Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: the last night of Fright Nights: Resurrection, a Halloween-themed experience at Playland with seven haunted houses, over 15 rides, creepy décor, roaming monsters, and live performances.
MONDAY: Halloween Horror Trivia Night at the Cinematheque includes a screening of director David Cronenberg’s The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum.
Wendell & Wild
MONDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick’s marvelously macabre stop-motion animation film Wendell & Wild.
TUESDAY: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets performs the early music of Pink Floyd at the Centre in Vancouver.
TUESDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the New Jersey Devils in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
The Dave Matthews Band
WEDNESDAY: jam band from Charlottesville, Virginia, the Dave Matthews Band, plays Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY: Vancouver blues legend Jim Byrnes performs at the Bez Arts Hub in Langley, with Simon Kendall from Doug & the Slugs.
FRIDAY: maestro Otto Tausk leads the Vancouver Symphony in a program of works by Mozart, Golijov, and Mahler at the Orpheum Theatre.
FRIDAY: Timbre Concerts presents Frazey Ford from the Be Good Tanyas at the Commodore Ballroom.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
FRIDAY: the Geekenders host a screening at the Rio Theatre of director Jim Sharman’s 1975 rock musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter.