Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 24 to 26

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Friday of Michael Mann's 1995 crime-thriller Heat, about an L.A. detective on the trail of a career thief.

Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 17 to 19

American stoner-metal band Corrosion of Conformity plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Friday, with guests Whores and Crobot.

Late-night screening at the Rio of The Warriors, about a rag-tag gang from Coney Island forced to fight its way home from the Bronx.

Canadian pop-rock supergroup Trans-Canada Highwaymen--featuring members from Odds, TPOH, Barenaked Ladies, and Sloan--plays the Commodore.

Vancouver alt-rock legends Limblifter play the Commodore Ballroom on a bill with the Grapes of Wrath on Saturday.

55th anniversary screening at the Park Theatre of the shot-in-Vancouver film Carnal Knowledge, hosted by local director Oz Perkins.

On Saturday at VIFF Centre guitarist-composer Tony Wilson’s The Homeless Project shines a sympathetic light on Canada’s urban dispossessed.

Record Store Day Canada on Saturday features special vinyl releases as part of its 19th annual celebration of independent record stores.

Screening at VIFF Centre on Sunday of the documentary I Am the Blues, preceded by a one-hour set by bluesman Robert Connely Farr.

Sweet Queens of Chaos play the Biltmore Cabaret on Friday, along with Nitroglycerin, Jazzfrica, PHROG, and the New Mischiefs.

Screening at the Rio Theatre on Sunday of Becoming Led Zeppelin, a new documentary about the formation of the legendary British rock band.

One-man band Bob Log III plays old Silvertone archtop guitars and wears a helmet wired to a telephone receiver at the Biltmore on Thursday.

British pop singer-songwriter Nick Lowe joins forces with masked instrumental guitar band Los Straitjackets at the Biltmore Cabaret on Sunday.