Alienated in Vancouver

Bison plays the Rickshaw for the 11th anniversary of their debut album Earthbound, tonight! Brad Mackinnon is back on drums for the ev...

I love outdoor ordeal films. Ideally I like them to have a deeper resonance, to have a subtext - as Carol J. Clover writes about so effectiv...

Sorry, not writing much. There is a Slow feature soon to come on the Georgia Straight website where Tom Anselmi totally blows me away with...

My health issues are going to keep me from a few cool things this month. Having had my third procedure for kidney stones earlier today, I d...

So: for my 50th birthday party, I'm getting to curate a film: Penelope Spheeris' under-rated 1983 "punxploitation" follow ...

Note: apologies to Joe Carnahan - I HAD noticed his name in the credits (and based on Narc and The Grey, count myself as a fan) but I di...

First off, I'm all right. I have a puppy training pad stuffed in my shorts as I write this - basically a giant, folded maxi-pad, in ...

You meet people who remember the Rickshaw as it was from time to time, back when it was known as the Shaw Theatre. One of my wife Erika...

Welcoming Paolo Angeli back to Vancouver! I used to be a lot more involved in the avant garde music scene in Vancouver - noise nights, ...

Was is June? July? One summer night, back when I was still working at Douglas College as a tutor, you could find me at the hospital, doubled...

Finally saw, thanks to David M., the Shout Factory Blu of Streets of Fire , without having to pay money for it (it's $34.99 at Sunrise, ...

Woke up to a blog-comment/ lecture on a piece of writing I did from five years ago . It's kinda interesting to me to see anyone readin...

The Flesh Eaters by bev davies, January 25, 2018 at the Rickshaw; not to be reused without permission. All photos below also by bev dav...