Living Colour plays the Commodore
By Steve Newton
MONDAY TO FRIDAY: the Vancouver Fringe Festival runs until September 15 on Granville Island, featuring an eclectic program of over 65 shows that span the likes of theatre, dance, spoken word, comedy, opera, and improv. Highlights include Michaela Chung’s Daddy Issues, Charla Hathaway’s Naked at my Age, and Holly M. Brinkman’s A Woman’s Guide to Peeing Outside.
TUESDAY: coheadlining bill at the Commodore Ballroom of American hard-rock bands Extreme and Living Colour. Here’s the interview I did with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid in 1988.
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: Emily Carr: A Room of Her Own, running until January 2025 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, features approximately 25 works drawn from the Gallery’s Emily Carr Collection, the most comprehensive holdings of her work in the world.
Jersey Boys runs at the Stanley
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: the Arts Club Theatre presents performances at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage of Jersey Boys, a musical that tells the story of New Jersey hitmakers Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
THURSDAY: Australian psych-rock sextet King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard plays tunes from its latest album The Silver Cord at the Pacific Coliseum, with guests Geese.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY: the Eclectic Collective presents the opening nights of Juxtaposed, an exhibition of diverse creations by Paul Hyde (from the Payola$), Kat McPhee, David Patterson, Catherine St. Germain, and Jim Davidson, running to September 25 at White Rock’s Landmark Pop Uptown Gallery. Here’s the interview I did with Paul Hyde in 1984.
The Glorious Sons play Barnside Harvest Fest
FRIDAY: day one of the three-day Barnside Harvest Festival at Paterson Park in Ladner features performances by headliners the Glorious Sons, plus the Trews, Couch, Yukon Blonde, XL the Band, Vox Rea, Carson Gray, Justine Lynn, Blake Havard, and Generous Thieves. Here’s the interview I did with the Trews’ Colin MacDonald in 2004.
FRIDAY: the BC Lions take on the Toronto Argonauts in Canadian Football League action at BC Place.
FRIDAY: Vancouver’s Cousin Harley and Calgary’s Ramblin’ Ambassadors join forces to perform A Tribute to Ray Condo at the Rickshaw Theatre, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Canadian western swing and rockabilly musician. Here’s the interviews I did with the Ramblin’ Ambassadors’ Brent J. Cooper in 2003 and Cousin Harley’s Paul Pigat in 2021.
Friday the 13th Part III screens at the Rio
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Steve Minor’s 1982 slasher flick Friday the 13th Part III in 3D, the one where Jason Vorhees squeezes some poor sap’s head so hard this his eyeball flies right out atcha!
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