Alienated in Vancouver

Zev Asher by Jen Morris To help spread the word about the upcoming Zev Asher tribute on Thursday at the Pacific Cinematheque , I've ...

This evening, a buddy and I, socially lubricated and intent on mutual amusement, found ourselves plunging gleefully, if briefly, into the ra...

I always kinda liked Amiri Baraka . Okay, there were what seemed a few anti-Semitic barbs on a poem he read on an album of Sunny Murray...

Probably the most important thing I got out of my time at UBC, besides getting to know Mark Harris a little before his untimely death, was...

Oh, jeez. William Friedkin's Sorcerer is due out on Blu-Ray in April . (Thanks to this website for posting the new one-sheet for the...

Granted: torrenting technology is problematic. It's having dire effects across the entertainment landscape, that range well beyond the n...

One of the most unanimously-loved movies at the 2013 VIFF - at least among the people I talked to - was Good Vibrations , about the early...

So I'm at Carson Books and Records on Dunbar Street spinning records while I work. I play the Enigma's Strangely Wild EP, in honour ...

I have, it occurs to me - at least insofar as memory serves - never spent New Year's in the company of large numbers of my peers. As a...

At his Christmas show at the Prophouse last Sunday, David M. performed a song about the newest addition to Santa's stable of reindeer ...

I am very excited about the FREE NEW YEARS EVE SCREENING of The Big Lebowski at the Vancity Theatre! Actually I'm more of a Hudsuck...

A Boxing Day tip for y'all: Liquidation World is in liquidation! The chain, I'm told by a clerk, is pulling out of Canada and price...

Some pics of Mom and I, taken tonight on my new phone - an apparently highly-rated budget smartphone (the Moto G...

Not a lot to say at the moment but I'll eventually be posting a giant Zev Asher interview online, and will have  a link to that. It'...

Where can you hear cover versions of everything from the Jingle Cats to the Residents? Who else in Vancouver does ironic rewritings of No ...

Just talked to Enrico Renz of Red Herring for the Big Takeover online . See the band at the Railway Club, December 23rd. Thanks to Erika ...

Sonny Dean and his girl Darlene, photo by Allan MacInnis There is very, very little likelihood that I will turn up at the Sonny Dean bir...

I spent a long while grousing and bitching about the Coen brothers, calling them misanthropes, sniggerers, maybe even (thanks to Jonathan...

Ha! Didn't take long for David to lift that photo of Red Herring at the Prophouse off my blog... Follow him on Facebook here ...