Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this week, February 3 to 7

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Scott Smith plays the WISE Hall

By Steve Newton

MONDAY: screening at VIFF Centre of It’s All Gonna Break, director Stephen Chung’s music documentary about Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene.

MONDAY TO FRIDAY: the annual PuSh Festival, running until February 9 at various Vancouver venues, features contemporary works of live art–dance, theatre, music, and multimedia–by local, national, and international performers.

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: exhibition of paintings by New York City-based artist Firelei Báez, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, runs until March 16 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The Avalanche is in town

TUESDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Colorado Avalanche in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.

WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: performances of the dark comedy Heathers: The Musical, based on the 1988 film about a trio of popular girls who mercilessly rule their high school, running until February 16 at Langara College’s Studio 58.

FRIDAY: Adventures in Pedal Steel at the WISE Hall features pedal-steel guitarist Scott Smith hosting an event that includes lectures and performances by steel players Matt Kelly, Conner West, Ben Vallee, and Mike Drassler.

Maddy Kelly performs at Chill x Studio

FRIDAY: Maddy Kelly & Friends is a standup comedy show at Chill x Studio hosted by Vancouver comedian and podcaster Maddy Kelly. Here’s my interview with Maddy Kelly from 2022.

FRIDAY: screening at the Cinematheque of a new restoration of director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear, about four outcasts who agree to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerine over treacherous jungle roads to an oil-well fire raging 350 miles away.

FRIDAY: San Diego tribute band Chest Fever performs the greatest hits of The Band at the Rickshaw Theatre, with guest Mrs. Henry.

True Romance screens at the Rio

FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of director Tony Scott’s 1993 action flick True Romance, about newlyweds on the run from the Mafia after stealing a shipment of drugs.

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