Alienated in Vancouver

I came late, this month, to Season 1 of  Game of Thrones - a phenomenon about which I have felt some curiosity, but also some desire to ...

Erika and I watched Blaze last night on Netflix, about Austin singer-songwriter Blaze Foley . Foley was the subject of two songs by othe...

An interesting conversation sprang up shortly after the Vancity Theatre screening of The Wild Bunch , the other week. As I had mentione...

Do you miss the Subhumans? (Our Subhumans, not the UK band). Have you  heard Gerry Hannah's roots-rocking re-arrangements of songs li...

David Yow with Flipper, at the Astoria, June 7th, 2019, by Allan MacInnis David Yow is, besides being a highly memorable frontman...

I only had a small amount of space to work with in my recent Straight piece on the Vicious Cycles Motorcycle Club , so I did not get to i...

The whole situation with David M. is unlike anything I have ever experienced with any other musician. He has a small cadre of believers, col...

I saw both Roky and Dr. John one time each, both with my wife, and we loved both shows. RIP to both of them. (I've posted about it on FB...

There are lots of reasons to see Dragged Across Concrete . For one, it was shot in Vancouver by S. Craig Zahler, who made Bone Tomahawk ...

I don't always see eye to eye with people about Sam Peckinpah.  I think this is a good thing. I think tastes in film and music sh...

I am very sad to report that a very interesting, under-appreciated filmmaker - who worked in Poland and Canada, and made several very po...

(No, this is not signed by Will Shatter or Bruce Loose.)

Sometimes Vancouver's music scene gets it wrong. Missing Three O'Clock Train with the Dils - that was a mistake on the part of a lo...

So I did some writing for the Straight movie section for a change, reviewing Terror Nullius and The Cannibal Club , which are screening th...

First part of my Stephen DePace interview is online... part two coming later this week... Talked to David Yow, too, but I'm not quite s...

Did this !

Had a fun time with this pic, taking in front of a Missing Link bus stop ad. Surprised I haven't seen more of these! I really do h...

I saw Tankhog once or twice in the early 1990's. I briefly had a group of friends who a) drove - which I did not - and b) were intereste...

Long ago, I posted my l ast-ever interview with Todd Serious, shortly after he died, but my first-ever interview with him - which too...