Douglas College Events Free Lunch! Come and get it. Free Kraft Dinner courtesy of your good friends in the student unton Jan 22, 11lam—2pm, upper lounge DSU building Bring the Fees Back to Earth Pub night! How bout those tuition fees, eh? Well, the Douglas College Student’s Union has graciously sup- plied you with this opportu- nity to affordably drown your student-loan sorrows Jan 22, 4pm—12am, upper lounge DSU building Loranne Brown Literature Alive presents nov- elist Loranne Brown Jan 26, 10am, Room 1809 Touch of Brass with Erica Northcott, Soprano Noon at New West presents musicians Jim Littleford, Tom Shorthouse, Geoffrey Leader, Jeremy Berkman, and David Sabourin Jan 29, 12:30pm, Performing Arts Theatre Images of ‘Cuba Visions of Cuba by Esther Campus For more information call 604.527.5522 Theatre K. Kaleideskop Theatre, Rumble Productions, and Theatre at UBC present writer-director Martin Tulinius’s portrait of 20th-century writer Franz Kafka To Jan 24, 7:30pm, Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) For tickets and information call 604.822.2678 A Suicide-Site Guide to the City Mammalian Diving Reflex and PuSh present a play by Toronto’s Darren O’Donnell, directed by Rebecca Picherak To Jan 24, 8pm Firehall Arts Centre For tickets and information call 604.257.0366 Baby With the Bathwater Phantasm Players presents this two-act farce by Christopher Durang Jan 28-30, Hawk’s Nest Theatre For tickets and information call 604.587.4803 As You Like It Tuatara Works presents Arms & the Man The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company presents George Bernard Shaw’s prophetic play about love and wart, directed by Marti Maraden and starring Bernard Cuffling and David Marr To Feb 14, Vancouver Playhouse For tickets and information call 604.873.3311 Galleries The Agony and the Ecstasy Sculptural installation by Kerri Reid To Jan. 24, Or Gallery For more information call 604.683.7395 Group Exhibition Works by Roy Arden, Karl Bloosfeldt, Graham Gillmore, Holger Kalberg, Mark Lewis, Scott McFarland, Derek Root, and Howard Ursuliak To Jan. 29, Monte Clark Gallery For more information call 604.730.5000 Dragonflies, Reeds, and Wildflowers Paintings by Judith Copland To Jan 30, New Westminster Public Library Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design For more information call 604.844.3809 I Am the Remix Works by Don Bury, Lawrence Sim, and Slanguage To Feb 14, Western Front For more information call 604.878.7563 Production, Consumption & Function: Exploring Alternative Economies Works by Elizabeth Zvonar, Jesse Gray, Vishal Jugdeo, Paul Kajander, and Elizabeth Milton To Feb 28, artist talks Jan 24, 2pm, Helen Pitt Gallery For more information call 604.681.6740 Concerts End This Week with Knives Local emo-core band per- forms an all-ages CD-release show with guests Blue Sky Mile, All State Champion, and AFTERustheFLOOD Jan 22, doors at 7pm, Mesa Luna Tickets $7 ($10 with CD), for information visit Bluebird North January 21, 2004 7:30pm, Vancouver Rowing Club Tickets $12/10 at the door only, for information call 604.224.6201 Opeth Death-metal band from Sweden, with guests Moonspell and DevilDriver Jan 23, 9pm, Commodore Ballroom Tickts at Ticketmaster, 604.280.4444 David Bowie British rock legend (“Fame”) plays tunes from new CD, Reality, with guest Macy Gray Jan 24, GM Place Tickets at Ticketmaster, 604.280.4444 Ted Leo/Pharmacists Indie-rockers from New York City, with guests the Fiery Furnaces and Notes from Underground Jan 25, Media Club Tickets at Zulu, Scratch, Highlife, and Noize! Records, for information call 604.608.2871 The Thrills Rockers from Ireland play tunes from debut CD, So Much for the City, with guests Patrick Park Jan 29, Richard’s on Richards Tickets at Ticketmaster, Zulu, Rausenberg, Richard Tetrault, Shakespeare’s romantic com- Ways and Means The Songwriters Association Anna Maria DiSpirito, and edy, directed by Michael Works by former faculty of Canada presents perform- and Scratch Records Tan Joyce. Robinson To Jan 31 members Jim Breukelman, ances by Gary Comeau, Opening reception Jan. 8, Presentation House Theatre Sally Michener, David Beverley Elliott, Carolyn 47:30pm = Ree doko cud iniiemation Rimmer, Rick Ross, and Ron Arends, Ron Hynes, Rebecca To Feb. 20, Amelia Douglas _call 604.990.3474 Stonier Jenkins, Gilles Maillet, and Art Gallery, New West To Feb 1, Charles H. Scott host Paul Myers Jan 22, This Week In History... Amanda Aikman = we Culture Editor 3 i y ‘4 ] January 26, 1984: January 28, 1978: January 29, 1996: attempt. = Page 14 « http://www.otherpress.ca Michael Jackson suffers scalp and neck burns when his hair catches fire in an explosion on the set of a Pepsi commercial. After witnessing all the publicity his brother received, Tito tries to drown himself in a vat of Mountain Dew. It is unconfirmed as to whether or not he survived the Ted Nugent autographs a fan’s arm with a knife. Oh sure, it sounds crazy now, but until it scabbed over I was a huge hit with the militia rocker set. Country superstar Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for Favourite Overall Artist. Brooks said that Hootie and the Blowfish had done more for music that year than he had. Perhaps this sacrifice might have had more impact if anyone had actually given a shit about Garth Brooks, Hootie and the Blowfish, or the American Music Awards. og