out and about this weekend

With so much happening on the Coast this weekend, it has me wondering what kind of outfits I'm going to pull together for all the fun. Here are some looks I'm going to be grabbing some inspiration from which will hopefully take me from DOXA to the Fool Hardy Party to Sechelt Farmer's & Artisan's Market to the April Fool's Run and finishing up with some disco action at It's Disco, Baby in Roberts Creek!

FRIDAY NIGHT FUN: From film festival flare at DOXA to the raucous fun of the Fool Hardy Party - mix & match some clothes that offer a little bit of chic, a little bit of rock'n roll and a dash of cowboy fun!

SATURDAY IS SHOPPING DAY: Comfy and cosy clothes will keep you warm while you browse the Sechelt Farmer's & Artisan's Market on opening day. 

SUNDAY SOCIAL: Chuck on some jeans and a sports jersey and you have yourself a preppy, fresh look to get out and support the runners in the April Fool's Run on Sunday morning. Then dash home and find your inner disco diva by throwing on a mini and heels before hitting the Roberts Creek Hall for It's Disco, Baby! in the afternoon.
 

Have fun! Happy Friday! And have a great weekend!



Image credits: Miss Moss, Fashion Gone Rogue

hooray there's a new fleet foxes vid

Seattle folk-rock sensations, Fleet Foxes, released a new video this week. The clip for "Grown Ocean" gets the 1970s-documentary treatment and they rock it.

You can catch Fleet Foxes in Vancouver next month. They're performing live at the Vogue Theatre on April 29 and 30. The band's second album, Helplessness Blues, is out May 3 on Sub Pop.

there are a lot of great man v nature movies out there, and The Way Back is one of 'em. but there's an oscar nominated film on tonight too

Cinematheque Series: The Way Back

Wed 30 to Thurs 31 April, 7:00pm (1:30pm mat on Thurs)

Patricia Theatre, Powell River

I'll put it out there straight up, I'm a fan of this type of thing.

If you don't hang out with a lot of Aussies, then you may not be familiar with the name Peter Weir. Recognize it? He's not really a "name" director but he sure has been at the helm of a heck of a lot of good films - Master and Commander not being one of the better ones... But you may have heard of Dead Poets Society (1989), that was Weiry (Aussie slang - add a 'y' on the end of everything), Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975), Weiry again and The Truman Show (1998), you betcha, that was Weiry too! He’s one of those guys that can make any type of film and still have it work. His latest, The Way Back (2010), traces the journey of a group of escaped POWs in WW2 as they flee on foot from Siberia to India, enduring some of nature’s harshest conditions. Makes the West Coast trail sound easy eh? Starring Jim Sturges, Colin Farrell and powerhouse Ed Harris, the film can only be described as epic. With recent global news events this comes as a timely man-versus-nature movie.

Starting tonight at the Patricia Theatre this is one to see on the big screen!

Cinematheque Series: Incendies

Wed 30 to Thurs 31 April, 7:30pm (2pm mat on Thurs)

Raven's Cry Theatre, Sechelt

The most acclaimed Canadian movie of the year, Incendies, finally finds its way to the Raven's Cry theatre tonight. That should be enough to make you want to see it, but then again, it doesn't feature curling or a trailer park and it certainly doesn't feature Charlie St. Cloud... so who knows how motivated you're going to be. It's hard to pick Canadian audiences sometimes, especially with Quebecois films! But don't let any of that put you off going. The film rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes - need I say more?! Aside from that, it's also won a ton of awards including Best Film by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play about Canadian twins who search for their family in the Middle East, Denis Villeneuve's drama (which is in French and Arabic with English subtitles no less), is a stunning masterpiece with the makings of a Greek tragedy.

To say that “Incendies” is an intense film would be a gross understatement. It is a disturbingly painful film that is difficult to shake off. It is filled with compelling and powerful performances that showcase humanity at its worst, but also – remarkably – at its best, even in the midst of great darkness. Violence, war, deep-rooted hatred, and... love - it's all in there. It might be hard to shake it off but you'll be glad you made the effort.

See Raven's Cry Theatre for ticket details and information.

Image credits: Cineplex.com.au, Awardsdaily.com

zumba zumba where have i been?

Zumba

Sechelt Aquatic Centre, April 3 to 17

Sunday 10:30am to 11:30am

So... apparently the world has been going nuts for Zumba over the past couple of years and I've somehow managed to miss out on the madness. But my eyes have finally been opened to the dance craze that's slogan is "Ditch the workout and join the party."  Now that's my kind of exercise!

Zumba was created by Colombian dancer and choreographer Alberto Perez, while teaching an aerobics class in his homeland in the mid-90s. The story goes that Perez had forgotten his regular aerobics music and had to use a tape of recorded Latin songs for the class he was teaching; he threw in a couple of samba moves here, a salsa swivel there and it was such a hit that he renamed the lesson "Rumbacise". Word got out that a fun new class had started and people began turning up in droves.

By late 1999 Perez had moved to Miami, where he met investors Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion, who saw its money-making potential, and Zumba Fitness LLC was born. More than a decade later their venture has grown into a full-blown fitness phenomenon – more than 10 million Americans take a Zumba class each week, with 50,000 classes taking place across 75 countries worldwide on a weekly basis. Perez has also launched a host of spin-offs – specialised classes for children (Zumbatomic) and the over-50s (Zumba Gold), clothing lines, DVDs and a Zumba Fitness Wii game. Celebrity fans are a dime a dozen: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Victoria Beckham, Natalie Portman, Madonna and Shakira are all said to be hip-shimmying Zumba fans. In 2009 Michelle Obama incorporated it into her Get Moving campaign and a mass Zumba class was taught on the White House lawn at the launch.

The "get fit and have fun" ethos has been the key to Zumba's success and the SCRD has been tuned into the phenomenon for awhile now. Classes start this Sunday at Sechelt Aquatic Centre and it's worth signing up for if you haven't already...you'll probably feel like you're dancing with a bunch of slightly uncoordinated extras in a pop-music video but you'll be burning up to 1,000 calories an hour while having a good laugh!

Check out the SCRD's Spring Recreation Guide for more info.

Image credit: www.fitceleb.com

so radiohead has a newspaper huh?

Apparently so... and it’s called The Universal Sigh. Once again showing how freakin cool and ahead of the pack they are, the free newspaper is due to be released tomorrow according to Stereogum, which just so happens to be the same day their new album, The King of Limbs, drops.

Not surprisingly, the paper has already leaked online. Full of stories, illustrations and opinion articles, if you want to have a geezer a whole couple of hours early (cause I'm a little slow on the uptake), download the PDF here! I'll be super impressed if a hard copy makes it to the Coast so let me know if anyone gets their hands on one!

vancouver. vancouver.

Be online at 10am and then make a dash to the 10:20am ferry 

My Morning Jacket

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver

Don't miss tickets to see those wacky rockers, My Morning Jacket, when they go on sale at 10am today through Live Nation. The Kentucky band is a must-see live act, with their reverb-soaked sound and blend of alternative, alt country, folk and psychedelic rock. Just as entertaining are their fans who are known for turning up decked in everything from vintage suits and gowns to homemade robot, whale and penguin costumes.

My Morning Jacket will be playing songs from their new album Circuital and to celebrate they're offering free downloads on their website from their live gig at New York's Terminal 5 this past October and finishing with a song from the album on 12th April. 

WE: Vancouver—12 Manifestos for the City

Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th March, 10am to 5pm

Vancouver Art Gallery

Once you've snapped up your My Morning Jacket tix, jump on board the boat to Vancouver and check out local Vancouver artist and clothing designer, Natalie Purschwitz, who will be making bags out of objects that the public brings her at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby Street) this weekend from 10am to 5pm I can't wait to see what she does with the hundreds of postcards I never got around to writing on... poor girl doesn't know what she's in for!

Purschwitz owns a women's clothing line under the label Hunt & Gather. Not to mention she also recently completed a year-long project called Makeshift, where she made every item that she wore, including shoes, socks, underwear, bathing suits, and coats, in order to examine the connections between clothing, making, and living.

Makeshift is currently one of the projects on display in the WE: Vancouver—12 Manifestos for the City exhibition at the VAG, which spotlights the practices, actions, and ideas that shape the city.

As an extension of the exhibit, Purschwitz will be on-hand in the gallery forecourt making bags for people who bring her items on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be a sign-up sheet and Purschwitz will continue to take objects until her roster is full for the day. This is one ingenious gal.

Image credits:  blogs.courant.com, Huntandgather.ca

the adjustment bureau has more going for it than a rubbish title

The Adjustment Bureau, Gibsons Cinema

Friday 25 to Thursday 31 March, 7:15pm

Don’t be fooled by the rubbish title and almost equally as dull trailer, The Adjustment Bureau is well worth a peek. Starting tonight at Gibsons Cinema, the film based on a Philip K. Dick short story, is sci-fi with brains. The flick tackles the idea of controlling your own fate and making choices for the greater good, with a little bit of good ol’ romance chucked in. Starring Matt Damon (reliable as ever), Emily Blunt (she's smokin’! - what was Buble thinking?) and, as is seemingly de rigueur for any film released now, at least one person from Mad Men. This time it’s Roger Sterling.

If the thought of those not-so-comfy seats at Gibsons is slightly off putting then it's worth checking out Take 5 Media to grab a DVD of some other movies inspired by the writing of Philip K. Dick.

Screamers (1995)

It might have had a modest budget and it may have received a few scathing reviews in its day but Screamers is a great little film with creepy ambience, paranoia and a ton of jumpy moments. It deviates quite a bit from Philip K. Dick's short story, Second Variety, but that doesn’t detract from the atmosphere created by this darkly enjoyable film. Set on a far away mining planet in a dystopian future, populated by self-replicating killing machines – that also look like children (!), a handful of soldiers must trek across a treacherous wasteland to attend some negotiation or another which will end a war or something. Clearly a riveting plot... but who needs a good plot when you've got good sci-fi.

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A faithful adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel, A Scanner Darkly takes the viewer on a visual and mind-blowing journey into the author's conception of a drug-addled and politically unstable world. Richard Linklater created the perfect look for this movie, with themes of drug-induced paranoia and police surveillance captured hypnotically through the use of rotoscoping, a process of animating over digitally captured footage. It’s to the actors’ credit that, although smothered in animation they’re never overshadowed by its use. The top notch cast starring Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder adds some serious street cred.

Blade Runner (1982)

Using the novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? as its inspiration, Blade Runner would reinvent the future for us in a neon-noir nightmare. Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece. With the universal theme of what actually makes us human, a key element in Dick’s writing and the driving force behind the movie, coupled with incredible set pieces and effects, it’s a film that has rightly earned its status as a bone fide classic with some iconic casting in Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.

Image Credit: Moviesmeter.com, Geekadelphia.com