Showgirls screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Boston alt-rock band The Pixies, featuring singer-guitarist Black Francis, plays the second of two nights at the Orpheum Theatre, with guests Kurt Vile + the Violators.
FRIDAY: teenaged hard-rock trio from Kelowna, Freeze the Fall, plays the Fox Cabaret, with guests Deserted and Cold Fame.
FRIDAY: Smokus Pokus: The World’s Dopest Magic Show is a marijuana-themed magic show at the Biltmore Cabaret featuring illusionist Eric Leclerc.
Back From the Dead runs at the Shop Theatre
FRIDAY TO SATURDAY: Renegade Arts Co. presents the world premiere of Back From the Dead, an apocalyptic rock musical with story by composer-producer Jim Buckshon and legendary Vancouver rock critic Tom Harrison, running until June 28 at the Shop Theatre. Here’s Tom Harrison’s interview with Neil Peart from 1984.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Vancouver Canadians take on the Tri-City Dust Devils in Minor League Baseball action at Nat Bailey Stadium.
SATURDAY: Vancouver-based soul vocalist Krystle Dos Santos performs with her band at Ocean Artworks as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Here’s my interview with Krystle Dos Santos from 2021.
Wavves plays the Pearl
SATURDAY: San Diego garage-rock/indie-pop quartet Wavves plays the Pearl, with guests Beach Goons and Death Lens.
SATURDAY: Vancouver musician and composer Jesse Zubot performs solo on violin, viola, and miscellaneous electronics before a screening of the Salt Spring Island-shot psycho-drama Inedia at VIFF Centre.
SUNDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of a 30th anniversary restoration of director Paul Verhoeven‘s controversial satire and camp classic Showgirls, starring Elizabeth Berkley as an ambitious drifter who arrives in Las Vegas with plans to become a dancer.
Faun plays the Hollywood
SUNDAY: German six-piece pagan-folk/neo-medieval band Faun plays the Hollywood Theatre.
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