LES OGRES
Léa Fehner’s Les Ogres screens at The Cinematheque on Nov. 25 at 8:30 p.m. as part of this year’s European Union Film Festival.
VALI MAHLOUJI/ARCHEOLOGY OF THE FINAL DECADE
London curator Vali Mahlouji talks about Iranian cultural history during the 1970s at North Vancouver's Polygon Gallery on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.
BJORK/"BLISSING ME"
Latest single from new album, Utopia, out today on One Little Indian Records.
BLOSSOM DEARIE/SARAH KENNEDY
In Blossom Time, Sarah Kennedy channels supper club jazz stylist Blossom Dearie at Frankie’s Jazz Club on Sunday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. (coastaljazz.ca).
MALCOLM AND GEORGE YOUNG
Two Australian pop icons, brothers Malcolm and George Young passed away a month apart. The latter was a founding member of The Easybeats, and co-wrote most of their massive hit list (“Friday on My Mind,” “She’s So Fine”), while younger brother Malcolm carried on the family tradition with AC/DC.
EXPO 67: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
The 1967 World Expo was originally awarded to Moscow. A new documentary, screening at Vancity Theatre Nov. 26 and 28, tells us how it all came to Montreal (viff.org).
ICE APOCALYPSE/DOOMSDAY GLACIERS
Eric Holthaus’s cover story in Grist discusses the range of outcomes as Antarctica’s massive Pine Island Bay and Thwaites glaciers melt (grist.org).
BOB MARLEY/ROGER STEFFENS
Reggae historian/DJ Roger Steffens provides us with an oral history of Bob Marley in So Much Things to Say.
TESS PARKS & ANTON NEWCOMBE
Nine tracks, recorded at Cobra in Berlin. “works in progress, sounds a bit like an album.” Absolutely marvelous stuff from The Brian Jonestown Massacre head honcho in cahoots with Toronto-born Tess Parks.
AL NEIL
Dollarton shaman Al Neil (1924-2017) came up in the Age of Bop and carried his avant-garde artistic sensibility through into the Era of Free Jazz and beyond where Monk mingled with the likes of Kurt Schwitters and the Coast Salish. The ‘watchman’ passed away on Nov. 16.
