Don’t Look Now screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Saskatoon alt-country band the Deep Dark Woods, featuring singer-guitarist and founding member Ryan Boldt, plays tunes from new album The Circle Remains at the Fox Cabaret, with guest Bob Sumner. Here’s my interview with Ryan Boldt from 2008.
FRIDAY: Zappa Nite at the Rickshaw Theatre features performances by local Frank Zappa tribute bands Zappostrophe’, Unzappologetic, and Let’s Make the Water Turn Black.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: Stage 43 Theatrical Society presents playwright William Goldman’s adaptation of Misery, Stephen King’s novel about a crazed fan who keeps her favourite novelist captive, running until October 25 at the Evergreen Cultural Centre.
Canisia Lubrin curates the Writers Fest
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the 38th annual Vancouver Writers Fest features more than 80 literary events at various Vancouver venues, curated by poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Fright Nights, which features eight haunted houses, wandering scare artists, over 15 midway rides, and spooky foods, runs until October 31 on select nights at the PNE Grounds (Hastings and Windermere).
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: late-night 50th anniversary screening at the Rio Theatre of director Jim Sharman’s campy musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry as mad scientist and sweet transvestite Dr. Frank N. Furter. Here’s my interview with Tim Curry from 1990.
FRIDAY & SUNDAY: Metro Vancouver alt-rock singer-songwriter Matthew Good and his band perform hits from the past and tunes from his latest recording Zero Hours at the Commodore Ballroom, with coheadliners I Mother Earth from Toronto. Here’s my interview with Matthew Good from 1996 and my interview with I Mother Earth guitarist Jagori Tanna from ’96.
The Habs are in town
SATURDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Montreal Canadiens in National Hockey League action at Rogers Arena.
SUNDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of director Nicolas Roeg‘s 1973 supernatural thriller Don’t Look Now, hosted by guest curator Osgood Perkins, director of the recent horror flicks Longlegs and The Monkey.
SUNDAY: the Vancouver Whitecaps take on FC Dallas in first game of their best-of-three Major League Soccer playoff series at BC Place.
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