Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, April 4 to 6

Vancouver rock 'n' roll troubadour Rich Hope records two nights at the ANZA Club for an upcoming live album.

Horrible horror: 10 godawful fright flicks that earned a zero rating from me on Rotten Tomatoes

Between 1987 and 2018 I reviewed over 350 horror movies when they were released in Vancouver, and there were some absolute stinkers in there.

It seems to me that Pat Travers' best songs are almost all from the late-'70s and early-'80s, but if I'm wrong about that, let me know.

Late-night screening at the Rio on Friday of director Paul Verhoeven‘s 1987 sci-fi actioner RoboCop, starring Peter Weller as RoboCop.

Ian Hunter, Thin Lizzy, Bad Company, Rainbow, Queen, Led Zeppelin, the Outlaws, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Neil Young & Crazy Horse. 1975 ruled!

I interviewed Joe Satriani back in August of 1997, one year after he'd launched the very first G-3 Tour, with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson.

Stunning acoustic-fingerstyle guitarist from Australia, Tommy Emmanuel, plays the Centre in Vancouver on April 2.

Warner Brothers airbrushed out Alice's thumb which, in the original cover photo, is shown poking through his cape from around his groin area.

Ontario singer-songwriter Sarah Harmer is among the performers at the the Juno Songwriters Circle at the Centre in Vancouver on Friday.

Hats off to Michael de Adder for connecting the current insanity of the Trump administration with classic horror moments of the past.

The party-hearty audience roars its approval, and the six-string slinger responds with a boyish grin. No wonder. He's 10 years old.

Canadian soul/blues vocalist Miss Emily performs with her band at White Rock's Blue Frog Studios on Friday.

Had a nice chat with novelist Linwood Barclay yesterday, and asked him which Stephen King book he thought was the horror master's best.