Alienated in Vancouver

I will now spend a few days doing other things and, barring news of overwhelming importance, check back in with my blog next weekend. Come s...

Jesus. Dennis Hopper just died of prostate cancer . I'd missed that he was even sick. He figures in a couple of articles on my blog - wi...

It was in 2007. Eugene Chadbourne was onstage at the Cobalt with Han Bennink and three members of Robots On Fire. I had a Eugene Chadbourne ...

Max Cavalera of Soulfly by Femke Van Delft, not to be reused without permission Having interviewed Max Cavalera for the Straight meant gett...

Caught up with another PV'd DVD I'd missed theatrically, Vinyan , which is a bit of an oddity - a sort of "arthouse exploitatio...

All photos by Femke Van Delft, not to be reused without permission! I've seen Eugene Chadbourne twice at Fake Jazz, once with Han Benni...

Gli Intoccabili, AKA Machine Gun McCain , is coming out on region 1. I thought I'd do DVD buyers a favour and post a review where it mi...

So within a week of a plastic clasp snapping on my nearly-new backpack, I've had the stitching unravel from two pairs of pants in differ...

Just a brief note on Reg Harkema's Leslie, My Name Is Evil , now playing: if you're interested in keeping abreast of Canadian film, ...

The Sorrow and the Pity by Femke Van Delft, not to be reused without permission Right, so: I was instructed to keep the real name of a cert...

Hey, the same blogger linked below - the Vancouver Redux girl - has alerted me to a pretty good career overview of Art Bergmann on the Tro...

Another Vancouver blogger has posted thoughts on Bloodied But Unbowed ... well worth reading!

Yikes. I skipped the Art Bergmann event on Wednesday, electing for an early trainride home... and then the West Coast Express was stopped du...

It's a longshot that there are any Nomeansno fans reading this blog who are so diehard that they would order a German magazine, but just...

Fans of Isis who haven't gotten a ticket for their May 31st show yet - assuming it isn't totally sold out - may want to note that th...

With apologies to all involved, I don't think I'll be at the event tonight - which, by the way, is Little Mountain Gallery's scr...

One of the first big rock concerts that I went to was Ronnie James Dio , who just died of cancer, fronting Black Sabbath on the Mob Rules t...

Truth be known, I've never been a huge Joe Dante fan. Though I have only seen a few of his films, and many of those not for some time, ...

So: generally speaking, as a music journalist, my favourite stories to write are comeback stories, especially when the comeback is local, an...

(Photo of Art with Subhumans/Trespassers/SNFU drummer Jon Card at the Summer of Love a couple summers ago, taken by Femke Van Delft. Not to ...