Alienated in Vancouver

Eugene Chadbourne at his last Cobalt appearance. Photo by Femke van Delft, not to be reused without permission My absolute favourite l...

I've written all I have to say about tonight's (delightful) Damo Suzuki show at The Biltmore for a certain local paper, but while we...

Ever grateful to Boing Boing for pointing this site out: Crappy Taxidermy !

I know only one Willy DeVille song, truth be known, "It's So Easy," which sounds kinda like ZZ Top with an erection and a gra...

Why I don't mind the HST: if we can make Vancouver completely unlivable for all but the rich and cultureless (thanks for that turn of ph...

Sigh... Sorry, Removal . I was going to go to a film noir instead of your show at Pub 340 (see below), but now I realize that (former Can ...

Prog-metal power trio Removal play Saturday at Pub 340. Do I have a photo to share or a gig poster to show? Have I a pithy quip from the ba...

The eviction has come through... story here .

Barbara Kopple and Thomas Haneke's My Generation: still muddy after all these years Vancity Theatre programmer Tom Charity and I got to...

How strangely appropriate that I put an image of a man being burned up on my blog. (See below). It is very, very hot. I have nothing else to...

Ardent followers of this blog know that I love the Canadian horror film Rituals (which I wrote about here , here , here and here ; I even ...

The new Austrian film noir playing this week at the Cinematheque, Revanche , is quite good. It's the sort of film that I suspect one wou...

Brian Goble acoustic, by Allan MacInnis The opening party is over, but Bev Davies' new show of photography continues at Chapel Arts -...

There's a great story around the new exhibition of Vintage Male Nudes that Femke van Delft is co-curating at two locations downtown. (Th...

The Bludgeoned Pigs at the Smilin' Buddha, by Bev Davies. Not to be reused without permission Bev Davies (official site here ) is a Van...

What an awful fucking company - but what a wonderful example of how privatization hurts everyone. Closed meetings, to lessen public scrutiny...

Can you find yourself in the crowd? The Pointed Sticks Vancouver reunion at Richards on Richards, 2005 I think (evening show). Photo by Cind...

John Lurie is best known for his starring roles in, and soundtracks for, early Jim Jarmusch films, and his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for ...