The Scope

Daily events Oct 24

MUN Book Sale, 9am-5pm, QEII Library

Critical Mass Bike Ride: Ride w/ the Otesha Group (a group who rode from Halifax) to promote bicycling as an alternative, viable form of transportation, as well as sharing the road w/ cars, free, 6pm, Colonial Building-Bannerman Park

Friendship Club: For seniors, 2pm-4pm, 737-2333

Idle Free Day

MUNdays: Book Sale (9am-5pm at QEII Library); Info Kiosk (12pm-2pm at UC-3007); Idle Free (12pm-2pm at St. John’s Campus);Battle of the Rock Bands (5pm-8pm at The Breezeway)

MUNDAYS: Kindness Friday: Hold the door for somebody; buy a co-worker a cup of coffee; donate to a local charity. The sky’s the limit – just do something nice.

Rock Can Roll Festival: Artists presentations w/ Class War Kids & Brat Attack (4pm), BlocksBlocksBlocks (5pm), Volatile Works Media Collective (6pm), Noisefold (7pm), Errand Boy (8pm) on unique approaches to community building, art-making & performance, pay-what-u-can, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 739-1882

St John’s Storytelling Festival: Mark Cormier, Kevin Mackenzie & Christine Mayr w/ host Ramona Deering, 8pm, $10, Gower St United Church

Wesley Church Fish Luncheon ( Fall Fair Committee) Two sittings, 12pm & 1pm, $15, Wesley United Church-101 Patrick St 364-7440

Women’s Studies Speaker’s Series: Jobs for Rural Women? Gender Identities & Gender Relations in Ontario’s Ruralized Auto Manufacturing Labour Market w/ Dr Belinda Leach, 2pm, MUN Science SN-4087

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Music Friday, Oct 24

Battle of the Rock Bands: Costumes, stage antics & rock ‘n’ roll, 5pm-8pm, Breezeway

Big Tom: All request, Lottie’s Place

Blackie O’Leary (5pm) Kelly’s

Bob MacDonald, 6pm-10pm, no cover, The Republic

Catmanduah (rock) Roxxy’s

Chris Hennessey (5pm), Larry Foley & Patrick Moran (8:30pm), Navigators (11:30pm), O’Reilly’s

Dead Language (EP fundraiser) 9pm, $6, Bianca’s

DJ Fabian, The Zone

DJ Mikey B, DJ Steve Murray, DJ Electro, $5 till 1:30am, Liquid

Evening Matinee w/ Scott Goudie, 6pm-9pm, no cover, Fat Cat

Filthy Fridays w/ DJ Lex, Turkey Joe’s

Jackson Down, Fat Cat

Mainline, Tol’s Time Out

Mojo Pin (rock) 11pm, The Dock

Night Songs/Flight Songs (Ora Ensemble) Contemporary chamber music themed around nighttime & nature by Krista Vincent (piano), Michelle Cheramy (flute), Vernon Regehr (cello) & Heather Kao (violin) w/ light & stage design by Robert Chafe, 8pm, $10/$12, Masonic Temple-9 Cathedral St 746-6841

Rick Lambe, 7pm-10pm, Bull & Finch

Rock Can Roll: Two Guitars Clash, Lizband, The Satans, Swords, Iron Giant, 10pm, $7, Rock House

Rock Can Roll: Magali Meagher, Ye-Yeti, Rhiannon Thomas & Three Mikes, AE Bridger, 10pm, $7, The Ship

Rock Can Roll: Danielle Smith, The Late Greats, Maggie Meyer, The Monday Nights, Texas Chainsaw, 10pm, $7, Distortion

Rock Can Roll: Matthew Hare, Amusia, Patrick Canning & Band, Danny Keating, 10pm, $7, Rose & Thistle

Rock Can Roll: The Phobics, Elite Motif, Rayfield, …from outer space, 10pm, $7, Turner’s

Stixx & Stones, Green Sleeves

Tarahan, 11pm, Shamrock

The Insiders, 10:30pm, Martini Bar

The Pathological Lovers, CBTGs

Traditional Session w/ Graham Wells, Erin’s

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