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Off the Cuff Top 10 Playlist

Fatemeh Motamed Arya, F. Scott Fitgerald, Noura Mint Seymali, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Pharis & Jason Romero, Delbert McClinton, Janina Fialkowska, Personal Shopper, Chuck Berry
Arya
The UBC Persian Club is hosting a special evening at Kay Meek Centre on Wednesday, March 29 featuring an appearance by Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya, considered one of the most significant performers working in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a screening of her latest film Aba Jan, directed by Hatef Alimardani (which opened earlier this week in Tehran), followed by a Q&A discussion panel with Fatemeh Motamed Arya and Nasrin Askari from UBC Asian Studies. Tickets: $25. For more information visit facebook.com/ubcpersianclub. photo supplied Fabien Dany (fabiendany.com)

FATEMEH MOTAMED ARYA
Iranian actress screening latest work at Kay Meek Centre on March 29. Video clip showing her accepting the Prix Henri Langlois in Vincennes, France in 2012: http://bit.ly/2mAO9MY.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
New fiction from Fitzgerald “The I.O.U,” published in The New Yorker this week. Written in 1920: bit.ly/2nvH10B.

NOURA MINT SEYMALI
“Na Sane” from latest album Arbina: bit.ly/2nrzzql.

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
“These Walls” featuring Alam Khan live at the Fox Theatre, Oakland from new album:
bit.ly/2mYcOXY.

PHARIS & jASON ROMERO
Horsefly, B.C. duo perform two tunes, “Oregon Line (That Oregon Trail) and “It Takes A Married Man to Sing a Worried Song” on Smithsonian Folkways’ new compilation, Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie’s 26 Northwest Songs: bit.ly/2nH8IY5

JANINA FIALKOWSKA
Pianist previewing new album of Chopin pieces at Kay Meek on March 30: bit.ly/1WfVEjw.

U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS
Thousands of films showing U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962 have been declassified this week by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California: nyti.ms/2mBk9vC and bit.ly/2npgyFn.

DELBERT MCCLINTON
“Doin’ What You Do” from new album, Prick of the Litter: bit.ly/2nVK1UU.

PERSONAL SHOPPER
2016 Cannes Film Festival trailer featuring Kristen Stewart: bit.ly/2ekVFrz.

CHUCK BERRY
John Lennon said: “If you had to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.” Berry, who passed away this week at the age of 90, live on French TV: bit.ly/2nba3n4.