Coast to Coast plays the Surrey Arts Centre
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Seattle Kraken in National Hockey League preseason action at Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of a 40th anniversary restoration of director Stuart Gordon’s gory horror-comedy Re-Animator.
FRIDAY: the BC Lions take on the Toronto Argonauts in Canadian Football League action at BC Place.
Sue Foley plays the Rio
FRIDAY: Canadian blues guitarist-vocalist Sue Foley performs material from her latest album One Guitar Woman at the Rio Theatre. Here’s my interview with Sue Foley from 1992.
FRIDAY: American comedian Wanda Sykes performs an evening of standup at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, with guest Keith Robinson. Note: this event will be a phone-free experience.
FRIDAY: Limo Wreck performs a tribute to Chris Cornell at the Roxy, featuring songs from Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, and Cornell’s solo albums. Here’s my interview with Chris Cornell from 2008.
Clearcut screens at the VIFF Centre
FRIDAY & SUNDAY: screenings at the VIFF Centre of a 4K restoration of Polish director Ryszard Bugajski’s 1991 environmental thriller Clearcut, starring the late Graham Greene as a militant Indigenous activist on a rampage against a mill encroaching on his people’s land.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: last chance to see Star Witnesses at the Polygon Gallery, which assembles works by 11 artists whose observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth.
SATURDAY: tribute band Coast to Coast performs the music of UFO, Scorpions, and the Michael Schenker Group at a fundraiser for the Surrey Food Bank at Surrey Arts Centre, with guest DJ Larry Hennessey spinning hard-rock hits of the ’80s. Here’s my recent interviews with Coast to Coast guitarists Ken Scheller and David Groves.
Hard Boiled screens at the Cinematheque
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: screenings at the Cinematheque of Face/Off director John Woo‘s 1992 action-thriller Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-fat as a vengeful Hong Kong cop on the trail of a vicious gangster.
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