FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 THE VANCOUVER COURIER
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The SMASH Gallery of Modern Art’s (580 Clark Dr.) new exhibition AMERICAN LANDSCAPES features the hyper realistic oil paintings of Seattle artist KELLIE TALBOT whose work revolves around “the landscape of American artifacts and craftsmanship, pulling inspirations from signs, architecture, cemeteries and other emblems of society.” It runs until March 2, with an opening reception Feb. 1, 8 p.m. More info at smashmodernart.com or by calling 604-251-3262. In case you haven’t written it down in your Diary of Vancouver Disappointments, the final movie to screen at the RIDGE THEATRE before it turns off its projector after 63 years to make way for another, sigh, condo development, will fittingly be Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, about a nostalgic screenwriter who romanticizes the past. But before the bittersweet screening on Feb. 3, 9:10 p.m., the RIDGE is going out in style with a cavalcade of cinema gems from Searching for Sugar Man to Argo to Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to The Rocky Horror Picture Show — all for a mere five bucks each. For show times, go to festivalcinemas.ca. For those not in the know, DAVID CARR is the vaguely elfin New York Times columnist who pretty much steals the show in the 2011 documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times. He’s also the author of the harrowing 2008 memoir The Night of the Gun, which details Carr’s escape from the depths of addiction. The veteran journalist is at Capilano University Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. as part of the PuSh Festival for a lecture titled TRUTH AND LIES IN LIFE IN ART. The Tyee’s David Beers moderates. This should be a good one. More info at capilanou.ca and pushfestival.ca. Accordion player GEOFF BERNER survived growing up on the mean streets of Kerrisdale to become a respected singer-songwriter with a penchant for getting to the heart of the matter with a sly grin and wry lyric or two, backed by that sexy Klezmer beat. Hear him on the squeezebox Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m. at the Roundhouse as part of the BLUEBIRD NORTH singer-songwriter concert series. He’ll be joined by Angela Harris, David Roy Parsons and Ben Rogers. For more info, call 604-224-6201.