Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 31 to August 2

Screening at VIFF Centre on Saturday of Joel and Ethan Coen's crime-comedy Fargo, starring Frances McDormand as police chief Marge Gunderson.

That time Randy Bachman told me how he once went looking for Stephen King, aka Richard Bachman

Hardcore fans of Stephen King are aware that he used the pen name Richard Bachman for a number of his early novels.

The roar of a chain saw is audible in the background when Canadian blues-rocker Rachelle van Zanten answers her cellphone.

“All the world’s a stage,” according to Shakespeare and that live Rush album, but when Dave King was a lad all his living room was a stage.

Anonymous Canadian math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine performs August 23-24 at the Pearl and August 25 at the Commodore.

“This is a new chapter with this new band, and everybody’s pretty excited about it, so we’ll just see where it goes.”

I interviewed rocker and horror director Rob Zombie for the third time in August of 2009, when he was promoting his new Halloween II movie.

The opening song on the Blue Violets’ self-titled debut album brings to mind nothing as much as L.A. alt-rockers Concrete Blonde.

The popularity of the reggae-tinged pop ditty "Ooo Ohh" has propelled Daniel Wesley into the big leagues of Vancouver rock acts.

I did the third of my five interviews with Derek Trucks when he was touring behind the final Derek Trucks Band studio album, Already Free.

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Friday of Michael Mann's 1995 crime-thriller Heat, about an L.A. detective on the trail of a career thief.

I interviewed Devin Townsend for the second time back in 1993, shortly after he'd hooked up with Steve Vai for the Sex & Religion album.

When I reach Darren Glover on his cellphone, he’s in a van on a highway approaching Sault Ste. Marie, and the snow has just started to fly.