Montreal artist Dave Arnold lets childhood fantasies take pop-art form in Teenage Nudes

Andrew Ly and Melissa Matos curate and co-create Fantasme, outdoor video art projections and a Powerhaus fashion show with a musical score, Location changed due to rain; now at SAT (1195 St-Laurent Blvd.), 8:30 p.m. Dave Arnold's pop-art Teenage Nudes is only sort of what you think it is - the subject matter comes from half-innocent pre-pubescent dreams of what lies beneath ladies' clothing, at the Emporium Gallery (#74-3035 St-Antoine W.), 7 p.m. All kinds of music tonight: Classics From the American Songbook, part of Summer Jazz Nights in Verdun, at St-Clement's Anglican Church (4322 Wellington), 8 p.m.; The Unsettlers at La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent Blvd.); and awesomely guitartastic Les Stups play Phoque-Fest with The Cougarettes, Oromocto Diamond and Videoville, at Hemisphere Gauche (221 Beaubien E.), $6.

FRIDAY 21

Silkscreen artist and DIY proponent Dominique Pétrin (also known for her performances with Les Georges Leningrad) turns La Centrale (4296 St-Laurent Blvd.) into a forest in Panthéon Pétro, 7 p.m. Montreal's Greek population is on fire for the Hellenic Flame Festival (hcm-flame.com, to Aug. 23 at Parc Jean-Drapeau), serving up traditional food and freaky Greek customs like tonight's disco-dancin' Bouzouki Night. Spend a Night in Hell (it's a dry heat) with two new comedies from two hot minions of the dark lord: Joel Fishbane's The Bargain and Adam Kelly's Diavolo Dell'Arte, at Theatre 314 (10 Pine W.), 8 p.m., to Aug. 30. Plus, Bad Taste Burlesque's titillating-cum-offensive Cyberlesque: Close Encounters of a Dirty Mind! Space, zombies, robots and stripping?? So there. To Aug. 22, at Café Cleopatra (1230 St-Laurent), 10 p.m.

SATURDAY 22

Leslie Bell's Light Matter shows the artist's colourful organic forms branching into a multidisciplinary cosmos of painting, drawing, collage work and video, at Galerie Les Territoires (#527-372 Ste-Catherine W.), vernissage 2-5 p.m., to Sept. 5. Over 25 emerging and established artists give good face and draw their own crowd in Poor Traits, a show dedicated to portraiture limited to a 12-by-12-inch panel, at Headquarters Galerie and Boutique (1649 Amherst), 6 p.m., to Sept. 30. The Goods present L.A. ambassador of boogie funk Dam-Funk, back in town to turn Club Lambi (4465 St-Laurent Blvd.) into a sauna party. De La Soul has gotta be way bigger than three feet high by now - check their status at Théâtre L'Olympia (1004 Ste-Catherine E.). And brilliant saxophonist Matana Roberts plays La Brique (#402-6545 Durocher), 9 p.m., $7.

SUNDAY 23

Oh, Sunday-morning coffee, what a beautiful if counterintuitive lazy-day ritual. If you love coffee with the fervour it deserves, check out the 2009 Eastern Regional Barista Championships: baristas prepare and serve 12 different coffees to a group of judges within 15 minutes! At the Just For Laughs Museum (2111 St-Laurent Blvd.), 9:30 a.m. We Are the World, a tribute to Michael Jackson, rounds up everyone who's still talking about this guy to sing their love out loud at Club Soda (1225 St-Laurent Blvd.), 8 p.m. Jordi Rosen and Jackie Gallant play and sing a different sort of tune at Monastiraki (5478 St-Laurent Blvd.), 3 p.m. And the Canadian Centre for Architecture closes the (extremely well-designed) door on Total Environment: Montréal 1965-1975, a look at the roots and weirdness of radical ephemeral architecture in Montreal.

MONDAY 24

Mingle on a (hopefully sun-lit) private terrasse, drink a few cheap drinks, eat a few delicious snacks and get a little nerdy with fellow book-lovers at the English Language Arts Network (ELAN) Bookworm Schmoozer at Bar St-Sulpice's Third Floor Bibliothèque (1680 St-Denis), 6-9 p.m. After the sun goes down, sit back for an unprecedented body-and-soul-moving, ear-and-eye-catching musical ride with the great and powerful Dreamcatcher, Dead Bush, Midwifery and Conquest Of The Longbow, at the Green Room (5386 St-Laurent Blvd.), 9:40 p.m.

TUESDAY 25

Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani interviews Farah Pahlavi, the late Shah's wife, in the controversial doc The Queen and I. Both women fled Iran when the new regime came in and still live in exile in Europe, but the Queen stops talking when she discovers Saravestani's revolutionary role. Three films celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock cast another documentary eye on the past: Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace and Music, Barbara Kopple's Woodstock, My Generation and Woodstock, Now and Then, at Cinéma du Parc (3575 Parc). And Brie Neilson and Bent By Elephants play a benefit for the Yellow Door, at La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent Blvd.).

WEDNESDAY 26

Add new knowledge to your summer-addled brain at the Atwater Library Lawn Book Sale and Barbeque, 1200 Atwater, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Scotch and Cookies Theatre presents Ariel Dorfman's Speak Truth to Power: Voices From Beyond the Dark, a reflection on courage and hope in the stories of 50 international human rights defenders, at St-George's Anglican Church (1101 Stanley), 8 p.m., to Aug. 29, $15. Dêzam's Rhodnie Désir launches theatre, music and art creation Ví, exploring the meaning of life at the Centre Culturel Calixa-Lavallée (Parc Lafontaine), to Aug. 29, see desirdezam.com. And Feathership and Our Book & The Authors sweetly rock Divan Orange (4234 St-Laurent Blvd.).
 
 

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~Ø~     Just look at that image folks. I guess now we know why Archie kicked Betty to the curb and married Veronica instead. Hey, that's what's happening in the comic book anyways.
Pedro Eggers		August 29th, 2009

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