Olympic Ticket Sales Begin: Oct. 3
The Olympics bring with them a surfeit of tangential activity, from infrastructure improvements (Sea to Sky, anyone?) and hotel booms to a surge in nightlife activity and a comber of sportswear sales. Despite the hysteria, try to focus: the Olympics are ostensibly about sports. Tickets for the Beijing Games inspired mass truancy, huge lineups, and a sudden interest in lesser known sports. Expect Vancouver's games to do the same. Well prepare yourself for this one: Olympics tickets go on sale October 3rd; good luck with Men's Ice Hockey. -S.T.

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution: Begins Oct. 4
Impending occupatio: I was going to shoehorn a fall reference into this blurb (i.e. "1965 to 1980 was the autumn of feminism"), but it wasn't quite congruent so I decided against it. No matter the season (sorry), feminism is always fun - well, perhaps not fun, but vitally important. This onomatopoeically named exhibition brings 120 artists together to look at feminism from 1965 to 1980 (aka the autumn of feminism - wait, sorry). It's at the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 11th. Full Story

Sigur Rós: Oct. 7
've never been to Iceland, but, judging from their export-worthy music, I imagine everyone is laidback. How does anything ever get done? The sublime Sigur Rós play intense, ethereal, atmospheric, almost diaphanous songs that encourage blissful nodding and transfixed stares. Incidentally, every time that my friend Sath listens to múm, he gets sleepy; they're his Icelandic Ambien.. They’re autumn perfect. Full Story -S.T.

RocknRolla: Opening Oct. 8th
I was sitting in the cinema enjoying Vicky Cristina Barcelona, thinking, "no one onscreen is channeling Woody Allen. This is great." Then, Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) starts spastically explaining a recent sickness. "There it is," I thought. Jason Statham isn't in Guy Ritchie's return to guns and brawn. Instead, a tights-free Gerard Butler gets the streetwise victim of circumstances role. I wonder if he'll just play Statham; probably not. When writer/director Ritchie broke out with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and followed it up with its big-star cousin, Snatch, he looked like the Brit Tarantino (pre-Kill Bill Tarantino, that is). Then he hit the Madonna hump, which temporarily derailed his career. RocknRolla could be a return to form, or it could be Smokin' Aces (Jeremy Piven's in this, too). Either way, it has a strong cast, with the always reliable Tom Wilkinson, will be starlet, Gemma Arterton, should be bigger, Thandie Newton, and one of the best rappers turned actors of all time, Ludacris. Incidentally, Ritchie's next project is a Sherlock Holmes reboot with Robert Downey Jr. in the title role, which bodes well. -S.T.

Gogol Bordello: Oct. 10
The best Ukrainian gypsy cabaret art punk band in the history of Ukrainian gypsy cabaret art punk, Gogol Bordello play the Commodore. Autumn can be your Eugene Hutz season. See him front GB at the Commodore Ballroom, hear his music in Wristcutters: A Love Story and watch his lauded starring turn in Everything is Illuminated. Ukraine is far from weak. Full Story -S.T.