royal Collection and the complex relationship that the British monarchy has had with artists for the last three and half centuries. Two Scores is a solo exhibition of work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden at Contemporary Art Gallery. Polygon Gallery's inaugural exhibition, N. Vancouver, explores how a specific locale can be reflected through existing and newly commissioned artworks by artists from Vancouver and beyond. Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the latest findings of Vancouver-based artist Sawyer's ongoing research project that deftly reconstructs the life and work of the genre-defying, fictional artist Brettschneider. MUSEUMS The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC takes visitors on a journey through the past 200 years of Salish wool weaving. Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities. In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 110 historical indigenous artworks and explores what we can learn from these works and how they relate to indigenous peoples’ relationships to their lands.