Tom Cochrane plays the Coliseum
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: 25th anniversary screening at the Rio Theatre of Almost Famous, writer-director Cameron Crowe‘s coming-of-age drama about a teenaged journalist hired by Rolling Stone magazine to accompany an up-and-coming ’70s rock band on their first big tour.
MONDAY: Vancouver sextet Petunia & the Vipers combines elements of country, western swing, Mexicana, French cabaret, ragtime, rockabilly, jazz, punk, and folk at the Princeton Pub & Grill.
MONDAY: Québec choreographer Chantal Caron and her company FLEUVE | Espace Danse present two site-specific performances of the 25-minute environmental dance work La Marée Noire (The Black Tide) at Spanish Banks East. FREE.
TUESDAY TO FRIDAY: the 2025 PNE Fair, running until September 1, features nightly concerts, attractions like the SuperDogs and I-Flip aerial shows, cultural showcases, agricultural displays, sand sculptures, family play zones, food and market vendors, the PNE Prize Home, and dozens of rides and midway games at Playland.
Wilco plays the Coliseum
WEDNESDAY: Chicago alt-country/indie-rock band Wilco, featuring singer and main songwriter Jeff Tweedy, plays the Pacific Coliseum as part of the PNE Summer Night Concerts series.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: Star Witnesses, running at the Polygon Gallery until September 28, assembles works by 11 artists whose observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth.
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram plays the Commodore
THURSDAY: Grammy-winning blues guitarist and vocalist from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, plays the Commodore Ballroom.
FRIDAY: Canadian rock legend Tom Cochrane (“Life is a Highway”), former frontman of Red Rider (“Lunatic Fringe”), plays the Pacific Coliseum as part of the PNE Summer Night Concerts series. Here’s my interview with Tom Cochrane from 1983.
FRIDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of Magnolia, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic 1999 drama about interrelated characters in California’s San Fernando Valley searching for happiness, forgiveness, and meaning.
Evil Dead II screens at the Rio
FRIDAY: late-night 4K screening at the Rio Theatre of writer-director Sam Raimi‘s gory 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, starring Bruce Campbell as freaked-out demon-battler Ash. Here’s my interview with Bruce Campbell from 2005.
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