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BLOOD FOR OIL? BY BRIAN
SALMI A massive cache sits
beneath the Caspian sea, awaiting a pipeline through a nearby
nation. Afganistan, perhaps?
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Cover by Keith Porter and
Stephen Lyons, courtesy of
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CONTENTS
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Big Information
Machine
Sell Out
Down on the Corner
Organ Grinder
Absolutely Free Advice
Free Will Astrology

9

Lit

TO DO LIST
SATURDAY
Individuals in BC and elsewhere have been the subject
of vicious attacks in the past few weeks, for speaking
out against the war. This is an issue for the entire antiwar movement. It is important that we continue to build
against this war and bloodshed. And it is important that
we fight for our right to do so. Speaking Out Against
the War is a panel discussion with speakers Sunera
Thobani (Professor, Centre for Womens' Studies,
UBC), Judy Rebick (Journalist and former President of
the National Action Committee on the Status of
Women), Valerie Raoul, (Professor, Womens' Studies
and French, UBC), Paul Kellogg (Editor, Socialist
Worker) taking place at 3:00pm, at the Iron Workers'
Hall, 2415 Columbia Street (8th and Columbia, one
block north of Broadway)
Get your rocks off at the Cobalt (917 Main) Raunchy
headliners the Spitfires, get support from the Ones
and openers the Cinch, providing gutsy power pop.

10 Music
12 Club Listings
16 Film
17 Art/Performance

18 Listings
19 Into the Blue

Terminal City Weekly
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Phone 604 689 7559
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Lester Smolenski Director of
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Publisher Graeme Atwater Film
Editor Pat "Flick" Harrison Lit Editor
Chris Hutchinson Music Editor Chris
Yurkiw Advetising Consultants
Stewart Glen, Colin MacKenzie Logo
Design Pete Digiboy Chief Engineer
Leslie Smith
Contributors Jeremy Jansen, John
Keillor, Robin Kalmek, Phil Oats, Tara
MacDonald, T.D. McWhirter, Tatiana
Nemchin, Duncan Williams, Chris
Yurkiw, Holly Ward, Karen Ward,
Suzanne Ward Joe Boyce Burgess,
Rachel Sanders, Penelope Mulligan,
Leon Potter, Steve Wittek, Pamela
Murray, Billie Pierre, Eric J. Hogan,
Stewart Glen, Mia Perry
Columnists Nick Allan, Rob Breszny,
Bruce Collins, Robert Dayton, Sarah
Efron, Jody Franklin, Cass King,
Michael Klassen, Ladies Afternoon
Art Society, Danielle Marleau,
Penelope Mulligan, Lyle Neff, Katie
Sketch, Dan Vie D Rock, Miss Kim,
Angela Fama
Cartoonists Marc Bell, Tony
Millionaire, Smell of. Steve Inc.
Photographers Maria Coletsis,
Angela Fama, Jeremy Jansen, Myles
McCutcheon Illustrators Julian
Lawrence, Jason McLean, Sonja
Ahlers, Genevieve Gosselin, Steve
Rolston, Antonia Allan, Daryl Lee

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SUNDAY
The folks at Radix Theatre have a way of gently pulling
at the edges of the familiar, eking out delightfully beautiful moments of absurdity and tenderness. Their
modus is the site-specific theatrical performance,
seamlessly melding with their chosen environments.
And the environments they've chosen are always well
served (a diner, a field, a cross walk) fourth wall be
damned. This time around, it's a bus. You are entreated to embark on the Sniffy the Rat Bus Tour, to take
in the tale of a rat, and the performance artist who
planned to crush him on a canvas in front of the VAG.
Expect video re-enactments, song, and story marking
one of the particularly peculiar chapters of Vancouver's
history. Call 604.254.0707 for more information.
WEDNESDAY
Mocosos - Performance-video by Youth Neither
Performance Art nor Video Art alone, PerformanceVideo is a hybrid wherein the artist performs for the
camera and the subsequent viewers of the videotape.
Hmm...sounds a lot like what film actors do. But it
couldn't be-because it's part of the Performance Art
Biennial.
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa and Irene
Loughlin of the performance art group, Efimeros, have
curated this show of work from artists under 30 for
viewing at Gallery Gachet, 88 E. Cordova. Wed 24 Sat 27 October, 12 - 6 pm with an opening reception
on Monday 22 October, 7 - 9 pm.
Sardonic tunesmith Geoff
Berner's
accordianfuelled, humour-injected
songs reveal an eye for
the poetically bizarre, and
an ear for a good cathartic wail. He's getting
geared to hit the road with
a couple of like-minded
folkies,
Carmaig de
Forest of San Francisco
(who'll be bringing his
ukelele, one hopes), and
Philadelphia's
Adam
Brodsky. Catch them at
the Railway Club (579
Dunsmuir) for their kickoff this Wednesday and
Thurday night.