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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19THJHE SHOWBOX PRESENTS

Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz and touring
drummer Amery Smith's sampling side
project BS2000 recently released the
kitschy, quirky Simply Mortified CD. The
duo hauls a wheelbarrow full of assorted keyboards, grooveboxes and PortaSounds into the Starfish Room. Bring the
Gameboy and join in.
Since the Commodore re-opened two
years ago, local rockers 54-40 have soldout more nights any other band - nine
times - including Friday and Saturday.
Tickets still remain for tonight's show.
The band's latest platter was recently
released in the U.S. on Nettwerk America, sporting a new name, Casual Viewing U.S., and a new version of / Go Blind.

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FRIDAY 12
Christine Taylor, last seen sporting feathered headdress, pasties and undies
(hosting a burlesque show at the Russian Hall), and Watermelon, last seen at
Wreck Beach getting busted for selling a
pot brownie (note exemplary priorities
of our finest), are back with the Pink
Show, their popular vaudeville cabaret,
at the Cavern.
New York trumpeter Jim Rotondi swings
in the Cellar Jazz Cafe with his quartet.

SATURDAY 13
The six-week festival LIVE: Biennial of
Performance Art begins at Vancouver Art
Gallery with a free show conceived by
Glenn Lewis, one of Canada's first performance artists. A retrospective look at
the nature of the beast since the '60s,
the piece involves a cast of 16, including several other veteran performance
artists like Anna Banana, Kate Craig,
Hank Bull and Gathie Falk. LIVE features
more than 30 performances in several
art galleries and on at least one luxury
tour bus.
Band poster art, from the psychedelic
style favoured by the Grateful Dead to
remarkable works of art created to plug
our own local musicians, can be viewed
at Tart Gallery's Post No Bills exhibition.
The curators plan to sell photocopies of
most works for two bucks.

Tart Gallery's band poster art show Post No Bills, which opens Friday, includes work by
Seattle artist Justin Hampton.
base continues to swell. The New York
band's recent 16-date U.K. tour was sold
out; Sunday's Vancouver gig was originally booked in the smaller Richard's on
Richards before brisk ticket sales forced
the switch to the larger Commodore Ballroom.

MONDAY 15

With an irresistible pop-rock sound remi n i s c e n t of e a r l y Velvet Underground/'70s-era CBGBs, the Strokes' fan

folk music tavern. A similar event last
month featured an eight-member orchestra.

WEDNESDAY 17
For witty takes on dinner dates, don't

The Railway's Monday night program
should appeal to those who dig the original rock 'n' roll sounds of Jimmy Reed,
Slim Harpo, Chuck Berry and the like.
Elbore James Old Skool Sounds includes
a live show by E.B. James and his band
the EarthShakers (who've opened for
R.L. Burnside), served with a betweensets side order of classic platters by the

SUNDAY 14

Music and Song transforms the Main
Street venue into a Eastern European

aforementioned, spun by Sir James.

forget to make Reservations For Two at
Havana Theatre. Three short plays, two
by Michael Northey, the other by Lori
Goodman, are bundled into a show critics raved about in 1998 when Gina
Chiarelli and Paul McGillion were nominated for Jessies for their roles. Both
stars return for the remount, which previews Wednesday.
Local new-music wizards Drosera Ensemble's show last spring sold out. The quin-

TUESDAY 16

tet performs new works by local and

Cafe Montmartre's evening of Croatian

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international composers at the ANZA
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