Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, December 19 to 21

Screenings on Sunday at the Rio Theatre and the VIFF Centre of director Frank Capra's 1946 Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life.

Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, December 12 to 14

The Pack A.D. performs at the sold-out Keith Richards birthday bash and Vancouver Food Bank fundraiser at the Rickshaw on Saturday.

American comedy superstar Dave Chapelle performs standup at Rogers Arena on Sunday, with various comics warming up.

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Thursday of I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck's documentary Orwell: 2+2=5.

Canadian author Chris Walter reads from his upcoming book Born Too Loose: A Messy & Incomplete History of Punk at the Rio on Thursday.

Long-running percussion show STOMP uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance at the Queen Eizabeth Theatre.

Tribute band Maiden Vancouver plays a set of Iron Maiden classics and a full setlist from 1985 at the Tsawwassen Legion on Saturday.

Bif Naked performs an acoustic set at the Rio on Tuesday, preceded by a screening of Pollyanna Hardwicke-Brown‘s new documentary about her.

Screening at the Rio on Monday of director Brian DePalma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling supernatural-horror novel Carrie.

Screening at the Rio on Sunday of director Nicolas Roeg‘s 1973 supernatural thriller Don't Look Now, hosted by guest curator Osgood Perkins.

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Edmonton Oilers in National Hockey League preseason action at Rogers Arena on Friday.

Vancouver indie-rock/shoegaze quartet the Starling Effect plays LanaLou's on Friday, with guests Combine the Victorious and Asterous.

Screening at the Rio of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglorious Basterds, about a group of Jewish-American soldiers brutally killing Nazis.